Manu Upadhyaya

I recently completed my PhD at Lund University (2025), where I worked on systematic and computer-aided analyses and design of first-order methods for structured optimization and inclusion problems. My supervisors were Pontus Giselsson and Sebastian Banert.

Before that, I received an MSc in engineering physics (2020), an MSc in finance (2020), and a BSc in mathematics (2015), all from Lund University. I have also spent time as a research visitor at UC Berkeley (2017), ETH Zürich (2018), and Inria Paris (2024–2025).

News

• Sep 3, 2025
  I will defend my PhD thesis at Lund University.

  Details:

  • Date & time: Friday, 26 September 2025, 09:15
  • Venue: Lecture hall A, Building M, Ole Römers väg 1, Lund

  External reviewer (opponent):

  • Bartolomeo Stellato, Assistant Professor, Princeton University

  Examining committee:

  • Tony Stillfjord, Associate Professor, Lund University
  • Ion Necoară, Professor, University Politehnica Bucharest
  • Masoud Ahookhosh, Assistant Professor, University of Antwerp
• Jun 22, 2024 I will visit the Sierra team at Inria Paris from September 2024 until February 2025.
• Jan 15, 2024 The manuscript titled Automated tight Lyapunov analysis for first-order methods has been accepted for publication in the journal Mathematical Programming.
• Dec 14, 2023 I am excited to announce that I am co-organizing the 21st conference on advances in continuous optimization (EUROPT 2024), set to take place in Lund, Sweden, from June 26 to 28, 2024. For more details, visit the conference website.