Alexandra Carpentier is a French mathematical statistician and machine learning researcher known for her work in

stochastic optimization Stochastic optimization (SO) are optimization methods that generate and use random variables. For stochastic optimization problems, the objective functions or constraints are random. Stochastic optimization also include methods with random iter ...

compressed sensing Compressed sensing (also known as compressive sensing, compressive sampling, or sparse sampling) is a signal processing technique for efficiently acquiring and reconstructing a Signal (electronics), signal by finding solutions to Underdetermined s ...

, and multi-armed bandit problems. She works in Germany as a professor at

University of Potsdam The University of Potsdam is a public university in Potsdam, capital of the state of Brandenburg, northeastern Germany. The university is mainly situated across three campuses in the city. Some faculty buildings are part of the New Palace o ...

and head of the Mathematical Statistics & Machine Learning research group.

Education and career

After studying

probability theory Probability theory or probability calculus is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations, probability theory treats the concept in a rigorous mathematical manner by expre ...

, statistics, and economics at

Paris Diderot University Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 1970. Paris Diderot merged with Pari ...

and

ENSAE Paris ENSAE Paris, officially École nationale de la statistique et de l'administration économique de Paris (; "Paris National School of Statistics and Economical Management"), is a grande école in France and a member of IP Paris ( Institut Polytec ...

, Carpentier earned a doctorate in 2012 through research at the

French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics. It was created under the name French Institute for Research in Comp ...

(Inria) in

Lille Lille (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders. Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in F ...

. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

from 2012 through 2015, and then in 2015 became a professor at the

, funded through the

Emmy Noether Amalie Emmy Noether (23 March 1882 – 14 April 1935) was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She also proved Noether's theorem, Noether's first and Noether's second theorem, second theorems, which ...

program of the German Research Foundation. In 2017 she moved to Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. Currently, she is a professor at the University of Potsdam.

Recognition

Carpentier received the 2020 von Kaven Award of the German Research Foundation.

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