Curriculum
Current position
2018-now Secondmind (formerly PROWLER.io), (Cambridge, UK)
Director of Research since March 2022
Head of Bayesian optimisation 2021 - 2022)
Senior Machine Learning researcher (2018 - 2021)
Past positions
2012-2018 INRA, Applied Mathematics and Informatics, MIAT (Toulouse, France)
Chargé de Recherche 1e classe (Research fellow, 2017 - 2018)
Chargé de Recherche 2e classe (2012 - 2017)
2011-2012 CERFACS, Parallel Algorithms team (Toulouse, France)
Post-doctorate researcher.
Research theme: Noisy optimization
2009-2011 Ecole Centrale Paris, Applied mathematics and systems department (Chatenay-Malabry, France)
Post-doctorate researcher.
Research theme: Optimization of expensive simulators using partially converged simulations
Education
2005-2009 University of Florida / Ecole des Mines de St Etienne (joint program) (USA / France)
PhD in Aerospace engineering and Applied mathematics
PhD dissertation title: Improving accuracy and compensating for uncertainty in surrogate modeling
key-words: metamodel, conservative estimation, design of experiments, reliability
2002-2005 Ecole des Mines de St Etienne (France)
Master's degree in Engineering and Applied Mathematics
2000-2002 Lycée E. Livet, Nantes (France)
Preparatory classes (two year undergraduate intensive course in mathematics and physics)
Internships
Summer 2006 University of Zulia, Applied Computation Institute, Maracaibo, Venezuela
Research internship (A Kriging alternative for conservative predictions)
Summer 2005 University of Florida, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Research internship (Biased metamodeling for conservative estimations of reliability)
Summer 2004 ELAN Ski, R&D department, Begunje Na Gorenjskem, Slovenia
Engineering internship
Teaching
2016-2017 Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (ISAE)
Lecturer on differential calculus and optimization (10h / year)
2011-2018 Ecole des Mines de St Etienne
Lecturer on design of experiments (12h / year), master 2
2011-2013 Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (ENAC)
Lecturer on differential calculus and optimization (24h / year)
2007-2009 Ecole des Mines de St Etienne
Teaching assistant in Global optimization, Numerical methods, Probability and Statistics
Other
Reviewer for NeurIPS, Technometrics, J. on Global Optimization, AIAA Journal, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (SMO), SIAM J. on Optimization (SIOPT), Statistics and Computing, J. of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS), & more.