Thomas Allard

Postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University.

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, working with David Donoho. Before joining Stanford University, I was a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich (2025), where I also completed my PhD (2019-2024) under the supervision of Helmut Bölcskei on the topic of Metric Entropy of Ellipsoids with Applications to Machine Learning.

Research Interests:

• Approximation Theory	• Harmonic Analysis
• Mathematical Statistics	• Statistical Learning

News

May 04, 2026 - Talk at ICCHA 2026

I will be talking about Entropy Numbers from Time-Frequency Representations at the 9th International Conference on Computational Harmonic Analysis (ICCHA 2026).

Slides are available here.

March 26, 2026 - New Preprint

Our new preprint Entropy and Minimax Risk of Hypoelliptic Pseudodifferential Operators with H. Bölcskei is now available online.

March 04, 2026 - Paper Accepted

Our article Metric Entropy of Ellipsoids in Banach Spaces: Techniques and Precise Asymptotics with H. Bölcskei has been accepted for publication in Journal of Functional Analysis.