Research

This page collects my publications and talks.

Publications

• Enhancing Parameter Control Policies with State Information (joint work with Denis Antipov and Carola Doerr) Proceedings of the Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA 2025), Leiden, Netherlands, 2025.
  arXiv:2507.08368.

  This work studies dynamic parameter control strategies for randomized optimization algorithms, showing how state information can be exploited to improve theoretical and empirical performance guarantees, in collaboration with Denis Antipov and Carola Doerr.
  → Paper (PDF)

Talks

• Dynamic Parameter Policies for LeadingOnes on Complex State Spaces
  ROADEF – Conference of the French Operations Research Society, Champs-sur-Marne, France, 2025.

  This talk presented the main results of my master’s thesis on dynamic parameter policies for randomized local search, developed during a research stay at LIP6–Sorbonne Université/CNRS under the supervision of Carola Doerr.
  → Slides

• Variational Inference via Wasserstein Gradient Flows
  Public seminar, Seminar series Modern Methods in Applied Stochastics and Nonparametric Statistics,
  WIAS Berlin (online), 2025.

  In this public seminar, I presented the work by Lambert et al., Variational Inference via Wasserstein Gradient Flows, as part of the PhD interview process at WIAS Berlin.
  → Slides