IBM Belgium / FRS-FNRS Computer Science Award.

I’m very glad to announce that my thesis has been nominated for the IBM Belgium / FRS-FNRS Computer Science Award. This award is granted yearly to the best PhD thesis in Computer Science and Applications. The thesis has now been adapted in a book, available here.

LiblineaR: R package version 1.80-4 available!

LiblineaR, the R wrapper to liblinear, a fast C/C++ library for linear models estimation dedicated for very high dimensional data, has been updated.

The new version (1.80-4) is working on more platforms than previously (now works for Windows and Mac OS X, in addition to the linux environment).

It has two updated solvers and a new optimization problem is available (Dual version of L2-regularised Logistic Regression).

More than predicted labels, decision values are now also available (useful for ROC curves for example).

Find the package here .

DNAlytics: A UCL Spin-Off Project

On the 1st of October, the Spin-Off project DNAlytics started. This project will study the possibility of technology transfer from the research lab of Prof. Pierre Dupont (UCL) to a private company. The main research topic of Prof. Dupont’s team for the last 4 years has been automated diagnostics based on genomic data, and gene profiling. This project is funded by a First-Spin-Off funding from the Walloon Region (FSO project GENEPRO). Thibault Helleputte will manage this project.

See http://www.dnalytics.com for more information.

Thesis printed!

The 20 copies of my PhD Thesis are now printed, and available.

PhD Public Defense

My PhD thesis public defense is planned on 7 September 2010.

My thesis title is:

“Inductive Biases for Stable Feature Selection in High Dimensional Spaces: Applications to Gene Profiling and Diagnosis from DNA Microarrays”

The defense will take place on Tuesday 7 September at 4pm in the Institute of Life Sciences (ISV) seminar room (ISV). Directions can be found here: http://www.uclouvain.be/en-17429.html (see “ISV Carnoy” on the “Local Map”). The defense will start with a talk about my thesis and its results. The talk will be followed by a series of questions from the jury, then from the audience (that is you!). It will be my pleasure to try to answer them. After that, I invite you to a drink taking place around 6pm in the room next-door to the seminar room, in order to properly celebrate the event.