Florent Krzakala (born (1976-03-22)March 22, 1976 in Nancy, France) is a French physicist and applied mathematician, currently a professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). His research focuses on the resolution of theoretical problems in physics, computer science, machine learning, statistics and signal processing using mathematical tools inspired by the field of statistical physics. Source: Wikipedia (en)