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Angel Investments

Entalpic AI for sustainable materials and chemistry (Paris)
Forgent AI AI agents for public procurement (Berlin)

Startup Advisor

Retab AI-powered document automation (Paris)
lithosquare AI for mineral exploration (Paris)
FenTech AI for sales forecasting and decision intelligence (Paris)
Sword Health AI-powered physical therapy and mental health (New York / Porto)
Entalpic AI for sustainable materials and chemistry (Paris)
Agemo AI AI-native software development (London)
Doctolib Healthcare appointment booking platform (Paris)
Altrove AI for sustainable critical materials (Paris)
HinLab AI-powered cardiac diagnostics (Palo Alto / Paris)
Solaya AI-powered 3D scanning for e-commerce (Nice)
Atla AI agent evaluation and improvement (London)
Levels AI for construction document compliance (Milano)
InteractionLabs, Inc. AI companion robots (San Francisco)
Forgent AI AI for public procurement (Berlin)
MeltFlex AI-driven 3D printing (Bratislava)
Rhizome Labs Adaptive AI systems
One Ring Labs
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Recent Advising

Mistral AI Frontier AI models (Paris)
Fastino Task-specific language models (Palo Alto)
Mercor AI-driven recruiting and data labeling platform (San Francisco)
HaizeLabs AI safety and red-teaming (New York)
Comand AI AI for defense and security operations (Paris)
Fundamental Foundation models for tabular data (San Francisco)

Ambassador

ESET Science Award Envoy

Academic Service by Year

2026

2025

2024

  • Florian Felten, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Dissertation committee
  • Pierre Clavier, École Polytechnique, Paris, France - Dissertation committee

2023

  • Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School, Slovakia (EEML 2023) - Organizing co-chair
  • Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR 2023) - Action Editor
  • Journal of Machine Learning Research - Journal Reviewer
  • Rémi Jézéquel, Inria / ENS Paris, France - Dissertation committee
  • Édouard Oyallon, Sorbonne, Paris, France - Habilitation committee

2022

  • Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR 2022) - Action Editor
  • Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2022) - Program Committee
  • Guillaume Salha, École Polytechnique, Paris, France - Dissertation committee
  • Nicolas Vecoven, The University of Liège, Belgium - Dissertation committee
  • Yoan Russac, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France - Dissertation committee

2021

  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021) - Area Chair
  • Graph Neural Networks and Systems at MLSys (GNNSys 2021) - Program Committee
  • EEML mentorship
  • Yunhao Tang, Columbia University - Dissertation committee
  • Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021) - Session Chair

2020

  • Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020) - Area Chair
  • Journal of Machine Learning Research - Journal Reviewer
  • ICML 2020 Workshop on Graph Representation Learning and Beyond (GRL+ 2020) - Reviewer
  • Mastane Achab, Télécom Paris - Dissertation committee
  • Stratis Limnios, École Polytechnique, Paris - Dissertation committee
  • Georgios Dasoulas, École Polytechnique, Paris - Dissertation committee
  • Guillaume Salha, École Polytechnique, Paris - Dissertation committee
  • DeepMind mentorship program
  • EEML mentorship

2019

  • Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019) - Area Chair
  • Conference on Learning Theory (COLT 2019) - Program Committee
  • The power of graphs in machine learning and sequential decision-making workshop - Organizing and program co-chair
  • Reinforcement Learning Summer SChOOL (RLSS 2019) - Organizing Committee
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2019) - Conference Reviewer
  • Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2019) - Conference Reviewer
  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2019) - Conference Reviewer
  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2019) - Conference Reviewer
  • ITS Workshop: Optimizing Human Learning (ITS 2019) - Organizing co-chair
  • Tommaso Renato Cesari, Università degli studi di Milano - Dissertation committee
  • Aristide Tossou, Chalmers University of Technology - Dissertation committee
  • Zhenyu Liao, CentraleSupélec, Gif-sur-Yvette - Dissertation committee
  • Benoît Choffin, LRI/CentraleSupelec - University of Paris-Saclay - PhD mid-term evaluation
  • Tutoring internships of 10 M2 students MVA Master, University of Paris-Saclay
  • Elected member of Inria Evaluation Committee (CE Inria 2019)
    • Selection committee for Inria award for scientific excellence of junior researchers
    • Promotion committee for junior researchers
  • The Israel Science Foundation (ISF 2019) - Grant Reviewer

2018

  • Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2018) - Area Chair
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - Journal Reviewer
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing - Journal Reviewer
  • International Federation of Automatic Control - Automatica - Journal Reviewer
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2018) - Program Committee
  • Conference on Learning Theory (COLT 2018) - Conference Reviewer
  • CNRS Summer school on Networks, Graphs, and Machine Learning (RESCOM 2018) - Program co-chair
  • ITS Workshop: Optimizing Human Learning (ITS 2018) - Organizing co-chair
  • European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL 2018) - Organizing Committee
  • Pierre Ménard, Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier - Dissertation committee
  • Mariana Vargas Vieyra, Université Lille - PhD mid-term evaluation
  • Tutoring internships of 8 M2 students MVA Master, University of Paris-Saclay
  • Elected member of Inria Evaluation Committee (CE Inria 2018)
    • Selection committee for Inria award for scientific excellence of confirmed researchers
    • Promotion committee for junior researchers
    • Inria working group for the creation of team RandOpt
    • National committee for the secondments at Inria

2017

  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - Journal Reviewer
  • International Federation of Automatic Control - Automatica - Journal Reviewer
  • Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017) - Conference Reviewer
  • Conference on Learning Theory (COLT 2017) - Conference Reviewer
  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2017) - Program Committee
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017) - Senior Program Committee
  • Clément Bouttier, Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier - Dissertation committee
  • Thibault Liétard, Université Lille - PhD mid-term evaluation
  • National Inria acceptance committee for hiring junior researchers
  • Tutoring internships of 6 M2 students MVA Master, University of Paris-Saclay
  • Elected member of Inria Evaluation Committee (CE Inria 2017)
    • Selection committee for junior researchers at Inria Saclay
    • Inria work group for deontological ethics
    • Inria working group for the creation of team RandOpt
    • Selection committee for Inria award for scientific excellence of junior and confirmed researchers
  • Committee of Experts for Hiring junior faculty at CMLA, ENS Paris-Saclay (ENS 2017)

2016

  • Journal of Machine Learning Research - Journal Reviewer
  • International Federation of Automatic Control - Automatica - Journal Reviewer
  • Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2016) - Conference Reviewer
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2016) - Program Committee
  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2016) - Conference Reviewer
  • European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL 2016) - Program Committee
  • Elected member of Inria Evaluation Committee (CE Inria 2016)
    • Selection committee for hiring junior researchers at Inria Sophia Antipolis
    • Inria work group for deontological ethics
    • Selection committee for Inria award for scientific excellence of junior and confirmed researchers
    • Promotion committee for junior researchers
  • Belgian Fund for Scientific Research-FNRS (FNRS 2016)

2015

  • International Conference on Machine Learning (2015, Lille, France) - Organizing co-chair
  • Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2015) - Conference Reviewer
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2015) - Program Committee
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015) - Program Committee
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2015) - Program Committee
  • European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL 2015) - Program Committee
  • Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM 2015) - Program Committee
  • Elected member of Inria Evaluation Committee (CE Inria 2015)
    • Selection committee for hiring junior researchers at Inria Nancy
    • Selection committee for Inria award for scientific excellence of junior researchers
    • Promotion committee for junior researchers
  • Belgian Fund for Scientific Research-FNRS (FNRS 2015)

2014

  • Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2014) - Conference Reviewer
  • Conference on Learning Theory (COLT 2014) - Conference Reviewer
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2014) - Conference Reviewer
  • Journées Francophones sur la Planification, la Décision et l'Apprentissage (JFPDA 2014) - Program Committee
  • Elected member of Inria Evaluation Committee (CE Inria 2014)
    • Promotion committee for junior researchers at Inria
  • Belgian Fund for Scientific Research-FNRS (FNRS 2014)

2013

  • Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2013) - Conference Reviewer
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2013) - Program Committee
  • Journées Francophones sur la Planification, la Décision et l'Apprentissage (JFPDA 2013) - Organizing Committee

2012

  • Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2012) - Conference Reviewer
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2012) - Program Committee
  • Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2012) - Conference Reviewer
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2012) - Program Committee
  • European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2012) - Conference Reviewer
  • European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL 2012) - Program Committee

2011

  • Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2011) - Conference Reviewer
  • ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2011) - Conference Reviewer

2010

  • International Medical Informatics Conference (MEDINFO 2010) - Conference Reviewer

2009

  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2009) - Conference Reviewer
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2009) - Conference Reviewer
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