Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

Member of the organizing committees

• Cécile Germain, DataScience@LHC Workshop http://indico.cern.ch/event/395374/ , 9-13 November 2015, CERN

• Marc Schoenauer, Steering Committee, Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN); Steering Committee, Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION).

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

Scientific events selection

Member of the conference program committees

All TAO members are members of the Program Committees of the main conferences in the fields of Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computation, and Information Processing.

Reviewer

All TAO member review papers for the most prestigious journals in the fields of Machine Learning and Evolutionary Computation.

Journal

Member of the editorial boards

• Anne Auger, member of Editorial Board, Evolutionary Computation Journal, MIT Press.

• Gregory Grefenstette, member of Editorial Board, Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Cambridge University Press.

• Nikolaus Hansen, member of Editorial Board, Evolutionary Computation Journal, MIT Press.

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

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

• Olivier Teytaud, action editor, Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR).

Reviewer - Reviewing activities

All members of the team reviewed numerous articles for international conferences and journals.

Invited talks

• Aurélien Decelle, workshop of Machine Learning at the Yukawa institute.

• Cyril Furtlehner, International Workshop on Innovative Algorithms for Big Data (Kyoto).

• Gregory Grefenstette, CLEF 2015, Toulouse, Sept. 8, 2015

• Gregory Grefenstette, Journée Recherche - les Big Data, Ecole Contrale Marseille, Nov 18, 2015

• Philippe Caillou, Workshop PICS at Hanoi, May 2015.

• Odalric Maillard, Journées YSP at IHP, Paris, Jan. 31, 2015.

• Odalric Maillard, Workshop CIMI at Toulouse, November 2015.

• Yann Ollivier, Deep Learning Workshop at ICML 2015.

• Yann Ollivier, Deep Learning Scoping Workshop of the Alan Turing Institute (Edinburgh).

• Yann Ollivier, American Mathematical Society - Mathematical Association of America Joint Math Meetings (San Antonio).

• Michèle Sebag, DATA 2015

• Michèle Sebag, AutoML Wshop, @ ICML 2015.

• Michèle Sebag, Constructive Machine Learning Wshop, @ICML 2015

• Michèle Sebag, Intelligence Artificielle et Interfaces Hommes-Machines 2015

• Michèle Sebag and Marc Schoenauer, Big Data Business Convention, Seeded Influencer Ranking, Dec. 2015.

• Marc Schoenauer, Numbers don't Count, Conférence en l'honneur de Laurence Halpern, January 2015.

• Marc SchoenauerRank-SVM for flexible optimization, ISEGI seminar, Lisbon, Jan. 2015.

• Marc Schoenauer and Michèle Sebag, More is different: When, and What For?, JS Inria, Nancy, June 2015.

• Marc Schoenauer, DataScience@LHC, Nov. 9-13, 2015.

Leadership within the scientific community

• Michèle Sebag, Chair of Steering Committee, ECML-PKDD.

• Marc Schoenauer, elected Chair of ACM-SIGEVO (Special Interest Group on Evolutionary Computation), July 2015 (2-years term).

• Marc Schoenauer, founding President of SPECIES (Society for the Promotion of Evolutionary Computation In Europe and Surroundings), that organizes the yearly series of conferences EvoStar.

Scientific expertise

• Cécile Germain, evaluator for the H2020 calls: ICT-2015 Topic ICT-16 – Big Data - research

• Gregory Grefenstette, evaluator for FU21, Cap Digital, Digiteo (IASI) review board

• Gregory Grefenstette, project reviewer for the H2020 (SemCare): Information and Communication Technologies ICT

• Michele Sebag, evaluator for the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research; CNRS PEPS Fascido, FNRS Belgium

• Michele Sebag, president of a CNRS hiring jury (EHESS, research engineer); member of hiring juries for Inria, U. Paris-1, U. Lille.

Research administration

• Cécile Germain, elected member of the Scientific Council and of its board. University officer for scientific computing. Deputy head of the computer science departement, in charge of research.

• Philippe Caillou, elected member of the Scientific Council and Academic Council.

• Marc Schoenauer, Délégué Scientifique (aka VP-Research) for the Inria Saclay Île-de-France branch.

• Michele Sebag, deputy director of LRI, CNRS UMR 8623; elected member of the Research Council of Univ. Paris-Saclay; head of the Research Committee of Labex Digicosme; member of the Board of the Lidexes Institut de la Société Numérique and Center for Data Science.