What happened in the past

Dec 18th: Olivier Nicol defends his PhD thesis
Dec 17th-19th: Lihong Li visits us.
Nov 19th-20th: Mike Bowling visits us.
Oct 12th, 2014: Frédéric Guillou wins the ACM RecSys challenge. See pictures here. sur le site INRIA
July 24th: More on our work with Deezer
July 1st, 2014: Boris Baldassari defends his PhD
June 12th, 2014: Victor Gabillon defends his PhD
June 11th, 2014: Mohammad Ghavamzadeh defends his Habilitation à diriger les recherches
May 2014: Olivier Pietquin was selected to Institut Universitaire de France for research excellence.
May 2014: INRIA advertizes our collaboration with Deezer
May 2014: Rémi Coulom in wired and on slate.

Dec, 2013: Jérémie Mary and the behavior on the Internet
Nov. 18th, 2013: Azadeh Khaleghi defends her PhD
Oct. 2013: Azadeh Khaleghi receives an E. M. Gold Award for her paper at ALT 2013
June 2013: announcement from the IMLS: SequeL will host ICML 2015 in Lille, France from July 6th to Sat. July 11th, 2015
June 2013 Alexandra Carpentier PhD is awarded with a 1st accessit of the Prix de thèse de l’AFIA 2013.
May 2013: INRIA publishes an article about Face Recognition
April 2013: a new, stricking, victory of Crazy Stone against a human player (aussi en français)

November 30th, 2012: Christophe Salperwyck defends his PhD
October 5th, 2012: Alexandra Carpentier defends her PhD
Sep 1^st, 2012: Michal Valko joins SequeL as an INRIA junior researcher
June 21^st, 2012: J-F. Hren defends his PhD.
June 2012 Odalric Maillard recoit le Prix de thèse de l’AFIA 2012.
Mar 2012: the exploration / exploitation challenge is open.
- An outcome is the workshop new challenges for exploration & exploitation at ICML 2012

Dec 19^th, 2011: Daniil Ryabko defends his Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches
Oct 3^th, 2011: Odalric Ambrym-Maillard defends his Phd
Jul 2^nd, 2011: Olivier Nicol and Jérémie Mary rank first at the 2^nd round of the Exploration & Exploitation Challenge
May 8^th, 2011: Olivier Nicol ranks 1st at the 1^st round of the Exploration & Exploitation Challenge; 2^nd is Christophe Salperwyck currently working on his PhD in SequeL and Orange Labs; 5^th is Jérémie Mary, assistant professor, yet another SequeLmember.
Sébastien Bubeck ranks 2^nd at the price of the French PhD in Artificial Intelligence, 2011
Sébastien Bubeck receives the Jacque Neveu 2011 award (best PhD in statistics)

Nov 26^th 2010: Sébastien Bubeck has been ranked 2nd for the 2010 Gilles Kahn award (best PhD in computer science)
starting Sep. 14^th 2010, Peter Auer visits SequeL during 10 days
The cover of the July 2010 Pour la Science magazine advertize Rémi Coulom’s paper about ranking in games and sports
Sébastien Bubeck defends his PhD on June 10^th, 2010 at the ENS-Ulm. He is the first student to defend a PhD in SequeL.
Laszlo Gyorfi visits us on March 19^th.
from Feb 4^th to Feb 11^th, 2010, Boris Ryabko is visiting SequeL during 10 days
V. Gabillon, J. Mary, and Ph. Preux received the best paper award at the 10^e Extraction, Gestion des Connaissances (EGC) for their paper “Affichage de publicités sur des portails web”

Fall 2008: R. Coulom’s Crazy Stone wins against a human expert
Sep 2008: Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) at Île de Ré, organized by M. Davy and J. Mary
June-July 2008: SequeL organizes the 8th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning
Jan 2008: creation of the Predict & Control spin-off by P-A. Coquelin

2007: R. Coulom’s Crazy Stone becomes a valuable opponent for a human being at the 19×19 Go game. He is awarded with silver medal.
Jul 1st, 2007: SequeL is officially created as an INRIA team-project.

Spring 2005: M. Davy, R. Munos, Ph. Preux meet and begin to talk about creating SequeL.

Dec 2015: Marta Soare defends her PhD
Oct 2015: Jérémie Mary defends his HdR
May 2015: Amir Sani defends his PhD
Dec 18^th, 2014: Olivier Nicol defends his PhD (https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01297407)
July 1^st, 2014: Boris Baldassari defends his PhD (https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01297400)
June 12^th, 2014: Victor Gabillon defends his PhD (https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01297386)
June 11^th, 2014: Mohammad Ghavamzadeh defends his Habilitation à diriger les recherches (https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/)
Nov. 18^th, 2013: Azadeh Khaleghi defends her PhD (https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00920184v1)
November 30^th, 2012: Christophe Salperwyck defends his PhD (https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00845655)
Oct 5^th, 2012: Alexandra Carpentier defends her PhD (https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00844361v1)
Jun 21^st, 2012: Jean-François Hren defends his PhD (https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00845898v1)
Dec 19^th, 2011 Daniil Ryabko defends his hdr (https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00675680v2)
Oct 3^th, 2011: Odalric Ambrym-Maillard defends his PhD (https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00845410v1)
July 8^th, 2011: Manuel Loth defends his PhD (https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00845441v1)
2011: Nicolas Viandier defends his PhD (https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00664264v1)
June 2010: Sébastien Bubeck defends his PhD (https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00845565v1)