.. meta:: :description lang=en: Lilian Besson's personal web page :description lang=fr: Page personnelle de Lilian Besson sur le web ############ Pages (EN) ############ A few words about me -------------------- Greetings! I am **Lilian Besson**, a former `student `_ in Mathematics and Computer Science at |ENSCachan|. .. |ENSCachan| raw:: html ENS de Cachan From September 2016 and until August 2019: - I am pursuing `my PhD `_ at CentraleSupélec (`SCEE team `_, `IETR lab `_) in Rennes (France), with `Christophe Moy `_ and `Emilie Kaufmann `_ (`SequeL team, CRIStAL lab, at Lille `_). My PhD is on multi-players multi-arms bandits models applied to radio-telecommunication, especially I-o-T problems. - And I am `teaching `_ theoretical computer science at `ENS Rennes `_ (for a class preparing for the agregation national exam, level M2) and `ENSAI `_ (complexity and calculabilty, level L3), thanks to `this mission `_. - From August 2019, I am now a `junior professor (agrégé) `_ at `ENS Rennes `_, in charge of the class preparing the "agrégation" national exam, with a major in mathematics and a minor in computer science, level M2, and in charge of lectures for `introduction and advanced algorithms `_. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ `Contact information `_ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Feel free to *contact* me by, `the solution you prefer `_: .. image:: .courriel.png :scale: 40 % :align: right :alt: My email adress in a PNG image… :target: mailto:Lilian.Besson@ENS-Rennes.fr #. by *email* at this adress `Lilian.Besson@ENS-Rennes.fr `_, or `besson at crans.org `_: .. image:: .telephone.png :scale: 40 % :align: right :alt: My phone number in a PNG image… :target: callto:100101011101001100111101100001_2 #. you can call me or send me a SMS: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The last three years (2016-19) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ * I was doing my PhD. Please `read this page `_ to learn more! In *2015-16* ^^^^^^^^^^^^ * I was a `research intern `_ in the `BIG/LIB team `_ at `EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) `_, from April to August 2016, under the supervision of `Julien Fageot `_ and `Michael Unser `_. Check out the `git repository for my internship `_ (`my Master thesis `_ is finished) ! * I obtained the `MVA master program `_ (at `ENS de Cachan`_), in applied Maths, mainly in `machine learning `_ and `numerical optimization `_. Cf. `my documents written for the MVA <./publis/mva-2016/>`_, and `6 projects `_: `PCS `_, `PGM `_, `RL / GML `_, `Kernel `_, `Brain Imaging `_, `Neuro-Sciences `_. I ranked *first* for the MVA master in 2015-16, with 13 courses valided and the final grade of **18.43 / 20** (`"summa cum laude" `_). * I was also `teaching in Maths. `_ and `in Computer Science `_ in a prep' school for national competitive exams for French Engineering Schools (*"Grandes Écoles"*), at `"Lycée Lakanal" `_ in Sceaux (near Paris). Studies and past jobs ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. include:: whatsnew.en.rst * From mid-July 2014 to mid-May 2015, I **lived and worked in India**, `on the campus `_ of the new `Mahindra École Centrale `_ (a new *Engineering College* born from a partnership between the `(Indian) Mahindra group `_ and `(French) École Centrale de Paris `_). I was the first French faculty to work there full-time, and `I have been involved as a teaching assistant `_, in charge of mathematics (`MA101 <./ma101/>`_ and `MA102 <./ma102/>`_) `tutorials `_, and in charge of the `Computer Science CS101 course <./cs101/>`_ for the second semester! * In 2013/2014, I `prepared `_ the (French) `agregation of Mathematics `_ exam (national competitive exam for "*Prep Schools*" teacher recruitment, with a major in Maths and a minor in Computer Science). `I have been ranked 23rd `_, for 275 available positions, for 795 candidates allowed to pass the oral exam (second step) in June and July 2014, and almost 1200 persons registered in October 2013. I also did the second year of my **Master of Science** in Fondamental **Mathematics** (major) and **Computer Science** (minor), with a `speciality on teaching `_. `A list of useful references (and other ressources) for this exam is here `_. * In 2012/2013, I did the first year of the **MPRI** (`Master of Science `_ specialized in theoretical research in Computer Science, in Paris) and also the first year of the `Master of Science`_ in fondamental mathematics of ÉNS Cachan (again both `magna cum laude`_). * From 2011/2012, I studied at `ÉNS Cachan `_, and in July 2012, I completed two `Bachelors of Science `_, one in **Mathematics** and one in **Computer Science**, both `magna cum laude `_. * During two years, 2009/2010 and 2010/2011, I studied in Marseille, at `Lycée Thiers `_, first in MPSI 2 and after in MP\*1. * Before that, I lived in `Briançon `_ (Hautes-Alpes, *France*), and I got my `scientific baccalauréat `_, with a major in maths and a minor in theater, in 2009. .. container:: smallpar **A few words about me**: I like to walk, travel, go camping around France and Europe, mainly by using `hitch-hiking `_. I also like using new technologies, and enjoy design small games, or tiny pieces of software or web content (for instance `some nice javascript hacks `_), geeky tutorials (e.g. about `ga-beacon `_, `GNU/Nano `_, `Firefox `_, `Sublime Text 3 `_, `git `_ or more recently `Visual Studio Code `_), or Linux command line tools (`see this page for example `_). **A few words about this site**: I am working on this little website (currently, ``_) when I have the time, hoping it can be useful to someone. :gray:`All the content of the website is (C) Lilian BESSON, and it is open source with the` `GPLv3 License `_. `What means Open Source, explained with LEGO? `_. This site's *Google Analytics* data suggest that some pages are indeed visited on a daily basis, so if you are here for something in particular, I hope you will not be disapointed (you can use `this bug tracker `_ to report any bug, or even to ask me anything). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ .. note:: Contact me? Feel free to *contact* me by `the solution you prefer `_. Some projects on-line ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Some of my profile pages on some great websites: #. either with my *bitbucket* account `bitbucket.org/lbesson `_; #. or my *Github* account `GitHub.com/Naereen `_; #. or with my personal *Wikipedia* page `User:Naereen `_; #. or on *Transifex* `profile/Naereen `_ (almost not used anymore). .. sidebar:: Other language: in French :red:`Cette page est en anglais. Peut-être voulez-vous la voir` `en français `_ :red:`?` Now, the page ``_ should redirect to ``_ or ``_, according to the preference of your browser. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2nd year of MSc : Master MVA ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You can find `here all the documents written for the MVA <./publis/mva-2016/>`_ (2015-2016). I also worked on 6 small research projects, all published on `my bitbucket `_, open-source under the `MIT license `_. For the 1st trimester (Fall 2015): - `Parcimonie and Compressed Sensing : « Random factorization for low-rank matrices » `_ ("finding structure with randomness"), graded :blue:`19/20`; - `Probabilistic Graphical Models : « Hidden semi-Markov Models » `_ (comparison to Hidden Markov Models and Gaussian Mixture Models), graded :blue:`16/20`; - `Reinforcement Learning / Graphs in Machine Learning : « Multi-Expert board-game Inference » `_, graded :blue:`18/20`; For the 2nd trimester (Spring 2016): - `Kernel Methods for Machine Learning : « Recognizing hand-written digits with a SVM classifier » `_ :orange:`new!`; - `Brain Imaging : « Decoding of fMRI images with the SpaceNet classifier » `_ :orange:`new!`; - `Modelisation in Neuro-Sciences : « Self-Organizing Maps and Dynamical SOM » `_ :orange:`new!`. MSc research internship in 2016 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "*A theoretical study of steerable convolution operators, and possible applications to stochastic processes for images*". I will be a research intern in the `BIG/LIB team `_ at `EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) `_ (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne), from April to August 2016, under the supervision of `Julien Fageot `_ and `Michael Unser `_. Check out the `git repository for my internship `_ (`my Master thesis `_ is almost done) ! MSc research internship in 2013 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "*Towards modularity for planning and robot programs verification*". I did a research internship for the third semester of my Maths MSc and CS MSc from 03 June to 09 August 2013. .. sidebar:: Résumé My *résumé* is available here ``_. It is realized with ``LaTeX``, and the package *moderncv*. I worked at `UCL `_ (University College of London), under the direction of `Jules Villard `_ (who quotes me `on his new page `_, and `Peter O'Hearn `_, about separation logic, planning in `AI`, and the study of *modularity* in those two domains. My report (in English): ``_, and my slides (in French): ``_. :Mark: Jules gave me **19/20**. I got the mark **17.7/20** from the Computer Science jury at ENS Cachan, and **18.50/20** from the Maths jury at ENS Cachan (september 2013). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All pages in English -------------------- For more details, see ``_. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 :titlesonly: callme.en cv.en research.en teaching.en cookies.en README visualstudiocode.en sublimetext.en ga.en js.en stats-google-analytics.en beacon.en apk.en firefox-extensions.en tutogit.en wakatime.en zotero.en runblock.en transifex.en try-ocaml.en ocaml.en iteri.en opendns.en latexonwindows.en learn-python.en online-gnu-octave.en matlab-clones.en wolfram.en graph.en sphinxtabs.en top10.en what-i-watch-on-youtube.en blog-roll.en data-analysis-of-2-years-of-sms-2016-2017.en hitch-hiking.en packing.en bitbucket-features.en plume-air-paris.en self-quantified.en README mount.en demo .. (c) Lilian Besson, 2011-2019, https://bitbucket.org/lbesson/web-sphinx/