Mélisande Albert – Postdoctoral student - PHPNET

Mélisande Albert
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Postdoctoral student
Gipsa-Lab,
UMR CNRS No 5216,
11 rue des mathématiques,
Domaine Universitaire - BP 46,
38 402 Saint Martin d’Hères cedex, France
H +33 6 30 92 64 66
B [email protected]
www.gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr/~melisande.albert/
Born on May 10th 1988 in Antibes, France
French nationality
Education and qualifications
2015–today Postdoctorate position, University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble.
"Adapting and enhancing the statistical methods for spatial data analysis (point processes), to
be able to apply them to big datasets produced from oculometry" as part of the PERSYVAL
LAB project (OculoNimbus team), with Simon Barthelmé and Jean-François Coeurjolly at
Gipsa-lab and Jean Kuntzmann Laboratory.
2012–2015 PhD Thesis in Mathematics, University Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNS), Nice.
I defended my thesis entitled "Tests of independence by bootstrap and permutation: an asymptotic and non-asymptotic study. Application to Neurosciences", on November 16th 2015 at
University Nice Sophia Antipolis.
Thesis examiners:
- President: Patrice Bertail (University Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense),
- PhD thesis reviewers: Gilles Blanchard (Potsdam University,Germany), Robert E. Kass
(Carnegie Mellon University,Pittsburgh, USA),
- Examinators: Sylvain Arlot (University Paris-Sud), Jean-François Coeurjolly (University
Grenoble Alpes), Oleg Lepski (Aix-Marseille University),
- PhD advisors: P. Reynaud-Bouret (University Nice Sophia Antipolis), M. Fromont (Rennes
2 University).
This thesis was funded by a PhD grant from the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur French Region
and supported by OBELIA (from the subsidiary company AXONIC of MXM).
2011–2012 Master degree in Mathematics with honors, UNSA, Nice.
Specialization: Research.
2011 "Agrégation de Mathématiques", "Education Nationale", France.
French competitive exam to qualify High School teachers in Mathematics.
Specialization: Probability and Statistics, Rank: 47th/288.
2010–2011 Master degree in Mathematics with honors, UNSA, Nice.
Specialization: "Agrégation de Mathematiques", Rank: 2nd/12.
2009–2010 MSc in Mathematics with honors, UNSA, Nice.
Rank: 1st/21.
2008–2009 BSc in Mathematics with honors, UNSA, Nice.
2006–2008 Scientific "Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles", MPSI then MP,
Centre International de Valbonne (CIV), Sophia-Antipolis, France.
A prestigious two-year course to prepare competitive entrance exam to Engineering School,
with admission to a college of engineering, ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France.
2006 "Baccalauréat" (High School Diploma) in Science with honors, CIV, SophiaAntipolis.
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Professional experience
Internships
June 2012 Academic report for the Master degree, UNSA, Nice.
Subject: Tests of independence by bootstrap and permutation methods and application in
Neurosciences, supervised by Patricia Reynaud-Bouret and Magalie Fromont.
June 2010 Academic report for the MSc, UNSA, Nice.
Subject: Homogeneous Poisson processes, application to Genomics, in collaboration with
Nicolas Ogorek and supervised by Patricia Reynaud-Bouret.
Teaching
2012–2015 Teaching Assistant (192 hours), Department of Mathematics, UNSA.
Probability and Statistics, Level: "Licence 2 and 3" in the "LMD" european system, corresponding to second and third year of BSc.
2011–2012 Preceptor (45 hours), Department of Mathematics, UNSA.
Academic support session in Algebra for "Licence 1" students (corresponding to first year of
BSc), and in Measure Theory and Probability for "Licence 3" students (corresponding to last
year of BSc).
2006–now Tutoring, Nice-Valbonne-Antibes, France.
Mathematics, Level: High School.
Scientific popularization
May 2013 Conception of an exhibition on "Earthquakes and Modeling" with C.
Saggese and M. Monticelli, Turing-center (scientific cultural area of the laboratory JA Dieudonné, UNS), Nice.
The exhibition aims at presenting to an extended school audience and the general public
the risks posed by earthquakes, their mechanism and the role of Mathematics and Statistic
modeling in their study.
October 2013 Science and Experiments, Mathematics, French Science Festival, UNSA.
French annual festival aiming at promoting sciences to the general public. The mathematic
stand "Science and Experiments" contained several experiments presenting classical enigmas
and short problems that can be (or not) solved by more or less simple mathematical reasoning, such as the tower of Hanoi, Königsberg’s bridges, Möbius strip, tessellations, the four
color theorem, etc. These scientific animations aimed at popularizing different branches of
Mathematics to the public (from primary students to adults).
Professionalizing training
Dec. 2013 Management of conflicts, UNS, Nice.
Dec. 2013 - Teaching course, UNS, Nice.
March 2014 Training composed of several units on Conducting a class, The students’ implication, Public
speaking, Conflict management in academia, Evaluation.
Avril 2015 Prevention and first-aid safety 1, UNS, Nice.
I obtained the PSC1 diploma (french "Prévention et Secours Civiques 1").
Scientific publications and communications
Published, accepted or submitted articles
2015 M. Albert, Y. Bouret, M. Fromont and P. Reynaud-Bouret. Bootstrap and permutation tests of independence for point processes, Annals of Statistics, Volume 43,
No. 6, p. 2537-2564.
2015 M. Albert, Y. Bouret, M. Fromont and P. Reynaud-Bouret. Surrogate data methods
based on a shuffling of the trials for synchrony detection: the centering issue, to appear
in Neural Computation.
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Proceedings in conferences
Juin 2015 47th "Journées de la Statistique" organized by the French Society of Statistics (SFdS), Lille, France.
Independence tests between two point processes and application in Neuroscience (in french).
Work in progress
Concentration inequalities for randomly permuted sums.
Ongoing article in collaboration with Bernard Delyon on concentration inequalities for permuted sums with application to the control of conditional quantiles obtained from a permutation approach.
Separation rates for independence tests based on wavelet decomposition.
Upcoming submission of Chapter 4 of my PhD manuscript (up to a simulation study).
Oral or poster presentations
October 2012 Doctoral meetings at IMREDD, Nice, France.
Talk (in french): Tests d’indépendance par des méthodes de permutation et de bootstrap et
application en neurosciences.
June 2013 15th Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis (ASMDA) International Conference, Matarò, Barcelona, Spain.
Talk: Multiple testing for the detection of local dependences between two point processes,
application to the study of neuronal spike trains synchronization.
July 2013 43rd Probability Summer School, Saint-Flour, France.
Talk: Permutation and bootstrap tests of independence between two point processes, application to the study of neuronal spike.
August 2013 5th "Rencontres des Jeunes Statisticien-ne-s", Aussois, France.
Talk (in french): Tests multiples d’indépendance entre deux processus ponctuels et application
à l’étude des synchronisations des spikes neuronaux.
April 2014 11th "Colloque des Jeunes Probabilistes et Statisticiens", Forges-les-Eaux,
France.
Talk (in french): Tests d’indépendance entre deux processus ponctuels par bootstrap et permutation.
June 2014 2nd International Society of NonParametric Statistics Conference (ISNPS), Cadìz, Spain.
Talk: Distribution free independence tests between two point processes.
October 2014 "Journées JSTAR", (invited talk), Rennes, France.
Talk (in french): Tests d’indépendance pour des processus ponctuels, Détection de synchronisation des spikes neuronaux.
February 2015 Conference: Statistical Calibration, (invited talk), Nice, France.
Talk: Independence tests between point processes, application in neuroscience.
June 2015 47th "Journées de la Statistique" organized by the SFdS, Lille, France.
Talk: Tests of independence between two point processes and application in neuroscience.
June 2015 1st International Conference on Mathematical NeuroScience, Juan-les-pins,
France.
Poster: Multiple independence tests for point processes by permutation methods: a Unitary
Events approach based on delayed coincidence count.
Juillet 2015 European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS), Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Distribution free independence tests between two point processes, and application in Neuroscience.
Septembre Mathematical Modeling and Statistical Analysis in Neuroscience (Math2015 StatNeuro) workshop, (invited talk), Nice.
Multiple independence tests for point processes: a permutation Unitary Events approach
based on delayed coincidence count.
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Invitation to weekly seminars
February 2015
October 2015
Nov. 2015
January 2016
February 2016
Future (2016)
University of Toulouse, France.
AgroParisTech, Paris, France.
University of Paris Dauphine, France.
Universities of Paris 6 and Paris 7, France.
University of Montpellier, France.
University of Grenoble Alpes, France.
Attended events
May 2013 45th "Journées de la Statistique" organized by the SFdS, Toulouse, France.
Sept 2013 "StatMathAppli", Frejus, France.
Oct 2013 Workshop organized by the interdisciplinary research axis "Theoretical
and Computational Modeling in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science"
(MTC-NSC) at UNS, Nice, France.
March 2014 Hawkes day, Paris, France.
May 2014 High Dimensional Probability VII, Cargese, Corsica.
June 2014 Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions, Empirical Process Theory and Beyond, Cambridge, UK.
June 2014 46th "Journées de la Statistique" organized by the SFdS, Rennes, France.
July 2014 Mathematical Modeling and Statistical Analysis in Neuroscience (MathStatNeuro) workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark.
April 2015 Spring School on Mathematical modeling and Biodiversity, Aussois, France.
June 2015 Workshop organized by the interdisciplinary research axis MTC-NSC at
UNS, Nice, France.
October 2015 Workshop on eye movements, Gipsa-lab, Grenoble, France.
Various skills
Languages
French Native language
English Fluent
Spanish Good School Level
I spent four years in Australia from 1993 to 1997
Informatics
OS
Office
Programming
Internet
Windows, Unix, Mac OS
Word, Open Office, LATEX
Scilab, R
Notions of HTML
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