{"id":39998,"date":"2022-02-22T09:55:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T14:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ams\/faculty\/nicolas-loizou\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T14:41:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T18:41:52","slug":"nicolas-loizou","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ams\/faculty\/nicolas-loizou\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Loizou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicolas Loizou is an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science and affiliation with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.minds.jhu.edu\/\">Mathematical Institute for Data Science<\/a>. He is also a member of the Data Science and AI Institute.<\/p>\n<p>His research interests include large-scale optimization, machine learning, randomized algorithms, randomized numerical linear algebra, distributed and decentralized algorithms, and game theory. 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