Current Position
Research Scientist
Dept. Empirical Inference (Dept. Head: Bernhard Schölkopf)
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
| Educational Background | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 01.2006-07.2010 | Ph.D. | ||
| supervised by Brahim Chaib-draa | |||
| Dept. Computer Science, Laval University, Canada | |||
| Thesis Title: Predictive Representations For Sequential Decision Making Under Uncertainty | |||
| 10.2004-09.2005 | M.Sc. | ||
| supervised by Thomas Hérault | |||
| Dept. Computer Science, University of Paris-sud, France | |||
| Thesis Title: MPICH-V3: A Fault-Tolerant Message Passing Interface for Grid Computing | |||
| 09.1999-10.2004 | Engineer's degree | ||
| National Institute for Computer Science, Algeria | |||
| 1999 | Baccalauréat (high school diploma) | ||
| Research Positions | |||
| 08.2010-now | Research scientist | ||
| Dept. Empirical Inference (Dept. Head: Bernhard Schölkopf) | |||
| Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany | |||
| 01.2006-07.2010 | Research assistant | ||
| Dept. Computer Science, Laval University, Canada | |||
| 09.2003-09.2004 | Research assistant | ||
| National Institute for Computer Science, Algeria | |||
| Internships | |||
| 04.2005-09.2005 | Fault-tolerance in Grid Computing | ||
| National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), France | |||
| supervised by Franck Cappello | |||
| Teaching | |||
| 2006 | Teaching Assistant, course: Probability Theory and Statistics I | ||
| Laval University, Canada | |||
| 2005 | Teaching Assistant, course: Computer Networking | ||
| University of Paris-sud, France | |||
| Invited talks at Labs | |||
| 04.2010 | Invited talk: Predictive Representations For Sequential Decision Making Under Uncertainty at the department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada | ||
| 03.2010 | Invited talk: Predictive Representations For Sequential Decision Making Under Uncertainty at the department of Empirical Inference, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany | ||
| 06.2008 | Invited talk: Imitation Learning in Partially Observable Environments at the School of Computer Science, McGill? University, Canada | ||
| 07.2007 | Invited talk: Predictive State and Policy Representations at the School of Computer Science, McGill? University, Canada | ||
| Oral Conference and Workshop Presentations | |||
| 06.2009 | Conference presentation: Predictive Representations for Policy Gradient in POMDPs? at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) | ||
| 09.2008 | Conference presentation: Exact Dynamic Programming for Decentralized POMDPs? with Lossless Policy Compression at the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) | ||
| 09.2008 | Workshop presentation: Planning in Decentralized POMDPs? with Predictive Policy Representations at the ICAPS Multiagent Planning Workshop (MASPLAN) | ||
| 09.2008 | Workshop presentation: Distributed Planning in Stochastic Games with Communication at the ICAPS Multiagent Planning Workshop (MASPLAN) | ||
| 05.2008 | Conference presentation: State Space Compression with Predictive Representations at the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS) | ||
| 05.2008 | Conference presentation: Parallel Rollout for Online Solution of Dec-POMDP at the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS) | | ||
| 05.2008 | Conference presentation: A Novel Prioritization Technique for Solving Markov Decision Processes at the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS) | ||
| 06.2007 | Workshop presentation: Les Représentations Prédictives des États et des Politiques at Actes des Quatrièmes Journées Francophones Modèles formels de l'interaction (MFI) | ||
| 05.2007 | Conference presentation: Competition and Coordination in Stochastic Games at the Twentieth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI) | ||
| Paper Reviewing | |||
| 2010 | IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics | ||
| International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) | |||
| 2009 | IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics | ||
| International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) | |||
| International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) | |||
| 2008 | International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) | ||
| North-East Student Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence (NESCAI) | |||
| References, etc. | |||
| References are available upon request. | |||