Main themes
My main themes of research concern how to best use a computer as a tool to help us deal with complex systems. This includes amongst other things:
- Machine learning and statistics.
- Theoretical concepts about complexity, causality, and emergence.
- Time series analysis and dynamical concepts, signal processing to a lesser extent.
- Algorithmic and knowing how to make good use of a computer.
- Application domains to which the generic tools can be applied.
I am currently working on what I called the decisional states of a system.
You can see the list of my publications on this page.
Scientific activities
I am involved with the following groups and projects:
- I am on the board of the French association on Artificial Intelligence (AFIA).
- I coordinate an international reading group on causality and machine learning that is held weekly or bi-weekly. I also started a second group on complex systems and their applications. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you wish to participate to these groups.
- I am part of the French national network on complex systems, and participated in elaborating our Roadmap. I also participate to the causality in complex systems effort.
- I am a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, as well as the IJCNN conference, and sometimes more.
Scientific computing
The algorithms and experiments detailed in my publications are available as free/libre software. You'll find some code in the Software section of this site that are independant and reusable for your own experiments.
Affiliation
I am currently on a short term teaching and research contract with the University of Rennes 1. The teaching part is about networking at the Institut Universitaire de Technologie in St Malo. The research part is done with the LTSI laboratory, a signal processing research group dedicated to medical applications.
Work experience
My initial background is in engineering and I spent a few years in the space industry. In 2004 I decided to quit my job at EADS in order to start a PhD abroad. Back in France in 2007 I got a post-doctorate position at the INRIA of Rennes. Since september 2008 I am on teaching and research short contract with the university. More information can be found in my resume.
