Academic Profile : Faculty
Assoc Prof Hemant Tyagi
Nanyang Associate Professor, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
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Since Feb 2025, I am a Nanyang Associate Professor at NTU in the SPMS. From Dec 2018 - Jan 2025, I was a Researcher (CR) at Inria Lille in the MODAL team. Earlier, I was a Research Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute London, also affiliated to the University of Edinburgh (School of Mathematics). I obtained my PhD from ETH Zurich (Institute of Theoretical Computer Science) in 2016, and Masters from EPFL in 2011.
High-dimensional statistics, Numerical analysis, Optimization, Statistical learning theory, Inverse problems on graphs
Awards
2025 - Nanyang Associate Professorship award from NTU
2015 - Second prize at the Information and Inference best paper prize meeting for the journal paper "Tangent space estimation for smooth embeddings of Riemmanian manifolds"
2006 - Keerthy Trophy Gold Medal + M.R Shenoy Memorial Prize + Incident 1981 Committee Prize + Gold Medal from NITK Surathkal
2015 - Second prize at the Information and Inference best paper prize meeting for the journal paper "Tangent space estimation for smooth embeddings of Riemmanian manifolds"
2006 - Keerthy Trophy Gold Medal + M.R Shenoy Memorial Prize + Incident 1981 Committee Prize + Gold Medal from NITK Surathkal
Fellowships & Other Recognition
(Sep 2016 - Aug 2019) - Alan Turing Institute Research Fellowship
Supervision of PhD Students
Guillaume Braun (with Christophe Biernacki at Inria Lille)
Eglantine Karle (with Cristian Preda at Inria Lille)
Eglantine Karle (with Cristian Preda at Inria Lille)