Research
My research interests are on the elaboration of methods for machine learning and stochastic optimization and their applications.
- Methods
- Deep Neural Networks
- Representation Learning and Transfer
- Meta-learning
- Multitask Learning
- Probabilistic Model-based Optimization
- Evolutionary Algorithms
- Genetic Programming
- Applications
- Pattern Recognition
- Computer Vision
- Microscopy and Neurosciences
- Health
- Smart Grids
- Autonomous Vehicles
Project Pages
- Task-Assisted GAN for Resolution Enhancement and Modality Translation in Fluorescence Microscopy (2021)
- Mixture-based Feature Space Learning for Few-shot Image Classification (2021)
- Image-to-Image Translation with Low Resolution conditioning (2021)
- Associative Alignment for Few-shot Image Classification (2020)
- Deep Parametric Indoor Lighting Estimation (2019)
- Toward intelligent microscopy (2018)
- Learning to Predict Indoor Illumination from a Single Image (2017)
Software Projects
- DEAP : Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms in Python
- SCHNAPS : Generic Population-based Simulator for Public Health
- Open BEAGLE : Generic C++ Framework for Evolutionary Computation
- BEAGLE Puppy
- Library for Lens System Ray Tracing (LLSRT)
Organization and Committees
- Organizing committee, Interactive Labeling and Data Augmentation for Vision, ICCV 2021 Workshop, October 11, 2021.
- Track chair, Evolutionary Machine Learning, GECCO 2021, Lille, France, July 10-14, 2021
- Organizing committee, Rendez-vous IA Québec, since 2017
- Executive Board, ACM SIGEVO, since 2017
- Editorial Board, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, since 2013
- Transportation Electrification Working Group, Institut Technologies de l’information et société, Université Laval, 2014
- Publicity Chair, GECCO 2014, Vancouver (British Columbia), July 12-16, 2014
- Resource Allocation Committee, Compute Canada, 2009 - 2013
- Responsible, Section 200 (Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering), Scientific Committee of the 80th Congress of the Acfas (French-speaking Association for the Advancement of Knowledge), Montreal (Quebec), May 7-11, 2012
- Organizer, Undergraduate Student Workshop, GECCO 2011, Dublin, Ireland, July 12-16, 2011
- Track chair, Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts, GECCO 2011, Dublin, Ireland, July 12-16, 2011
- Invited editor, special section Evolutionary Art, International Journal of Arts and Technology, 2011
- Competitions chair, GECCO 2010, Portland (Oregon), July 7-11, 2010
- Local chair, GECCO 2009, Montreal (Quebec), July 8-12, 2009
- Local arrangements (sponsors), HPCS 2008, Quebec City (Quebec), June 9-11, 2008