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

From 2019: Research Scientist at Inria, France.
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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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