Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Grants with Industry

• Romain Warlop obtains a CIFRE grant with the start-up Fifty-Five and started his PhD in July under the supervision of Alessandro Lazaric, Jérémie Mary and Philippe Preux. The PhD is on the use of tensor and bandits techniques for recommender systems with a special focus on the cold start problem, and the non-stationarity of the environment.

• Nicolas Carrara obtains a CIFRE grant with Orange Labs and started his PhD in October under the supervision of Olivier Pietquin. The PhD topic is on transfer learning for fast adaption of spoken dialogue systems.