Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria Associate Teams Not Involved in an Inria International Labs

Equipes associées nord-européennes

Participants : Christophe Biernacki, Benjamin Guedj.

Benjamin Guedj and Christophe Biernacki pursue a two years collaboration as “Equipes associées nord-européennes” with the Irish team “INSIGHT”. The Centre for Data Analytics INSIGHT is about the size of Inria Lille - Nord Europe and is the main Irish research facility in Statistics and Machine Learning. It is focused on the next generation of machine learning (ML) and statistics (Stat) algorithms that can operate on large-scale dynamic data. Nial FRIEL (NF) is the leader of the ML/Stat axis of INSIGHT, Brendan MURPHY (BM) is a professor. The topic of this project is to manage statistical models inflation by the mean of model clustering.

Benjamin Guedj and Christophe Biernacki visited NF and BM in Dublin once in 2017 to progress in the current collaboration.

EMC and CIMPA

Participant : Sophie Dabo-Niang.

• EMS (European Mathematical Society): Sophie Dabo-Niang is a nominated member of EMS-CDC (Committee of Developing counties). She will be vice-chair of this committee in 2018.

• CIMPA (International Center of Pure and Applied Mathematics): Sophie Dabo-Niang is a nominated member of CIMPA.

SIMERGE

Participants : Sophie Dabo-Niang, Serge Iovleff.

Sophie Dabo-Niang and Serge Iovleff are members of SIMERGE, a LIRIMA project-team (January 2015-December 2017). It includes researchers from Mistis (Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, France) and Inria-MODAL (Lille Nord de France), LERSTAD (Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches en Statistiques et Développement, Université Gaston Berger, Sénégal), IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, Dakar, Sénégal) and LEM lab (Lille Economie et Management, University of Lille). This project is submitted for renewal with a new partner (Institut Paster of Dakar, Senegal).

Inria International Partners

Informal International Partners

Participant : Benjamin Guedj.

Benjamin Guedj collaborates with Wouter Koolen (CWI, Netherlands), Peter Grünwald (CWI & Leiden University, Netherlands).

Benjamin Guedj collaborates with Olivier Wintenberger (KU, Denmark).