Academic Teaching

Université de Montpellier

Master 2 Statistique et Science des Données: Lecture

I gave a short lecture (Oct. 2024) introducing Recurrent Neural Networks in Deep Learning. Here is the application notebook on Natural Language Processing, based on a Julia version of the min-char-rnn code, using À la recherche du temps perdu (text file, Marcel Proust) and all of Shakespeare.

Master 1 Statistique et Science des Données: Projects

Since 2023, I have proposed and supervised several small projects for the M1 SSD HAX817X course. Previous projects include:

  • Comparing statistics of observed weather time series with those generated by climate models over the historical period. (twice)

  • Weather extremes near nuclear power plants.

  • Median of Mean estimator: theoretical and empirical properties.

  • Study and simulations around the paper Were RNNs All We Needed?.

École Polytechnique

2020–2022 — 63h total TD equivalent

  • Instructor for "Small Class" tutorials in MAP530: Probability Refresher, intended for 3rd-year engineering and Master 1 students in the X/HEC Data Science for Business program. Four sessions of 3 hours each, both in-person and remote, with groups of around 20 students.

  • Tutorial instructor for MAP361: Aléatoire (Randomness), for first-year engineering students. Here's a notebook used to illustrate the PC3 concepts: PC3

Polytech'Nice

Polytech'Nice Sophia-Antipolis — 2014–2017 — 63h/year

As a Doctorant Contractuel Chargé d'Enseignement, I taught practical physics labs for students in the integrated preparatory cycle of the engineering school.

I supervised a dozen students for 3-hour lab sessions covering topics such as: Stirling engine, diffraction, interference, capacitor charge/discharge, optics, and statistical physics.

Others

Lecturer at Spectral Methods for Complex Systems Winter School

I participated as a lecturer in the online Winter School Spectral Methods for Complex Systems (January 2019), where I gave an introductory talk. Videos and slides are available. The lecture addressed spectral analysis in finite- and infinite-dimensional dynamical systems.

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