Lenka Zdeborová

Lenka Zdeborová (born 24 November 1980)[1] is a Czech physicist and computer scientist who applies methods from statistical physics to machine learning and constraint satisfaction problems. She is a professor of physics and computer science and communication systems at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).[2][3]

Lenka Zdeborová
Lenka Zdeborová in 2020
NationalityCzech
AwardsCNRS Bronze medal (2014)
Philippe Meyer prize
Irène Joliot-Curie Prize
Academic background
EducationPhysics
Alma materCharles University
Paris-Sud University
Doctoral advisorVáclav Janiš
Marc Mézard
Academic work
DisciplinePhysics
Sub-disciplineTheoretical physics
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Main interestsMachine learning
constraint satisfaction problems
Statistical physics
Websitehttps://people.epfl.ch/lenka.zdeborova/?lang=en

Education and career

Zdeborová was born in Plzeň. She earned a master's degree in physics at Charles University in 2004, and 2008, completed an international dual doctorate ("en cotutelle") at both Charles University and University of Paris-Sud. Her doctoral advisors were Václav Janiš at Charles University, and Marc Mézard at Paris-Sud.[1]

After postdoctoral research at the Center for Nonlinear Studies of Los Alamos National Laboratory, she became a researcher for the French Centre National de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in 2010, posted at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission's Institut de physique théorique - IPhT Saclay in Paris-Saclay. She also earned a habilitation in 2015 at the École normale supérieure (Paris).[1] Since 2020, she has been working at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) as an Associate Professor of physics, and of computer science and communication systems in the Schools of Basic Sciences and of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC), and is the head of Laboratory of Statistical Physics of Computation.[2][3]

Recognition

Zdeborová won the CNRS Bronze medal in 2014.[1] In 2016, the École Normale supérieure (Paris) gave her the Philippe Meyer Prize in theoretical physics.[4] She is the 2018 winner of the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize for young female scientists.[5]

References
  1. Curriculum vitae (PDF), August 2017, retrieved 2019-10-03
  2. "13 new professors appointed at ETH Zurich and EPFL | ETH-Board". www.ethrat.ch. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
  3. "Lenka Zdeborova". people.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
  4. Philippe Meyer Prize in Theoretical Physics, Institut de physique théorique Philippe Meyer, retrieved 2019-10-03
  5. "Prix Irène Joliot-Curie 2018", Enseignementsup-Recherche.gouv.fr, Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, retrieved 2019-10-03
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