{"id":45654,"date":"2023-06-12T13:55:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ams\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45654"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:17:05","slug":"loizou-recognized-with-cisco-research-grant","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ams\/news\/loizou-recognized-with-cisco-research-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Loizou recognized with Cisco Research grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ams\/faculty\/nicolas-loizou\/\">Nicolas Loizou<\/a>,\u00a0assistant professor in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ams\/\">Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics<\/a> and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.minds.jhu.edu\/about-minds-2\/\">Mathematical Institute for Data Science\u00a0<\/a>(MINDS), has been recognized with a Cisco Research Gift.<\/p>\n<p>His funded project, \u201cMulti-Player Federated Learning: Efficient Algorithms and Applications,\u201d will build on his previous work in large-scale optimization, algorithmic game theory, and federated learning.<\/p>\n<p>The project seeks to facilitate collaboration between members of Loizou\u2019s team in the JHU Optimization and Machine Learning Lab and <a href=\"https:\/\/research.cisco.com\/people\">Cisco researchers<\/a> to establish the foundations of multi-player federated learning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CISCO Research gift will help us focus on the design, analysis, and high-performance computing implementations of new classes of computationally efficient federated learning algorithms suitable for multi-player game formulations,\u201d said Loizou of the one-year, unrestricted grant.<\/p>\n<p>He aims to develop open-source tools with the goal of conducting research in federated learning that benefits the broader machine-learning community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-45654","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-awards-and-honors","news_categories-department-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Loizou recognized with Cisco Research grant | Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ams\/news\/loizou-recognized-with-cisco-research-grant\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Loizou recognized with Cisco Research grant | Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nicolas Loizou,\u00a0assistant professor in the\u00a0Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and the\u00a0Mathematical Institute for Data Science\u00a0(MINDS), has been recognized with a Cisco Research Gift. 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