Jill-Jênn Vie

Research Scientist at Inria

Inria Lille-Nord Europe, SequeL team, 40 avenue Halley, 59650 Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France
+33 6 42 62 39 74

From 2019: Research Scientist at Inria Lille, SequeL team.
2019: Visiting Scholar (3 months) at LEARN lab, New York University.
2017–2019: Postdoctoral Researcher (2.5 years) at RIKEN AIP, Tokyo, Japan, with Prof. Hisashi Kashima.
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.

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.

2020: Introduction to Machine Learning, MSc (M2), Polytech’Lille.
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.

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, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, JEDM
Supervisor: Alexis Rivière, Dylan Tanguy (2015), Thomas Chalumeau (2017), Aymeric Floyrac, Pierre Bourse, Salim Nadir (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)

2020: NLnet’s NGI Zero funding for Mangaki.
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.

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