Francis Bach

Name

Francis

Surname

Bach

Affiliation

Departement d'Informatique de l'Ecole Normale Superieure Centre de Recherche INRIA de Paris

Country

FR

Biography

Francis Bach is a researcher at INRIA, leading since 2011 the machine learning project-team, which is part of the Computer Science Department at Ecole Normale Supérieure. He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in 1997 and completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley in 2005, working with Professor Michael Jordan. He spent two years in the Mathematical Morphology group at Ecole des Mines de Paris, then he was part of the computer vision project-team at INRIA/Ecole Normale Supérieure from 2007 to 2010. Francis Bach is primarily interested in machine learning, especially in graphical models, sparse methods, kernel-based learning, large-scale convex optimization, computer vision and signal processing. He obtained a Starting Grant in 2009 and a Consolidator Grant in 2016 from the European Research Council as well as the INRIA Young Researcher Prize in 2012. In 2015, he was program co-chair of the International Conference in Machine learning (ICML).

Home Page

http://www.di.ens.fr/~fbach

Author in

• “Linearly-convergent stochastic gradient algorithms”   Plenary Invited

  in IP5 Linearly-convergent stochastic gradient algorithms

  • Fri 08 June at 08:15 in Room A (Palazzina A - Building A, floor 0)

• “Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality with Convex Neural Networks”   Minisymposium

  in MS50-2 Analysis, Optimization, and Applications of Machine Learning in Imaging

  • Thu 07 June at 14:00 in Room C (Palazzina A - Building A, floor 1)