Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

Member of the organizing committees

Participation to the organization of the 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning:

• Philippe Preux, local chair organization of ICML

• Jérémie Mary, conference webmaster

• Romaric Gaudel, local volunteer chair

Co-organization of ICML workshops:

• 12th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL)

• 4th Workshop on Machine Learning for Interactive Systems

• Jeremie Mary was Co-organizer of the workshop “Offline and Online Evaluation of Web-based Services” at WWW'15 with Lihong Li (MSR) as main organizer.

Scientific events selection

Member of the conference program committees

• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015)

• International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM 2015)

• Approximate Dynamic Programing and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL 2015)

• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2015)

• Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2015)

French-speaking conferences:

• French Conference on Planning, Decision-making, and Learning in Control Systems (JFPDA 2015)

• Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances (EGC 2015)

• XXIIè rencontres de la société francophone de classification

Reviewer

• International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM 2015)

• Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2015)

• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2015)

• Conference on Learning Theory (COLT 2015)

• European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL 2015)

• Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2015)

• International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2015)

• European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2015)

• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2015)

• International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015)

• Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM 2015)

• International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2015)

• International Conference on Autonmous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2015)

• International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2015)

French-speaking conferences:

• French Conference on Planning, Decision-making, and Learning in Control Systems (JFPDA 2015)

• Conférence francophone sur l'Apprentissage Automatique (CAP 2015)

Journal

Member of the editorial boards

• Neurocomputing

Reviewer - Reviewing activities

• IEEE Signal Processing Letters

• IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

• Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

• Speech Communication

• Journal of Machine Learning Research

• Artificial Intelligence Journal

• Machine Learning Journal

• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Invited talks

• Gergely Neu, invited talk at the “Data, Learning, and Inference” (DALI) workshop on Learning Theory, Spain, April 2015.

• Gergely Neu, invited talk at the “Learning Faster from Easy Data” NIPS workshop, Montreal, December 2015.

• Olivier Pietquin, NIPS Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding (SLU NIPS 2015).

• Michal Valko, invited talk at “LIX, École Polytechnique” April 2015

• A. Lazaric, Open Questions in Transfer in RL, “Machine Learning with Interdependent and Non-identically Distributed Data”, Dagsthul, Germany, April 2015.

• A. Lazaric, Exploiting Easy Data in Online Optimization, “Modal Seminar Series”, Inria Lille, May 2015.

• A. Lazaric, Policy Search in Reinforcement Learning, Criteo, Paris, June 2015.

• A. Lazaric, Transfer in Multi-Armed Bandit, Aston University, Birmingham, July 2015.

• A. Lazaric, Transfer in Reinforcement Learning, “Promotion et Developpement de l'Intelligence Artificielle”, Paris, October 2015.

• A. Lazaric, The Hidden World of Bandits, “Workshop on Sequential Learning and Applications”, Toulouse, November 2015.

• J. Mary, Invited talk at Euratechnologies on recent advances of machine learning and deep learning for Sequential data, Lille, November 2015.

• J. Mary, Invited talk at Recommender Days organized by CRITEO http://recommenders.fr/ , December 2015.

Scientific expertise

• Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR)

• Fonds National pour la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), Belgium

• Olivier Pietquin and Philippe Preux are expert for H2020 European Program

• M. Valko is an elected member of the evaluation committee and participates in the hiring, promotion, and evaluation juries of Inria, notably

  • Hiring committee for junior researchers at Inria Nancy (2015)

  • Selection committee for Inria award for scientific excellence (2015)

  • Selection committee for CR promotions (2015)

• Jérémie Mary is expert for the Research Council of Norway.

• A. Lazaric is a member of the committee for research evaluation (CER) at Inria Lille.

• A. Lazaric was a member of the hiring committee for junior researchers at Inria Lille (2015).

Research administration

• Philippe Preux is:

  • head of the DatInG (Data Intelligence Group) thematic group at CRIStAL that gathers 4 research groups, totaling more than 70 people,

  • member of the scientific committee of CRIStAL,

  • member of the Bureau du Comité des Projets at Inria Lille.

• Romaric Gaudel is:

  • board member of CRIStAL

  • manager of proml mailing list. This mailing list gathers French-speaking researchers from Machine Learning community.

• Olivier Pietquin is:

  • board member of CRIStAL

  • board member of the IEEA faculty at Univ. Lille 1

  • member of the computer science department of the Ecole Doctorale SPI

  • in charge of research and innovation for the computer science department of Univ. Lille 1