Anas Barakat

Anas Barakat

Research Fellow

Singapore University of Technology and Design

I am currently a research fellow at Singapore University of Technology and Design working with Georgios Piliouras and Antonios Varvitsiotis.

My research lies at the intersection of multi-agent learning, reinforcement learning, and optimization. I focus on the design and analysis of learning algorithms for sequential decision-making in strategic, dynamic, and uncertain environments. Motivated by challenges in machine learning and multi-agent systems, my work combines tools from game theory, reinforcement learning, stochastic optimization, and dynamical systems to understand and shape how autonomous agents learn to act, adapt, and collaborate in strategic and dynamic multi-agent environments.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zurich working with Niao He in the department of computer science. I obtained my PhD in applied mathematics and computer science from Institut Polytechnique de Paris at Télécom Paris under the supervision of Pascal Bianchi and Walid Hachem. I received my engineering Master’s degree in applied mathematics and computer science from Télécom Paris and a Master’s degree in data science from Université Paris Saclay.

Here is my CV for more information.

Interests

  • Multi-Agent Learning
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Optimization

Education

  • PhD in Applied Mathematics and CS, 2021

    Institut Polytechnique de Paris (Télécom Paris)

  • MSc in Data Science, 2018

    Université Paris Saclay

  • MSc in Applied Mathematics and CS, 2018

    Télécom Paris

Talks

Invited talk - Finance and RL Talks
Invited talk - 4th Symposium on Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems
Talk - SUTD Group Meeting
Invited talk - ICCOPT 2022
Invited talk - 14th CMStatistics International Conference

Reviewing

  • Conferences: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, COLT, AISTATS, IEEE CDC.

  • Journals: Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), Mathematical Programming, SIAM Journal on Optimization (SIOPT), Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (JOTA), Systems & Control Letters, Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems (MCSS), Stochastic Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Control Systems Letters.

Teaching

ETH Zurich (2022-2024):

Télécom Paris (2018-2021): Teaching Assistant