Jose Gallego-Posada
Scholar

Jose Gallego-Posada

Google Scholar ID: tfKnkRQAAAAJ
Mila - Université de Montréal
Machine LearningConstrained OptimizationInformation TheoryGame Theory
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
249
 
H-index
8
 
i10-index
8
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
10
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Published multiple papers including 'Feasible Learning' (AISTATS 2025) and 'On PI Controllers for Updating Lagrange Multipliers in Constrained Optimization' (ICML 2024)
  • - First last-author paper 'Balancing Act: Constraining Disparate Impact in Sparse Models' accepted at ICLR 2024
  • - Delivered talks at multiple international conferences such as ICML 2024, ICLR 2024, NeurIPS 2025, etc.
  • - Released version 1.0.0 of the Cooper library
  • - Served as area chair for workshops at NeurIPS 2025
Research Experience
  • - Doctoral researcher at Mila and Université de Montréal
  • - One of the lead developers of Cooper, an open-source library for non-convex constrained optimization in PyTorch
  • - Speaker or organizer at multiple international conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, AISTATS
  • - Visiting researcher at Meta, working on scalable adaptive optimization methods
Education
  • - PhD, Université de Montréal and Mila, supervised by Simon Lacoste-Julien, partially supported by an IVADO PhD Excellence Scholarship
  • - MSc in Artificial Intelligence, University of Amsterdam, supervised by Patrick Forré, graduated in 2018
  • - BSc in Mathematical Engineering, Universidad EAFIT, Medellin
Background
  • Research interests include constrained optimization problems, adaptive optimization, equivariant deep learning, geometric information theory, federated learning, and applications of algebraic geometry to machine learning.
Miscellany
  • Dijkstra and Erdős numbers are both 4