Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• Guillaume Charpiat Workshop Statistics/Learning at Paris-Saclay 2018

• Isabelle Guyon Competition co-chair, ECML 2019

• Michele Sebag Séminaire Annuel Académie des Technologies, 2018.

In 2016, Isabelle Guyon was Program Chair of NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) – with an increase of more than 40% in the number of submissions, 96% in terms of reviewers, and over 100% in terms of attendees as compared to the previous year. Lessons learned from the review process are described in a JMLR paper [19].

Member of Organizing Committees

• Isabelle Guyon Advisory committee BayLearn 2018; Co-organizer WCCI 2018 Special Session on Intelligent Power Systems; Co-organizer WCCI 2018 Special Session on Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods applied to Vision and Robotics (MLDLMVR); Co-organizer ECCV 2018 workshop Chalearn Looking at People: Inpainting and Denoising in the Deep Learning Age; Co-organizer 2018 Multimedia Information Processing for Personality & Social Networks Analysis Workshop at ICPR; Co-organizer NeurIPS 2018 workshop on Challenges in Machine Learning;

• Marc Schoenauer Steering Committee, Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN); Steering Committee, Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION); organizer (with Herilalaina Rokotoarison), Workshop COSEAL, Paris, Sept. 17-18, 2018.

• Michele Sebag President of Steering Committee, Eur. Conf. on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD).

Scientific Events Selection

Member of Conference Program Committees

All TAU members are members of the Program Committees of the main conferences in their respective fields of expertise.

Reviewer

All TAU member review papers for the most prestigious conferences in their respective fields of expertise.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• Isabelle Guyon Action editor, Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR); series editor, Springer series Challenges in Machine Learning (CiML).

• Marc Schoenauer Advisory Board, Evolutionary Computation Journal, MIT Press, and Genetic Programming and Evolutionary Machines, Springer Verlag; Action editor, Journal of Machine Learning Research(JMLR).

• Michèle Sebag Editorial Board, Machine Learning, Springer Verlag.

• Paola Tubaro Associate Editorial Board, Sociology, Sage; Member of Editorial Board, Revue Française de Sociologie, Presses de Sciences Po.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

All members of the team reviewed numerous articles for the most prestigious journals in their respective fields of expertise.

Invited Talks

• Guillaume Charpiat Introduction aux réseaux de neurones, Séminaire Parisien de Mathématiques Appliquées à l'Imagerie, Paris, 3 May. 2018; Recalage et mise à jour d'images à l'aide de réseaux de neurones, Journée Extraction d'attributs et apprentissage pour l'analyse des images de télédétection, GDR ISIS, Paris, 18 Oct. 2018.

• Flora Jay Deep Learning Methods for Population Genetics: Inferring Changes Population Size, Journée Inférences évolutives, GDR GE et AEIM, Paris, 16 Mai 2018; Inferring past history from genetic data using ABC and Deep Learning approaches, INRA GenPhySE Seminar, Toulouse, 12 Dec. 2018.

• Isabelle Guyon Codalab: crowdsourcing DataIA DATAIA Institute Kick-Off (Data Science, Intelligence & Society), 15 Feb. 2018; Contests of contests, La Recherche scientifique « hors murs » au 21e siècle, Colloque de l’Académie des sciences, Fondation Del Duca, 29 Nov. 2018; Evaluating causation coefficients, NeurIPS 2018 workshop on causal learning, 7 Dec, 2018.

• Michèle Sebag Qualité de la vie et santé économique, étude causale: Colloque de Cerisy (Sept. 18); séminaire Université Québec à Montréal (Dec. 18); Causal Modeling: KAUST Conference on Computational and Statistical Interface to Big Data (Mar. 18); Leiden wshop on Space Weather (2018); MonteCarlo Tree Search for Algorithm Selection and Calibration: Dagstuhl Seminar (Sept. 18); NIPS Wshop on AutoML (Dec. 18); Ingénieures et Scientifiques, ENPC (Juin 18). Exposés Journées Cabourg, Mar. 18; Rennes, Sep. 18; Toulouse, Oct. 18.

• Marc Schoenauer The Villani mission on Artificial Intelligence, CISCO Heaadquarters, 9 Apr. 2018; Le rapport Villani, journée AFIA, 12 Apr. 2018; Intelligence Artificielle : le rapport Villani, Journée de la Recherche de l'Université de Brest, 25 May 2018; Intelligence Artificielle, mythes et réalités, Colloque Grands Projets et Systemes Complexes, Arcachon, 18 Jun. 2018; Intelligence Artificielle, mythes et réalités, Journée lab. CRISTAL (U. Lille), Gand, 6 Jul. 2018; Shallow and Deep learning at TAU, Keynote at the DATAIA-JST International Symposium on Data Science and AI, 10 Jul. 2018; Une brève introduction à l’Intelligence Artificielle et au rapport Villani, Académie des Technologies, 10 Oct. 2018; Une brève introduction à l’Intelligence Artificielle, Open-Lab PSA, 11 Oct. 2018; A brief introduction to AI and Deep Learning, Toulouse Symposium on Deep Learning, 18 oct. 2018; A brief introduction to AI and Deep Learning, PSA Stellab Seminar, Paris, 14 nov. 2018; IA, une stratégie française : le rapport Villani, Université Franco Italienne, Università Italo Francese, annual seminar, Paris, 21 Nov. 2018; Some issues with Deep Learning, Inria / Nokia-Bell Labs seminar, 27 Nov. 2018; L’Intelligence Artificielle hier, aujourd’hui et demain, 29e journée CASCIMODOT, Orléans, 12 Dec. 2018.

• Paola Tubaro Un champ de mines? Éthique, droit et politique dans la recherche sur les réseaux sociaux, conférence MARAMI (Modèles & Analyse des Réseaux : Approches Mathématiques & Informatiques), Avignon, 17 Oct. 2018; Modèles multi-agents et simulation, Ecole thématique CNRS "Réseaux et complexité", 28 Sept. 2018; Microworking in France: an inquiry into the human labour that makes AI possible, OECD, Paris, 5 Dec. 2018; Micro-work, artificial intelligence and the automotive industry, Sant'Anna School of Advnced Studies, Pisa, 31 May 2018; Online platform labor, EIT Digital, Rennes, 14 Nov. 2018; Les promesses et les périls du travail sur plateformes, France Stratégie, 6 July 2018; Faut-il interdire la parole problématique en ligne ?, GEPS medical conference, Montpellier, 12 Jan. 2018

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Isabelle Guyon President and co-founder of ChaLearn, a non-for-profit organization dedicated to the organization of challenge.

• Marc Schoenauer Chair of ACM-SIGEVO (Special Interest Group on Evolutionary Computation), 2015-2017, re-elected July 2017 (2-years term); Founding President (since 2015) of SPECIES (Society for the Promotion of Evolutionary Computation In Europe and Surroundings), that organizes the yearly series of conferences EvoStar.

• Michèle Sebag Elected Chair of Steering Committee, ECML-PKDD; Head of the Research Programme, Institut de Convergence DataIA.

• Paola Tubaro Convenor of the Social Network Analysis Group of British Sociological Association; co-founder of European Network on Digital Labor.

Scientific Expertise

• Cécile Germain Evaluator for the H2020-2016-CNECT program; member of the DFG review panel within Germany’s excellence strategy selection process.

• Marc Schoenauer Member, Villani Mission on Artificial Intelligence [50] (see also the AIforHumanity Web Site); Conseil scientifique, MoveInSalcay platform, coordinated by Nokia-Bell Labs; Comité Scientifique IA, SCube (Scientipôle Savoirs & Société), Orsay; Scientific Committee, TrackML (see Section 7.6); Comité de sélection, Chaire ABEONA-ENS "Biais et Equité en IA"; Conseil Scientifique, Fondation de Recherche pour l'Aéronautique et l'Espace (FRAE).

• Michèle Sebag Jury de sélection, LRI; ENS-Lyon; LIX-Ecole Polytechnique; LORIA; Univ. Dortmund; Univ. Liège. Evaluation NSERC, Canada.

Research Administration

• Cécile Germain University officer for scientific computing; member of the Board of the Lidex Center for Data Science; member of the scientific council of faculty of Medicine (UPsud).

• Isabelle Guyon Representative of UPSud in the DataIA Institut de Convergence Program Committee, University of Paris-Saclay.

• Marc Schoenauer Deputy Scientific Director of Inria (in French, Directeur Scientifique Adjoint, DSA), in charge of AI.

• Michele Sebag Deputy director of LRI, CNRS UMR 8623; elected member of the Research Council of Univ. Paris-Saclay; member of the STIC department council of Univ. Paris-Saclay; member of the Scientific Council of Labex AMIES, Applications des Mathématiques ds l'Industrie, l'Entreprise et la Société; member of the Scientific Council of IRT System'X; member of the CSFRS (Conseil supérieur de la formation et de la recherche stratégique).

• Paola Tubaro Representative of CNRS in the DataIA Institut de Convergence Program Committee, University of Paris-Saclay; member of the Board, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris-Saclay.