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Bruno Crémilleux

GREYC - CNRS UMR 6072

Université de Caen Basse-Normandie

Département informatique
Campus Côte de Nacre, F-14032 Caen Cedex
Tel: +33 (0)2 31 56 74 35 - Fax: +33 (0)2 31 56 73 30
Office: Sciences 3 - 374

e.mail: bruno.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.

A selection of publications is here.

Some news

ECML/PKDD 2014 will be held in Nancy.
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 have lauchned a new scientific cooperation on formal concept analysis in chemoinformatics.
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

October 2011 - now: Head of the Department of Computer Science (studies and administrative part). Around 40 faculty members
January 2011 - now: member of the scientific committee of the GREYC lab. I have the task to animate the Artificial Intelligence and Algorithm department
Co-chair with Radim Belohlavek (University of Olomouc, CZ) of the PhD session (doctoral consortium) at ECML/PKDD 2014
Member of the Hybride project (ANR-11-BS002-002 2011-2015)
Member of the Nareca project (ANR Contint 2013-2016)
Member of the Animitex project (CNRS MASTODONS - 2013)
Current PhD students:
- Bamba Kane (together with Bertrand Cuissart and Alban Lepailleur)
- Willy Ugarte (together with Patrice Boizumault and Samir Loudni)
Member of SIF (French professional society)
Member of GdR-PRC I3

Other activities

Selected program committee memberships

ICDM'13, ICDM'12
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'14, PAKDD'13, PAKDD'12, PAKDD'11, PAKDD'08
ECAI'14
IDA'14, IDA'13, IDA'12, IDA'11, IDA'10, IDA'09
DS'14,DS'13, DS'12, DS'11
SAC'13, SAC'12, SAC'11, SAC'10, SAC'09, SAC'08, SAC'07, SAC'06, SAC'05
DaWaK'14, DaWaK'13, DaWaK'12, DaWaK'11, DaWaK'10, DaWaK'09, DaWaK'08, DaWaK'07
ISMIS'14, ISMIS'12, ISMIS'11, ISMIS'09, ISMIS'08
French events: EGC'14, EGC'13, EGC'12, EGC'11, EGC'10, EGC'09, EGC'08, EGC'07 - RFIA'12, RFIA'10, RFIA'08.

Referee for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge and Information Systems, Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 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), DAG closing session (2013), Spring Workshop on Mining and Learning (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 of 36 PhD thesis and 5 Habilitation thesis (23 as "External reviewer" including University of Helsinki, Czech Technical University in Prague, Università degli Studi di Torino).
Project expertise: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Czech Science Foundation, French National Research Agency (ANR).

Past activities

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 P. 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 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).
Co-supervisor (with J-F. Boulicaut, INSA Lyon) of AS CNRS-STIC 2003/2004 DiscoChallenge.

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.
October 1993 - September 2002: lecturers and students coordinator for the Department of computer science at the University of Caen.
Former Ph. D. students
- 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)
Member of the Innotox2 project funded by the Emergence call for proposals (Region Basse-Normandie) on toxicity and ecotoxicity of substances and preparations (2009-2012).
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).

Teaching

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

July 2008 - September 2011: Responsible for the Spécialité "Informatique et Aide à la Décision", Master Professionnel Informatique

Student material (in French) is on the moodle 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 at the LISI research laboratory (Lyon, France) in the Data Mining and Inductive Databases research group
October 1991 - August 2005: associate professor, University of Caen

Bruno Crémilleux