Research Grants
Ongoing
- SSF-ML-DH (Secure, safe and fair machine learning for healthcare), 2023-.
Funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) through PEPR Digital Health. Role: Scientific Coordinator. - IPoP (Interdisciplinary Project on Privacy), 2022-.
Funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) through PEPR Cybersecurity. Role: Work Package Leader. - FedMalin (Federated Machine Learning over the Internet), 2022-.
Funded by Fondation Inria and Groupe La Poste. Role: Scientific Coordinator. - PRIDE (Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Machine Learning), 2021-.
Funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). Role: Principal Investigator. - FLAMED (Federated Learning and Analytics on Medical Data), 2020-.
Funded by Inria and REACT-EU, with additional support from CNIL. Role: Principal Investigator. - SLANT (Spin and Bias in Language Analyzed in News and Texts), 2019-.
Funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). Role: Project Member.
Past
- DEEP-PRIVACY (Distributed, Personalized, Privacy-Preserving Learning for Speech Processing), 2018-2022.
Funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). Role: Project Member. - Comprise (Cost-effective, Multilingual, Privacy-driven voice-enabled services), 2018-2021.
Funded by the H2020-ICT-2018-2020. Role: Project Member. - PAD-ML (Privacy-Aware Distributed Machine Learning), 2018-2021.
INRIA Associate Team with the Privacy-preserving data analysis group at Alan Turing Institute. Role: Principal Investigator. - PAMELA (Personalized and decentrAlized MachinE Learning under constrAints), 2016-2021.
Funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). Role: Project Member. - GRASP (GRAph-based machine learning for linguistic Structure Prediction), 2016-2021.
Funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). Role: Project Member. - LEGO (LEarning GOod representations for natural language processing), 2016-2022.
INRIA Associate Team with Fei Sha's group at USC. Role: Principal Investigator. - SkMetricLearn (Scikit-learn Integrated Metric Learning), 2017-2019.
Software development project funded by INRIA. Role: Principal Investigator. - ERC Proof of Concept SOM (Statistical modeling for Optimization Mobility), 2016-2018.
Funded by ERC. Role: Project Member. - Machine Learning for Big Data, 2014-2015.
Funded by Télécom Paris and several companies. Role: Project Member. - BABEL, 2013-2014.
Funded by IARPA. Role: Project Member. - LAMPADA (Learning Algorithms, Models and sPArse representations for structured DAta), 2009-2013.
Funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). Role: Project Member. - PASCAL2 Network of Excellence, 2009-2013.
Funded by the European Commission. Role: Project Member.
Scientific Events
Organizer
- Joint French Conference on Machine Learning and Computer Vision (CAp & RFIAP 2026)
Montpellier (France), July 2026
Co-organized with Dino Ienco, Julie Josse, Anne Laurent, Nicolas Meyer, Joseph Salmon and Maximilien Servajean - Privacy Preserving Machine Learning (PPML 2022)
Workshop at FOCS 2022, Denver (USA), November 2022
Co-organized with Borja Balle, James Bell, Kamalika Chaudhuri, Amrita Roy Chowdhury, Adrià Gascón, Mariana Raykova, Phillipp Schoppmann and Ali Shahin Shamsabadi - Privacy Preserving Machine Learning (PPML 2021)
Workshop at CCS 2021, Seoul (South Korea), November 2021
Co-organized with James Bell, Adrià Gascón, Olya Ohrimenko, Mariana Raykova, Phillipp Schoppmann and Carmela Troncoso - Privacy Preserving Machine Learning (PPML 2020)
Workshop at NeurIPS 2020, Virtual event, December 2020
Co-organized with Borja Balle, James Bell, Kamalika Chaudhuri, Adrià Gascón, Antti Honkela, Antti Koskela, Casey Meehan, Olya Ohrimenko, Mijung Park, Mariana Raykova, Mary Anne Smart, Yu-Xiang Wang and Adrian Weller - Federated Learning One World Seminar (FLOW)
Online seminar on federated learning with 1000+ registered attendees, started in May 2020
Co-organized with Peter Richtárik, Virginia Smith, Dan Alistarh and Sebastian Stich - French Workshop on Privacy Protection (APVP 2019)
10th edition, Baie de Somme (France), July 2019
Co-organized with Pierre Bourhis, Walter Rudametkin and Marc Tommasi - Privacy Preserving Machine Learning (PPML 2018)
Workshop at NeurIPS 2018, Montreal (Canada), December 2018
Co-organized with Adrià Gascón, Niki Kilbertus, Olya Ohrimenko, Mariana Raykova and Adrian Weller - Workshop on Privacy-Aware Distributed Machine Learning
Workshop at INRIA, Lille (France), October 2018
Co-organized with Adrià Gascón - Workshop on Decentralized Machine Learning, Optimization and Privacy
Workshop at INRIA, Lille (France), September 2017
Co-organized with Morten Dahl, Sébastien Gambs, George Giakkoupis and Joseph Salmon - Private Multi-Party Machine Learning
Workshop at NIPS 2016, Barcelona (Spain), December 2016
Co-organized with Borja Balle, David Evans and Adrià Gascón - Similarity and Distance Metric Learning with Applications to Computer Vision
Tutorial at ECML/PKDD 2015, Porto (Portugal), September 2015
Co-organized with Matthieu Cord
Editorial activities in international journals
- Action editor of Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) since 2022
Conference Program Chair
Senior Area Chair in international conferences
- AISTATS 2026
Area Chair in international conferences
- NeurIPS 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
- ICML 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
- AISTATS 2022 2023 2024 2025
PC Member in conferences & workshops
- ICML 2015 2016 2017 2018
- NIPS (now NeurIPS) 2016 2017 2018 2019
- AISTATS 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
- ECML/PKDD 2011 2013 2014
- IJCAI 2013 2016
- SaTML 2023 2024 2025 2026
- MOD 2015 2016 2017
- CAp 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
- APVP 2022 2024
- JDS 2024
- Privacy in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence workshop at ICML & IJCAI 2018
- Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning workshop at CSS 2019
- Privacy in Machine Learning workshop at NeurIPS 2019
- Federated Learning workshop at NeurIPS 2019
- Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence at AAAI 2020
- Towards Trustworthy ML: Rethinking Security and Privacy for ML at ICLR 2020
- International Workshop on Federated Learning for User Privacy and Data Confidentiality at IJCAI 2020
- Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence at AAAI 2021
- International Workshop on Federated Learning for User Privacy and Data Confidentiality at ICML 2021
- Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence at AAAI 2022
- International Workshop on Federated Learning: Recent Advances and New Challenges at NeurIPS 2022
- Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness through the Lens of Causality and Privacy at NeurIPS 2022
- Workshop on Federated Learning and Analytics in Practice at ICML 2023
- Workshop on Federated Learning in the Age of Foundation Models at NeurIPS 2023
- Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence at AAAI 2024
- Workshop on Privacy and Security in Augmented, Virtual, and eXtended Realities at WoWMoM 2024
- Workshop on Privacy Regulation and Protection in Machine Learning at ICLR 2024
- Workshop on Security, Privacy and Information Theory at CSF 2024
- Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence at AAAI 2025
- Workshop on Collaborative and Federated Agentic Workflows at ICML 2025
- Will Synthetic Data Finally Solve the Data Access Problem? at ICLR 2025
- Workshop on Security, Privacy and Information Theory at AsiaCCS 2025
Supervision
I am always looking for good students, postdocs and engineers! If you want to work with me, you can check out this page for information on some open positions in the team. You can also contact me directly with your CV, your interests and how you think you would fit in the team.
Postdocs
- Jean-Baptiste Fermanian (2025-)
- Linus Bleistein (2025)
- Mathieu Dagréou (2024-)
- Christian Lebeda (2024-)
- Batiste Le Bars (2021-2024, Inria-EPFL fellowship, co-supervised with M. Tommasi and A.-M. Kermarrec)
- Mohamed Maouche (2019-2021, co-supervised with M. Tommasi and E. Vincent)
- Melissa Ailem (2017-2018, Inria@SiliconValley fellowship, co-supervised with P. Denis, F. Sha and M. Tommasi)
PhD students
- Ghita Fassy El Fehri (2024-), CIFRE thesis with L'Oréal
- Thomas Boudou (2024-), co-supervised with Batiste Le Bars
- Rémi Khellaf (2023-), co-supervised with Julie Josse
- Brahim Erraji (2023-), co-supervised with Catuscia Palamidessi and Michaël Perrot
- Clément Pierquin (2023-, CIFRE thesis with Craft AI), co-supervised with Marc Tommasi
- Tudor Cebere (2022-), 2025 Google PhD Fellowship Award
- Edwige Cyffers (2021-2024), L'Oréal-UNESCO French Young Talents Award, SSFAM PhD Award, 2nd Prize AFIA PhD Award
- Jean-Remy Conti (2021-2025, CIFRE thesis with IDEMIA, co-supervised with S. Clémençon)
- Gaurav Maheshwari (2020-2024, co-supervised with P. Denis and M. Keller)
- Paul Mangold (2020-2023, co-supervised with M. Tommasi and J. Salmon)
- Mahsa Asadi (2018-2022), co-supervised with M. Tommasi)
- Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava (2018-2021, co-supervised with M. Tommasi and E. Vincent)
- Mariana Vargas Vieyra (2018-2021, co-supervised with P. Denis)
- Robin Vogel (2017-2020, CIFRE thesis with IDEMIA, co-supervised with S. Clémençon)
Engineers
- Paul Andrey (2022-, co-supervised with M. Tommasi)
- Nathan Bigaud (2022-2023, co-supervised with M. Tommasi)
- Yannick Bouillard (2020-2021, co-supervised with M. Tommasi)
- William de Vazelhes (2017-2019, working on metric-learn)
Visiting PhD students
- Ashik Mandal (2025-2026, TU Darmstadt, ELLIS PhD Program)
- Linus Bleistein (2024-2025, Inria Paris)
- Ali Shahin Shamsabadi (2020-2021, Queen Mary University of London)
- Tejas Kulkarni (2018, University of Warwick)
- Valentina Zantedeschi (2018, University of Saint-Etienne)
Master interns
- 2024: Ghita Fassy El Fehri (PSL)
- 2023: Abdellah El Mrini (École Polytechnique), Mathis Allard (École Centrale de Lille), Anis Oueslati (ENS Paris-Saclay)
- 2022: Khaled Larbi (ENSAE), Nathan Bigaud (PSL)
- 2021: Gabriel Rudloff (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María), Maxence Noble (École Polytechnique), Maximiliano Vargas (University of Chile)
- 2020: Edwige Cyffers (ENS Lyon)
- 2019: Paul Mangold (ENS Lyon)
- 2018: Antoine Capriski (University of Lille), Arthur d'Azémar (University of Lille)
- 2016: Thibault Liétard (ENS Rennes), Paul Vanhaesebrouck (École Polytechnique - best internship award), Pierre Dellenbach (École Polytechnique), Robin Vogel (ENSAE)
- 2015: Maxime Flauder (ENS Paris)