Manu Upadhyaya

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Inria Paris in the Sierra team, working with Adrien Taylor and Aymeric Dieuleveut. I 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 visiting student researcher at UC Berkeley (2017) and ETH Zürich (2018).

News

• Dec 29, 2025 The manuscript titled A Lyapunov analysis of Korpelevich's extragradient method with fast and flexible extensions has been accepted for publication in the journal Mathematical Programming.
• Oct 23, 2025 The manuscript titled The Chambolle-Pock method converges weakly with \(\theta > 1/2\,\,\) and \(\tau\sigma\|L\|^2 < 4/(1+2\theta)\) has been accepted for publication in the journal Optimization Letters.
• Sep 26, 2025 I successfully defended my PhD thesis. Many thanks to my opponent, Bartolomeo Stellato, and to the examining committee: Tony Stillfjord, Ion Necoară, and Masoud Ahookhosh.
• 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.