Marc Sebban
Professor of Computer Science
Head of the Computer Science and Image Processing Department

Hubert Curien Lab
UMR CNRS 5516
University of Jean Monnet

Education

Marc Sebban (e-mail : marc[dot]sebbanarobaseuniv-st-etienne.fr)

Research Interests in Machine Learning

Supervision of PhD and Master Thesis
    PhD students and Post-docs
    • Models and Techniques in Probabilistic Grammatical Inference: Dealing with Noisy Data and Knowledge Discovery, Amaury Habrard (defended in december, 2004).
    • New contributions in Boosting to deal with noisy data, H.M. Suchier (defended in june, 2006).
    • Learning stochastic models from tree-structured data, Y. Esposito (post-doc, 2007).
    • Relationships between Sequence Mining and Grammatical Inference, S. Jacquemont (defended in december, 2008).
    • Using background knowledge for learning similarities between structured data, L. Boyer (defended in march, 2011).
    • Supervised Metric Learning with Generalization Guarantees, A. Bellet (defended in december, 2012).
    • New models in Domain Adaptation, JP. Peyrache (starting date: october, 2010).

    Master students
    • Learning visual word dictionaries, Basura Fernando (2011).
    • Optimization of high dimensional functions: application to the pulse shaping problem, Mattias Gybels (2011).
    • Comparative study on Named Entity Recognition systems for analysis in innovation strategy field, Silvia Necsulescu (2010).
    • Improvements of string edit kernel calculations, JP. Peyrache (2010)
    • Learning tree edit distances: application to image recognition, L. Boyer (2008).
    • Use of the web as linguistic corpus, S. Jacquemont (2004).
    • Support Vector Machines and Protoype selection, F. Beauchamps (2004).
    • Prototype selection in grammatical inference, A. Yahiahoui (2003).
    • New models in boosting, H.M. Suchier(2003).

Member of Program Committees - Reviewer
    • 2013: IJCAI'13,ECML/PKDD'13, CAP'13.
    • 2012: CAP'12.
    • 2011: CAP'11.
    • 2010: ICML'10, ECML/PKDD'10, CAP'10.
    • 2009: ICML'09, CAP'09.
    • 2008: ICML'08, ECML/PKDD'08, CAP'08, EGC'08, RFIA'08.
    • 2007: CAp'06, EGC'07, GBR'07.
    • 2006: ECML/PKDD'06, ECAI'06, ADMA'06, DAWAK'2006, CAp'06.
    • 2005: ICML'05, PKDD'05, ADMA'05, CAp'05.
    • 2004: PKDD'04, CAp'04.
    • 2003: PKDD'03, CAp'03.
    • ...

Reviewer for International Journals
    • Journal of Machine Learning Research
    • Machine Learning Journal
    • ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data
    • Pattern Analysis and Applications Journal
    • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Pattern Analysis and Applications Journal

Administration Activities
    • 2010/.. Responsible of the Machine Learning and Data Mining international track of the master's degree in Web Intelligence.
    • 2010/.. Head of the Computer Science and Image Processing Department of the UMR CNRS Hubert Curien laboratory.
    • 2010/.. Head of the research group in Machine Learning
    • 2006/2009 Vice-director of the UMR CNRS Hubert Curien laboratory.
    • 2008/...: Member of the board of directors of the Jean Monnet University.
    • 2006/2008: Member of the scientific board of the Jean Monnet University.
    • 2004/2006: Member of the doctoral school board of the Jean Monnet University.
    • 2005-/2008: Head of the Web Intelligence Master (Computer Science, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, etc.)

Contact

    Marc Sebban (marc[dot]sebbanarobaseuniv-st-etienne.fr)
    Universite Jean Monnet de Saint-Etienne
    Laboratoire Hubert Curien - UMR CNRS 5516
    18 rue du Professeur Lauras - 42000 Saint-Etienne Cedex 2 - France
    Tel: (33).(0)4.77.91.58.65
    http://labh-curien.univ-st-etienne.fr/~sebban