Nikolaos Tsilivis

New York University, Center for Data Science
60 5th Ave, New York, NY 10011
nt2231@nyu.edu

 

I am a 5th year PhD student at the Center for Data Science, New York University. I am interested in understanding how and why deep learning works. I am fortunate to be advised by Julia Kempe. I am currently visiting Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris (Fall 2025). During the course of my PhD, I have spent time at Harvard University, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, Ecole Normale Superieure and FAIR (Meta, NYC). Prior to all that, I obtained my Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, where I was fortunate to be advised by Petros Maragos.

 

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Research interests: Foundations of Machine Learning, Robust Machine Learning, Applications of Machine Learning in Physical Sciences

See my google scholar profile for an up-to-date version of my publications.
Here is my CV.
Here is my undergraduate thesis (in Greek).
Here is a list of past write-ups for graduate classes that may be of interest to you:

• Stochastic Convex Optimization & Uniform Convergence
• Generalization bounds for Neural Networks
• Statistical-Computational gaps
• Wavelet estimators
• Courcelle's theorem