Jill-Jênn Vie

Researcher at Inria

Inria Saclay, Soda team, Bât. Alan Turing, 1 rue Honoré d’Estienne d’Orves, 91120 Palaiseau, France
+33 6 42 62 39 74

Interests

Skills

Experience

From 2019
Research Scientist (chargé de recherche de classe normale) at Inria Saclay, Soda team (previously Lille, SequeL/Scool team 2019–2021).
From 2022
Lecturer at École polytechnique, France.
2021–2022
Expert at the European Commission in AI & Data for Education & Training.
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

From 2022
ICPC SWERC training, MSc (M1), École polytechnique.
From 2020
Deep Learning: Do It Yourself!, MSc (M1), École normale supérieure.
2022
Préparation à l’agrégation d’informatique, Sorbonne Université.
2021
Algorithms & Programming in Python, MSc (M1), Université de Lille.
2020 & 2021
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.

Publications

Journal Articles

Books

Book Chapters

Conference Proceedings

Other publications

Preprints

Dissemination of scientific knowledge

Professional Affiliations & Activities

Board of Directors
Société informatique de France (French Computer Science Society), 2020–2023
General Chair
of the Educational Data Mining 2021 conference
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)
Editorial Board
Journal of Educational Data Mining (JEDM) – Blog Binaire, Le Monde.fr
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), Florent Dufay (2021), Tomas Rigaux (from 2021)
Coach
ENS Paris-Saclay team at the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC, 2015–2016), Université de Lille (2021), École polytechnique (from 2022)
Organizations
Etalab (Prime Minister’s Office for Open Data, 2017), BetaGouv (State Startups, 2016–2017)
Jury
entrance examinations of ENS, practical oral exam (2021 & 2022), agrégation d’informatique (since 2022).

Awards & Grants

2022
T2D-INTERCEPT, Horizon Europe.
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