Current Positions
2011 - now
Experienced Junior Scientist (CR1)
Lille, France
2014 - now
External Lecturer (CEV)
Paris-Saclay, France
Previous Positions
2011 - 2012
Postdoctoral Researcher
Master Projects Supervised:
Lille, France
spring 2005
Centro de Inteligência Artificial
Departamento de Informática
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
2003 - 2006
Research assistant
Department of Neurophysiology
Institute of Normal and Pathological Physiology
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Education
2015 - 2016
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HdR)
Département des études doctorales
Paris-Saclay, France
2005 - 2011
PhD. in Machine Learning
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Compunetix Best Research Award (2008 and 2011)
Honors Convocation Recognition (2009)
2007 - 2009
Visiting Student
Cross-registered graduate courses while pursuing PhD at U. Pittsburgh
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
CS 10-708: Probabilistic Graphical Models
CS 10-725: Optimization
CS 10-705: Intermediate Statistics
CS 15859: Spectral Graph Theory
STAT 36729: Unsupervised Learning
2000 - 2005
(1i6 2i5 3itm 4itm 5itm)
MSc.
major: computer science
specialization:artificial intelligence
theoretical specialization: mathematical methods in cs
Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
Selected Awards
- ICML 2023 Best Paper Award
- Forbes Cover — Slovak AInstein
- Forbes Changemakers 2024 — AI
- UN/OECD/UNESCO/ECB AI Summit participation
- Inria award for scientific excellence (2014–2017, 2018–2021)
- ICML Top 10 Reviewer Award (2018)
- ICML Reviewer Award (2015)
- Comenius University Distinguished Alumni (2015)
- Google best paper — Online Learning in Vision (2010)
- Homer Warner Award — AMIA and OMG (2010)
- Compunetix Best Research Award (2008 and 2011)
- University of Pittsburgh Honors Convocation Recognition (2009)
- Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship (2008–2009)
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