Florent Krzakala

Florent is a full professor at Sorbonne University and a group leader at Laboratoire de Physique at Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS, Paris). He holds a PhD in Physics from Paris XI University (Orsay, France). He held different positions at ESPCI in Paris, University of Roma La Sapienza and visiting positions at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley, Duke University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Los Alamos National Labs. Nowadays, his research interests range from Statistical Physics, Optimization problems, Quantum Computing and Machine Learning. He is a fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France and a recipient of an EU « ERC Starting Grant ». He is an associate editor for the Journal of Statistical Mechanics. He is in the executive committee for the Data Science chair at ENS. Florent has co-authored more than 100 articles in peer reviewed journals and conferences proceedings and has been invited to over 40 conferences.