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LUSEM’s Best Thesis Award 2024

thesis

awards

research

statistics

lusem

I received the LUSEM Prize for my PhD thesis! 🚀

6 May 2025

Johan Larsson

Cramér Prize for Best PhD Thesis

thesis

lasso

ridge regression

research

optimization

statistics

I received the Cramér Prize for my PhD thesis about optimization and algorithms for sparse regression! 🥳

5 February 2025

Johan Larsson

New Paper on Feature Normalization and Regularized Regression

papers

lasso

ridge regression

research

We have a new paper out on arXiv about normalization for regularized regression (lasso, ridge, and elastic net regression). There is remarkably little research on how to standardize non-normal features in regularized regression and in this paper we try to bridge this knowledge gap by considering binary features.

21 January 2025

Johan Larsson

Moloch: A Revival of the Metropolis LaTeX Beamer Theme

latex

software

presentations

beamer

Metropolis is a popular and modern beamer theme for LaTeX, but it is unfortunately no longer actively maintained. As a result, its list of issues is growing increasingly large. Moloch is a fork of Metropolis that aims to fix these issues as well add a few new features.

30 May 2024

Johan Larsson

PhD Thesis

thesis

statistics

optimization

My PhD thesis about optimization and other algorithms for sparse regression has been published! In this post I give a brief summary of the papers that are included in it.

22 May 2024

Johan Larsson