Current Professional Situation
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- Assistant professor at University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute
Education
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Ph.D in computer science at Sorbonne Universités, UPMC (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Defended on December, 12th 2006 (with distinction "très honorable")
Title: "Qualitative models and algebraic approaches for decision under uncertainty: axiomatic foundations and application to sequential decision making"
Professional Experience
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- From 2018 Assistant professor at University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiaotong University Joint Institute
- 2016-2017 Associate professor at School of Electronics and Information Technology, SYSU
- 2015-2017 Assistant professor at SYSU-CMU Joint Institute of Engineering
- 2015-2017 Assistant professor at SYSU-CMU Shunde International Joint Research Institute
- 2015-2016: Associate professor at School of Mobile Information Engineering, SYSU
- 2015: Visiting assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University
- 2007-2014: Associate professor in computer science at LIP6, UPMC
- 2006-2007: Temporary teaching/research position (ATER) in computer science at LIP6, UPMC
- 2003-2005: Teaching assistant in computer science at UPMC
- 2003-2006: Beneficiary of a research allowance at LIP6, UPMC
- April 2000 to June 2002: Junior quantitative analyst at SG Securities (Société Générale) in London
- July 1998 to August 1999: Software developer (one-year internship) at WYNIWYG, IT consulting company
Research/Industrial Projects
- 2019-2020: Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program (Large-scale multi-objective sequential decision making) coordinated by Wojciech Kotłowski and Paul Weng
- 2019-2022: Shanghai NSF project (Fair optimization in sequential decision-making under uncertainty) coordinated by Paul Weng
- 2019-2022: NSFC project (Task allocation and optimization in complex scenarios of mobile crowdsourcing) coordinated by Xiaofeng Gao
- 2017-2020: DFG project (Online Preference Learning with Bandit Algorithms) coordinated by Eyke Hüllermeier (Paderborn University) and Robert Busa-Fekete (Paderborn University)
- 2016-2017: PGMO project (Exact and approximate algorithms for fair assignment/matching problems) coordinated by Viet Hung Nguyen (UPMC)
- 2015-2016: CIRC project (Robust energy-efficient data center control) coordinated by Bruno Sinopoli (CMU) and Paul Weng
- 2014-2015: Sorbonne Universités project ELICIT (preference elicitation) coordinated by Enrico Diecidue (INSEAD) and Paolo Viappiani (CNRS)
- 2011-2012: LIP6 project CLOE (Critères Linéarisés pour l'Optimisation Equitable) coordinated by Pierre Fouilhoux (UPMC)
- 2010-2014: ANR project LARDONS (Learning And Reasoning for Deciding Optimally using Numerical and Symbolic information) coordinated by Bruno Zanuttini (University of Caen)
- 2009-2013: ANR project GUEPARD (GUaranteed Efficiency for PAReto optimal solutions Determination in multiobjective combinatorial optimization problems) coordinated by Patrice Perny (UPMC)
- 2008-2009: LIP6 project DMDC (Décision Multi-agent sur des Domaines Combinatoires) coordinated by Olivier Spanjaard (UPMC)
- 2008: Industrial project with Looneo
- 2006-2009: ANR project PHAC (Preference Handling and Aggregation in Combinatorial domains) coordinated by Jérôme Lang (CNRS)
Research/Academic Activities
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- Editor of AI Resources
- Reviewer for the Polish National Science Centre in 2018
- Referee for Research Foundation - Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, FWO) since 2016
- 2020:
- Senior PC member of IJCAI
- PC member of AAAI, ECAI
- Reviewer for ICLR, AISTATS
- 2019:
- Senior PC member of AAAI, IJCAI
- Special editor for AI Communications
- PC member of UAI, PRICAI, JFPDA, IJCAI Demos Track
- Reviewer for NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR
- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
- 2018:
- Chair of the demonstration track at IJCAI-ECAI
- Senior PC member of IJCAI
- PC member of AAAI, ICML, UAI, MPREF, PRICAI 2018 special track on RL, DA2PL, ACML
- Reviewer for NIPS, ICLR, AISTATS
- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Frontiers of Computer Science
- 2017:
- Senior PC member of IJCAI
- Co-chair of AWRL (Asian Workshop on Reinforcement Learning)
- PC member of ACML, AISTATS, UAI
- PC member of MODEM at AAMAS, JFPDA, MIWAI
- Reviewer for NIPS (Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)
- Reviewer for Neurocomputing, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
- 2016:
- Senior PC member of IJCAI
- Co-chair of AWRL (Asian Workshop on Reinforcement Learning)
- PC member of UAI, ECAI, Workshop DA2PL, JFPDA, M-PREF, MIWAI
- Reviewer for NIPS (Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)
- Reviewer for Expert Systems With Applications
- Reviewer for Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
- 2015:
- Co-chair of Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling (M-PREF)
- PC member of IJCAI, UAI, SUM, MIWAI, ADT-LPNMR Doctoral Consortium
- Reviewer of MCO
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2014:
- Co-chair of M-PREF
- Program co-chair of Multidisciplinary International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence
- PC member of UAI, ECAI, JFPDA
- Reviewer of IPMUi, TAAI
- Reviewer of Journal of Machine Learning Research
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2013:
- PC member of IJCAI, ECML workshop RL with generalized feedback: beyond numeric rewards, M-PREF, MIWAI, JFPDA
- Reviewer of Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
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2012:
- PC member of MIWAI, JFPDA
- Reviewer of IWAISE
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2011:
- PC member of IJCAI, UAI, MIWAI, JFPDA
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2010:
- PC member of MIWAI
- Reviewer of IPMU
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2009:
- PC member of JFPDA, MIWAI
- Reviewer of ADT (Algorithmic Decision Theory)
- Reviewer of Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle
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2008:
- PC member of MIWAI
- Reviewer of RFIA
- Reviewer of Journal of Financial Decision Making
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2007:
- PC member of MIWAI
- Reviewer of ICML
- Reviewer of Fuzzy Sets and Systems
