Section: Dissemination

Teaching, supervision, thesis committees

Teaching

Patrick Héas gives a course on Monte Carlo simulation methods in image analysis, at université de Rennes 1, within the SISEA (signal, image, systèmes embarqués, automatique) track of the master in electronical engineering and telecommunications.

François Le Gland gives

• a 2nd year course on introduction to stochastic differential equations, at INSA (institut national des sciences appliquées) Rennes, within the GM/AROM (risk analysis, optimization and modeling) major in mathematical engineering,

• a 3rd year course on Bayesian filtering and particle approximation, at ENSTA (école nationale supérieure de techniques avancées), Palaiseau, within the statistics and control module,

• a 3rd year course on linear and nonlinear filtering, at ENSAI (école nationale de la statistique et de l'analyse de l'information), Ker Lann, within the statistical engineering track,

• a course on Kalman filtering and hidden Markov models, at université de Rennes 1, within the SISEA (signal, image, systèmes embarqués, automatique, école doctorale MATISSE) track of the master in electronical engineering and telecommunications,

• and a 3rd year course on hidden Markov models, at Télécom Bretagne, Brest.

Valérie Monbet gives

• a course on machine learning for biology at université de Rennes 1, within

  • the G2B (genetics, genomics, biochemistry) track of the master in molecular and cellular biology,

  • the MODE (modélisation en écologie) track of the master in biodiversity, ecology, evolution

  • and the master in scientific computing and modelling,

• a course on machine learning for environmental data, at the summer school on Data Science and Environment, held in Brest in July 2017,

• a course on graphical models at université de Rennes 1, within the master on applied mathematics and statistics,

• a course on MATLAB at université de Rennes 1, within the master in economics and financial engineering.

Supervision

François Le Gland and Valérie Monbet are jointly supervising one PhD student

• Thi Tuyet Trang Chau, provisional title: Non parametric filtering for Metocean multi–source data fusion, université de Rennes 1, started in October 2015, expected defense in October 2018, funding: Labex Lebesgue grant and Brittany council grant, co–direction: Pierre Ailliot (université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest).

François Le Gland is supervising three other PhD students

• Kersane Zoubert–Ousseni, provisional title: Particle filters for hybrid indoor navigation with smartphones, université de Rennes 1, started in December 2014, expected defense in 2017, funding: CEA grant, co–direction: Christophe Villien (CEA LETI, Grenoble),

• Audrey Cuillery, provisional title: Bayesian tracking from raw data, université du Sud Toulon Var, started in April 2016, expected defense in 2019, funding: CIFRE grant with DCNS, co–direction: Claude Jauffret (université du Sud Toulon Var) and Dann Laneuville (DCNS, Nantes).

• Ramatoulaye Dabo, provisional title: Rare event simulation in epidemiology, université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor (Senegal) and université de Rennes 1, started in September 2015, expected defense in 2018, co–direction: Alassane Diedhiou (université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor).

Valérie Monbet is supervising two other PhD students

• Audrey Poterie, provisional title: Régression d'une variable ordinale par des données longitudinales de grande dimension : application à la modélisation des effets secondaires suite à un traitement par radiothérapie, université de Rennes 1, started in October 2015, expected defense in 2018, funding: INSA grant, co–direction: Jean–François Dupuy (INSA Rennes) and Laurent Rouvière (université de Haute Bretagne, Rennes).

• Marie Morvan, provisional title: Modèles de régression pour données fonctionnelles. Application à la modélisation de données de spectrométrie dans le proche infra rouge, université de Rennes 1, started in October 2016, expected defense in 2019, funding: MESR grant, co–direction: Joyce Giacofci (université de Haute Bretagne, Rennes) and Olivier Sire (université de Bretagne Sud, Vannes).

Mathias Rousset is supervising one PhD student

• Yushun Xu, provisional title: Variance reduction of overdamped Langevin dynamics simulation, université Paris-Est, started in October 2015, expected defense in 2018, co–direction: Pierre-André Zitt (université Paris–Est).

Patrick Héas has been supervising two post–doctoral fellows

• Hassan Maatouk, title: Compressing the model by exploiting observations, EPI ASPI, Inria Rennes–Bretagne Atlantique, started in September 2016, ended in September 2017, funding: ANR GERONIMO, co–supervision: Cédric Herzet (EPI FLUMINANCE, Inria Rennes–Bretagne Atlantique).

• Mamadou Lamarana Diallo, title: Model reduction with “multi-space” prior information, EPI FLUMINANCE, Inria Rennes–Bretagne Atlantique, started in October 2016, ended in October 2017, funding: ANR GERONIMO, co–supervision: Cédric Herzet (EPI FLUMINANCE, Inria Rennes–Bretagne Atlantique).

Thesis committees

François Le Gland has been a member of the committee for the HDR of Christian Musso (université du Sud, Toulon).

Mathias Rousset has been a member of the committee for the PhD thesis of Gérôme Faure (CERMICS Ecole des Ponts Paris-Tech and CEA DAM, advisor: Gabriel Stoltz and Jean–Bernard Maillet).