Alena Kopaničáková

Alena Kopaničáková

Université de Genève / ANITI

Work experience

06/2026 –Assistant Professor, Département d'informatique, Université de Genève, Switzerland.
07/2024 – 12/2028Holder of the international chair HAISLED (Hybridizing AI and Large-scale Simulations for Engineering Design), Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANITI), France.
09/2024 – 05/2026Maître de Conférences (tenured associate professor in applied mathematics), Toulouse-INP (ENSEEIHT), IRIT laboratory – APO (Algorithms, Parallel Computing and Optimization) team, Toulouse, France.
06/2022 – 05/2024Researcher, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, USA. Realized via SNSF Postdoc.Mobility fellowship; Host: Prof. G. Karniadakis.
06/2022 – 05/2025Scientific collaborator (20%), Euler Institute, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland.
02/2021 – 05/2022Postdoctoral researcher, Euler Institute, USI, Lugano, Switzerland.
10/2015 – 01/2021Research assistant, Institute of Computational Science, USI, Lugano, Switzerland.
07/2017 – 12/2017Research intern, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Los Angeles, USA.

Education

2015 – 2020PhD in Computational Science, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland. Thesis: Multilevel minimization in trust-region framework – Algorithmic and software developments. Advisor: Prof. R. Krause.
2013 – 2015MSc in Informatics, Università della Svizzera italiana (started within the MSc in Artificial Intelligence, Technical University of Košice).
2010 – 2013BSc in Business Informatics, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia.