Malek Ben Salem (2015 – 2018, now research engineer at Ansys).
PhD thesis: “Model selection and adaptive sampling in surrogate modeling: Kriging and beyond“. Directed with F. Gamboa (Inst. de Math. de Toulouse) and L. Tomaso (Ansys).
PhD thesis: “High-dimensional multi-objective optimization for automotive design“. Directed with D. Ginsbourger (Univ. Berne) and F. Mercier (Renault).
PhD thesis: “Optimization of a computationally expensive simulator with quantitative and qualitative inputs”. Directed with A. Gliere (CEA) and G. Perrin (CEA).
PhD thesis: “Etude de classes de noyaux adaptées à la simplification et à l’interprétation des modèles d’approximation. Une approche fonctionnelle et probabiliste“. Directed by R. Le Riche (Dir., Mines Saint-Etienne), L. Carraro (Dir., Telecom St-Etienne), D. Ginsbourger (Univ. of Bern) and I.
PhD thesis: “New methods for the sensitivity analysis of black-box functions with an application to sheet metal forming“. Directed with S. Kuhnt (Univ. Dortmund).
David Ginsbourger (2006 – 2009, now researcher at Idiap and University of Bern)
PhD thesis “Multiples métamodèles pour l’approximation et l’optimisation de fonctions numériques multivariables“. Directed by A. Antoniadis (Dir., Univ. J. Fourier), L. Carraro (Mines Saint-Etienne), R. Le Riche (Mines Saint-Etienne) and I.
PhD topic: Interpolation under inequality constraints. Directed with F. Bachoc (Inst. de Math. de Toulouse) and N. Durrande (Mines Saint-Etienne, Prowler.io).
Michel Lutz (2010 – 2013, now “group data officer” at Total)
PhD thesis: “Méthodes socio-statistiques pour l’aide à la décision en milieu industriel“. Directed by X. Boucher (Dir., Mines Saint-Etienne), M.A. Girard (Mines Saint-Etienne) and I.
PhD thesis: “Correspondance entre régression par processus gaussien et splines d’interpolation sous contraintes linéaires de type inégalité. Théorie et applications“. Directed with L. Grammont (Univ. Jean Monnet), X. Bay (Mines Saint-Etienne) and Y. Richet (IRSN).
PhD thesis: “Statistical learning on circular domains for advanced process control in microelectronics“. Directed with J. Blue (Mines Saint-Etienne) and H. Duverneuil (STMicroelectronics).
PhD topic: Uncertainty quantification for cost assessment of marine submersions. Directed with J. Rohmer (BRGM) and D. Moncoulon (CCR).
Victor Picheny (2006 – 2009, now researcher at Prowler.io)
PhD thesis: “Improving accuracy and compensating for uncertainty in surrogate-modeling“. Directed by R. Haftka (Dir., Univ. Florida), A. Vautrin (Dir., Mines Saint-Etienne), N.-H. Kim (Univ. Florida), G. Panasenko (Univ. J. Monnet) and I.