Sierra team

Sierra and Willow teams in Avignon, October 2021.



Sierra is based at Inria Paris and is a joint team between Inria, the computer science department of ENS Paris (département d’informatique de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris), and the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 8548). The team is led by Francis Bach.

Our main research axes are

  • Statistical machine learning,
  • Numerical optimization,
  • ML/Optimization in interactions with other disciplines,
  • Incentives, social welfare, and machine learning.