Martine-Michèle Sebag is a French computer scientist, primarily focused on
machine learning
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. She has over 6,000 citations.
Biography
Sebag studied mathematics at the
Ecole Normale Supérieure, and later worked in the computer science industry, starting at
Thomson Corporation
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, where she was introduced to artificial intelligence. She then moved into the research field, at the Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides at
Ecole Polytechnique.
She was awarded a PhD from the
University of Paris-Sud
Paris-Sud University (French: ''Université Paris-Sud''), also known as University of Paris — XI (or as Université d'Orsay before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, in ...
,
Paris Dauphine University
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and Ecole Polytechnique. Sebag started work at the
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
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Basic research, also called pure research o ...
(CNRS) as a research fellow in 1991.
Sebag is deputy director of the Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique at the CNRS; Head of group A-O at the latter; co-head of Projet TAO at INRIA Saclay; and principal scientist at the CNRS.
She was named chevalier of the
Légion d'honneur
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in 2019.
Selected research
*Gelly, Sylvain, et al. "The grand challenge of computer Go: Monte Carlo tree search and extensions." Communications of the ACM 55.3 (2012): 106-113.
*Bordes, Antoine, Léon Bottou, and Patrick Gallinari. "SGD-QN: Careful quasi-Newton stochastic gradient descent." Journal of Machine Learning Research 10.Jul (2009): 1737-1754.
*Termier, Alexandre, M-C. Rousset, and Michèle Sebag. "Treefinder: a first step towards xml data mining." 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2002. Proceedings.. IEEE, 2002.
*Sebag, Michèle, and Antoine Ducoulombier. "Extending population-based incremental learning to continuous search spaces." International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1998.
Further reading
*José L. Balcázar; Francesco Bonchi; Aristides Gionis; 2010. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2010, Barcelona, Spain, September 20–24, 2010. Proceedings. Springer. .
References
External links
article by Sebag in Le Monde
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Living people
French women computer scientists
Écoles Normales Supérieures
University of Paris alumni
Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
Year of birth missing (living people)
Date of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research