research

Notre monde exige que l’on résolve des problèmes d’une complication infinie dans un délai infiniment court. Paul Valéry, Lettre sur la société des esprits, 1933.

selected funded projects

• co-PI of the ANR project VITE (2024-2028): Variable Importance Tests
• participant of the ANR project BACKUP (2023-2027)
• participant of the AI4scMed consortium (2023-2027) funded by PEPR Santé Numérique: multiscale AI for single-cell based precision medicine
• co-PI of the ANR project CORNFLEX (2023-2027): Computational Design of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: Application to Flexible Linkers
• PI of the CNRS 80’ project DDisc (2021-2024): Double-dipping in single-cell RNA sequencing data analysis
• PI of the ANR project SansSouci (2016-2020): Post-hoc approaches to large-scale multiple testing
• PI of the CNRS MITI project SCALES (2017-2019): Multi-scale and data-driven statistical inference for genomic data

current PhD students and postdocs

• Simon Bartels: postdoc 2023-2025, funded by ANR CORNFLEX (with J. Cortés and F. Bachoc)
• Elise Jorge: PhD student 2023-2026, Comparative analysis of 3D genomics data. With Sylvain Foissac and Nathalie Vialaneix. Funded by Inrae.
• Alexandre Blain: PhD student 2021-2024, Reliable statistical inference: controlling the false discovery proportion in high-dimensional multivariate estimators. With Bertrand Thirion. Funded by UDOPIA (Paris Saclay).
• Nicolas Enjalbert-Courrech: PhD student 2021-2024, Post-clustering inference for single-cell RNA sequencing data. With Cathy Maugis-Rabusseau. Funded by CNRS MITI 80’ project DDisc.

past PhD students and postdocs

• Javier González Delgado: PhD student 2020-2023, Statistical models and methods for the structural analysis of intrinsically disordered proteins. With Juan Cortés (LAAS). Funded by Labex CIMI. Currently postdoc at Mc Gill University (Canada).
• Samuel Davenport: postdoc 2021, funded by ANR SansSouci (with B. Thirion). Currently postdoc at UC San Diego (USA).
• Nathanaël Randriamihamison: PhD student 2018-2021: Adjacency-constrained hierarchical agglomerative clustering with application to Hi-C studies. With Nathalie Vialaneix and Marie Chavent. Funded by INRA/Inria. Currently high-school math teacher.
• Marie Perrot-Dockès: postdoc 2019-2020, funded by ANR SansSouci (with G. Blanchard and E. Roquain). Currently Assistant professor at MAP5, Paris.
• Guillermo Durand: PhD student 2015-2018, Multiple testing and post hoc bounds for heterogeneous data. Co-supervised with Etienne Roquain. Funded by Université Paris 6. Currently Assistant professor at LMO, Orsay.
• Magali Champion: postdoc 2018, funded by ANR SansSouci. Currently Assistant professor at MAP5, Paris.
• Benjamin Sadacca: PhD student 2013-2017, Pharmacogenomic and high-throughput data analysis to overcome triple negative breast cancers drug resistance. Co-supervised with Fabien Reyal. Funded by Institut Curie.
• Morgane Pierre-Jean: PhD student 2013-2016, Development of statistical methods for DNA copy number analysis in cancerology. Funded by École doctorale GAO, University of Évry.
• Alia Dehman: PhD student 2012-2015, Spatial clustering of linkage disequilibrium blocks for genome-wide association studies. Co-supervised with Christophe Ambroise. Funded by École doctorale GAO, University of Évry.

upcoming and recent conferences

• Scientific committee (co-chair) of JOBIM 2024 (Toulouse, June 2024)
• Session “Post hoc FDP control” at Multiple Comparison Procedures 2021 and 2022 (Bremen, Aug 2022)
• Mathematical Methods of Modern Statistics 3
• Session “Post-selection inference: valid double-dipping in bioinformatics” at JOBIM 2021 (online)
• Session “Artificial Intelligence methods for protein modeling and design” at Statistical Methods for Post Genomic Data (SMPGD) 2021 (online)
• Session “Post-selection inference and multiple testing” at MCP 2019 (Taipei, December 2019)
• Chromosome conformation symposium (Toulouse, Dec 4-5, 2019)
• Organization committee and Scientific committee (co-chair) of useR!2019 (Toulouse, July 2019)
• Co-organizer of the workshop Post-selection inference and multiple testing: Toulouse, Feb 7-9, 2018.