Gersende Fort

CNRS Research Professor/Directrice de Recherche CNRS

(LAAS, Toulouse, France)

Next talks

Minicourse at CLAPEM 2026, Montevideo, Uruguay. March 2-6, 2026. Invited speaker.
Talk at the Journée "Filles Math-Info, une équation lumineuse". Toulouse, France. April 9, 2026.
Workshop. Bordeaux, France. June 4-5 2026.
Conference ISBA, Nagoya, Japan, June 28- July 3 2026.

Recent talks

Conseil Directorial scientifique du LAAS, Janvier 2026. Slides.pdf
Journée IA du LAAS, Sept 2025. Slides.pdf
Journée du Département RISC du LAAS, Toulouse, France. 18 juin 2025. Slides.pdf
Journée de l'équipe SARA du LAAS, Toulouse, France, 22 Mai 2025. Slides.pdf
Tutorial "A Deep Dive into Recent Advances in Stochastic Approximation" at ICASSP 2025, Suzhou, China (remotely). 23-25 May 2025. Avec Eric Moulines et Hoi To Wai. Slides here .
Talk at ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India. 6-11 Avril 2025. Slides.pdf
Tutorial "A Deep Dive into Recent Advances in Stochastic Approximation" at ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India. 6-11 Avril 2025. Avec Eric Moulines et Hoi To Wai. Slides here
Talk at the AI conference Science and Society, during the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, in Paris ; session The Mathematics of Machine Learning. 6-7 February 2025. Slides.pdf. Also, video of the AI event.
Séminaire Maths-Bio-Santé, 13 Décembre 2024, IMT, Toulouse. [Exposé donné à deux voix, avec J. Chevallier].
Slides.pdf

News !

Accepted for publication, January 2026, ICASSP 2026. A scaled Poisson Bayesian Model for Viral Epidemic Monitoring; with B. Pascal, P. Abry and J. Chevallier.
Apply for a research internship: Proximal Monte Carlo for Pandemic Monitoring
Apply for a research internship: Reinforcement Learning for Jackson Networks
Accepted for publication in Statistics and Computing, November 2025, Sequential Sample Average Majorization–Minimization with F. Forbes and H.D. Nguyen
New paper, July 2025, Monte Carlo, with M. Pereyra. For the GRETSI Association, History of the discipline
Matlab codes for the paper Hierarchical Bayesian Estimation of COVID-19 Reproduction Number are available on gfort-lab
Accepted, ICASSP 2025 Sampling Nonsmooth Log-Concave Densities: A Comparative Study of Primal-Dual Based Proposal Distributions. With J. Chevallier.
Accepted, ICASSP 2025 Hierarchical Bayesian Estimation of COVID-19 Reproduction Number. With P. Abry, J. Chevallier and B. Pascal.

New preprints

.New preprint, January 2026. Revisiting Incremental Stochastic Majorization Minimization Algorithms with Applications to Mixture of Experts, with T.K. Tran, T.T. Nguyen, T. Doan, H.D. Nguyen, B.T. Nguyen, F. Forbes and C. Drovandi.
New preprint, July 2025, Federated Majorize-Minimization: Beyond Parameter Aggregation with A. Dieuleveut, M. Hegazy and H.-T. Wai.

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