Damek Davis

• Xingyuang Lu, Minh Pham, Elisa Negrini, Damek Davis, Stanley Osher, Jianwei Miao (2024), Computational Microscopy beyond Perfect Lenses, Physical Review E, 110 (5).
• Damek Davis, Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy, Liwei Jiang (2024), Asymptotic normality and optimality in nonsmooth stochastic approximation, The Annals of Statistics , 52 (4), pp. 1485-1508.
• Jeongyeol Kwon, Wei Qian, Constantine Caramanis, Yudong Chen, Damek Davis, Nhat Ho (2024), Global Optimality of the EM Algorithm for Mixtures of Two Linear Regression, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 70 (9), pp. 6519-6546.
• Damek Davis and Liwei Jiang (2024), A local nearly linearly convergent first-order method for nonsmooth functions with quadratic growth, Foundations of Computational Mathematics .
• Damek Davis, Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy, Vasileios Charisopoulos (2023), Stochastic algorithms with geometric step decay converge linearly on sharp functions, Mathematical Programming, 207 (p.p. 145-190).
• Vasileios Charisopoulos and Damek Davis (2023), A superlinearly convergent subgradient method for sharp semismooth problems, Mathematics of Operations Research , 49 (3), pp. 1678-1709.
• Damek Davis (2023), Variance reduction for root-finding problems, Mathematical Programming, 197 (p.p. 375-410).
• Damek Davis, Mateo Diaz, Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy (2022), Escaping strict saddle points of the Moreau envelope in nonsoomth optimization, SIAM Journal on Optimization , 32 (3), pp. 1958-1983.
• Damek Davis and Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy (2022), Conservative and semismooth derivatives are equivalent for semialgebraic maps, Set-Valued and Variational Analysis , 30 (p.p. 453 -463).
• Damek Davis, Mateo Diaz, Kaizheng Wang (Forthcoming), Clustering a Mixture of Gaussians with Unknown Covariance.
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Past Courses

• STAT4830 - Optimization for Data Sci & ML

  Optimization is the modeling language in which modern data science, machine learning, and sequential decision-making problems are formulated and solved numerically. This course will teach students how to formulate these problems mathematically, choose appropriate algorithms to solve them, and implement and tune the algorithms in the software PyTorch. PyTorch is a freely available machine learning library is recognized as one of the two most popular machine learning libraries alongside TensorFlow. By the end of the course, students will become an intelligent consumer of numerical methods and software for solving modern optimization problems.

Knowledge @ Wharton

• The Hidden Link Between Talent Shortages and Rising M&A Activity, Knowledge @ Wharton - 11/14/2025
• How Analytics Are Redefining Playoff Predictions Across College and Pro Sports, Knowledge @ Wharton - 11/12/2025
• How Coinbase’s Expansion Reflects a Shifting Regulatory Climate in Crypto, Knowledge @ Wharton - 11/12/2025
• The Lasting Impact of a 1976 Paper on Stock Information and Prices, Knowledge @ Wharton - 11/11/2025
• Do School Cell Phone Bans Help Students Do Better?, Knowledge @ Wharton - 11/11/2025
• The Business Side of FOMO | Barbara Kahn, Knowledge @ Wharton - 11/11/2025
• Understanding America’s $38 Trillion Debt and the Path Forward, Knowledge @ Wharton - 11/07/2025
• How Companies Are Adapting to the Generative AI Revolution, Knowledge @ Wharton - 11/05/2025
• Early NBA Trends With Dean Oliver, Knowledge @ Wharton - 11/05/2025
• What We Know About AI Fighting Corruption | Philip Nichols, Knowledge @ Wharton - 11/04/2025