Talks and presentations

Upcoming Talks

JAX for HPC/AI Hybridization Hackathon

September 07, 2026

Workshop talk, JAX for HPC/AI Hybridization Hackathon, IDRIS, Paris-Saclay, France

Advanced participant at the JAX for HPC/AI Hybridization Hackathon, September 7–9, 2026.

Talk at STOP 2026: Structured and Large Scale Optimization (title TBA)

September 29, 2026

Workshop talk, STOP 2026 Workshop — Structured and Large Scale Optimization, ENS Lyon, Lyon, France

Talk at STOP 2026, a workshop on structured and large scale optimization covering inverse problems, multilevel and stochastic optimization, scientific machine learning, and matrix decomposition.

Conferences

Adaptive Sampling in PINNs through the lens of Kernel Theory

June 04, 2026

Conference talk, 47e Congrès National d'Analyse Numérique (CANUM), Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer, France

Talk presenting joint work with Sheng Wan, Cyriaque Rousselot, Shorouk El-Hassanieh, Alena Shilova, and Cyril Furtlehner on adaptive sampling strategies for Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) through the lens of kernel theory.

Unifying PINNs and FEMs through the notion of Natural Neural Tangent Kernel

September 02, 2025

Conference talk, European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications (ENUMATH 2025), Heidelberg, Germany

Talk presenting joint work with Roland Maier (KIT) on a unifying perspective on Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) and Finite Element Methods (FEMs) through the notion of Natural Neural Tangent Kernel.

ANaGRAM: A Natural Gradient Relative to Adapted Model for efficient PINNs learning

April 24, 2025

Conference talk, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), Singapore EXPO, Singapore

Presentation of ANaGRAM at ICLR 2025. ANaGRAM is a theoretically founded and algorithmically efficient natural gradient method for training Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), connecting natural gradient descent to the Neural Tangent Kernel and the Green function of the PDE operator.

Workshops & Schools

Talk at STOP 2026: Structured and Large Scale Optimization (title TBA)

September 29, 2026

Workshop talk, STOP 2026 Workshop — Structured and Large Scale Optimization, ENS Lyon, Lyon, France

Talk at STOP 2026, a workshop on structured and large scale optimization covering inverse problems, multilevel and stochastic optimization, scientific machine learning, and matrix decomposition.

JAX for HPC/AI Hybridization Hackathon

September 07, 2026

Workshop talk, JAX for HPC/AI Hybridization Hackathon, IDRIS, Paris-Saclay, France

Advanced participant at the JAX for HPC/AI Hybridization Hackathon, September 7–9, 2026.

Efficient PINNs and Natural Gradients in JAX

June 11, 2026

Workshop talk, ML & AD in JAX for Scientific Computing Workshop, Strasbourg, France

Talk presenting an efficient JAX implementation of natural gradient methods for Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs).

Natural Gradients and Kernel Methods for PINNs

May 26, 2026

Workshop talk, HACE Workshop — HPC/AI Hybridization, AISSAI, Toulouse, France

Talk presenting natural gradient and kernel methods for Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs).

Addressing Spectral Bias in PINNs

February 10, 2025

Workshop talk, SCALP Kick-off, LISN, Paris-Saclay University – CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Talk given at the kick-off meeting of the SCALP project, presenting work on addressing spectral bias in Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs).

Kernelizing natural gradient, with applications to PINNs

February 05, 2025

Workshop talk, Infinite-dimensional Geometry: Theory and Applications, Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI), Vienna, Austria

Talk given at the ESI workshop on Infinite-dimensional Geometry, presenting a kernel-based perspective on natural gradient methods with applications to Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs).

Seminars

ANaGRAM: A Natural Gradient Relative to Adapted Model for efficient PINNs learning

November 19, 2024

Seminar, ACSIOM Seminar, Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck, Montpellier, France

Presentation of ANaGRAM, a theoretically founded and algorithmically efficient natural gradient method for training Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs). The talk covers the functional analysis perspective on PINNs training, the connection to the Neural Tangent Kernel, and an efficient SVD-based implementation that reduces the complexity of natural gradient descent significantly.

ANaGRAM: A Natural Gradient Relative to Adapted Model for efficient PINNs learning

October 25, 2024

Seminar, SCOOL Seminar, INRIA Lille – Nord Europe, Lille, France

Presentation of ANaGRAM, a theoretically founded and algorithmically efficient natural gradient method for training Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs). The talk covers the functional analysis perspective on PINNs training, the connection to the Neural Tangent Kernel, and an efficient SVD-based implementation that reduces the complexity of natural gradient descent significantly.

ANaGRAM: A Natural Gradient Relative to Adapted Model for efficient PINNs learning

September 24, 2024

Seminar, TAU Seminar, LISN – Paris-Saclay University, CNRS, INRIA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Presentation of ANaGRAM, a theoretically founded and algorithmically efficient natural gradient method for training Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs). The talk covers the functional analysis perspective on PINNs training, the connection to the Neural Tangent Kernel, and an efficient SVD-based implementation that reduces the complexity of natural gradient descent significantly.

ANaGRAM: A Natural Gradient Relative to Adapted Metrics for efficient PINNs learning

July 24, 2024

Seminar, Institute for Applied and Numerical Mathematics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

Presentation of ANaGRAM, a theoretically founded and algorithmically efficient natural gradient method for training Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs). The talk covers the functional analysis perspective on PINNs training, the connection to the Neural Tangent Kernel, and an efficient SVD-based implementation that reduces the complexity of natural gradient descent significantly.

PhD Defense