About Me

I am a first-year PhD student in Statistics & Computer Science at Bocconi University, advised by Hugo Lavenant.

I obtained my BSc and MSc in Mathematics from University of Pavia.

Research interests: I am currently working on variational problems involving Sinkhorn divergences, with motivations from machine learning and numerical analysis.

More broadly, I am interested in optimal transport, especially in the use of tools from the calculus of variations, gradient flows and differential geometry to study problems arising in statistics, optimization, and machine learning.

Contact: gianluca.covini@phd.unibocconi.it