Luca Sodomaco

Luca Sodomaco is a Research Fellow at Aalto University, Finland, working in Kaie Kubjas' research group with a focus on algebraic geometry applications in optimization and statistics. He maintains academic ties to the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig) through historical workshop engagements and seminar participation.

His educational background includes:

• Undergraduate studies at Università Degli Studi di Trieste under Emilia Mezzetti
• PhD in Mathematics from Università Degli Studi di Firenze (2020), supervised by Giorgio Ottaviani

Dr. Sodomaco's research centers on Euclidean Distance degrees of algebraic varieties, particularly low-rank matrix and tensor structures, with implications for statistical learning and data science. His work connects theoretical algebraic geometry to practical optimization problems in engineering contexts.

He actively contributes to the international mathematics community through events including the Macaulay2 Workshop and Summer School on Numerical Computing in Algebraic Geometry (2018) at MPI Leipzig, the Workshop on Low-rank Optimization and Applications (2019), and as an invited speaker for the Nonlinear Algebra Seminar Online (2021).

His current research activities are embedded within Kaie Kubjas' group at Aalto University, while his prior collaborations with MPI Leipzig's Nonlinear Algebra team continue to influence computational approaches to algebraic varieties.