Rémi Gilleron

I am retired but still active as "professeur émérite" at Lille university.

Research

I was previously researcher in theoretical computer science (see paper on set constraints and the TATA book).
I am now researcher in machine learning. I am member of the MAGNET research team. I am interested in graph-based learning and learning for natural language processing:

I participate in the Mangoes project: python toolbox for constructing and evaluating word embeddings.
Along the PhD of Thomas Ricatte, we introduced Hypernode Graphs and applied them to the skill rating problem for multiple player games.

Previous works include conditional random fields (CRFs) for XML trees; grammatical inference based learning algorithms for XML queries; boosting algorithms for multi-task learning; learning from positive examples only; and simple PAC models based on Kolmogorov complexity.

I was head of the Mostrare research project of INRIA Lille Nord Europe since 2003 until July 2011.
I was in charge of GRAppA-LIFL since 1996 until 2013.

Publications and presentations

For publications, See DBLP
Basics of optimal transport (2018)
Short survey on Machine Learning and Verification (2018)
Discussion on word embeddings (2016)
Basics of submodularity (2014)
PAC learning and property testing (2010)
Probabilistic tree automata (2009)

Contact

Centre de Recherche INRIA Lille Nord Europe
Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne
Park Plaza - Bât A - 40 avenue Halley
59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex

Phone (INRIA office): (+33) 3 59 35 87 22
email: remi dot gilleron at inria dot fr

Teaching

I was in charge of the master "Web Analyst". I gave lectures on machine learning, on databases (relational and NoSQL), information retrieval and semantic Web. Some lecture notes (in french)

Family and spare-time activities

I have three children: Clément, Justine and Martin; a granddaughter Lili and two grandsons Abel et Gatien
Visit, walking and trekking. Recently Ladakh, Uzbekistan, Jordan and China
I am tennis player and have the 30-1 ranking. I was involved in the JFL basket-ball club.
I read foreign literature:
- China: "Brothers" (Yu Hua), "La dure loi du karma" (Mo Yan), "le rêve du village des Ding" (Yan Lianke)
- Spain: "Le Coeur glacé" (Almudena Grandes), "L'homme qui aimait les chiens" (Leonardo Padura)
- Viet-nam: "Terre des oublis", "itinéraire d'enfance" et "au zenith" (Duong Thu Huong)
- Egypt: "Impasse des deux palais", "Le jardin du passé", "Le palais du désir" (Naguib Mahfouz), "Immeuble Yacoubian" (Alaa al-Aswani, Egypt)
- Japan: "Kafka sur le rivage" (Haruki Murakami)
- India: "Le trône du paon" (Sujit Saraf), "histoire de mes assasins" (Tarun Tejpal)