Monthly Archives: November 2024

Julien Guyon Named “Quant Of The Year” 

Julien Guyon has been named “Quant of the Year” by Risk, the leading financial risk management magazine. The Risk Awards are the longest-running and most prestigious awards for firms and individuals involved in quantitative finance and financial risk management. Risk readers and contributors, which include quantitative analysts and financial engineers, voted Julien Guyon to receive the honor. Julien Guyon was… Read more »

An AI method by François Charton that resolves a 30-year conjecture mentioned in the New Scientist

François Charton, research engineer at Meta and PhD student at CERMICS, Jordan Ellenberg (U. Wisconsin), Adam Wagner (Deepmind), Geordie Williamson (U. Sydney), were interviewed by the New Scientist on their recent paper where they design an AI method called PatternBoost to generate interesting construction in mathematics coupling Transformers and classical search algorithm (see the news). As an example of application,… Read more »

François Charton and Amaury Hayat’s work on featured in the New Scientists

François Charton (PhD student at CERMICS and research engineer at Meta) and Amaury Hayat‘s (researcher at CERMICS) work was featured in the New Scientist. In collaboration with Alberto Alfarano (research engineer at Meta), their work consist in training deep language models to find global Lyapunov function for systems of ordinary differential equations, a mathematical problem open in general.

The CIRCLES project received the IEEE ITS Lead Institutional award 2024

The CIRCLES project received the IEEE ITS Lead Institutional award 2024, for “significant and outstanding contributions to the research and applications of ITS-related technologies”. This project was a collaboration between several institutions including Ecole nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, UC Berkeley, Rutgers University, Vanderbilt University and Temple University. The aim of the project is to reduce congestion and energy consumption… Read more »