Joannès Vermorel, Home Page Status: Engineer of the Corps des Télécoms Graduate of the École normale supérieure) Email: joannes@vermorel.com Mail: 70, rue Lemercier, 75017 Paris Biographical information Research interests Software engineering, data mining, knowledge discovery, statistics and data analysis, machine learning, grid computing. My Blog

Teaching and academics

In charge of the course Distributed applications and software engineering (see course home page) at the Computer Science Department of the Ecole normale superieure de Paris in 2007.

Assisting Dr. Jean-Philippe Vert for his course on Support Vector Machines at the Ecole des Mines de Paris in 2005.

Assisting Dr. François Bourdoncle for his course Distributed applications in Java at the Computer Science Department of the Ecole normale superieure de Paris.

Conferences & Talks

Statistical learning and distributed computing, Summary of my PhD research, Talk given at the École normale supérieure, Paris February 2006 (Slides).

Distributed Objects with NGrid applied to SMO. Poster at NIPS'05 in the Workshop on Large Scale Kernel Machines. Poster available here.

Organizer of the Séminaire Informatique Des Élèves at the ENS, 2003 - 2005

Introduction to metric spaces. Talk given at the Computer Science department of the École normale supérieure, September 2004 (Slides).

Data streams. Talk given at the Computer Science department of the École normale supérieure, October 2003 (Slides).

Report of the conference Data mining and medical applications, Paris 2003. Talk given at the Computer Science Department of the Columbia University, August 2003 (Slides).

Organizer of the conference "Journée Fouille de données et applications médicales" at the ENS, May 2003.

AntiPatterns : réorganisation de projets logiciels en crise. Talk given at the Computer Science department of the École normale supérieure, April 2003 (Slides).

Publications

"Sketch based Distributed Garbage Collection, Theory and Empirical Elements", Joannès Vermorel, submitted, Draft available here.

"Near neighbor search in nonmetric space", Joannès Vermorel, Research report, Laboratoire de bioinformatique de l'École des Mines, Paper available here.

"Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms and Empirical Evaluation", European Conference of Machine Learning 2005, Joannès Vermorel, Mehryar Mohri, Paper available here.

"Streaming Self-Scaling Histograms with Stability and Optimality Guarantees", Hervé Bronnimann, Joannès Vermorel, New York 2004, To appear. Paper available here.

"Polytechnique MP. Flots sur les arbres. Interprétation en termes de polygones. Application au coloriage", J. Vermorel. Revue des Mathématiques de l'enseignement supérieur. Paris, 2002, p132-145.

Computer Works

• Lokad, online provider of time-series forecasts.
• Reduced Design of eXperiments (re-Dox), web-based analytics (archived project).
• Founded PeopleWords.com, translation services (acquired by Anthea Languages in June 2007).
• Various .Net open source projects.
• Organizer & webmaster of a ENS computer tutor team (2002 - )
• Webmaster of the Lycée Louis-le-Grand (2000-2001)

Goodies

• In charge of the ENS Student Danse Club (2004-2005).
• Genealogy of the Vermorel family (more than 700 people).
• Realization of two pop-pop boats.
• Launched cours-equitation.com (in French).

Last modified: 7 November, 2007