Biography

François Fleuret received the PhD degree in Mathematics from the University of Paris VI in 2000, and the habilitation degree in Mathematics from the University of Paris XIII in 2006. He is the head of the Machine Learning group at the Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland. Prior to that, he held positions at the University of Chicago, USA, at the Institut de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), France, and at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He serves as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and is expert for several European funding agencies.