Inria Saclay, Soda team,
Bât. Alan Turing, 1 rue Honoré d’Estienne d’Orves, 91120 Palaiseau,
France
+33 6 42 62 39 74 ORCID 0000-0002-9304-2220
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
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Research Scientist (chargé de recherche de classe
normale) at Inria Saclay, Soda team (previously Lille, SequeL/Scool
team 2019–2021).
- From 2022
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Lecturer at École polytechnique, France. Teaching
competitive programming (wrote 2 books about it).
- 2019
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Visiting Scholar (3 months) at New York University.
- 2017–2019
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Postdoctoral Researcher (2.5 years) at RIKEN AIP,
Tokyo, Japan.
- From 2016
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I developed Pix at the
French MoE for certifying digital skills (6M active users as of 2023 =
10% of France.)
- 2015–2016
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Director & Writer of La Faute à
l’algo (TV sci-fi show on Nolife channel) with Michel
Blockelet.
Education
- 2014–2016
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PhD in Computer Science, Université Paris-Saclay,
France.
Title: “Adaptive Testing using Cognitive Diagnosis for Large-Scale
Learning”
K2 Prize “Machine Learning & Data Science”
- 2014
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Agrégation de mathématiques, French diploma for higher
education teaching.
- 2013–2014
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MSc of Teaching in Mathematics (Training for Higher
Education Teaching).
- 2009–2012
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MSc of Computer Science (Parisian Master of Research
in Computer Science).
- 2010
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Normalien at ENS Paris-Saclay (admitted 2).
- 2008–2009
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BSc of Computer Science at ENS de Lyon.
Teaching Experience
- From 2022
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ICPC SWERC training, MSc (M1), École polytechnique. 2 Silver
medals at ICPC SWERC 2023.
- From 2020
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Deep Learning: Do It Yourself!, MSc (M1), École normale
supérieure.
- 2022
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Préparation à l’agrégation d’informatique, Sorbonne
Université.
- 2021
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Algorithms & Programming in Python, MSc (M1),
Université de Lille.
- 2020 & 2021
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Introduction to Machine Learning, MSc (M2),
Polytech’Lille.
- 2016
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Algorithms & Programming in Python, BSc (L3),
CentraleSupélec, Châtenay-Malabry.
- 2015
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Introduction to Statistics, MSc (M1), EPF, Sceaux.
- 2012–2013
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Algorithms & Programming in Caml Light, Lycée
Louis-le-Grand (MP*), Paris.
- 2009–2011
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Oral examiner in Mathematics, Lycée Sainte-Marie &
du Parc (MP*), Lyon, Lycée Condorcet (ECS), Paris.
Professional Affiliations
& Activities
- Board of Directors
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Société informatique de France (French Computer Science Society),
2020–2023; Secretary of SIF in 2022.
- Expert
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at the European Commission in AI & Data for Education & Training
(2021–2022).
Member of Conseil scientifique de l’Éducation
nationale (since 2023).
Scientific committee of Regalia Inria project (regulation of algorithms)
- Jury
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Agrégation d’informatique (since 2022), entrance examinations
at Écoles normales supérieures (2020–2022)
- Program Committee
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EDM
2021 (General Chair), EDM 2019
(demos & posters), EDM 2020 (senior PC), PAKDD 2023 (workshop
chair), EDM 2023–2024 (publicity chair)
- Editorial Board
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Journal of Educational Data Mining (JEDM, 2020–2022)
- Workshop Organizer
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Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in Educational Data Mining
(FATED 2020), Optimizing Human Learning: Workshop eliciting Adaptive
Sequences for Learning (WASL 2018–2020, WASL 2024)
- Reviewer
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NeurIPS 2021–2023, AAAI 2020–2021, IEEE BigData 2022, PAKDD 2023,
AISTATS 2021, ICDM 2018, ICCE 2023, IEEE Transactions on Learning
Technologies, JEDM
- Advisory Board
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NSERC (Canada), Université Grenoble-Alpes, projet Erasmus+ AI4T
(advisory board)
- PhD jury
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Benoît Choffin (2021, invité), Olivier Allègre (2023)
- PhD midway committee
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Mélina Verger (2023–2024), Erva Nihan Kandemir (2023)
- Supervisor
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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), Florent Dufay (2021),
Tomas Rigaux (from 2021), Jean Vassoyan (from 2022), Clémence Réda (from
2023), Samuel Girard (from 2023), Marie Generali (from 2024), Achraf
Chaouch (2024), Hiba Bederina (from 2024)
- Coach
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ENS Paris-Saclay team at the International Collegiate Programming
Contest (ICPC, 2015–2016 & 2023), Université de Lille (2021), École
polytechnique (from 2022)
- Organizations
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Etalab (Prime Minister’s Office for Open Data, 2017), BetaGouv (State
Startups, 2016–2017)
Awards & Grants
- 2024
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Two Silver medals at International Collegiate Programming
Contest (ICPC; teams cnXtv 3 et eXotic 4 of École
polytechnique), qualified to European EUC and ICPC World Finals 2024
- 2024–2026
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Inria associated team with Kyoto University RED: recommendations
encouraging diversity
- 2021–2023
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Inria associated team with Kyoto University) OPALE: optimal policy
active learning for education
- 2023
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Funding Paris Region PhD from Île-de-France region (105k )
- 2022
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- T2D-INTERCEPT, Horizon Europe.
- Co-supervisor Marie Skłodowska-Curie funding ReCESS
for Clémence Réda.
- 2020
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NLnet’s NGI Zero funding for Mangaki, an open source
manga recommender system.
EIT Health Covidom Community, together with Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris
(AP-HP).
- 2019
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Best Full Paper Award of the 12 Educational Data Mining
conference, together with Benoît Choffin, Fabrice Popineau, Yolaine
Bourda.
- 2016
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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
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K2 Thesis Prize in the category “Machine Learning &
Data Science”.
- 2014
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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