Scientific community services

• 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.
• January 2020 - now: deputy-director of the GDR MaDICS, member of the executive committee since 2017.
• Co-organization with Laurent Heutte (LITIS, Rouen) of the axis Data, Machine Learning, Knowledge of the NormaSTIC research federation (since 2013).

Ongoing activities

• 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).
• Current PhD student:
  • Maksim Koptelov (together with Lina Soualmia) and Albrecht Zimmermann
• 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
• IDA'18, IDA'17, IDA'16, IDA'15, IDA'14, IDA'13, IDA'12, IDA'11, IDA'10, IDA'09
• DS'18, DS'17, DS'16, DS'14, DS'13, DS'12, DS'11
• SAC'19, 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'19, 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 2020, 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 57 PhD of thesis (35 as "External reviewer" including University of Helsinki, Czech Technical University in Prague, Università degli Studi di Torino) and 17 Habilitation thesis.
• 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 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)