2019 WIDE seminar program

Our 2019 team seminar will take place in Saint Malo (Brittany).

Here is the program!


Thursday May 16th

08:35 – Meeting place : ISTIC
09:45 – Arrival at Saint Malo – Welcome Coffee (30 min)
10:15 – Opening (François)
10:20 – Invited Keynote

  • Xavier Blanc (1h)
    Qualité des développements, de l’hypothèse à la proposition de solution

11:20 – Networks Session

  • Quentin Dufour (35 min)
    Improve communications with better algorithms: multisource rumor spreading with network coding and multipath on onion networks
  • Nourredine Haouari (15 min)
    WebRTC in Tor

12:10 – Discussion (30 min)
12:40 – Lunch
14:15 – Scalable Machine Learning Session

  • Mohamed Lechiakh (15 min)
    Scalable KNN graphs for real time recommenders
  • Hasnaa Dyani (15 min)
    Recommenders for fast data
  • Amaury Bouchra Pilet (35 min)
    Simple, Efficient and Convenient Decentralized Multi-Task Learning for Neural Networks

15:20 – Discussion (25 min)
15:45 – Coffee Break (30 min)
16:15 – Scalable Machine Learning Session (continued)

  • A word from Virginie Desroches and François Taïani (20 min)
  • Loïck Bonniot (35 min)
    Generic root-cause analysis from end-devices with machine learning

17:20 – Walking to Bus
17:30 – Escape Game!
20:00 – Dinner
Evening – Games and Fun

Friday May 17th

08:40 – Machine Learning Internals Session

  • Keynote from Erwan Le Merrer (1h)
    Neural Nets in Black-Boxes: 3 Questions an Observer can Ask
  • Chaimaa Tarzi (15 min)
    The random walks on Youtube Recommendation Network
  • Florestan De Moor (15 min)
    A Biclustering Approach to Recommender Systems

10:10 – Coffee Break (30 min)
10:40 – Security Session

  • Louison Gitzinger (35 min)
    KillerDroid: a generative approach to circumvent existing malware detection systems
  • Alejandro Gomez Boix (35 min)
    A collaborative moving target defense against browser fingerprinting

11:50 – Discussion (25 min)
12:15 – Lunch
13:50 – Byzantine Session

  • Alex Auvolat Bernstein (35 min)
    High level primitives in Byzantine systems
  • Debriefing (30 min)

15:00 – Coffee Break and Walk to Bus (30 min)
15:30 – Shuttle to Rennes

Image by jean-christophe windland CC BY 3.0

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