• 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:
  • 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
  • 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
  • Majecstic, Vannes, 22-24 novembre 2006, reviewing in 2005, 2007
  • les Journées Francophones Planification, Décision, Apprentissage pour la conduite de système:
    • 1^er JFPDA, Toulouse, 10-12 mai 2006
    • 5^e JFPDA, Besançon, 2010
  • and others...
• co-organizer of the series of meeting séminaire « Systèmes complexes et SHS », 2004-2007

Projects

Current projects:

• 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 (2006-2010)

(some) Completed 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.

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.