BIAU Gérard

Director · Professor at LPSM
Sorbonne Cluster for Artificial Intelligence SCAI

Expertise

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Communities
Mathematics, Computer Science & Robotics
Skills
Data analysis, Mathematical models, Statistical learning

Activities

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Responsibilities

Gérard Biau is currently Director of SCAI (Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence).

He is a Full Professor at the Probability, Statistics and Modelling Laboratory (LPSM) of Sorbonne University. His research is mainly focused in developing new methodologies and rigorous mathematical theories in statistical learning and AI, whilst trying to find connections between statistics and algorithms.

Awards

- Prix Marie-Jeanne Laurent Duhamel de la Société Française de Statistique (2003)
- Membre de l'Institut Universitaire de France (2012-2017)

Prix Michel-Montpetit-Inria de l'Académie des Sciences (2018)

Selected publications

1) Scornet, E., Biau, G. and Vert, J.-P. (2015). Consistency of random forests, The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 43, pp. 1716-1741

2) Biau, G., Bleakley, K. and Cadre, B. (2016). The statistical performance of collaborative inference, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 17 (62), pp. 1-29

3) Biau, G., Cadre, B. and Rouvière, L. (2019). Accelerated gradient boosting, Machine Learning, Vol. 108, pp. 971-992

4) Biau, G., Scornet, E. and Welbl, J. (2019). Neural random forests, Sankhya A, à paraître

5) Biau, G., Cadre, B., Sangnier, M. and Tanielian, U. (2019). Some theoretical properties of GANs, The Annals of Statistics, à paraître

International collaborations

McGill University (Canada)

Industrial collaborations

Criteo, Ecov, EDF, Safran, Safety Line.

Projects

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