Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Awards

• Best Paper Award in Machine Learning at ECML-PKDD 2019 in Wurzburg to Guillaume Doquet and Michèle Sebag for their paper Agnostic feature selection . See Guillaume's PhD [13] for more details.

• Nacim Belkhir, Winner ACM-GECCO 2019 BBComp single-objective, BBComp two-objective and three-objective tracks. The winning program is a slighly modified version of the one Nacim wrote during his PhD in TAU in 2017 [71], co-supervised by Marc Schoenauer, Johann Dréo and Pierre Savéant (Thalès TRT).

Visibility

• Marc Schoenauer, expert seconding Guillaume Klossa, special advisor to European Vice-President Ansip, for the report Toward European Media Sovereignty giving strategic advice on the opportunities and challenges related to the use artificial intelligence, with a focus on the media sector.

Best Paper Award:

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