CV
My CV in pdf format is here
Education
- M.S. in Computer Science, ENS de Lyon, 2024
- B.S. in Computer Science, ENS de Lyon, 2022
Work experience
- October 2025-September 2028: Phd in computer science
- February 2025-July 2025: 5 months long research internship
- October 2024-January 2025: 3 months long research internship
- Location: ROMA team at ENS de Lyon (Lyon, France)
- Topic: Birkhoff-like decomposition of symmetric matrices
- Supervisors: Bora Uçar and Jeremy E. Cohen
- February-July 2024: 5 months long research internship
- Location: ROMA team at ENS de Lyon (Lyon, France)
- Topic: Greedy algorithms for computing the Birkhoff decomposition
- Supervisors: Bora Uçar and Jeremy E. Cohen
- Material produced: article published at EUSCIPCO 2024, (future) 20 pages report and 20 minutes talk
- May-July 2023: 12 weeks long research internship
- Location: Parallel Programming team at TU-Darmstadt (Damrstadt, Germany)
- Topic: High performance computing for brain simulations
- Supervisors: Fabian Czappa and Felix Wolf
- Material produced: 20 pages report and 20 minutes talk
- June-July 2022: 6 weeks long research internship
- Location: IRIF (Paris, France)
- Topic: Distributed certification of graph properties
- Supervisor: Pierre Fraignaud
- Material produced: 20 pages report and 20 minutes talk
Publications
Lesens, D., Rakhshan, B. T., Rabusseau, G. KQ-SVD: Compressing the KV Cache with Provable Guarantees on Attention Fidelity. In The 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics.
Damien Lesens, Jérémy E. Cohen, Bora Uçar. Algorithms for symmetric Birkhoff-von Neumann decomposition of symmetric doubly stochastic matrices. RR-9566, Inria Lyon. 2025, pp.1-30. ⟨hal-04877502⟩
Damien Lesens, Jérémy E. Cohen, Bora Uçar. "Orthogonal matching pursuit-based algorithms for the Birkhoff-von Neumann decomposition ." EUSCIPCO 2024. 1(1).
Talks
August 26, 2024
Talk at Lyon Convention Center, Lyon, France
June 25, 2024
Talk at CAES-CNRS center in Aussois, Aussois, France
Teaching
Skills
- Programming:
- Programming contests
- Rating 1471 (specialist) on Codeforces
- February 2023 : ranked 45 (out of 120 teams) at SWERC Milano
- October 2022 : ranked 32 out of +1000 participants in “Le Shaker” contest
- January 2022 : qualification to the final round of the “ProLogin” programming contest
Languages
- French: mother tongue
- English: C2 level, obtained Cambridge Advanced certification in 2022 with C2 grading
- German: B1 level