Advisorship
I am grateful to these young researchers whom I had the opportunity to work with.
PhD students
Benjamin Renoust (awarded PhD December 18, 2013)
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Funded through ANRT, CIFRE INA
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Reviewers: Georges Grinstein, University of Massachussetts at Lowell, USA; Fabien Gandon, INRIA Sophia Antipolis.
Benjamin looked at various phenomena through the lens of multiplex networks, in which catalysts are drivers of the interaction through substrates. Looking at how edges intertwine, Benjamin was able to design methods complementing traditional network approaches: the entanglement homogeneity and intensity of the multiplex network, and the catalyst interaction network, with for each catalyst, an entanglement index.
Benjamin is now Assistant Professor at Osaka University in Japan.
Maurin Nadal (awarded PhD December 16, 2013)
Advisorship 100% with me
MNERT scholarship (contrat doctoral).
Assistance à l'utilisateur novice dans le cadre du dessin de graphe à l'aide de méthodes d'apprentissage (bientôt sur TEL)
Reviewers: Gilles Venturini, Université de Tours, FR; Pascale Kuntz, LINA, Université de Nantes.
Maurin looked at potential solutions to provide support to novice users, offering them a variety of drawings of a same graph. To provide a large enough panel of drawings of a same graph, Nadal relies on a highly parametrized version of a force-directed layout algorithm (GEM). A genetic algorithm then handles the parameter space to optimize the search and provide insightful outputs.
Maurin is foreseeing to get a job as R&D engineer in the Lyon area.
Arnaud Sallaberry (awarded PhD October 18, 2011)
Co-advisor 25% Pikko – 75% me
Funded through ANRT, CIFRE with
Pikko.
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Reviewers: Michel Crampes, ENSMA Nîmes, FR; Alex Telea, Univ. of Gröningen, NL.
Arnaud is now Associate Professor at CNRS LIRMM UMR 5506, Université Montpellier 2, FR).
Faraz Zaidi (awarded PhD October 28, 2010) (advisorship 100% with me).
Pierre-Yves Koenig (awarded PhD September 8, 2009) (advisorship 100% with me).
Advisorship 100% with me
Funded through research contracts.
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Reviewers: Laurence Nigay, Univ. Grenoble, CLIPS/IMAG, FR; Pascale Kuntz-Cosperec, LINA, Univ. Nantes, FR).
Pierre-Yves is now expert consultant at Valtech, Toulouse, FR).
Fabien Jourdan (awarded PhD December 7, 2004)
Co-advisor 75% (me) – 25% with Jacques Marti (Université Montpellier 2)
MNERT scholarship
Information Visualization: drawings, structural measures and navigation. Applications to biology networks and social networks
Reviewers: Tamara Munzner, Univ. British Columbia, CA; Antoine De Daruvar, Univ Bordeaux 2, FR).
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My first ever advisorship experience (Thanks Scott!) was with:
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I also took part in other PhD project, as co-advisor and senior collaborator (as is requested in French universities when a PhD student is working under the guidance of an associate professor), without acting as primary mentor:
Bertjan Broeksema (awarded PhD University Groningen, NL March 3, 2014; Université de Bordeaux defense planned in June/July)
Antoine Lambert (awarded PhD December 12, 2012)
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François Boutin (awarded PhD November 28, 2005
Frédéric Boudon (awarded PhD February 27, 2004
Master's degree students
I do not always submit project proposals for master's students. The reason is quite simple. Given the very short timeframe within which the master's degree research project must undergo, I feel the mentor needs to be fully available for the student during the whole duration of the project (extending from April till June/July) – which I cannot always guarantee. I nevertheless had a chance to work with brilliant candidates:
Jocelyn Forest, spring 2013, Telecom Nancy (ESIAL). Now working as IT consultant.
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Arnaud Sallaberry, spring 2005, Université Bordeaux I. Now associate professor in Montpellier (after PhD with me).
Pierre-Yves Koenig, spring 2005, Université Montpellier 2. Now expert IT consultant at Valtech, Toulouse (after PhD with me).
Benjamin Coste, spring 2003, Université Montpellier 2. Now expert software designer and developer at
Pikko.