# Sebastian Pokutta

> Professor of Optimization and Machine Learning at TU Berlin, Vice President of the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), and Chair of MATH+. Gödel Prize 2023. Work spans mathematical optimization, machine learning, and AI for science and mathematics.

Sebastian Pokutta leads the Interactive Optimization and Learning group, working from foundational algorithms through to deployed systems: first-order and Frank-Wolfe methods, optimization for machine learning, and agentic AI for research. Application areas include AI4Science and AI4Math: global forest monitoring from satellite data, entanglement certification via optimization, constructions in extremal combinatorics, and AI-assisted mathematical proof.

Canonical identifiers: ORCID [0000-0001-7365-3000](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7365-3000), Wikidata [Q102181882](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102181882).

## Primary pages

- [Home](https://www.pokutta.com/): Research overview, current roles, and recent highlights.
- [Bio](https://www.pokutta.com/bio/): Full biography: education, honors and awards, key roles, and service.
- [Publications](https://www.pokutta.com/publications/): Complete list of books, journal articles, refereed conference proceedings, and preprints.
- [Blog](https://www.pokutta.com/blog/): "One trivial observation at a time": essays on mathematics, optimization, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
- [Archive](https://www.pokutta.com/archive/): News, talks, teaching, and outreach.
- [Group](https://iol.zib.de/team/): Interactive Optimization and Learning group at ZIB.

## Research profiles

- [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7365-3000)
- [DBLP](https://dblp.org/pid/75/7718.html)
- [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/a/pokutta_s_1.html)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102181882)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/pokutta)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastianpokutta/)

## Machine-readable

- [Blog feed](https://www.pokutta.com/blog/feed.xml): Atom feed containing the full text of every blog post.

## Optional

- [Alumni](https://www.pokutta.com/alumni/): Former postdocs and graduate students.
- [Legal notice](https://www.pokutta.com/legal/) and [Privacy](https://www.pokutta.com/privacy/).