Rustem Islamov
About me
I am a third year PhD student at University of Basel working under the supervision of Aurelien Lucchi. Prior to that, I obtained my Master diploma from Institut Polytechnique de Paris in Data Science and Bachelor diploma from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in Applied Mathematics. I am interested in Optimization and its applications to Machine Learning.
On top of that, I am a big fan of tennis and judo.
Computer skills
Programming languages: Python, Pytorch, LaTeX
Education
Master of Science in Data Science
Sept. 2021 – Aug. 2023 · GPA 17.65/20 · Palaiseau, France
Thesis: Unified Analysis of Asynchronous Algorithms
Thesis Supervisor: Mher Safaryan, Dan Alistarh
Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and Physics
Sept. 2017 – Jul. 2021 · GPA 4.95/5 (9.27/10) · Dolgoprudny, Russia
Thesis: Distributed Second Order Methods with Fast Rates and Compressed Communication
Thesis Supervisor: Peter Richtárik
Reaching out
- rustem.islamov@unibas.ch
- Spiegelgasse 1, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
- GitHub
- Google Scholar
- CV
Interests
- Optimization
- Optimization Theory
- Computation/Memory-efficient and Scalable Algorithms
- Convex/Non-convex Stochastic Optimization
- Machine Learning
- Loss Landscape of Neural Networks
- Federated learning
- Communication-efficient and Scalable Algorithms
Recent news
- June 6, 2026I attended SIOPT 2026. I organized a session on recent advances in federated optimization.
- June 1, 2026One paper got accepted to UAI 2026 in Amsterdam.
- May 8, 2026I attended ELLITE Focus Period in Lund as a visiting scholar. I spent two wonderful weeks in Lund discussing optimization for machine leanring.
- May 1, 2026Four papers accepted to ICML 2026, including an Oral.
- Jan 20, 2026Paper on analysis of DP algorithms with SDEs was accepted to ICLR 2026.