Luiz Chamon has been appointed Professeur Monge (tenure-track assistant professor) at the prestigious École Polytechnique de Paris. Starting January 2025, Chamon will join the Center for Applied Mathematics (CMAP), contributing his expertise to an institution renowned for its legacy of pioneering contributions from simulation scientists like Lagrange, Fourier, and Navier.
At École Polytechnique, Chamon will continue his research on intelligent systems, focusing on the theory, algorithms, and applications of constrained learning. This transformative "constraint-driven" paradigm shifts the design of data-driven systems away from traditional objective-centric approaches, instead prioritizing requirements such as robustness, fairness, safety, smoothness, and invariance. By leveraging advanced tools from signal processing, statistical learning, and optimization, Chamon’s work explores how intelligent systems can extract, process, and act on information while adhering to critical constraints. His research addresses fundamental questions, such as the feasibility of learning under constraints, the computational challenges it entails, and its unique ability to solve problems beyond the scope of conventional learning methods.
Chamon’s contributions extend beyond theoretical advancements to impactful applications in fields such as image classification, semi-supervised learning, and data-driven control. He has developed tools for near-optimal experimental design, actuator scheduling, and sampling, alongside theoretical foundations for sparse functional programs and a graphon signal processing framework that demonstrated the transferability of graph neural networks. His work has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICASSP 2020.
Chamon’s academic journey reflects a rich history of achievements and interdisciplinary collaborations. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020 and was subsequently a postdoctoral fellow at the Simons Institute at UC Berkeley. Before that, he completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. His research has spanned optimization, machine learning, signal processing, and control, with significant contributions to theory and practice. Until the end of 2024, he served as the ELLIS-SimTech Independent Junior Research Group Leader at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Chamon’s journey has also included collaborations with industry and academia, such as working with EMBRAER and INSACAST Formation Continue in France. His appointment at École Polytechnique is a testament to his exceptional contributions to both fundamental and applied research.
As he transitions to his new role in Paris, Luiz Chamon remains committed to advancing collaborations with the University of Stuttgart, SimTech and other global institutions.
The SimTech Cluster of Excellence at the University of Stuttgart warmly congratulates Luiz Chamon on this well-deserved recognition of his work and wishes him continued success in this exciting new chapter of his career.