I am a PhD student at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Université Paris Saclay. My advisors are Gabor Lugosi and Christophe Giraud.
I work on probaility and statistics problems and my research interests are
Network archeology,
Broadcasting on random graphs,
data analyisis.
Contact:
Simon dot Briend at upf dot edu
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, office 20.140
Publications and Preprints
Simon Briend, Francisco Calvillo, and Gábor Lugosi. "Archaeology of random recursive dags and Cooper-Frieze random networks." Combinatorics, Probability and Computing, 2023, to appear. (pdf)
Simon Briend, Luc Devroye and Gábor Lugosi. "Broadcasting in random recursive dags." 2023, ArXiv preprint. (pdf )
Simon Briend, Gábor Lugosi, Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira. "On the quality of randomized approximations of Tukey's depth." 2023, ArXiv preprint. (pdf)
Seminars and Talks
June 2023: APS conference, Nancy.
November 2022: LIMDA seminar, UPC, Barcelona.
October 2022: Statsitics seminar, UPF, Barcelona.
August 2022: Randnet workshop, Eindhoven.
Education
2021-: PhD student in probability and statistics in Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, under the supervision of Christophe Giraud and Gabor Lugosi.
2019-2021: Master Mathématiques de l'intelligence artificielle, internship on random Archaeology with Gabor Lugosi (4 months).
2018-2019: Bachelor degree in Mathematics.
2016-2018: Classes prépa in Lycée Thiers, Marseille.