October 2011 Invited speaker at the International Workshop on Open Source for Scientific Computation, Beijing, China. (workshop website)
October 2011 Presented at the Workshop on Machine Learning and Computer Vision, IST Austria.
July 2010 Presented at the School of Mathematics "G. Stampacchia", Workshop on nonlinear optimization, variational inequalities and equilibrium problems. (workshop website)
June 2010 Presented at the Workshop on Optimization and Learning: Theory, Algorithms and Applications, at the University of Metz, France. (workshop website)
July 2009 Visiting Associate Professor at the Laboratory of Theoretical and Applied Computer Science (LITA) University of Metz, France, where I collaborated closely with Prof. Le Thi Hoai An.
June 2009 Invited talk on Machine Learning Open Source Software at the ICML Workshop on Evaluation Methods in Machine Learning.
August 2007 Visited Prof. Stephane Canu at INSA de Rouen, France.