Section: Dissemination

Scientific Animation

Awards

Shih-Chieh Huang, supervised by Rémi Coulom received the Taiwan Computer Game Association PhD Thesis Award during the 2012 Taiwan Computer Game Workshop on June 30, 2012.

Tutorials

• A. Lazaric and M. Ghavamzadeh co-chaired a tutorial on Statistical Learning Theory in Reinforcement Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming at the Twenty-Ninth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2012, which was held in Edinburgh, Scotland in June. Here is the webpage of the tutorial

  http://chercheurs.lille.inria.fr/~ghavamza/ICML2012-Tutorial.html

Workshops and Schools

• J. Mary co-organized the “New Challenges for Exploration and Exploitation” workshop and competition together with A. Garivier, L. Li, R. Munos, O. Nicol, R. Ortner, and Ph. Preux.

• H. Kadri was the main organizer of the ICML workshop on “Object, functional and structured data: towards next generation kernel-based methods” along with Fl. d’Alché-Buc, M. Pontil, and A. Rakotomamonjy.

• E. Duflos co-organized the one-day workshop on Non Parametric Bayesian for Signal and Image Processing () in Paris (in the frame of the GDR ISIS), with François Caron. The guest speaker was Mickael Jordan from the University of Berkeley.

Invited Talks

• P. Chainais, Journées Bordelaises d'Analyse Mathématique des Images, Bordeaux, Host: Prof. J.F. Aujol & C. Dossal (November 2012).

• P. Chainais, Nat'Images, Nice, Host: G. Peyré (July 2012).

• M. Ghavamzadeh, University of Waterloo, Canada - AI Seminar, Host: Prof. Pascal Poupart (2012).

• M. Ghavamzadeh, McGill University, Canada - School of Computer Science, Host: Prof. Joelle Pineau (2012).

• M. Ghavamzadeh, University of Alberta, Canada - AI Seminar, Host: Prof. Csaba Szepesvári (2012).

• M. Ghavamzadeh, Workshop on “Large-Scale Online Learning and Decision-Making", London (2012).

• D. Ryabko, The Fifth Workshop on Information Theoretic Methods in Science and Engineering (WITMSE 2012), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Aug. 2012s.

• Ph. Preux, Université de Clermont-Ferrand, June 2012.

• M. Valko, University of Oxford, UK, Host: David Silver (April 2012).

• M. Valko, Large-scale Online Learning and Decision Making, UK, Host: Prof. Marc Tommasi (April 2012).

• M. Valko, LAMPADA workshop, France, Host: Jakub Zavodny (July 2012).

• A. Lazaric, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - AI Seminar, Host: Prof. Nicola Gatti (April 2012).

Review Activities

• Participation to the program committees of international conferences

  • International Conference on Patter Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM 2012)

  • Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2012)

  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2012)

  • European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL 2012)

  • Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2012)

  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2012)

  • European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2012)

  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2012 and 2013)

  • International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2012)

  • French Conference on Planning, Decision-making, and Learning in Control Systems (JFPDA 2012)

  • FUSION 2012

• International journal and conference reviewing activities (in addition to the conferences in which we belong to the PC)

  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

  • Journal of Statistical Physics

  • Digital Signal Processing

  • IEEE Statistical Signal Processing SSP'2012

  • European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO 2012

  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

  • Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2012)

  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2012)

  • European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2012)

  • Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2012)

  • Machine Learning Journal (MLJ)

  • Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)

  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)

  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC)

  • IEEE Transactions of Signal Processing

  • Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS)

Evaluation activities, expertise

• P. Chainais is a grant proposal reviewer for the ANR SIMI2.

• Ph. Preux is expert for the AERES, ANR, ANRT, and CNRS.

• M. Ghavamzadeh is in the Editorial Board Member of Machine Learning Journal (MLJ, 2011-present).

• M. Ghavamzadeh is in the Steering Committee Member of the European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL, 2011-present).

• P. Preux, R. Gaudel and J. Mary are experts for Crédit Impôt Recherche (CIR).

• E. Duflos is a project proposal reviewer for ANR.

Other Scientific Activities

• R. Munos is Vice Président du Comité des Projets at Inria Lille-Nord Europe since September 2011.

• D. Ryabko is a member of COST-GTRI committee at Inria.

• D. Ryabko is a general advisor at Inria Lille.

• R. Gaudel manages the proml diffusion list.

• E. Duflos is Director of Research of Ecole Centrale de Lille since September 2011.

• E. Duflos is the Head of the Signal and Image Team of LAGIS (UMR CNRS 8219) since January 2012.

• R. Gaudel is board member of LIFL.