Gabriel Peyré (born 1979) is a French
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
. Most of his work lies in the field of
transportation theory. He is a
CNRS
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In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
senior researcher and a Professor in the mathematics and applications department of the
École normale supérieure
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in Paris. He was awarded the
CNRS Silver Medal in 2021.
Life and work
His work mainly focuses on applied mathematics, in particular on the
imaging sciences and
machine learning
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applications of
optimal transport.
Gabriel Peyré is also the deputy director of the 3IA Paris
Artificial Intelligence
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Research Institute as well as a member of the scientific committee of the
ENS center for data science. He is also the creator of the Numerical tour of data science, a popular online repository of Python/Matlab/Julia/R resources to teach mathematical data sciences. He is a frequent collaborator of the
INRIA team Mokaplan.
Awards and distinctions
Gabriel Peyré was awarded the Blaise Pascal Prize in 2017 from the
Académie des sciences
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as well as the Enrico Magenes Prize (2019) from the
Unione Matematica Italiana
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It was founded on December 7, 1922 by Luigi Bianchi, Vito Volterra, and most notably, Salvatore Pincherle, who became the Union's first Pr ...
. He also was an invited speaker at the
European Congress of Mathematics
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in 2020. His research was supported by an
ERC starting grant in 2012 and by an
ERC consolidator grant in 2017. In 2021, he was awarded the CNRS Silver Medal.
Major publications
*Benamou, J.-D., Carlier, G., Cuturi, M., Nenna, L., & Peyré, G. (2015). Iterative bregman projections for regularized transportation problems
ublisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ''SIAM Journalon Scientific Computing, 37(2)'', A1111–A1138.
*Peyré, G., Bougleux, S., & Cohen, L. (2008). Non-local regularization of inverse problems. In D. Forsyth, P. Torr, & A. Zisserman (Eds.), ''Computer vision – ECCV 2008'' (pp. 57–68). Springer.
*Peyré, G., & Cuturi, M. (2019). Computational optimal transport: With applications to data science
ublisher: Now Publishers, Inc. ''Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning, 11(5)'', 355–607.
*Rabin, J., Peyré, G., Delon, J., & Bernot, M. (2012). Wasserstein barycenter and its application to texture mixing. In A. M. Bruckstein, B. M. ter Haar Romeny, A. M. Bronstein, & M. M. Bronstein (Eds.), ''Scale spaceand variational methods in computer vision'' (pp. 435–446). Springer.
*Solomon, J., de Goes, F., Peyré, G., Cuturi, M., Butscher, A., Nguyen, A., Du, T., & Guibas, L. (2015). Convolutional wasserstein distances: Efficient optimal transportation on geometric domains. ''ACM Transactions on Graphics, 34(4)'', 66:1–66:11.
References
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Applied mathematicians
Living people
French mathematicians
1979 births
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research