HUGO GEORGES VICTOR LAVENANT

HUGO GEORGES VICTOR LAVENANT

Biographical note

I am an Assistant Professor in the department of Decision Sciences at Bocconi University. Before that I was a postdoctoral fellow of the Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences at the University of British Columbia, in Canada under the guidance of Young-Heon Kim, Brendan Pass, Geoffrey Schiebinger and Dave Schneider. I completed my PhD in mathematics between 2016 and 2019 under the supervision of Filippo Santambrogio at Université Paris-Sud, in Orsay. My research interests lie in optimal transport and the geometry of the Wasserstein space, convex analysis, optimization, and Bayesian statistics.


Research interests

Mathematical analysis, with interests for the following topics: Calculus of variations, Optimal transport, Convex optimization.


Selected Publications

Lavenant, Hugo; Zhang, Stephne; Kim, Young-Heon; Schiebinger, Geoffrey
Toward a mathematical theory of trajectory inference
THE ANNALS OF APPLIED PROBABILITY, 2024

Lavenant, Hugo
Unconditional convergence for discretizations of dynamical optimal transport
MATHEMATICS OF COMPUTATION, 2021

Lavenant Hugo
Harmonic mappings valued in the Wasserstein space
JOURNAL OF FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS, 2019

Lavenant Hugo; Claici Sebastian; Chien Edward; Solomon Justin
Dynamical optimal transport on discrete surfaces
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS, 2018