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Section: Dissemination

Animation of the scientific community

Awards

Sébastien Bubeck received the second prize for the best French Ph.D in Artificial Intelligence (AI prize 2011).

Tutorials

Workshops and Schools

  • R. Munos co-organized the Machine Learning Summer School 2011 (MLSS'11) in Bordeaux (2 weeks of lectures for about 80 international students), with François Caron, Manuel Davy, Pierre Del Moral, Pierrick Legrand, Manuel Lopes.

  • R. Munos co-organized (with Florence Forbes, Bernard Espiau et Monique Thonnat) the Journées INRIA autour de l'apprentissage statistique, Décembre 2011.

Invited Talks

  • M. Ghavamzadeh, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Host: Prof. Jan Peters (June 2011).

  • M. Ghavamzadeh, University of Liège - Systems & Modeling Research Unit, Host: Prof. Damien Ernst (June 2011).

  • M. Ghavamzadeh, University of Waterloo - School of Computer Science, Host: Prof. Pascal Poupart (November 2010).

  • M. Ghavamzadeh, McGill University - School of Computer Science, Host: Prof. Joelle Pineau (November 2010).

  • M. Ghavamzadeh, University of Alberta - AI Seminar, Host: Prof. Csaba Szepesvári (November 2010).

  • A. Lazaric, University of Liège - Systems & Modeling Research Unit, Host: Prof. Damien Ernst (October 2011).

  • R. Munos, University of Liège, Department of Electical Engineering, February 2011.

  • R. Munos, ICAPS, workshop Monte-Carlo Tree Search, Freiburg, June 2011

  • R. Munos, Machine learning Summer School in Bordeaux, September 2011.

  • R. Munos, Oxford, department of Computer Science, November 2011

Review Activities

  • Participation to the program committees of international conferences

    • E. Duflos and P. Vanheeghe were members of the Fusion'2011 International Program Committee

    • E. Duflos is reviewing papers for the following journals : IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Information Fusion.

    • P. Vanheeghe is reviewing papers for the journal : IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing.

    • D. Ryabko: UAI 2011.

    • M. Ghavamzadeh: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011), European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL 2011), International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2011), National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2011).

    • R. Munos: Area chair for NIPS 2011.

    • P. Preux: ADPRL 2011, ICPRAM 2012, EGC 2011.

  • International journal and conference reviewing activities (in addition to the conferences in which we belong to the PC)

    • M. Ghavamzadeh is Editorial Board Member of the Machine Learning Journal (MLJ, 2011-2014).

    • M. Ghavamzadeh: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2011), International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2011), Neurocomputing, Machine Learning Journal (MLJ), Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR).

    • D. Ryabko: IEEE Trans. Inf. Th., NIPS 2011.

    • R. Munos: ADPRL 2011, AISTATS 2011, ALT 2011, CAP 2011, ICML 2011, IJCAI 2011.

    • P. Preux: NIPS 2011, CAP 2011,IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle.

    • A. Lazaric: AAAI 2011, AAMAS 2011 & 2012, ACC, ALT, COLT, ICML, IJCAI, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Controls (TAC).

    • P. Chainais: IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Learning, Journal of Statistical Physics, Physica A.

Evaluation activities, expertise

  • Emmanuel Duflos was appointed Director of Research of the Ecole Centrale in Lille. He has also reviewed proposals for the ANR programs.

  • M. Ghavamzadeh is a grant proposal reviewer for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

  • J. Mary is expert for the “Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche” on control of“Crédit Impôt Recherche”, member of the COS at Lille 3 for one assistant professor in computer science, member of the COS at 3 for one assistant professor un computer science at École Centrale de Lille for one assistant professor in computer science.

  • R. Munos project evaluation for Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgique, 2011, member of the evaluation committee for the Machine Learning, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Member of the Comité de sélection Professeur 27ème section for Polytech Paris-Sud, 2011.

  • P. Preux: reviewer for the CNRS program PEPPI biology-mathematics-computer science, reviewer for the ANR program CONTINT, and the ANR program “blanc”, president of the committee of selection (COS) at the University of Lille 3 for one assistant professor in computer science, member of the committee of selection (COS) at the École Centrale de Lille for one assistant professor in computer science.

  • D. Ryabko is a member of COST-GRI evaluation committee.

  • Philippe Vanheeghe has reviewed proposals for Discovery Grant applications of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERRC - CRSNG), as well as for the ANR.

Participation to PhD and HDR jurys

  • D. Ryabko is an examiner of the Ph.D. of K. Eltysheva.

  • R. Munos examiner of the Ph.D. of Louis Dorard (University College of London), Raphael Fonteneau (University of Liège), and member of PhD juries for Lei Yu (University Cergy Pontoise) and Wassim Jouini (Supelec Rennes).

  • R. Munos is member of HDR Committee for Daniil Ryabko (INRIA Lille - Nord Europe) and Aurélien Garivier (Télécom PariTech), 2011.

  • P. Preux is member of the Ph.D. juries of Halem Benhabiles and Manuel Loth (Université de Lille 1)

  • E. Duflos was rapporteur for the for PhD thesis of Michele Pace (INRIA Bordeaux), Pierre Neri (ENAC - University of Toulouse), Frédéric Faurie (University of Bordeaux), Sébastien Rougerie (University of Toulouse) and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherche of Frédéric Dambreville.

Other Scientific Activities

  • R. Munos is Vice Président du Comité des Projets at INRIA Lille-Nord Europe since September 2011.

  • R. Munos is member of the Commission d'Evaluation INRIA.

  • R. Munos is Président du jury d'admissibilité CR1-CR2 INRIA Lille - Nord Europe.

  • R. Munos is member of the jury d'admission DR2 INRIA en 2011.