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Nikita Doikov

Assistant Professor (Spring 2026)

School of Operations Research and Information Engineering

Nikita Doikov
Nikita Doikov

Biography

Nikita Doikov will join Cornell in January 2026 as an Assistant Professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering. He received his PhD from UCLouvain, Belgium, under the supervision of Yurii Nesterov in 2021. After that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL, Switzerland, working in the Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory led by Martin Jaggi. He also gained industrial experience as an intern at Google in 2016 and 2018.

Research Interests

His research is in optimization algorithms and their applications in machine learning and AI. In particular, he focuses on provably efficient methods that exploit problem structure, such as second-order information, model landscapes, and stochasticity, as well as on utilizing scalable decentralized architectures to accelerate model training.

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Education

  • Ph.D. (Engineering and Technology), UCLouvain 2021
  • M.S. (Applied Mathematics and Informatics), Higher School of Economics 2017
  • B.S. (Applied Mathematics and Computer Science), Lomonosov Moscow State University 2015