Michèle Sebag Explained

Martine-Michèle Sebag is a French computer scientist, primarily focused on machine learning. She has over 6,000 citations.^[1]

Biography

Sebag studied mathematics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, and later worked in the computer science industry, starting at Thomson Corporation,^[2] 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 Dauphine University and Ecole Polytechnique. Sebag started work at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (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.^[3]

She was named chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 2019.^[4]

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. .

External links

• article by Sebag in Le Monde

Notes and References

1. Web site: Michèle Sebag . Google Scholar . 18 August 2019.
2. Chercheuse tout-terrain : Michèle Sebag, responsable de l'équipe apprentissage et optimisation du LRI-CNRS . L'usine nouvelle . 7 February 2018 . 18 August 2019 . Nouvelle . L'Usine .
3. Web site: Michele Sebag . Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI) . Université Paris-Sud . 18 August 2019.
4. Web site: Mourgere . Isabelle . Légion d'honneur du 1er janvier 2019 : une promotion sous l'ère de la parité . TV5Monde . 2 January 2019 . 18 August 2019.