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I am a Professor of Machine Learning and Foundational Artificial Intelligence at University College London (Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Department of Computer Science) and a Research Director at Inria (affiliated with the Modal research team from the Lille - Nord Europe research centre). I am also a Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute.
I am a member of the ELLIS society (and more precisely of its UCL Unit, of which I am a co-director) and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (member of the Computational Statistics and Machine Learning section). I am a fellow of ICA4 (Intercontinental Academia on Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence).
I serve as the scientific director of The Inria London Programme, a joint structure to foster scientific collaboration between Inria and University College London as part of a strategic France-UK partnership. Some more details in this press news, this one and this one. The Inria-UCL Joint research Centre has been officially created, as part of the State Visit of President Emmanuel Macron in London, in July 2025, see this press news. This led to my being appointed a Young Leader of the Franco-British Council.
You might want to visit companion websites:
- the website for the ICML 2023 workshop (see the recordings on this page) I co-organised
- the website for the ICML 2019 tutorial (see the slides and recording) I gave
- the website for the NIPS 2017 workshop I co-organised
Contact
UCL Centre for Artificial IntelligenceOffice 1.25L
90 High Holborn
WC1V 6LJ London
United Kingdom
CV
In a nutshell
- 2021–present: Turing Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute, UK
- 2018–present: Professor of Machine Learning and Foundational Artificial Intelligence (formerly Principal Research Fellow), University College London, Department of Computer Science, UK
- 2014–present: Research Director (formerly Research Scientist), Inria, France
- 2014: postdoctoral researcher, Sorbonne Université, France
- 2011–2013: PhD student in mathematical statistics, Sorbonne Université and Télécom Paris, France. Supervisors: Gérard Biau and Eric Moulines. Obtained with highest honors.
PhD thesis (pdf) - 2010–2011: research assistant at DTU Compute, Denmark. Supervisor: Gilles Guillot
- 2009-2010: MSc student in pure and applied mathematics, Sorbonne Université, France