Scholar
Sebastian Urban Stich
Google Scholar ID: 8l-mDfQAAAAJ
CISPA Helmholtz Center
Citations & Impact
Citations
24,314
H-index
37
i10-index
62
Publications
20
Co-authors
69
list available
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant 2024 for the project CollectiveMinds
- Received a Google Research Scholar Award in 2023
- Received a Meta Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Research Award in 2022
- Served as area chair for top-tier conferences including ICLR (2024), ICML (2023, 2024), and NeurIPS (2022, 2023)
- Delivered invited/keynote talks at international venues such as the Optimization Workshop at NeurIPS 2024, FedKDD workshop at KDD 2024, EUROPT 2024 plenary talk, and FL-ICML 2021 keynote
Research Experience
- Leading a research group at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, supervising postdocs, PhD students, and interns
- Co-teaching an advanced course on Modern Optimization Methods with Anton Rodomanov (Summer 2025)
- Teaching an advanced lecture on Optimization for Machine Learning at Saarland University (Summer 2024)
- Co-teaching an advanced lecture on Games in Machine Learning with Tatjana Chavdarova (Winter 2023)
- Co-organizing the 17th OPT Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning at NeurIPS 2025
