Laurent El-Ghaoui

Laurent El Ghaoui obtained his PhD at Stanford University in 1990, and held appointments at the Ecole National Superieure de Techniques Avancees (ENSTA, now part of Institut Polytechnique de Paris) and University de Paris La Sorbonne. In 1999, he joined the EECS department at UC Berkeley, where he became full professor, with appointments in IEOR and the Haas Business School. An expert in optimization and machine learning, he co-authored several books (including “Financial data Science” with Cambridge University Press) and more than a hundred of publications, with more than 60,000 citations on Google Scholar. In 2022, he joined VinUniversity in Vietnam, as Vice-Provost of Research and Innovation and Dean of Engineering and Computer Sciences. Laurent is also a co-founder of Kayrros SAS, which develops environmental intelligence solutions.