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.