PhD topic: Multidisciplinary optimization under uncertainty. Funded by IRT Saint-Exupéry. Directed with M. de Lozzo (IRT Saint-Exupéry).
Malek Ben Salem (2015 – 2018, first job: 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).
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.
Iain Henderson (2020 – , PhD in progress).
PhD topic: Improvement of flooding simulators by mixing statistics and physics. Funded by SHOM. Directed with P. Noble (INSA Toulouse).
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, first job: “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.
Hassan Maatouk (2012 – 2015, first job: post-doc at INRIA)
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).
Espéran Padonou (2013 – 2016, now head of the Fondation Vallet)
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 Secondmind)
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.