[Rarely updated since I have moved to [[https://ailab.criteo.com|Criteo AI Lab]]]
To find me on social media (not crazily active, though): [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/liva-ralaivola-2359b665?trk=hp-identity-name|LinkedIn]], [[https://twitter.com/LivaRalaivola|@LivaRalaivola]]



====== Random News ======

Some privacy-preserving Machine Learning papers:
  * July 2021: [[https://icml.cc/virtual/2021/oral/10730|Differentially Private Sliced Wasserstein Distance]] at [[https://icml.cc/Conferences/2021|ICML 2021]], with [[http://asi.insa-rouen.fr/enseignants/~arakoto/|Alain Rakotomamonjy]]
  * Dec. 2021: [[https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2021/file/b8c4c8b2271787e2f78b5fe2ce193caa-Paper.pdf|Photonic Differential Privacy with Direct Feedback Alignment]] at [[https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/index.html| NeurIPS 2021]], with colleagues from [[https://lighton.ai|LightOn]] and from [[https://ailab.criteo.com|Criteo AI Lab]]


  * Videos: 
    * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIpyP-2Q7Ak|Research Day 2017 @ECM]]
    * [[https://webcast.in2p3.fr/video/historique_evolutions_tendances_ressources_et_outils_de_lapprentissage|JDev
 2017]]
    * [[http://videolectures.net/icml2015_ralaivola_dependent_variables/|Paper@ICML 2015]] (see this [[http://videolectures.net/liva_ralaivola/|VideoLectures page]])
    * [[https://vimeo.com/86877605|13 minutes Marseille 2013]]
    * [[http://videolectures.net/bootcamp2010_ralaivola_ikm/#|Bootcamp 2010]]

====== Capsule Bio ======





===== Positions =====
More up to date news on [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/liva-ralaivola-2359b665/|LinkedIn]]
  * Sep. 2019 -- : Head of AI Research at [[https://ailab.criteo.com|Criteo AI Lab]] (on leave from AMU)
  * Sep. 2018 - Sep. 2019: part-time researcher at [[https://ailab.criteo.com|Criteo AI Lab]]
  * Oct. 2016 - Sep. 2019: member of [[http://www.iufrance.fr/les-membres-de-liuf/membre/1588-liva-ralaivola.html|IUF]] (one day, I'll be able to smile to my computer's camera and people won't be afraid)
  * Sept. 1, 2015 - Dec. 31st, 2017: director of LIF ([[http://www.lif.univ-mrs.fr|Fundamental Computer Science laboratory]] -- [[http://www.lif.univ-mrs.fr|Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Marseille]]). See [[http://www.cnrs.fr/ins2i/spip.php?article1899|here]] for the "official" nomination. Was nice!

===== Titles =====
  * Since Sept. 1, 2011: full professor in Computer Science at [[http://www.univ-amu.fr/|Aix-Marseille Université]] (formely split in Aix-Marseille I, II and III).
  * From Sept. 1, 2004 to Aug. 31, 2011: Assistant Professor in Computer Science at [[http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr|University Provence/Aix-Marseille I]].

===== Former duties =====
  * 2010 -- 2015: Fortunate founder and head of [[http://https://qarma.lif.univ-mrs.fr/|QARMA]]
  * 2012 -- 2016: PI of the [[http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/|ANR]]-funded project [[https://sites.google.com/site/gretaproject/|Greta]] (GREdiness: Theory and Algorithms).
  * 2011 -- 2015: head of the [[http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~liva.ralaivola/m2if/doku.php|Master of Computer Science for Research]].

====== Research ======
I'm interested in various machine learning problems such as, learning from noisy data, semi-supervised learning, active learning, kernel methods, chemoinformatics, from both the practical and theoretical viewpoints. 

** Keywords: ** statistical learning theory, kernel methods, noisy distributions.\\
** Publications:** check out my [[http://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=7oXGS2gAAAAJ&hl=fr|Google Scholar page.]]\\
** Page of our group on Signal Processing and Machine Learning**: [[http://www.cmi.univ-mrs.fr/seminaires_signal_apprentissage/|2010-present]], [[http://www.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~liva/sigma|before]].











====== Contact Information ======
  * ** Snail mail: ** 
    * Laboratoire d'Informatique et Systèmes
    * Parc Scientifique et Technologique de Luminy
    * 163, avenue de Luminy - Case 901
    * F-13288 Marseille Cedex 9 
  * ** Office: ** Garden@BU Building (not an official name)
  * ** Phone: **: +33 (0)4 86 09 06 71
  * ** Email: ** firstname.lastname[at]lif.univ-mrs.fr
  * ** Social media: ** [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/liva-ralaivola-2359b665?trk=hp-identity-name|LinkedIn]], [[http://fr.viadeo.com/fr/profile/liva.ralaivola|Viadeo]], [[https://twitter.com/LivaRalaivola|Twitter @LivaRalaivola]]