Martine-Michèle Sebag is a French computer scientist, primarily focused on
machine learning
Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...
. 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 (), also known as the University of Paris — XI (or as the Orsay Faculty of Sciences, University of Paris before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, ...
,
Paris Dauphine University
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and Ecole Polytechnique. Sebag started work at the
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...
(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
University of Paris alumni
Knights of the Legion of Honour
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
École Normale Supérieure alumni