Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

Christophe Biernacki co-organised a one-day meeting “Introduction aux modèles statistiques scalables: Modélisation, nouveaux paradigmes, ecosystème Big Data” on December 5th 2016 at IHP (Paris). The website is here https://bigdata-stat.sciencesconf.org/ and it brought together about 40 registered people (maximum number for this session).

Christophe Biernacki, Benjamin Guedj and Sophie Dabo-Niang were in the organizing committee of the workshop “Big Data: Modelling, Estimation and Selection” at École Centrale de Lille on June 9th and 10th 2016 (https://indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/830/).

Alain Celisse and Guillemette Marot co-organized SMPGD in Lille: The Statistical Methods for Post Genomic Data workshop is an annual meeting dedicated to statistical methods for post genomic data analysis. The aim of the workshop is to present works from mathematical to applied Statistics, but also new areas in high throughput Biology that could need new statistical developments. The workshop is usually organized around 3 to 4 invited speakers, and 3 to 4 invited sessions, and one session of contributed abstracts (oral presentations and posters). As SMPGD is especially interested in the statistical, mathematical, algorithmics or modelling questions raised by modern biology, presentations are expected to focus on these points.

Benjamin Guedj co-founded and co-organised a one-day workshop called Young Statisticians and Probabilists (YSP), in Paris in January 2016. The topics were sequential learning, random trees, random maps and random matrices theory. Nearly 80 PhD students, postdocs and young researchers attended.

Benjamin Guedj is the organizer of the Modal team scientific seminar.

Member of the Organizing Committees

Benjamin Guedj has been a member of the steering committee for the FEM (Forum Emploi Maths) in Paris in December 2016. The FEM is the largest mathematics jobs fair in France and gathers universities, students, graduates, companies and institutions. Over 2,000 people attended this edition.

Sophie Dabo-Niang has been a member of the steering committees for the following events.

• CIMPA Research School: "Statistical methods for evaluation of extreme risks": April, 5-15, 2016, St-Louis, Senegal

• Worksop: "Financial and actuarial Mathematics": July 11-15, 2016, AIMS-Mbour, Senegal

• The first AWMA (African Women in Mathematics Association) regional Forum, July 8-9, 2016, AIMS-Mbour, Senegal

• Session "EO075: Quantile regression models for dependent data ", "The 9th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2016)" (Link), December 9-11, 2016, Seville, Spain.

• Session "Asymptotic properties in nonparametric spatial problems ", "Third conference of the International Society for NonParametric Statistics (ISNPS)", June, 11-16, 2016, Avignon, France.

• Workshop "Statistical methods for recurrent data ", November 7th, 2016, Link.

• Workshop, "Learning with functional data", October, 7th, 2016, Lille, France. Link

Cristian Preda has co-organized the International Workshop on Applied Probability 2016 (Link).

Vincent Vandewalle is a member of the animation team of the bilille platform (https://wikis.univ-lille1.fr/bilille/animation). He has co-organized two scientific days, one in June 2016 on metagenomic analysis and another one in November 2016 on systems biology.

Serge Iovleff, Cristian Preda and Vincent Vandewalle have organised a one day workshop at Lille in October 2016 about learning with functional data. During this workshop, a large scope of methods for learning with functional data with application to various domains has been presented (https://functional-data.univ-lille1.fr).

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

Sophie Dabo-Niang has been a member of the scientific committees of two conferences:

• STAHY 2016 Workshop, September 26-27, Quebec, Canada.

• International colloquium on financial Econometrics, November, 18 -19, 2016, Rabat, Maroc. Link

Reviewer

Alain Celisse has acted as a reviewer for AISTATS 2016.

Benjamin Guedj has acted as a reviewer for NIPS 2016 and AISTATS 2017.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

Cristian Preda is a member of the editorial boards of

• Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability (Associate Editor)

• Romanian Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science" (Associate Editor)

Christophe Biernacki is an Associate Editor of the North-Western European Journal of Mathematics (NWEJM).

Sophie Dabo-Niang is a member of the editorial board of Revista Colombiana de Estadística.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

The Modal team is involved in 34 scientific outlets, among which are the most prestigious international journals related to statistics.

1. Advances in Data Analysis and Classification (Christophe Biernacki)

2. Annals of Applied Statistics (Sophie Dabo-Niang)

3. Annals of Statistics (Alain Celisse)

4. Bernoulli (Alain Celisse, Cristian Preda)

5. BMC Research Notes (Christophe Biernacki)

6. BMC Medical Research Methodology (Benjamin Guedj)

7. Canadian Journal of Statistics (Christophe Biernacki)

8. Chemometrics (Cristian Preda)

9. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Christophe Biernacki, Sophie Dabo-Niang, Cristian Preda, Vincent Vandewalle)

10. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Christophe Biernacki)

11. Electronic Journal of Statistics (Alain Celisse, Sophie Dabo-Niang)

12. ESAIM: Probability and Statistics (Sophie Dabo-Niang)

13. Journal de la SFdS (Christophe Biernacki)

14. Journal of Classification (Christophe Biernacki)

15. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (Vincent Vandewalle)

16. Journal of Machine Learning Research (Christophe Biernacki, Alain Celisse)

17. Journal of Multivariate Analysis (Sophie Dabo-Niang, Benjamin Guedj)

18. Journal of Nonparametric statistics (Sophie Dabo-Niang)

19. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Christophe Biernacki)

20. Journal of Statistical Software (Christophe Biernacki)

21. Journal of the American Statistical Association (Benjamin Guedj)

22. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, series A (Benjamin Guedj)

23. Knowledge and Information Systems (Christophe Biernacki)

24. Mathematical Reviews (Benjamin Guedj)

25. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability (Cristian Preda)

26. Metrika (Sophie Dabo-Niang)

27. Molecular Ecology Resources (Benjamin Guedj)

28. Neurocomputing (Benjamin Guedj)

29. Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes (Sophie Dabo-Niang)

30. Statistical Methods and Applications (Sophie Dabo-Niang)

31. Statistics (Sophie Dabo-Niang)

32. Statistics and Computing (Serge Iovleff)

33. Statistics and Probability Letters (Sophie Dabo-Niang, Benjamin Guedj)

34. The American Statistician (Christophe Biernacki)

Invited Talks

Christophe Biernacki's talks in 2016:

• Working Group on Model-Based Clustering Summer Session, Paris, July 17-23, 2016, https://maths.ucd.ie/~brendan/wgmbc2016.html, [28]

• Workshop on Model-based Clustering and Classification, September 5-7, 2016, Catania (Italy), http://mbc2.unict.it/, [29]

• Académie des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts, Journée Scientifique “Big Data & Data Science”, October 28th 2016, Tunis (Tunisia), http://www.beitalhikma.tn/p7536/, [26]

• 9th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2016, ERCIM 2016), 9-11 December 2016, University of Seville, Spain http://cmstatistics.org/CMStatistics2016/, [27]

• Talk to the seminar of the “Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Besançon”, February 29th 2016

Sophie Dabo-Niang's talks in 2016:

• Environmental Econometrics Day, Spatial Risk estimation and Application to environmental data, April, 24, 2016, Rabat, Marocco.

• CRoNoS FDA, satellite workshop of Compstat2016 (Link), Functional Binary Choice Models With Choice-Based Sampling, August, 26-28, Oviedo, Spain.

• AAS/AMU symposium on "Current Research Trends in Mathematical Sciences and applications", May, 17-20, 2016, UNESCO Chair of Mathematics, National Mathematical Centre (NMC), Abuja Nigeria.

• Learning with functional data, Functional Binary Choice Models With Choice-Based Sampling, October, 7, 2016, Lille, France.

Benjamin Guedj has been invited to deliver a talk to the 48èmes Journées de Statistique (JdS) of the French Statistical Society (June 2016, Montpellier, France).

Serge Iovleff gave a lightning talk entitled "MixAll: Un logiciel de classification non-supervisée" to the 5ème Rencontres R 2016.

Cristian Preda's talks in 2016:

1. International Workshop on Applied Probability (IWAP2016), 20-23 June, 2016, Toronto, Canada

2. 48e Journées de Statistique de la Société Francaise de Statistique, Montpellier, June 2016

3. 147th ICB Seminar Tenth International Seminar on statistics and clinical practice, May 15 - 18, 2016, Warsaw, Poland

4. 19-th Conference of the Romanian Society of Statistics and Probability, Universitatea Tehnica de Constructii Bucuresti, 27 mai 2016

Leadership within the Scientific Community

Christophe Biernacki is the president (since 2012) of the data mining and learning group of the French statistical association (SFdS, http://www.sfds.asso.fr/).

Benjamin Guedj is the president (since 2016) of the Young Statisticians group of the French Statistical Society.

Benjamin Guedj has joined the board of AMIES, the French Agency fostering collaborations between mathematicians and the private sector.

Guillemette Marot is responsible of bilille, the bioinformatics and bioanalysis platform of Lille. More information about the platform is available at https://wikis.univ-lille1.fr/bilille/

Scientific Expertise

Christophe Biernacki acted as an expert for two HCERES committees: one for teaching evaluation, one for research evaluation. He is also an elected member to the “Conseil National des Universités” (CNU) since October 2015.

Sophie Dabo-Niang offers expertise for Oreal's Award "Women in Science" since 2014.

Research Administration

Christophe Biernacki was “Délégué Scientifique Adjoint" of the Inria Lille center until June 2016. He is still member of the “Bureau du Comité des Projets” (BCP) of the Inria Lille center.

Sophie Dabo-Niang is the head of the MeQAME research team of Laboratory LEM-CNRS 9221.

Benjamin Guedj is a member of the scientific Council of the Laboratoire Paul Painlevé (maths department of the University of Lille).

Cristian Preda is a member of the Research Council of the University Lille 1.