PhD Defense

After three years at Inria Paris, I defended my PhD in machine learning yesterday in front of my jury, my advisors, my peers, my friends and family.

My defense was recorded and is available on Youtube:

The slides are here. The combination of Google Slides + latex2png (in 800 dpi) was very efficient, especially for illustrations.

My manuscript can be found here.

My jury was composed of:

• Olivier Cappé, École Normal Supérieure (President and Examinateur)
• Gilles Blanchard, Université Paris Saclay (Rapporteur)
• Eric Moulines, École Polytechnique (Rapporteur)
• Lorenzo Rosasco, Università degli Studi di Genova (Examinateur)
• Zoltán Szabó, London School of Economics (Examinateur)
• Gersende Fort, Université de Toulouse (Examinatrice)
• Benjamin Guedj, Inria & University College London (Directeur de thèse)
• Alessandro Rudi, Inria (Co-encadrant)
• Carlo Ciliberto, University College London (Co-encadrant)