I am a Maître de Conférences (MCF) (equivalent to Assistant/Associate Professor in the American system) at Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA). I am a member of team DAO. Our research team focus on methodological and theoretical aspects of optimization and machine learning.

Contact: quoc-tung [DOT] le [at] univ-grenoble-alpes [DOT] fr

Research interests

I am broadly interested in deep learning theory, non-convex/non-smooth optimization, learning with sparsity and structures. I am also into other subjects in Theoretical Computer Science.

Curriculum

September 2025 - : Assistant Professor (MCF) at Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), France.

January 2024 - August 2025: Postdoc at TSE (Toulouse School of Economics, France), working with Jérôme Bolte and Edouard Pauwels on semi-algebraic optimization and its application to bilevel optimization and Machine Learning.

September 2020 - December 2023: PhD student in OCKHAM team, ENS Lyon, France. I am under the supervision of Elisa Riccietti and Rémi Gribonval.

September 2017 - August 2020: Bachelor and Masters at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS de Paris), France. I have a major in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics

September 2014 - August 2017: Engineering program at Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), Vietnam.