Past events
2025
- Wavelets and Applications. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 20 May 2025.
2024
- GdR IASIS workshop on Advances in learning-based image restoration at the Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP), Paris, 09 December 2024.
- GdR IASIS workshop on L0-based minimization at the Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP), Paris, 16 September 2024. See my slides here.
- I have been invited to give a talk at EUROPT 2024, Lund, 26-28 June 2024.
- I have been invited to give a talk at the University of Rennes, in the LACODAM team, on Monday 8 April 2024. See my slides here.
- AI-Driven Data Science, Leuven, 4 March 2024.
- Since 1 March 2024, I started a new position as assistant professor and researcher, sharing my time between the GAIM lab at Ghent University (UGent) and the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) in Brussels. This position is funded by BELSPO under the FED-tWIN project BALaTAI.
- ESA Proba-1 End of Mission Workshop, Ghent, 18-19 January 2024.
2023
- ECML PKDD 2023, Torino, 18-22 September 2023. I presented our paper Matrix-wise L0-constrained Sparse Nonnegative Least Squares.
- EUSIPCO 2023, Helsinki, 4-8 September 2023. Alexandra (master student from UMONS) presented our paper Exact and Heuristic Methods for Simultaneous Sparse Coding and Xianlu (PhD student from UGent) presented our paper Model-Aware Deep Learning for the Clustering of Hyperspectral Images with Context Preservation.
- I have been invited to give a talk at Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux, on Thursday 25 May 2023, about my works related to Separable NMF. See my slides here.
- GdR ISIS thematic day on weakly supervised methods for remote sensing, Sorbonne, Paris, 31 January 2023.
2022
- I have been invited to give a talk at CentraleSupélec, Paris-Saclay, Friday 2 December 2022.
- GRETSI workshop. Nancy, France, 6-9 September 2022. Together with Olivier Vu Thanh, we presented a poster about Randomized SPA.
- We organized the Workshop on Low-Rank Models and Applications. Mons, Belgium, 15-16 September 2022.
- ICCOPT 2022, Lehigh University, USA, 25-28 July 2022. I organized a session on nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) and gave a talk, see my slides and Hiroyuki’s slides about his toolbox NMFLibrary.
- Visit to professor Sébastien Bourguignon in Centrale Nantes, France, 27 June-3 July 2022.
- Sparse Days 2022, where I gave a talk. Saint-Girons, France, 20-22 June 2022. See the slides, the paper, and the code.
- I passed my PhD defense on 21 April 2022! The dissertation is available here.
- SIAM Conference on Imaging Science (IS22) where I chaired a session and gave a talk.
Berlin, Germanyvirtual, 21-25 March 2022. - FNRS Doctoral School on dynamical systems on complex networks. Namur, Belgium, 1-3 February 2022.
2021
- Wavelets and Applications where I gave a talk (see video here).
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgiumvirtual, 14 December 2021. - GAMM Workshop on Applied and Numerical Linear Algebra, where I gave a talk. Potsdam, Germany, 16-17 september 2021.
- EUSIPCO 2021, where I presented the paper Exact Biobjective k-Sparse Nonnegative Least Squares.
Dublin, Irelandvirtual, 23-28 August 2021. - Conference on Geometric Science of Information, Paris, France, 21-23 July 2021.
- Peyresq summer school. 21-25 June 2021,
Peyresq, Francevirtual. - SIAM LA21, where I gave a talk. See the slides and a video recording. 17-21 May 2021,
New Orleans, USAvirtual. - ECOM 2021, virtual, 1-2 April 2021.
2020
- iTWIST’20, workshop + doctoral school, where I gave a talk on Sparse Separable NMF.
Nantes, Francevirtual,22-26 June30 Nov–4 Dec 2020. - I visited the IRIT lab, 12-16 October 2020.
- GdR MIA thematic day on non-convex sparse optimization where I gave a talk. Toulouse, France, 9 October 2020.
- ECMLPKDD 2020, where I presented a paper 14-18 September 2020 (
Ghentvirtual). - ICASSP 2020, where I presented a paper. 4-6 May 2020 (
Barcelonavirtual conference, due to COVID-19). - I should have given a talk in the SIAM Conference on Optimization 2020 (OP20), that was planned for May 2020 in Hong Kong. Unfortunately, it has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
- SeLMA retreat, 21 January 2020 (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).
- Winter School on Low-Rank Models, where I presented a poster. 12-17 January 2020 (Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland).
2018-2019
- Wavelets and applications, 22 November 2019 (ULB, Brussels, Belgium).
- SOCN Grad School on Computational Inverse Problems, 13,15,18,20,27 November 2019 (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).
- SOCN Grad School on Machine Learning and Deep Networks, 14-18 October 2019 (Leuven, Belgium).
- ECMLPKDD 2019, where I presented a journal track paper, 16-20 September 2019 (Würzburg, Germany).
- We organized the Workshop on Low-Rank Models and Applications in Mons, Belgium, 12-13 September 2019.
- GRETSI 2019, 26-29 August 2019 (Lille, France).
- MathOpt 2019, 25-26 April 2019 (La Roche-en-Ardenne, Belgium).
- KES 2018, where we presented a paper, 3-5 September 2018 (Belgrade, Serbia).
Professional trainings
At UGent
- Introduction to High-Performance Computing at UGent 12-2023
- Workshop “How to ask questions” 10-2023
- Workshop “How to pitch your research” 10-2023
- Postdoc training Agile Leadership - Spring 2023
- Explainable & Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence - Spring 2023
- Data management policy 02-2023
- Training How-to Biblio 02-2023
- Data sharing using repositories 12-2022