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Bruno Crémilleux

GREYC - CNRS UMR 6072

Université de Caen Normandie

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Campus Côte de Nacre, CS 14032 F-14032 Caen cedex 5
Tel: +33 (0)2 31 56 74 35 - Fax: +33 (0)2 31 56 73 30
Office: Sciences 3 - 374

e.mail: bruno dot cremilleux at unicaen dot fr

Research interests

My main research interests are in data mining and knowledge discovery in databases with a focus on pattern discovery: pattern (sets) discovery, Constraint Satisfaction Problems and data mining, Natural Language Processing and data mining, preference queries (e.g., skypatterns), unsupervised and supervised methods from several pattern languages (e.g., sequences, graphs). This research work benefits from close collaborations addressing applications in the fields of Chemoinformatics, Biomedical Text Analysis, Bioinformatics.
I am a member of the Constraints, Data Mining, Graphs team at the GREYC lab.

Some news

2019: CPER Numnie supports (engineer) our work on text mining techniques to dicover relations in texts.
I am very pleased that our joint work on pattern interestingness in pattern mining was accepted at ECML/PKDD 2018.
June 2018: short visit of Ian Davidson, University of California, Davis, US. We exchanged on several declarative approaches for pattern sets.
May 2018: Project CNRS Mastodons QCM-BioChem (Quality in Consensualizing and Mining biological and chemical datasets) is launched (coordinators: Sarah Cohen-Boulakia and Albrecht Zimmermann).
2018: We got collaborations and contracts with Inprimerie Nationale and Roullier compagnies.
May 2017: Project CNRS Mastodons Decade is launched (coordinator: Albrecht Zimmermann). Collaborative research on knowledge discovery and decision support to therapeutic chemistry (CERMN, GREYC, ICOA, IRISA, LI, LIFO, LIRIS, LORIA). We co-organized a scientific meeting in Lyon on November 2017 on interactive data mining, mining and learning with massively imbalanced data, mining and learning in bio/chemo-informatics. We got a KDD paper, Applied Data Science trac on our joint work.
Our joint work on skypattern mining is now publised at AIJ
With Marc Plantevit and Arnaud Soulet, we gave a tutorial on Preference-based Pattern Mining at ECML/PKDD 2016 (see here), ICFCA 2017 (see here) and BDA 2017 (see here).
Under the PEPS Préfute project, we co-organized scientific meetings in Rennes on October 2016 and Nancy on November 2015. We have been talking about recent work by the pattern mining community, especially reporting basic reasearch results in this area. It was nice to listen talks by Tijl de Bie (Ghent University, Belgium), Albert Bifet (Télécom ParisTech, Paris), Mario Boley (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany), Wouter Duivesteijn (Ghent University, Belgium & TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands), Matthijs van Leeuwen (Leiden University, The Netherlands) and Jilles Vreeken (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany) plus some others from the members of this successful 2-year project.
I served as PC Chair of the 16ème conférence francophone sur l'Extraction et la Gestion des Connaissances (EGC 2016, Reims, France).
Guozhu Dong, head of the Data Mining Research Lab., Wright State University, Dayton, US, has been an invited professor at University of Caen in May 2015. We have lauchned a new scientific cooperation on contrast patterns in chemoinformatics.
ECML/PKDD 2014 was held in Nancy (France).
A mini-symposium on data mining was held on July 8-9th, 2014 at the GREYC lab.
Sergei O. Kuznetsov, head of the school for Applied Mathematics and Information Science at the National Research University in Moscow (Higher School of Economics) has been an invited professor at University of Caen in June 2013. We collaborate on formal concept analysis in chemoinformatics, here is a joint paper.
Our work on Emerging Patterns as Structural Alerts for Computational Toxicology is now published in the book Contrast Data Mining: Concepts, Algorithms, and Applications edited by Guozhu Dong and James Bailey.
We got the Carl Smith Award for the paper "Soft Threshold Constraints for Pattern Mining" at the Discovery Science 2012 conference.

Ongoing activities

September 2015 - now: head of the "Constraints, Data Mining, Graphs" (CoDaG) team of the GREYC laboratory (15 researchers and PhD. students) and member of the executive committee of the GREYC lab.
Coordinator for the GREYC lab of the Reus project funded by FUI 22 (Fonds unique interministériel) 2016-2019. The project leader is Frederique Segond (Viseo).
Member of the executive committee of the GDR MaDICS (since 2017).
Co-organization with Laurent Heutte (LITIS, Rouen) of the axis Data, Machine Learning, Knowledge of the NormaSTIC research federation (since 2013).
Current PhD student:
- Maksim Koptelov (together with Lina Soualmia)
Member of SIF (French professional society)

Other activities

Selected program committee memberships/area chair

ICDM'18, ICDM'17 (area chair), ICDM'16, ICDM'15, ICDM'13, ICDM'12
ECML/PKDD'19 (area chair), ECML/PKDD'18 (area chair), ECML/PKDD'17 (area chair), ECML/PKDD'16, ECML/PKDD'15, ECML/PKDD'14, ECML/PKDD'13, ECML/PKDD'10, ECML/PKDD'09, ECML/PKDD'08, ECML/PKDD'07, ECML/PKDD'06, PKDD'05, PKDD'04, PKDD'03, PKDD'02
PAKDD'19, PAKDD'18, PAKDD'17, PAKDD'16, PAKKD'15, PAKDD'14, PAKDD'13, PAKDD'12, PAKDD'11, PAKDD'08
KDD'16
AAAI'18
IJCAI'19, IJCAI-ECAI'18, IJCAI'17, ECAI'14
DS'18, DS'17, DS'16, DS'14, DS'13, DS'12, DS'11
SAC'10, SAC'17, SAC'16, SAC'13, SAC'12, SAC'11, SAC'10, SAC'09, SAC'08, SAC'07, SAC'06, SAC'05
DaWaK'17, DaWaK'16, DaWaK'15, DaWaK'14, DaWaK'13, DaWaK'12, DaWaK'11, DaWaK'10, DaWaK'09, DaWaK'08, DaWaK'07
ISMIS'18, ISMIS'17, ISMIS'15, ISMIS'14, ISMIS'12, ISMIS'11, ISMIS'09, ISMIS'08
French events: EGC'19, EGC'18, EGC'17, EGC'17, EGC'15, EGC'14, EGC'13, EGC'12, EGC'11, EGC'10, EGC'09, EGC'08, EGC'07 - CAp'18, CAp'17, CAp'16, CAp'15.

Associate Editor on the editorial board of Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), member of the editorial board of Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Member of the guest editorial board for the ECML/PKDD 2019, 2018 and 2016 journal track.
Referee for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Artificial Intelligence Journal, Knowledge and Information Systems, Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, Transactions on Database Systems, Intelligence Data Analysis, Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Transactions on Large-Scale Data and Knowledge-Centered Systems, Computational Intelligence, Int. Journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Int. Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management, The Computer Journal.
Invitations: Constraints, Optimization and Data (Dagstuhl 2014), Workshop on Constraint Programming and Data Mining (2014), DAG closing session (2013), Spring Workshop on Mining and Learning (SMiLe 2018, SMiLe 2016, SML 2014, SML 2012, SML 2010), Constraint Programming meets Machine Learning and Data Mining (Dagstuhl 2011), Int. Conf. on Information Systems and Economic Intelligence (2011, invited talk), Mining patterns and subgroups (Lorentz Center, 2010), Parallel Universes and Local Patterns (Dagstuhl 2007), atelier Extraction de Connaissances et Santé co-located with EGC 2011 (invited talk).
Committee member (since 2005) of 54 PhD of thesis (33 as "External reviewer" including University of Helsinki, Czech Technical University in Prague, Università degli Studi di Torino) and 16 Habilitation thesis.
Project expertise: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Czech Science Foundation, French National Research Agency (ANR).

Publications

A selection of publications is here.

Past activities

Co-chair with Radim Belohlavek (University of Olomouc, CZ) of the PhD session (doctoral consortium) at ECML/PKDD 2014.
Co-chair with Luc De Raedt (KU Leuven, BE), Paolo Frasconi (Università di Firenze, IT) and Tias Guns (KU Leuven, BE) of the ECML/PKDD 2013 Workshop "Languages for Data Mining and Machine Learning".
Co-chair with Petr Berka (University of Economics, Prague, CZ) of the ECML/PKDD discovery challenge 2004 and 2005.
Publicity Chair of IDA'09.
Coordinator (with J. Klema, IDA Group Czech Technical University) of the bilateral Programme Hubert Curien project "Heterogeneous Data Fusion for Genomic and Proteomic Knowledge Discovery" (2008-2009).
Awards (best papers): DS (2012), CAp (2006), PAKDD (2005).

Coordinator of the CNRS PEPS Prefute project (fouille interactive fondée sur les PREFérences UTilisatEur), 2015-2016, with CERMN (Caen), LI (Blois), LIRIS (Lyon) and LORIA (Nancy) labs.
Coordinator of the ANR MDCO Bingo2 project "Knowledge Discovery For and By Inductive Queries in post-genomic applications", National Project 2008-2011) funded by ANR about inductive querying techniques with Centre de Génétique Moléculaire et Cellulaire (contact: O. Gandrillon), INSA de Lyon (contact: J-F. Boulicaut) and University of Saint-Etienne (contact: B. Jeudy). This project is a follow-up of ACI Masse de Données Bingo (2004-2007).
Coordinator of the Bingo project funded by the "ACI Masse de Données" (National project October 2004 - September 2007) about inductive databases for gene expression data analysis. The consortium is made of the Centre de Génétique Moléculaire et Cellulaire (Lyon, O. Gandrillon), INSA Lyon (J-F. Boulicaut), University of Caen (B. Crémilleux) and University of Saint-Etienne (F. Jacquenet).
Member (and GREYC coordinator) of the Animitex project (CNRS Mastodons - 2013-2014)
Co-supervisor with J-F. Boulicaut, INSA Lyon of AS CNRS-STIC 2003/2004 DiscoChallenge.
Member of the Nareca project (ANR Contint 2013-2018).
Member of the Hybride project (ANR-11-BS002-002 2011-2016).
Member of the Minomics (2015-2017) and Innotox2 (2009-2012) projects funded by the Emergence call for proposals (Region Basse-Normandie) on toxicity and ecotoxicity of substances and preparations.
Member of the ANR ANNODIS project (2008-2010).
Member of AS CNRS-STIC 2003 ASAB (Apprentissage et Bioinformatique), AS CNRS-STIC 2002 GaFoDonnées (French working groups).

January 2011 - 2016: member of the executive committee of the GREYC lab. I had the task to organize the Artificial Intelligence and Algorithm department.
October 2002 - December 2010: head of the "Data, Document and Language" team (25 researchers and Ph. D. students) of the GREYC laboratory. Member of the GREYC executive committee.

Former Ph. D. students
- Bamba Kane (Ph. D. 9/2017, together with Bertrand Cuissart and Alban Lepailleur)
- Willy Ugarte (Ph. D. 11/2014, together with Patrice Boizumault and Samir Loudni)
- Winn Voravuthikunchai (Ph. D. 12/2013, together with Frédéric Jurie)
- Mehdi Khiari (Ph. D. 6/2012, together with Patrice Boizumault)
- Guillaume Poezevara (Ph. D. 11/2011, together with Bertrand Cuissart)
- Leila Ben Othman (Ph. D. 11/2011, together with François Rioult)
- Céline Hébert (Ph. D. 09/2007, together with Alain Bretto)
- Arnaud Soulet (Ph. D. 11/2006)
- Antoine Doucet (Ph. D. 11/2005, key supervisor Helena Ahonen Myka)
- François Rioult (Ph. D. 11/2005)
- Bertrand Cuissart (Ph. D. 12/2004, together with Jean-Jacques Hébrard, Frédérique Touffet and Ronan Bureau)
- Nicolas Durand (Ph. D. 11/2004, together with Luigi Lancieri)
- Dominique Fournier (Ph. D. 11/2001)
- Arnaud Ragel (Ph. D. 12/1999)

Teaching

Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Database Management Systems
Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages

September 2017 - now: Head of the track Decision and optimisation, Master of Computer Science
October 2011 - September 2015: Head of the Department of Computer Science (studies and administrative part). Around 40 faculty members.
July 2008 - September 2011: Head of the track "Informatique et Aide à la Décision", Master Professionnel Informatique.
October 1993 - September 2002: lecturers and students coordinator for the Department of computer science at the University of Caen.

Student material (in French) is on the ecampus platform of the University of Caen.

Education

Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (french senior research post-graduation) in Computer Science in 2004 (Université de Caen)
Ph. D. in 1991 (Université de Grenoble)

Position

since September 2005: professor in computer science, University of Caen
September 2004 - August 2006: CNRS fellowship (2-year position) at the GREYC laboratory
February 2001 - July 2001: invited researcher (sabbatical leave) at the LISI research laboratory (Lyon, France) in the Data Mining and Inductive Databases research group, currently the Data Mining and Machine Learning team
October 1991 - August 2005: associate professor, University of Caen

Bruno Crémilleux