EN FR
EN FR


Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

Member of the Conference Program Committees

Members of SequeL have been involved in the following program committees in 2017:

  • Senior PC for International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017)

  • Senior PC for ACM KDD 2017

  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AI & STATS 2017)

  • PC member for the international Conference On Learning Theory (COLT 2017)

  • European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2017)

  • 1st Workshop on Transfer in Reinforcement Learning (TiRL) 2017

  • The Third International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization and Big Data (MOD 2017)

  • French conferences:

    • Extraction et Gestion de Conaissances (EGC),

    • Journées Francophones de Planification, Décision, Apprentissage (JFPDA)

    • Journées de la Société Francophone de Classification (SFC)

    • Conférence francophone sur l'Apprentissage Automatique (CAp)

Reviewer

Édouard Oyallon receives a “best NIPS reviewer award”.

Members of SequeL have reviewed papers for the following conferences:

  • AI&Stats, COLT, ECML, ICML, IJCAI, NIPS, ALT.

Journal

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities
  • Automatica

  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE transaction on Software Engineering

  • International Federation of Automatic Control

  • Bernoulli Journal

  • Journal of Machine Learning Research

  • IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing

Invited Talks

  • R. Gaudel, Recommendation as a Sequential Process, Presented on Februaray 1st, 2017, at Séminaire CMLA, Paris, France (CMLA 2017)

  • R. Gaudel, Recommendation as a Sequential Process, Presented on January 10th, 2017, at Séminaire ENSAI, Rennes (Bruz), France (ENSAI 2017)

  • A. Lazaric, Spectral Methods for Reinforcement Learning, Presented on April 10, 2017, at Amazon, Berlin, Germany

  • M. Valko, SequeL, graphs in ML, and online recommender systems, Presented on November 9th, 2017 at Plateau Inria Euratechnologies in Lille, France (Euratechnologies 2017)

  • M. Valko, Sequential sampling for kernel matrix approximation and online learning Presented on September 19th, DeepMind, London, UK (DeepMind 2017)

  • M. Valko, Active learning on networks and online influence maximization, Presented on September 18th, 2017, Decision Theory and Network Science: Methods and Applications, Lancaster, UK (STOR-i 2017)

  • M. Valko, Side observation in graph bandits, Presented on July 11th, 2017, ICML 2017 workshop on Picky Learners, Sydney, Australia (ICML 2017)

  • M. Valko, Distributed sequential sampling for kernel matrix approximation, Presented on June 28th, 2017, L'Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, France (IMT 2017)

  • M. Valko, Online sequential solutions for recommender systems, Presented on June 14th, 2017 at Journées Scientifiques Inria 2017 in Nice, France (JS 2017)

  • M. Valko, Where is Justin Bieber?, Presented on March 30th, 2017 at Dating day in Lille, France (Dating 2017)

  • M. Valko, Distributed sequential sampling for kernel matrix approximation, Presented on March 22nd, 2017, for Universität Potsdam at Amazon (Berlin 2017)

Scientific Expertise

  • É. Kaufmann was a member of the committee of Experts for Hiring junior faculty in the maths departement of Université of Lille 1

  • J.Mary was a member of the industrial transfer commission of Inria Lille

  • Alessandro Lazaric was reviewer for NSFC-ISF Research Grant

  • Philippe Preux is a member of the evaluation committee and participates in the hiring, promotion, and evaluation juries of Inria:

    • Inria CR1 hiring committee

    • Inria Lille CR2 hiring committee

    • Inria committee for researcher promotion

    • Inria committee for PEDR

  • Philippe Preux was a member of the hiring committees for 1 professor and 2 associate professors at the Université de Lille 3

  • Philippe Preux was a member of the committee for PhD grant of the “Pôle Métropolitain de la Côte d'Opale”

  • Philippe Preux reviewed a proposal for ANRT (and declined invitation from ANR)

  • M. Valko is an elected member of the evaluation committee and participates in the hiring, promotion, and evaluation juries of Inria, notably

    • Hiring committee for junior researchers at Inria Saclay (2017)

    • Inria work group for deontological ethics (2017)

    • Selection committee for Inria award for scientific excellence of junior and confirmed researchers (2017)

  • M. Valko was a member national Inria acceptance committee for hiring junior researchers

  • M. Valko was a member of the committee of Experts for Hiring junior faculty at CMLA, ENS Paris-Saclay

Research Administration

  • M. Gaudel was member of the Board of CRIStAL.

  • Philippe Preux is:

    • “délégué scientifique adjoint” of the Inria center in Lille

    • member of the Inria evaluation committee (CE)

    • member of the Inria internal scientific committee (COSI)

    • member of the scientific committee of CRIStAL

    • the head of the “Data Intelligence” thematic group at CRIStAL