- Deputy head of LRE lab at EPITA since 12/2022
- Head of Artificial Intelligence group since 10/2022
- Head of Majeures Data Sciences and Artificial Intelligence with Graphs (SCIAg) and Industry of Future (IF) at EPITA.
Short Bio
I have been a professor at EPITA and member of LRDE since January 2022. Before joining EPITA, I was an associate professor at University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 for twelve years, leading Data Mining & Machine Learning research group in LIRIS Lab (UMR CNRS5205 during 2 years. I received received the PhD degree in computer science in 2008 from the University of Montpellier, which I did under the supervision of Maguelonne Teisseire and Anne Laurent in LIRMM Lab. My research is mainly concerned with foundation of data mining, graph mining, subgroup discovery and explainable artificial intelligence. I am on the editorial board of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal.
News
- July 2024, two ECAI'24 paper accepted as well as PANDORA Project (ANR PRC with IRISA and GREYC)
- June 2024, new ECMLPKDD paper.
- February 27th, 2023, this page on LRE website is created.
- January 2023, our paper untitled Forecasting Electricity Prices: an Optimize then Predict-based approach has been accepted at IDA'23. Congratulations to Leonard (PhD Student).
- December 2022, I become Deputy head of LRE Lab.
- October 2022, The AI group@LRE is born. Welcome!
- July 2022, talk at DSChem, a MADICS workshop.
- June 2022, talk at CNIA'22.
- April 2022, our paper untitled "What does my GNN really capture? On exploring internal GNN representations" has been accepted at IJCAI-ECAI 22. Out of the 4535 full-paper submissions, about 15% of the papers were accepted. Congratulations to Luca (PhD student) and Ataollah (Master Student).
- February 2022, our paper "Electricity price forecasting on the day-ahead market using machine learning" has been accepted for publication at Applied Energy journal. Congratulations to Leonard (PhD Student) for this work.
- January 2022, our paper untitled "Qu'est-ce que mon GNN capture vraiment ? Exploration des représentations internes d'un GNN" has received the best paper award at EGC'22. Congratulations to Luca (PhD student) and Ataollah (Master Student).
- January 3rd 2022, Happy and excited to become a full professor at EPITA.
Research Interests
Data Mining, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, knowledge Discovery in Databases
- Explainable Artificial Intelligence (Explaining GNN decision, Explaining Recommendations, ...)
- Foundation of data mining
- Constraint-based pattern mining
- (attributed|dynamic) graph mining
- Sequences / Time Series
- Subgroup Discovery / Exceptional Model Mining
Projects
Current Projects
Past Projects
Service
- Member of the [https://www.springer.com/journal/10618 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery] Editorial board since March 2019
- Member of [https://capes-nsi.org/ CAPES NSI] jury since 2020
- Former head of the [https://liris.cnrs.fr/equipe/dm2l Data Mining & Machine Learning group] at LIRIS (2019-Dec 2021)
Program Committees
- ECMLPKDD: 2024 (JT,PC), 2023 (JT,PC), 2022(JT,PC), 2021(JT,PC), 2020(JT,PC), 2019(JT,PC), 2018(JT,PC), 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012
- IDA: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
- IEEE ICDM: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021
- DSAA: 2021
- IEEE DSAA'2024 Journal Track - Machine Learning Journal
- SIAM DM: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
- ECAI'24
- IJCAI: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2017, 2015, 2013
- EGC (French Conference): 2025(SPC),2024(SPC), [2023(SPC)] (https://egc2023.sciencesconf.org/ ),2022 (SPC), 2021 (SPC), 2020 (SPC), 2019 (SPC), 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
- SFC: 2022
PhD thesis juries
- Reviewer/rapporteur: Adrien Raison (Univ. Poitiers, Dec. 2023), Corentin Lallier (Univ. Bordeaux, December 2022), Maman Sani Aboubacar (Univ Montpellier, July 2022), Adeel Ahmad (Quaid-i-Azam University,Pakistan, January 2022), Mael Guéguen (Univ. Rennes 1, October 2020), Nyoman Juniarta (Univ. Lorraine, December 2019)
- Examinator/Examinateur: Adulam Jeyasothy (Sorbonne Université, Feb. 2024), Grégory Martin (Univ. Rennes, December 2022), Xin Du (TU Eindhoven, September 2020), Riyadh Benamar (INSA Lyon, November 2019), Rémy Dautriche (UGA, October 2016), Oleg Iegorov (UGA, April 2016)
Software
Datasets
Students
PhD Students
- Ataollah Kamal, on xAI for GNNs, with Céline Robardet (INSA Lyon), sin Sept. 2022 .
- Arthur Batel, on RL for psychiatric adaptative tests, with Céline Robardet (INSA Lyon) and Idir Benouared, since nov. 2022.
- Jean-Baptiste Guimbaud, Machine Learning and Exposome, with Rémy Cazabet (Univ. Lyon 1) and Léa Maitre (ISGlobal, Barcelona), since April 2021
Former PhD Students
- Léonard Tschora, Electricity price forecasting, with Céline Robardet (INSA Lyon) (sept. 2020 - jan. 2024)
- Luca Veyrin-Forrer, GNN explainability with Céline Robardet (INSA Lyon) and Stefan Duffner (INSA Lyon) (sept. 2019 - March. 2023)
- Maëlle Moranges, Understanding the olfactory perceipt with a neuroinformatics approach, with Moustafa Bensafi (CRNL, CNRS) (jan. 2020 - jan. 2023)
- Corentin Lonjarret, Sequential recommendation and explanations, with Céline Robardet (2018-2021)
- Adnene Belfodil, Exceptionnel Model Mining for Behavioral Data Analysis, with Philippe Lamarre and Sylvie Cazalens (2016-2019)
- Anes Bendimerad, Mining Useful Patterns in Attributed Graphs with Céline Robardet (2016-2019)
- Elise Desmier, Co-evolution Patterns in Dynamic Graphs with Jean-François Boulicaut (2011-2014)
- Kim T. Ngan Nguyen, Generalizing association rules in n-ary relations : application to dynamic graph analysis with Jean-François Boulicaut (2010-2014)
Internships
- Ataollah Kamal (Master Informatique Fondamentale, ENS Lyon, 2022): xAI and graphs.
- Ataollah Kamal (Master1 Informatique Fondamentale, ENS Lyon, 2021): Explaining Graph Neural Networks.
- Mouloud Iferroudjene (ESI Alger, 2021): Explaining Recommender Systems.
- Youcef Remil (ESI Alger, 2020): Explaining black box models.
- Guillaume Coiffier (Master Informatique Fondamentale, ENS Lyon, 2019): Deep Neural Network simplication.
- Adrien Jarretier-Yuste (Master IA, Université Lyon 1, 2019): Machine learning for early identification of immune cell subtypes.
- Maëlle Moranges (Master Bioinformatique, Université Lyon 1, 2018): Subgraph mining for understanding the olfactory perceipt.
- Anes Bendimerad (INSA Lyon, IF 2016) : Analyse descriptive de la dynamique urbaine à l'aide de la fouille de graphes attribués.
- Duc Duong (Master recherche, Université National du Vietnam, Institut Francophone International, 2015): Fouille de Graphes Dynamiques Attribués : Découvertes de phénomènes périodiques et exceptionnels.
- Guillaume Bosc (INSA Lyon, IF 2014): Associating odor qualities to their molecular properties with redescription mining.
- Roland Kotto Kombi (Master Informatique, parcours TIWE, Université Lyon 1, 2014): Olfactory qualities characterization with subgroup discovery.
- Clarisse Uwizeye (Master Systèmes Complexes, ENS Lyon 2014): Mining dynamic attributed graphs for describing the use of the Velo'v system.