PI of ERC starting grant Blackjack (2020-2025), funded at 1.5M€; holder of a national chair in artificial intelligence; recipient of the 2021 CNRS bronze medal.
Research Experience
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, UK, working with Chris Holmes on Markov chain Monte Carlo for tall data; since February 2015, has been a senior researcher at CRIStAL, University of Lille, France, continuing research in computational biology.
Education
Ph.D. obtained in November 2012 from University Paris-Sud, France, under the supervision of Balázs Kégl, focusing on Monte Carlo methods and Bayesian optimization applied to particle physics and machine learning.
Background
Research interests include Monte Carlo methods and their applications in Bayesian inference, particularly how to scale these methods for expensive-to-evaluate integrands and large datasets. Specializes in data science with applications to natural sciences.
Miscellany
Offers an open position for a master's internship followed by a PhD, focusing on negative dependence and point processes in data science, co-supervised with Subhro Ghosh from the National University of Singapore.