Connectionists: PhD position offer in statistical learning and control

[Remi Munos]

PhD position offer.

 Cemagref - INRIA
 Location : Clermont-Ferrand (LISC 
 http://wwwlisc.clermont.cemagref.fr) and Lille (SequeL project      
 http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Sequel/). 
 
 Beginning : October 2007
 
 Topic: Using statistical learning for viability and optimal 
 control theories.
 
 Recent advances in statistical learning and classification, 
 including the SVMs, provide an interesting framework for 
 dealing with the famous curse of dimensionality that appears 
 in numerical solutions to optimal control and viability 
 theory problems, especially in an active learning approach. 
 Different possibilities for including these techniques are 
 currently under study. The aim of this PhD is to compare and 
 synthesize these methods, in order to propose more efficient 
 new techniques.
 The work will be connected to PATRES EU project 
 (http://www.patres-project.eu).
 
 Candidate background:
 Applied mathematics, machine learning, computer science,

Contact: Guillaume Deffuant (guillaume.deffuant at cemagref.fr) or Remi Munos 
(remi.munos at inria.fr)