Nicolas Loizou, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, has been selected to receive a 2025 Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award , which will support his work on the foundations of applications of multiplayer federated learning.
Catalyst awards support promising early-career faculty across JHU disciplines and divisions, providing funding to advance innovative research. Loizou is one of 20 Johns Hopkins faculty members chosen for a $100,000 grant.
Loizou’s research interests include large-scale optimization, machine learning, randomized algorithms, randomized numerical linear algebra, distributed and decentralized algorithms, and game theory, and his current research focuses on the theory and applications of convex and non-convex optimization in large-scale machine learning and data science problems.
The award will support his work on the foundations of applications of multiplayer federated learning.