Inria Lille-Nord Europe, Scool team, 40 avenue Halley, 59650 Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France
+33 6 42 62 39 74
Interests
- Educational Data Mining
- Optimizing Human Learning
- Recommender systems, Cold-start
Skills
- Programming: Python, OCaml, R, C++
- Computing: numpy, scipy, sklearn, tf, PyTorch
- Web: Django, HTML5, JS, Vue.js, PHP, PostgreSQL
Experience
- From 2019
- Research Scientist at Inria, France.
- 2019
- Visiting Scholar (3 months) at New York University.
- 2017–2019
- Postdoctoral Researcher (2 years) at RIKEN AIP, Tokyo.
- From 2016
- Consulting at the French Ministry of Education / Pix. Certification of digital skills.
- 2015–2016
- Director & Writer of La Faute à l’algo (TV sci-fi show on Nolife channel) with Michel Blockelet.
Education
- 2014–2016
- PhD in Computer Science, Université Paris-Saclay, France. K2 Prize “Machine Learning & Data Science”
- 2014
- Agrégation de mathématiques, French diploma for higher education teaching.
- 2013–2014
- MSc of Teaching in Mathematics (Training for Higher Education Teaching).
- 2009–2012
- MSc of Computer Science (Parisian Master of Research in Computer Science).
- 2010
- Normalien at ENS Paris-Saclay (admitted 2).
- 2008–2009
- BSc of Computer Science at ENS de Lyon.
Teaching Experience
- Upcoming 2021
- Algorithms & Programming in Python, MSc (M1), Centrale Lille.
- 2020
- Introduction to Machine Learning, MSc (M2), Polytech’Lille.
Deep Learning: Do It Yourself!, MSc (M1), École normale supérieure.
- 2016
- Algorithms & Programming in Python, BSc (L3), CentraleSupélec, Châtenay-Malabry.
- 2015
- Introduction to Statistics, MSc (M1), EPF, Sceaux.
- 2012–2013
- Algorithms & Programming in Caml Light, Lycée Louis-le-Grand (MP*), Paris.
- 2009–2011
- Oral examiner in Mathematics, Lycée Sainte-Marie & du Parc (MP*), Lyon, Lycée Condorcet (ECS), Paris.
Professional Affiliations & Activities
- Board of Directors
- Société informatique de France (French Computer Science Society), since 2020
- General Chair
- Educational Data Mining 2021
- Workshop Organizer
- Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in Educational Data Mining (FATED 2020), Optimizing Human Learning: Workshop eliciting Adaptive Sequences for Learning (WASL 2018–2020)
- Program Committee
- EDM 2019 (demos & posters), EDM 2020 (senior PC)
- Associate Editor
- Journal of Educational Data Mining (JEDM)
- Reviewer
- AAAI 2020–2021, AISTATS 2021, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, JEDM
- Supervisor
- Alexis Rivière, Dylan Tanguy (2015), Thomas Chalumeau (2017), Aymeric Floyrac, Pierre Bourse, Salim Nadir, Sein Minn, Vianney Taquet, Clémence Léguillette, Yassine Esmili, Mehdi Douch (2020)
- Coach
- ENS Paris-Saclay team at the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC, 2015–2016)
- Organizations
- Etalab (Prime Minister’s Office for Open Data, 2017), BetaGouv (State Startups, 2016–2017)
Awards & Grants
- 2020
- NLnet’s NGI Zero funding for Mangaki.
EIT Health Covidom Community, together with Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP).
- 2019
- Best Full Paper Award of the 12 Educational Data Mining conference, together with Benoît Choffin, Fabrice Popineau, Yolaine Bourda.
- 2016
- Japanese Cultural Institute Prize 2016 winner & Student Demo Cup Prize for Mangaki (president, 2016–2019), a non-profit organization that builds an open-source anime/manga recommender system in 5 languages.
- 2016
- K2 Thesis Prize in the category “Machine Learning & Data Science”.
- 2014
- Google RISE Award (20,000 USD) for Prologin (president, 2011–2013), a non-profit organization that organizes a French national programming contest every year (similar to Google Code Jam, Facebook Hacker Cup). With this money, we founded Girls Can Code! a programming summer school for K-12 girls.
Languages
French native English fluent Japanese intermediate Spanish intermediate Mandarin beginner