Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

• Sophie Dabo-Niang has organized a session “Spatial econometrics" of the conference” at the 1st International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics", June 15-16, 2017, Hong-Kong, China.

• Sophie Dabo-Niang co-organises a session “Regression models under non i.i.d. settings” of the 10th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2017)

  (http://www.cmstatistics.org/CMStatistics2017/), December 16-18, 2017, London.

• Vincent Vandewalle organizes a session “Model-based clustering" of the conference” at the 10th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2017)"

  (http://www.cmstatistics.org/CMStatistics2017/), December 16-18, 2017, London.

General Chair, Scientific Chair

Benjamin Guedj, Pascal Germain (both at Modal) and Francis Bach (SIERRA, Inria Paris) co-organize a NIPS 2017 workshop, called “(Almost) 50 shades of Bayesian learning: PAC-Bayesian trends and insights”. A large audience is expected, and the workshop has a series of prestigious international speakers. See the website.

Benjamin Guedj is the organizer of the Modal team scientific seminar.

Member of the Organizing Committees

Alain Celisse was the co-head of the organizing committee of the Journée Statistique Mathématique, January the 8th 2017 at IHP.

Guillemette Marot was the co-head of the organizing committee of JOBIM 2017 (https://project.inria.fr/jobim2017/fr/).

Sophie Dabo-Niang was:

• Member of the scientific committee of "LICMA'17", May 16-19, 2017, Beyrouth, Lebanon (http://www.licma.net/)

• Member of the international organizing committee of AMU Commission on Women in Mathematics in Africa-African Women Mathematicians Association 2017 AMUCWMA - AWMA Workshop, July 7-8, 2017, Rabat, Morocco (http://fsr.um5.ac.ma/PACOM2017/WPACOM2017.php)

Vincent Vandewalle is member of the scientific animation cell of the bilille platform which has organized two thematic days in 2017:

• Omics-driven genome annotation, Lille, March 31st 2017 (https://wikis.univ-lille1.fr/bilille/omics_annotation_2017)

• Working with networks and pathways in molecular biology, Lille, November 20th 2017 (https://wikis.univ-lille1.fr/bilille/networks_2017)

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Sophie Dabo-Niang was member of the local committee program of ISI (61st World Statistics Congress), 16-21, July, 2017, Marrakech, Morocco (http://payment.isi2017.org/committees/local-programme-committee-lpc/).

• Vincent Vandewalle was member of the committee program of JOBIM 2017 (https://project.inria.fr/jobim2017/fr/).

Reviewer

Benjamin Guedj is a reviewer for NIPS 2017, AISTATS 2018, ALT 2018 and ICLR 2018, ICML 2018.

Pascal Germain: 6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2018).

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

Sophie Dabo-Niang is member of Revista Colombiana de Estadística, 2015- –.

Christophe Biernacki is an Associate Editor of the North-Western European Journal of Mathematics (NWEJM).

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

Benjamin Guedj acted as a reviewer for the following journal papers: Math Reviews, and the Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Electronic Journal of Statistics.

Sophie Dabo acted as a reviewer for the following journal papers: Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Statistics, ESAIM: Probability and Statistics, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Nonparametric statistics, Statistics and Probability Letters, Electronic journal of statistics, Metrika, Annals of Applied Statistics, Statistical Methods and Applications, ...

Christophe Biernacki acted as a reviewer for the following journal papers: Statistics and Computing (STCO), Psychometrika (PMET), Test, Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), Journal of Statistical Software (JSS), Neurocomputing (NEUCOM), Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (CSDA).

Alain Celisse acted as a reviewer for the following journal papers: Annals of Statistics, Bernoulli, JMLR.

Serge Iovleff acted as a reviewer for the following journal papers: Statistics and Computing and Neural Processing Letters.

Vincent Vandewalle acted as a reviewer for the following journal papers: Statistics in Medicine, Expert Systems With Applications, Computational Statistics, Journal de la SFdS.

Invited Talks

Sophie Dabo:

• LICMA'17, Lebanese International Conference on Mathematics and Applications, Beyrouth, 16-19 May 2017. Nonparametric regression models for spatial data.

• JEF 2017 4th Days of Econometrics for Finance, Rabat, 15-16 July, 2017.

  https://sites.google.com/site/jefconference/home. Functional autoregressive spatial models.

• Pan African Congress of Mathematicians 2017, Rabat, 3-7 July, 2017.

  http://fsr.um5.ac.ma/PACOM2017/. Spatial prediction over spatio-functional data.

• SIS 2017 Statistics and Data Science: New Challenges, New generations, Florence, 28-30 June 2017, http://www.fupress.com/archivio/pdf/3407_11724.pdf. Quasi-Maximum Likelihood Estimators For Functional Spatial Autoregressive Models.

Christophe Biernacki gave several invited talks in 2017:

• 61st World Statistics Congress, Marrakech (Morocco), 16-21 July 2017, http://payment.isi2017.org/[30]

• Classification Society Conference, Santa Clara (USA), 21-24 June 2017, https://academicaffairs.ucsc.edu/classification-society-conference/[27]

• XXIVèmes Rencontres de la Société Francophone de Classification, Lyon (France), 28-30 June 2017, http://polytech-sfc2017.univ-lyon1.fr/ [28]

• StatLearn, Lyon (France), 7th April 2017, http://www.univ-lyon2.fr/culture-savoirs/podcasts/statlearn-2017-727260.kjsp?RH=podcasts, [20]

• Talk to the seminar of the INRA of Jouy-en-Josas, June 12th 2017

Alain Celisse:

• New assessment of the cross-validation performance, Montpellier, 24th November, 2017.

• Change-point detection with kernels, IHP, 3rd October, 2017.

Cristian Preda:

• C. Preda, P. Bastien (2017), Functional models applied to data from image analysis, 61st World Statistics Congress - ISI2017, Marrakech, Morocco, 16-21 July, 2017

• A. Amarioarei, C. Preda, Scan statistics for some dependent models and applications, 17th Conference of the ASMDA, London, 6-9 June, 2017.

• C. Preda, Gilbert Saporta's contributions to functional data analysis, 17th Conference of the ASMDA, London, UK, 6-9 June, 2017.

• A. Amarioarei, C. Preda, Approximation for the scan statistics distribution of a three dimensional Poisson process, IMS China 2017, Nanning, China, June 28 - July 3, 2017.

Vincent Vandewalle gave several invited talks in 2017:

• V. Vandewalle, C. Preda, Clustering categorical functional data. Application to medical discharge letters, 20th conference of the society of probability and statistics of Roumania, Brasov (Roumania), April 28, 2017.

• V. Vandewalle, C. Biernacki, Dealing with missing data through mixture models, 154th ICB Seminar on “Statistics and clinical practice” Warsaw May 11, 2017.

• V. Vandewalle, C. Biernacki, Survival analysis with complex covariates: a model-based clustering preprocessing step, IEEE PHM Dallas June 19th, 2017.

• V. Vandewalle, Simultaneous dimension reduction and multi-objective clustering, IFCS Meeting Tokyo August 8th, 2017.

Benjamin Guedj gave several invited talks in 2017:

• University College London (3/2017)

• Université Paris 5 (3/2017)

• Hélioparc (Pau, 3/2017)

• Inria SequeL seminar (3/2017)

• KU Leuven (5/2017)

• Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (9/2017)

• Inria TAU seminar (10/2017)

• Machine Learning in the Real world workshop at Criteo (11/2017).

Leadership within the Scientific Community

Benjamin Guedj is an elected member of the board of the French Statistical Society (SFdS). He is also deputy general secretary since June 2017.

Benjamin Guedj is a member of the board of AMIES, the French Agency fostering collaborations between mathematicians and the private sector.

Guillemette Marot is responsible of bilille, the bioinformatics and bioanalysis platform of Lille. More information about the platform is available at https://wikis.univ-lille1.fr/bilille/.

Christophe Biernacki is the president (since 1012) of the data mining and learning group of the French statistical association (SFdS, http://www.sfds.asso.fr/).

Scientific Expertise

Sophie Dabo-Niang is expert for the l'Oréal "Women in Science" award since 2014.

Christophe Biernacki acted as a President of a HCERES committee for research evaluation. He was also an elected member to the “Conseil National des Universités” (CNU) from October 2015 to September 2017. From October 2017, he is member of the “Commission d'Evaluation” (CE) of Inria.

Alain Celisse is reviewer for the annual Research Fellowship Competition of Cambridge.

Guillemette Marot reviewed one project as expert for the ANR.

Research Administration

Benjamin Guedj is a member of the scientific Council of the Laboratoire Paul Painlevé (Maths Department of the University of Lille).

Benjamin Guedj is an elected member of Inria's Evaluation Committee (CE).

Sophie Dabo is the head of the MeQAME research team of Laboratory LEM-CNRS 9221.

Christophe Biernacki is “Délégué Scientifique” of the Inria Lille center from June 2017.

Guillemette Marot was member of the Research Commission of the University of Lille 2 until December 2017.