Welcome

I am a Ph.D. candidate at Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions (LJLL) and Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann (LJK) since September 2011.
My advisors are Frédéric Nataf and Christophe Prud'homme.
I am currently working in the field of scientific computing (especially domain decomposition methods).

Contact

Education

2011. M.Sc. in applied mathematics (with highest honor) — Université Joseph Fourier & Ensimag, Grenoble.

Research experience

• Graduate researcher at Center for Earth Systems Research (CESR), University of California, Los Angeles.
  From 03/2011 to 08/2011 — advisors : Florian Lemarié & James McWilliams.
  Research topics : primitive equations, ocean/atmosphere coupling, turbulent fluxes, bulk forcing, K-Profile Parametrization.
• Undergraduate researcher at Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées (CMAP), École Polytechnique, Palaiseau.
  From 06/2010 to 09/2010 — advisors : Stéphanie Allassonnière & Christophe Giraud.
  Research topics : gaussian graphical models, stochastics approximation expectation-maximization algorithm, mixture models.

Awards & support

My research are funded by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
My work has been granted access to the HPC resources of CCRT and IDRIS under the allocation 6654 made by GENCI (Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif).
I have been awarded Microsoft Prize for Best Algorithm (£5,000) and CitiFX Prize for Best Trading Model (£5,000) during UCL's 2011 Algorithmic Trading Competition.

Publications

1. Allassonnière S., Jolivet P., Giraud C. Detecting Long Distance Conditional Correlations Between Anatomical Regions Using Gaussian Graphical Models.