• Participation to program committees, and/or organization of conferences
• Projects I have been, or am, involved in.

Conferences

• Co-organizer of the 8^th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning, June-July 2008, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Post-proceedings in the Springer, LNAI series, volume 5323.
• co-organizer of the workshop Kernel Machines and Reinforcement Learning during ICML, Pittsburgh, June 29^th, 2006
• main organizer of the journées PDMIA, juin 2005 à Villeneuve d'Ascq (french speaking days on Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning)
• PC member of:
  • 29^th International Conference on Machine Learning, Edinburgh, June 26^th-July 1^st
  • 10^thEuropean Workshop on Reinforcement Learning, held in conjunction with ICML'2012, in Edinburgh
  • 1^st Int'l Conf. on Pattern Recogntiion Applications and Methods, Algave, Portugal, Feb. 2012
  • 27^th International Conference on Machine Learning, juin 21-24 2010, Haifa, Israel
  • the 21^st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 11-17 July 2009, Pasadena, USA
  • 18^th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2007), and 20^th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2009)
  • Artificial Evolution:
    • 8^th Artificial Evolution, Oct 2007, Tours, France,
    • as well as the 2005 edition in Lille,
    • 2003 edition in Marseille,
    • 2001 edition in Le Creusot,
    • 1999 edition in Dunkerque.
  • l'IEEE International Symposium on Approximate Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL):
    • april 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii;
    • March 2009, Nashville, TN, USA
    • 3^rd IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning, April 2011, in Paris
    • Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL), Singapore, Apr 15-19, 2013
  • RFIA 2008, Amiens, France
  • Conférence Francophone sur l'Apprentissage Automatique (CAP), mai 2010, Clermont-Ferrand
  • Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances (EGC: french-speaking conference on Data Mining):
    • workshops chairman of EGC 2006 (janvier) à Villeneuve d'Ascq
    • EGC 2008 in Nice;
    • EGC 2009 in Strasbourg
    • EGC 2010, janvier 2010, Hammamet, Tunisie
    • EGC 2011, Brest, janvier 2011
    • EGC 2012, Bordeaux, Jan. 2012
  • Majecstic, Vannes, 22-24 novembre 2006, reviewing in 2005, 2007
  • les Journées Francophones Planification, Décision, Apprentissage pour la conduite de système:
    • JFPDA 2012, Nancy, 22-23 Mai, 2012
    • JFPDA 2011, Rouen
    • 5^e JFPDA, Besançon, 2010
    • 1^er JFPDA, Toulouse, 10-12 mai 2006
  • and others...
• Reviewer for:
  • NIPS 2010, 2011
  • ...
• co-organizer of the series of meeting séminaire « Systèmes complexes et SHS », 2004-2007

Projects

Current projects:

• I belong to the Pascal network of excellence ; my page on the Pascal site
• the Ubiquitous Virtual Seller (2009-2011), from the ``Pôle de Compétitivité Industries du Commerce'', Région Nord-Pas de Calais/FEDER funding
• the ANR-Lampada (2010-2013)
• the ANR EXPLORA: EXPLOration - EXPLOitation for efficient Resource Allocation. Applications to optimization, control, learning, and games. (2009-2011)
• contract of research with Orange Labs
  • contract in 2009 on ad display on websites (there will be a sequel in 2010)
  • contract 2009-2012 on sequential machine learning
• INRIA SequeL (2006-2014)

Collaborations with companies:

• France Telecom / Orange Labs, Lannion, France:
  • a PhD student grant (CIFRE) on incremental supervised learning, with Dr. Vincent Lemaire, 2009-2012
  • a PhD student grant (CIFRE) on recommendation systems/computational advertisement, with Dr. Tanguy Urvoy, 2011-2014
  • a CRE (2010-2011) on sequential learning under constraints
  • a CRE (2009) on ad selection for web portals
• Addressing Business, Lille (2010-2011)
• Squoring (2010-), Toulouse

(some) Older projects:

• the DYNAPP (= Learning Dynamics) project, 2004-2006
• the ABC (Behavior-based animations) Robea project, in 2003
• the ACI Cognitique project, 2000-2003
• looking for the late « Groupe Apprentissage par REnforcement » (GARE = Reinforcement Learning Group) webpage. See SequeL for my current activities in reinforcement learning.

Expertize

I regularly expertize proposals for the AERES, ANR, CNRS.

Skills

I got acquainted with computer science in the early 1980's at the great period of micro-computers, and then was trained as a computer scientist in the 1980's. Since then, I learnt by myself a whole lot of maths, and statistics.

• Programming languages:
  • high proficiency: C, R
  • former high proficiency: various lisp dialects (Le_Lisp 15 for those who see what I mean), Smalltalk, Pascal, various assembly languages and machine code (6502, 8080, 8088, 8086, 68000, Z80, Cray Y-MP, aka CAL)
  • decent proficiency: Ada, Prolog, Java
  • older stuffs: Cobol, Pl/1, Fortran, Forth
• OS: Unix, Multics
• Compiler design, and code generation
• ...

Links

• my wiki which acts as a documentation hub in computer science, maths, and other subjects I am interested in
• My personal site. which considers these themes in a less academic way (in french only)
• Back 2 my home page.