Scientific community services

• January 2022 - present : head of the NormaSTIC research federation CNRS FR 3638, Sébastien Adam (LITIS) is deputy-head.
  From January 2013 to December 2021: co-organization with Laurent Heutte (LITIS) of the axis Data, Machine Learning, Knowledge of the NormaSTIC research federation.
• January 2020 - present: deputy-director of the GDR MaDICS (director: Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, LISN). Member of the executive committee since 2017.

Ongoing activities

• Coordinator for the GREYC lab of the Herelles project (2020-2025) funded by ANR. The project leader is Pierre Gançarski (ICUBE).
• Member of the ANR InvolvD project (2021-2025).
• Coordinator with Amel Borgi (Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunisia) of the "Explainable and Supervised Ensemble Methods with an Application to Chemoinformatics" project (2022-2024 - Programme Hubert Curien) with GREYC, Centre d'Études et de Recherche sur le Médicament de Normandie (CERMN) and Laboratoire de recherche en Informatique, Programmation Algorithmique et Heuristiques (LIPAH, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunisie)
• Current PhD students:
  • Djawad Bekkoucha (together with Patrice Boizumault and Abdelkader Ouali)
  • Etienne Lehembre (together with Bertrand Cuissart, Abdelkader Ouali and Albrecht Zimmermann)
• Member of SIF (French professional society)

Other activities

• Selected program committee memberships/area chair
• IJCAI-ECAI since 2017, ECAI 2023, ECAI 2020, 2018, 2014
• ECML/PKDD area chair since 2017, 2013-2016, 2002-2010
• IEEE ICDM 2023, 2022, 2018-2020, 2017 (area chair), 2015-2016, 2012-2013
• IDA 2024 (area chair), 2023 (PC co-chair), since 2009
• PAKDD 2011-2022, 2008
• SDM 2021-2022
• KDD 2016
• AAAI 2018
• DS since 2016, 2011-2014
• SAC 2019-2023, 2016, 2003-2013
• ICTAI 2020-2021
• DaWaK 2006-2017
• ISMIS 2014-2018, 2008-2012
• French events: EGC since 2007 - PC Chair of the 16ème conférence francophone sur l'Extraction et la Gestion des Connaissances (EGC 2016) Reims, France. CAp 2015-2022
• Member of the editorial board of data mining and knowledge discovery journal (since 2020), member of the guest editorial board for the ECML/PKDD 2022, 2019, 2018 and 2016 journal track.
• Referee for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Machine Learning Journal, WIREs 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, Intelligent Data Analysis, Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Transactions on Large-Scale Data and Knowledge-Centered Systems, Int. Journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Computational Intelligence, The Computer Journal.
• Invitations: Spring Workshop on Mining and Learning (SMiLe 2023, SMiLe 2020, SMiLe 2018, SMiLe 2016, SMiLe 2014, SMiLe 2012, SMiLe 2010), Constraints, Optimization and Data (Dagstuhl 2014), Workshop on Constraint Programming and Data Mining (2014), DAG closing session (2013), 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 84 PhD thesis (44 as "External reviewer" including University of Helsinki FI, Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve BE, Czech Technical University in Prague CZ, Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis SN, Università degli Studi di Torino IT) and 20 Habilitation thesis.
• Expertise: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Czech Science Foundation, French National Research Agency (ANR), Association Nationale Recherche Technologie (ANRT), HCERES.

Past activities

• Program committee co-chair of the 21th Int. Symposium on Intelligent Data Analys (IDA 2023) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, April 2023 with Sibylle Hess.
• Workshop & Tutorial co-chair of ECML/PKDD 2022 with Charlotte Laclau.
• Associate Editor of of Knowledge and Information Systems (2016-2021).
• 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 2009.
• 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), LIFAT (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).
• Coordinator for the GREYC lab of the INCA project (2019-2022) funded by the Normandy Region. The project leader is Alexandre Pauchet (LITIS).
• 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 (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 Decade (2017) and QCM-BioChem (2018-2019) projects (CNRS Mastodons).
• Member of the Minomics (2015-2017), Predictive Toxicology (2012-2015) 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).


• September 2015 - August 2021: head of the "Constraints, Data Mining, Graphs" (CoDaG) team of the GREYC laboratory (around 20 researchers and PhD. students) and member of the executive committee of the GREYC lab. January 2003 - August 2021: member of the executive committee of the GREYC lab. From January 2011 to September 2016, 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
  • Mina Rafla (Ph. D. 11/2023, together with Nicolas Voisine)
  • Maksim Koptelov (Ph. D. 9/2020, together with Lina Soualmia and Albrecht Zimmermann)
  • 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)