Sebastien Bubeck

Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research
Sébastien Bubeck is a Researcher in the Theory Group at Microsoft Research Redmond. Prior to MSR, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. He received his MS in Mathematics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan and his PhD from the University of Lille 1, France, where his PhD thesis won several prizes including the Jacques Neveu prize for the best French PhD thesis in Probability and Statistics. He was awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship in Computer Science in 2015, the Best Student Paper Award at COLT (Conference on Learning Theory) 2009 and the Best Paper Award at COLT 2016. He is also the author of two monographs published in Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning, “Regret Analysis of Stochastic and Nonstochastic Multi-armed Bandit Problems”, and “Convex Optimization: Algorithms and Complexity”.

Program Visits

Theory of Reinforcement Learning, Fall 2020, Visiting Scientist and Program Organizer
Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization, Fall 2017, Visiting Scientist
Theoretical Foundations of Big Data Analysis, Fall 2013, Visiting Scientist