Research highlights

Recent events

02/11/19

I was referee for the PhD thesis of Marie Al-Ghossein

12/17/18

I was referee for the PhD thesis of Adrien Dulac

12/07/18

My colleague Julien Randon-Furling defended is Habilitation à diriger des recherches. I was a member of the jury.

11/29/18

I was referee for the PhD thesis of Charles Truong

11/28/18

Aichetou Bouchareb defended her thesis

11/07/18

I was referee for the PhD thesis of Raphaël Charbey

03/16/18

Bienvenu Kouwayè defended his thesis

03/01/18

I was a member of the jury of the PhD thesis defense of Bertrand Lebichot.

02/28/18

I gave a seminar on my recent paper on temporal graph at the Machine Learning Group of UCL

Older events

12/08/17

My colleague Joseph Rynkiewicz defended is Habilitation à diriger des recherches. I was a member of the jury.

12/01/17

I gave an invited talk at the 3rd Big Data Conference of Linnaeus University

11/27/17

My colleague Pierre Latouche defended his Habilitation à diriger des recherches. I was one of the reviewer

11/17/17

Marco Corneli defended his thesis

07/07/17

Our special issue of the Journal de la Société Française de Statistiques on Humanities and Statistics has been published

PhD students

Current

• Florian Barbaro: text mining and financial time series;
• Clément Laroche: break point detection (co-advised with Madalina Olteanu);
• Antoine Lucquiaud: random interventions in complex models (co-advised with Julien Randon-Furling);
• Elie Mengin: computer security (with Quarkslab).

Former

• Aichetou Bouchareb (11-2018): co-clustering;
• Brieuc Conan-Guez (2002, now assistant professor in Metz): functional data and multilayer perceptrons;
• Marco Corneli (11-2017, now post doc in Nice): dynamic graphs;
• Arnaud de Myttenaere (11-2016): evaluation in machine learning;
• Matthieu Durut (09-2012): clustering in the Cloud;
• Romain Guigourès (12-2013): coclustering;
• Aïcha El Golli (06-2004, now assistant professor a ESSAI Tunis, Tunisia): self-organizing maps on symbolic data (co-advised with Yves Lechevallier);
• Khalil El Mahrsi (09-2013): trajectory data analysis;
• Bienvenue Kouwayè (03-2018): malaria exposure risk modeling in Benin;
• Tsirizo Rabenoro (09-2015): health monitoring;
• Frédérick Vautrain (2000): constrained clustering.

Editorial activities

From 2007 to 2015, I was associate editor of Neurocomputing and of Neural Processing Letters. Considering the increasingly aggresive behavior of commercial publishers and their profit maximization strategies, I've decided to resign from those positions at the end of 2015.

I'm a member of the scientific committee of ESANN.

I've reviewed literally hundreds of papers (around 110 journal papers, roughly 60 papers for ESANN alone, and dozens of papers for ICML, ECML, PKDD, NIPS, ICANN, IWANN, etc.).