Teaching & Pedagogical Projects

Lectures

Introduction to Mathematical Modeling through an Epidemiological Challenge - 2024, 2025

In this course, offered to undergraduate students at CentraleSupélec and McGill, we explore the foundations of mathematical modeling in the context of epidemiology. After an introductory session and a hands-on workshop on SIR models, students participate in a one-day mini-project analyzing a specific disease. The highlight of the course is a week-long challenge where teams are tasked with modeling a fictional epidemic using compartmental models. They must make predictions about its spread and propose intervention strategies based on their analyses.

Mathematical Modeling for Cancer – Institut Gustave Roussy - 2024

As a lecturer for the University Diploma (DU) in Applied Mathematics for Cancer at the Institut Gustave Roussy, I lead a session focused on introducing students to mathematical modeling. After a refresher in fundamental mathematics, the session explores the application of modeling techniques with a particular emphasis on blood cancers, providing students with tools to analyze disease progression and treatment strategies.

Teaching assistant:

• Modelling (First-year student) - Ecole CentraleSupélec (2022)

• Modelling and Numerical Methods for Life Sciences  (Final-year student)  - Ecole CentraleSupélec (2019, 2020, 2022- 2024)

• Epidemiology (First-year student) - Ecole CentraleSupélec (2020 and 2021)

• Statistics and Machine Learning - Ecole CentraleSupélec (2025)

Educational and pedagogical projects

Coordination of Team-Based Research Projects in Mathematical Modeling

At CentraleSupélec, first- and second-year students participate in year-long team projects. Since 2019, I have been responsible for the “Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems” project cluster, overseeing around 80 students working on 15 different topics each year. My role includes planning, recruiting, assigning students to projects, organizing oral defenses, overseeing intermediary reports, and training students in scientific writing and report reviewing.

In addition, we have organized special events for all students, such as:

• One day challenge on COVID19 modelisations - 10 April 2020

• Bibliographic competition - 9 April 2021

  • Goal: summarising and vulgarising a scientific article

  • Here and here are two examples of work (in French)

• Bibliographic competition - 10 May 2022

Organization of a Research Discovery Internship for High School Students

In June 2024 and 2025, I coordinated a two-week research discovery internship at the MICS laboratory for 20 high school pupils, in collaboration with the Centre for Diversity and Inclusion at CentraleSupélec. This program offered students an introduction to the school’s research labs, with a special focus on the MICS mathematics lab. Over the course of two weeks, students worked on a project exploring the use of mathematics and computer science for epidemic modeling.