Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events: Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• Hemant Tyagi and Pascal Germain are the organizers of the MODAL team scientific seminar.

• Sophie Dabo-Niang is the co-organizer of:

  • Session “Recent non-parametric approaches: Applications to envi- ronmental, hydrological, oceanological and economic data analyzes” of the ISI conference (62nd World Statistics Congress), 18-23, August, 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

  • Session “Modeling dependence through graphical models”, CMStatistics, 14-16 December 2019, London.

• Christophe Biernacki is a co-organizer (and the chair) of the special session on co-clustering called “Co-clustering: model-based or model-free approaches” at the 62nd ISI World Statistics Congress 2019 in Malaysia [45]

• Alain Celisse is the organizer and the chair of two sessions on change-points detection and early stopping rules at ERCIM 2019, London.

• Vincent Vandewalle organized a session on Model-based and multivariate functional data at CRoNoS & MDA 2019.

Scientific Events: Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Sophie Dabo-Niang was a member of the scientific program committee of: CRONOS-MDA2019, 14-16 April 2019, Limassol, Cyprus and African Econometric Society Conference, 11-13 July 2019, Rabat, Morocco.

• Benjamin Guedj has been a PC member for UAI 2019 and IJCAI 2019.

Reviewer

• Hemant Tyagi acted as a reviewer for journals (Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Journal of Machine Learning Research, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Advances in Data Analysis and Classification) and a conference (NeurIPS 2019).

• Pascal Germain acted as a reviewer for a journal (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence) and conferences (ICML 2019, ICLR 2019, NeurIPS 2019, COLT 2019, PHM 2019).

• Benjamin Guedj served as a reviewer for journals (JMLR, Neurocomputing, Journal of international research on robotics,...) and conferences (ICML 2019, ICLR 2019, NeurIPS 2019, COLT 2019, IJCAI 2019, UAI 2019, AISTATS 2019 & 2020).

• Alain Celisse acted as a reviewer for journals (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Annals of Statistics, JMLR,...) and conferences (ALT 2019, COLT 2019).

• Sophie Dabo-Niang acted as a reviewer for journals Annals of Statistics, JASA, Journal of Nonparametric statistics, TEST, METRIKA.

• Christophe Biernacki acted as a reviewer for CSDA, ESWA, JCGS, JMIV.

• Serge Iovleff acted as a reviewer for CSDA and Journal of Statistics and Computing.

• Vincent Vandewalle acted as a reviewer for ADAC, Statistics in Medicine, COST.

• Cristian Preda is a reviewer for Bernoulli, MCAP, ADAC.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• Christophe Biernacki is an Associate Editor of the North-Western European Journal of Mathematics (NWEJM) and for Frontiers on the topic “Computational Methods for Data Analytics”. He is also a Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Innovations in Model-Based Clustering and Classification of the journal Advances Data Analysis and Classification (ADAC).

• Cristian Preda is an associate editor for Methodological and Computing in applied probability (MCAP) and for Journal of Mathematical and Computer Science.

• Serge Iovleff is member of the Editorial Board of Astrostatistics (specialty section of Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences)

Invited Talks

• Christophe Biernacki:

  • 3rd International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics (EcoSta 2019), Taiwan, June 25, 2019 [42]

  • 12th Scientific Meeting Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG 2019), Italy, September 12, 2019 [41]

  • APSEM 2019 (Apprentissage et SEMantique) : écosystèmes pour la science ouverte et recherche par les données, Toulouse [39]

  • Séminary of Probability and Statistics of the University of Nice - Sophia Antopolis, France, November 19, 2019

• Hemant Tyagi:

  • Probability-Statistics seminar, Laboratoire de Mathematiques, Universite de Franche-Comte, Besancon, France, June 13, 2019

  • Probability-Statistics seminar, Université de Lille, France, September 18, 2019

• Pascal Germain:

  • Journées de la statistique, Nancy, France, June 6, 2019

• Benjamin Guedj:

  • Speaker (with John Shawe-Taylor) for a plenary tutorial at ICML 2019 (June 2019).

  • Several seminars in the UK (Gatsby unit, UCL CSML, UCL stats, ElementAI).

• Sophie Dabo-Niang:

  • 62nd World Statistics Congress, August, 18-23, 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

  • 7th Statistical Meeting of Avignon-Marseille, 14 June, 2019, Avignon, France.

  • Workshop on Non-Parametric Statistics, 18th, September, 2019, Grenoble, France.

  • CFIES 2019, 24-27 September 2019, Strasbourg, France.

  • Symposium of young Senegalese researchers in Pured and Applied Mathematics, December, 16-19, 2019, Mbour, Senegal.

• Cristian Preda:

  • Conference on scan statistics, IMS China, Dalian, 6-10 july, 2019.

  • Conference on categorical functional data at Romanian statistical society, 10-11 May 2019.

• Alain Celisse:

  • Session on Model selection at ERCIM 2018, London.

  • Several seminars in France (Nantes, Paris,...) and abroad WIAS Institute of Berlin.

• Vincent Vandewalle:

  • Session clustering categorical and mixed type data at IFCS 2019, Thessaloniki.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Benjamin Guedj and Pascal Germain are founding members of the Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence group (MALIA) of the French statistical association (SFdS).

• Benjamin Guedj is the new French representative at the board of ECAS (since Nov 2019).

• Since 2017, Benjamin Guedj is an elected member of the board of the Statistical French Society (SFdS).

Scientific Expertise

Christophe Biernacki reviewed one project as an expert for the ANR and for Innoviris (Brussels).

Research Administration

• Sophie Dabo-Niang is the person in charge of the MeQAME axis of laboratory LEM, CNRS 9221.

• Christophe Biernacki is Scientific Head of the Inria Lille center since June 2017.

• Benjamin Guedj has been the list head for the election of the Evaluation Committee in June 2019. He has been an elected member of CE since 2017 and is a member of its executive board since Sept 2019.