Due to COVID pandemic, we have the regret to postponed the event. We will let you know the new date as soon as possible. The topic for the workshop is Determinantal Point Processes, and more specifically computational methods, recent theoretical developments, and current challenges.

The data stewardship committee (GRICAD) and the DATACC project is organizing a lunch conference about Data Management Plan (DMP).

For this first session of the ABC World Seminar, Dennis Prangle from the University of Newcastle will talk about "Distilling importance sampling"

Inspired by the "One World Probability Seminar", we decided to run The ABC World Seminar, a weekly/fortnightly series of seminars that will take place on Blackboard Collaborate on Thursdays at 11.30am [UK time]. The idea is to gather members and disseminate results and innovation during these weeks and months under lockdown.

We have the regret to announce that the event is cancelled due to COVID19 outbreak.

It is with regret that we have to cancel the ABC in Grenoble workshop due to COVID19 outbreak.The actual plan is to reschedule for a future date.

We organized a Health Data Challenge (2nd edition) about Matrix factorization and deconvolution methods to quantify tumor heterogeneity in cancer research that took place on November 25 to 29, 2019.

Johanna Lepeule is an epidemiologist at IAB. She is working on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD). She obtained a funding from the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute for her project “causal analysis in epigenetic epidemiology”.

Inovallée and Sciences Po Grenoble invite you to discover, during this conference, 3 enlightened views on data-marketing. The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute is a partner of this event.

Prof Kim-Anh Lê Cao from University of Melbourne will be giving two talks on her work “Navigating through ‘omics data: a multivariate perspective”.

The fifth working session of the Grenoble R community will be about "Using Git and GitHub with R". Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

Vadim Strijov from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia, will talk about "Bayesian model selection and multimodelling". The event will take place on February, 19 at 10:00 am at Inria Montbonnot.

Professor Theodore Christakis, Co-Director of the Grenoble Apes Data Institute takes a new look at the European’s Parlement work on access to E-Evidence in an article published with the European Law Blog: E-Evidence in the EU Parliament: Basic Features of Birgit Sippel’s Draft Report.

Magali Richard was a Junior Chair in the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute. She is involved in the WP2 Data Science for Life Sciences.

The Digital Data Fabrik is organizing a seminar with Stuart Soroka from the University of Michigan. It will take place at the MaCI on February 5.

The fourth working session of the Grenoble R community will be about "Organizing a data challenge in R". Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute launches an interdisciplinary call on ethical, environmental and societal practices and issues of data processing.

Nicolas Chopin from ENSAE Paris will talk about "Sequential Monte-Carlo". The event will take place on January, 23 at 2:00 pm at GIPSA lab.

In his new study Professor Theodore Christakis, Co-Director of the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute, offers a detailed analysis of the EU Parliament’s new Draft Report on E-Evidence.

The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute is involved in different training programs. It seeks to promote and support teaching of data related skills using innovative education methods such as data challenges.

Raouf Kerkouche is a PhD student at Inria Grenoble center in the Privatics team. He works on “Privacy-Preserving Processing of Medical Data”. His thesis is funded by the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute in the framework of the WP5 “Data Governance, Data Protection and Privacy”.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the last seminar of this year, we will welcome Marcelo Pereyra from Heriot-Watt University (Scotland).

In a national and international context of open science, research data management is of paramount importance. In order to meet the needs of the scientific communities on these issues, GRICAD and its partners are setting up a data stewardship committee, whose objectives are to provideconcrete and operational support to scientists on all these issues.

The project DATASAFE funded by the Data Institute for two years focused on understanding from real traffic data the behavior of traffic in the moments preceding an accident.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the 4th seminar of this year, we will welcome Stéphane Girard from Inria Grenoble Rhone-Alpes team Mistis.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the 1st seminar of this year, we will welcome Christian Jutten from University Grenoble Alpes.

The third working session of the Grenoble R community will be "An introduction to Bayesian multilevel models using R, brms, and Stan". Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

Ladislas Nalborczyk from LPNC will talk about "Bayesian statistics in R". The event will take place on November, 28 at 4:00 pm at IMAG building.

This interdisciplinary challenge will be dedicated to the quantification of intra-tumor heterogeneity using appropriate statistical methods on transcriptomic and methylation data.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the 1st seminar of this year, we will welcome Shiro Ikeda from The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Tokyo, Japan).

The workshop “E-Evidence: The Way Forward", organised by the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute in cooperation with Microsoft and the Cross Border Data Forum, took place in Brussels on 25th September 2019. Experts from more than ten countries discussed how to "get E-Evidence right". The summary written by Prof. Théodore Christakis with the introduction of Rapporteur MEP Birgit Sippel is now online.

The Mathematical statistics and data science days are supported partially by the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute. This event will be held in Tunisia from November 1st to 4th.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the 1st seminar of this year, we will welcome Michel Gay from GIPSA-LAB.

Robin Ryder from Paris-Dauphine University will talk about "A Bayesian non-parametric methodology for inferring grammar complexity". The event will take place on October, 24 at 2:00 pm at IMAG building.

The second working session of the Grenoble R community will be about "Spatial data with packages {sf} and {raster}". Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

Theodore Christakis has just published "21 Thoughts and Questions about the UK/US CLOUD Act Agreement: (and an Explanation of How it Works – with Charts)"

The HP2 laboratory from UGA and Inserm studies the sleep apnea. Thanks to the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute’s funding, the team get two students in statistics and data science to work on the clustering of patient compliance trajectories and individual prediction of treatment compliance in sleep apnea from large national databases.

The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute supports « Algorithms in black box ». This workshop will offer an inventory and reaction to a massive exposure to algorithmic decisions. The event will take place in Lyon on October 10, 2019.

The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute supports « ProbGen19 ». The 5th Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics Conference (ProbGen19) will be held in Aussois from 6 to 9 October 2019.

The Climate informatics workshop series focuses on statistics and machine learning for climate sciences. This year’s edition in held in Paris. The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute is organizing the workshop’s hackathon on the prediction of air-sea CO2 fluxes.

The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute will hold an academic workshop, “E-Evidence: The Way Forward,” on the topic of cross-border access to electronic evidence in Brussels on 25th September 2019. This event, held in cooperation with the Cross Border Data Forum and Microsoft, is organized by Professor Theodore Christakis and will take place in Microsoft’s offices (Rue Montoyer 51, 1000 Brussels).

Julyan Arbel from Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes will talk about "Some theory on Bayesian neural networks". The event will take place on September, 19 at 2:00 pm at IMAG building.

This Workshop is supported partially by the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute andconsists of two talks given by Sophie Dabo-Niang from Lille University and Salim Bouzebdafrom Compiègne University. These two talks will be followed by a PH.D thesis defense of Djihad Benelmadani.

Nagham Badreddine is a PhD student at the Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience (GIN) and the GIPSA-Lab. She is studying how procedural memory is formed in the brain. She is using a combination of experimental and computational approaches to probe the neural substrates and develop models of neuronal activity associated to memory.

Florian Privé from TIMC will defend his thesis "Genetic risk score based on statistical learning". His thesis is directed by Michael Blum (co-director: Hugues Aschard).

We organize an online health data challenge about quantification of intra-tumor heterogeneity

Sophie Abby, a young researcher at TIMC-IMAG, CNRS and Université Grenoble Alpes, is involved in the project “Deciphering the origins of enzymes substrate specificity using large-scale sequence analyses”. This interdisciplinary project received funding from the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute.

Reza Shokri (National University of Singapore) will give a talk on "Trusting Machine Learning: Privacy, Robustness, and Interpretability Challenges". The event will take place on July 8th from 10:00 am in IMAG Building Amphitheatre.

Bayesian talks will be given at the Applied Inverse Problems conference including those of Botond Szabo (Leiden University), Jean-Bernard Salomond (UPEC), Olivier Zahm (Inria) and Julyan Arbel (Inria).

Julien Thurin (ISTerre) will talk about "Uncertainty estimation in seismic tomography with ensemble Data Assimilation". The event will take place on July, 2 at 2:00 pm at Imag building.

The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute supports the first summer school "Statistic and Data Science for young researchers in French speaking Africa" that will take place in M’bour (Senegal) from July 1 to 5, 2019.

The GRETSI and the GdR ISIS organize the 14th Peyresq Summer School about “Geometry of Information for Signal and Images Processing” with the support of the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute. The event will take place in Peyresq from June 30 to July, 6, 2019.

Kevin Polisano is a postdoctoral researcher in Grenoble Informatics Laboratory (LIG). He works on the link between the diffusion of information and the structure of communities on Twitter, in the framework of the Data Institute’s work package 4 on “Data Science, Social Media and Social Sciences”.

The ninth working session of the Grenoble R community will be about "Data vizualisation with package {ggplot2}". Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute participates in the Global Challenges Science Week from June 3 to 6 at the World Trade Center in Grenoble.

Guillaume Dehaene (EPFL) will talk about "Towards rigorous Variational Bayesian Inference". The event will take place on May, 28 at 2:00 pm at Imag building.

In collaboration with the team Literatures and Digital Arts (ELAN, UMR Litt&Arts, UGA), the work package 3 of Grenoble Alpes Data Institute - Démarre SHS! - has developed a contributive transcription platform. TACT allows transcription and modeling of digitized documents. Its official launch will happen on June 4th during the Global Challenges Science Week.

Raphael Frisch (MicroBayes, Inria) will talk about "Stochastic sampling machine for Bayesian inference". The event will take place on May, 21 at 2:00 pm at Inria.

Olivier François (TIMC-IMAG) has contributed to "Yam genomics supports West Africa as a major cradle of crop domestication" published in Science Advances, in the framework of the Data Institute’s work package 2 “Data Science for Life Sciences”.

The eighth working session of the Grenoble R community will be about "Data manipulation with package {dplyr}". Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

Sylvain Douté is a researcher in Planetary Science at IPAG (Institute belonging to Grenoble Alpes University and CNRS). He obtained funding from the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute for his project "Massive analysis of multi-angular hyperspectral images of planet Mars by inverse regression of physical models".

The seventh working session of the Grenoble R community will be about "R Markdown". Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

The Fonte Gaia project is pleased to invite you to its first hackathon which will take place from April 10 to 12 at the University Library Joseph Fourier (University Grenoble Alpes).

We are looking for an engineer that will implement innovative teaching and research methods in data science such as data challenges.

Statlearn is a scientific workshop of the French Society of Statistics (SFdS) held every year, which focuses on current and upcoming trends in Statistical Learning. Statlearn’19 took place on April, 4-5 2019 in Grenoble.

The Advanced Lecture Course on Computational Systems Biology will be held in Aussois between March 31st and April 6th, 2019.

Claude Castelluccia and Daniel Le Métayer, Inria research directors and members of the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute, have written a report for the European Parliament on the opportunities and risks related to the use of Algorithmic Decision Systems.

The sixth working session of the Grenoble R community will be about "Best coding practices". Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

Youssef Marzouk (MIT) will talk about "Nonlinear filtering and smoothing with transport maps". The event will take place on March, 26 at 2:00 pm at Imag building.

Antoine Frenoy (Institut Pasteur) will give a talk on "Inferring ecological lifestyles of bacterial species from metagenomic datasets: application to horizontal transfer and virulence". The event will take place on March 22th from 2 pm in Pavillon Taillefer, room R32.

The 2019 Thales AIChallenge4Health will take place at Ensimag the March 21st from 2:00 pm.

Camille Dubedout (CESICE/ANSSI) realizes her PhD about smart territories. Her thesis is co-funded by the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute in the framework of the work package 5 “Data Governance, Data Protection and Privacy”.

Claude Castelluccia, who is co-leading the WP5 (Data Governance, Data Protection and Privacy) of the Data Institute, has recently received the AMiner’s Most Influential Scholar Award in recognition of hisoutstanding contributions to the field of Security and Privacy.

We are looking for a law or political student specialized in Data for the joint laboratory between Skopai, the LIG, the CESICE and the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute on issues related to artificial intelligence and the protection of personal data.

We are looking for a junior research chair in Data Science for Life Sciences and Health starting in September 2019. The objective is to recruit an outstanding candidate motivated in developing or applying data science methodology and machine learning to Life Sciences and Health.

Carlos Alberto Gomez Gonzalez holds a junior research chair at the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute since 2017. He works on data and image processing for astrophysical applications at the Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics of Grenoble (IPAG).

Kevin Caye, Basile Jumentier, Johanna Lepeule and Olivier François publish "LFMM 2: Fast and accurate inference of gene-environment associations in genome-wide studies" in Molecular Biology and Evolution in the framework of the Data Institute’s work package 2 “Data Science for Life Sciences”.

Bernardo Nipoti (Trinity College Dublin) will talk about "On the Pitman-Yor process with spike and slab base measure ". The event will take place on February, 4 at 11:00 am at Inria.

The fifth working session of the Grenoble R community will be about "Deep Learning with package {keras}". Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

Maxime Folschette (LS2N , Nantes) will give a talk on "Computational methods for system biology". The event will take place on January 25th from 2 pm in Pavillon Taillefer, room R32.

The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute and the CESICE are pleased to inform you of the holding of a conference entitled "Decoding digital, the boundary between journalism and activism" on January 17, 2019 at the building Simone Veil.

Maike Sonnewald is a postdoctoral researcher working at MIT EAPS (Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences) and Harvard. She has been greeted by GIPSA-Lab and IGE with the support of Grenoble Alps Data Institute. For two weeks, she has shared her expertise at the interface of oceanography and complex system simulation.

Mehmet Serkan Apaydin (INRIA Sophia Antipolis) will give a talk on "Deep learning applications in drug discovery and protein structure analysis". The event will take place on January 11th from 2 pm in Pavillon Taillefer, room R32.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the 5th seminar of this year, we will welcome Pablo Jensen from ENS Lyon.

Maike Sonnewald from MIT/Harvard will talk about "Ecology mapped complexity: An Antidote to Chaos?". The event will take place on January 8 at 3:30 pm in the building Glaciologie, room Lliboutry.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the 4th seminar of this year, we will welcome Florence Forbes from Mistis - Inria.

Laurent Guyon is a researcher in bioinformatics at The Biology of Cancer and Infection laboratory (UMR of Grenoble Alpes University, CEA and Inserm). In the framework of Data Institute, he is developing methods to identify genes correlated with cancer patient lifetime.

Rémy Jardillier, Florent Chatelain and Laurent Guyon publish "Bioinformatics Methods to Select Prognostic Biomarker Genes from Large Scale Datasets: A Review" in Biotechnology Journal in the framework of the Data Institute’s work package 2 “Data Science for Life Sciences”.

Cassio P. de Campos from University of Utrecht (Netherlands) will talk about "Credal sum-product networks". The event will take place on December 12 at 3 pm at INRIA Montbonnot Saint-Martin, room F107.

Claude Castelluccia from Grenoble Alpes Data Institute will give a talk at the Collège des Bernardin about ""Hacking" the human. Data, manipulations and ethical issues".

The challenge will be dedicated to the quantification of intra-tumor heterogeneity using appropriate statistical methods on cancer omics data. It will take place from December 10th to 14th, at Aussois.

Démarre SHS! organizes a day of feedback on projects supported in 2018.

Data Institute is partner of the seminar "Integrity and sharing of science: research data"

The fourth working session of the Grenoble R community will be about "Manage your workflow with package {drake}". Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

Tiangang Cui from Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) will talk about "Optimization-based Sampling Approaches for Hierarchical Bayesian Inference". The event will take place on December 3 at 2 pm at INRIA Montbonnot Saint-Martin, room F107.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the 3rd seminar of this year, we will welcome Gilles Louppe from University of Liège.

The third working session of the Grenoble R community will be about "Linear models in R". Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the 2nd seminar of this year, we will welcome Charles Bouveyron from Université Nice Côte d'Azur.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the 1st seminar of this year, we will welcome Florence Troude and Alexandre Thomasson from Atmo Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

The second working session of the Grenoble R community will be about "Image processing with package {imager}". Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

The CNRS thematic school “Visualization and visual analysis of spatial and temporal data: what's new?” will take place from October 15th to 19th 2pm at Aussois.

The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute launches a call for international collaborations with Data Institutes.

Redouane Lguensat works at the Institute of Environmental Geosciences (IGE) in the MEOM team (UMR of Grenoble Alpes University, IRD, Grenoble INP and CNRS). He is a Postdoc funded by the National Center for Space Studies (CNES) to work on the SWOT mission.

Gilles Bastin, co-header of the Data Institute’s work package 4 on « Data Science, Social Media and Social Sciences », and Paola Tubaro coordinated the last Revue française de sociologie about “Big Data, Societies and Social Sciences”.

Irene Tubikanec (Institute for Stochastics, Johannes Kepler University Linz) will talk about "Parameter Estimation Through Structure-Preserving Approximate Bayesian Computation for Stochastic Neural Mass Models". The event will take place on July, 14 at 11:00 am at Imag building.

Marielle Malfante from Gipsa-Lab will defend her thesis "Automatic classification in natural signals for environmental monitoring". Her thesis is directed by Jérôme Mars (co-director: Mauro Dalla Mura).

Helena Martins from TIMC – BCM will defend her thesis “Statistical Methods to Identify Local Adaptation in Continuous and Admixed Populations”. Her thesis is directed by Olivier François (co-director: Michael Blum).

Marianne Guerois and Malika Madelin will give a talk on "Exploring time-space dynamics of large metropolitan areas from Airbnb data". The event will take place on Friday September, 21th from 12:15 in IMAG building, seminar room.

Hien Nguyen from La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia) will talk about "Minibatch and incremental learning of exponential family mixtures, and the soft k-means clustering problem". The event will take place on September 17 at 2 pm at INRIA Montbonnot Saint-Martin, room F107.

The first working session of the Grenoble R community will be about "What R can do for you?". Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

This school is about graph signal processing, in particular, development of signal processing tools for data structured as graphs. The graph consists in nodes corresponding to the studied variables and edges that link the nodes.

We are organizing a two-day Bayesian workshop in Grenoble in September 6-7, 2018. It will be the second edition of the Italian-French statistics seminar, titled this year: Bayesian learning theory for complex data modeling.

Marielle Malfante is a PhD student at the GIPSA-Lab laboratory (UMR of Grenoble Alpes University and CNRS). The team she is involved in obtained funding from the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute for the VOSICA project linked to her thesis.

Vadim Strijov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) will talk about "Bayesian model selection and multimodelling". The event will take place on July, 14 at 11:00 am at Imag building.

Matteo Sesia (PhD Student, Stanford University) will talk about "Gene Hunting with Knockoffs for Hidden Markov Models". The event will take place on July, 10 at 11:00 am at Inria Montbonnot.

The IGE is organizing a seminar about "Machine learning and numerical models in geoscience". It will take place on July 9th at 2pm at the IGE, Glaciologie building, on the campus of Grenoble.

Gilles Bastin is a Professor of sociology at the School for Political Studies (Univ. Grenoble Alpes). He co-heads the Data Institute’s work package 4 on « Data Science, Social Media and Social Sciences ». The aim of this work package is to analyze social structures in innovative ways using data from social networks and new data science methods. It is typically the kind of interdisciplinary projects that the Data Institute is fostering.

The Data Club is opened to PhD candidates, master degree students and post-docs working in the data field. For this fifth session of the Data Club, Floran Privé will speak about "High-dimensional data: a different kind of big data". Drinks are served during the second part of the session.

The "Distributed Data Masses" thematic school (MDD) comes from the community of researchers in databases. It aims to complete the annual national conference "Data Management - Principles, Technologies and Applications". This year thematic will be "Scalable Data Analytics".

The tenth working session of the Grenoble R community will be about how to make your personal webpage with R. Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

Isadora Antoniano-Villalobos (Assistant professor, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy) will talk about "Bayesian estimation of probabilistic sensitivity measures for computer experiments". The event will take place on June, 14 at 2:00 pm at Imag building.

Theodore Christakis, Deputy Director of the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute, has been appointed as a member of the French Digital Council (CNNum) by an order published in the Official Journal of the French Republic on May 29.

Your research requires data analysis but you lack computing skills? Come and join us at Software Carpentry event in Grenoble (free and beginner friendly). This two-day hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools (Git/Bash/R/Python), data management, and task automation.

The Data Club is opened to PhD candidates, master degree students and post-docs working in the data field. For this third session of the Data Club, Marc Ohlmann will speak about "Graphical models and ecology: linking ecological theory to statistical models". Drinks are served during the second part of the session.

The first day will be about “Analyzing the information cycle during media events” and the second one about “Data Science: Disciplinary Dialogues and Infrastructures”. This seminar will take place on May 30 and 31 (Amphi E, IEP).

The ninth working session of the Grenoble R community will be about Out of memory matrices. Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

From a set of quantitative MRI images, Emmanuel Barbier’s (Grenoble Institute of Neurosciences) and Florence Forbes’ (Inria / Jean Kutzmann Laboratory) teams have succeeded in locating and diagnosing several types of brain tumors completely automatically. This new "machine learning" approach is a contribution to the development of radiology of the future.

Due to strikes, the seminar is POSTPONED. Ronan Fablet (IMT Atlantique, Lab-STICC/TOMS) will give a talk on Learning & Ocean Big Data: data-driven modelling, analysis, and reconstruction of complex dynamical systems.

The 4th Franco-Japanese workshop on cybersecurity will be held from May 15th to 18th in Annecy. This workshop that will bring together some 80 experts and stakeholders from both private and public sector, aims at mapping the current situation of French and Japanese knowledge and strengths in order to promote collaborations between the two countries.

Simon Leglaive (Postdoc, Perception, Inria) will talk about "Student’s t Source and Mixing Models for Multichannel Audio Source Separation". The event will take place on May, 15 at 2:00 pm at Inria Monbonnot.

The Data Club is opened to PhD candidates, master degree students and post-docs working in the data field. For this third session of the Data Club, Katia Bouslimani and Ludovica Robustelli will speak about "Data protection challenges : placing technology in service of humanity". Drinks are served during the second part of the session.

Alisa Kirichenko (Postdoc, Machine Learning dept. of CWI, Amsterdam) will talk about "Function estimation on large graphs using Bayesian Laplacian regularization". The event will take place on April, 26 at 3:00 pm at Imag building.

The eighth working session of the Grenoble R community will be about Parallel computing. Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

The purpose of this workshop is to allow researchers from different backgrounds to discuss the topic of random graphs and in particular an application on behavior on Twitter. It will take place on Thursday 26 and Friday 27 April.

The workshop "Transparency and opacity of information systems" will take place in Lyon on April 23. The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute is pleased to be involved in its organization.

The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute organized the workshop "Data Science in the Alps" on March 20, 2018. More than 90 persons attended the workshop that took place at the Stade des Alpes, Grenoble. We are looking forward for the 2019 session!

David Chavalarias will give a talk on Methods for the reconstruction of the socio-semantic dynamics of political activist Twitter networks. The event will take place on Monday April, 9th from 12:15 in Science Po Grenoble building, amphi F.

Hassen Fourati is a researcher in automation and robotics at the GIPSA-Lab laboratory (UMR of Grenoble Alpes University and CNRS). He obtained funding from the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute for his SPACE project "NanoSatellite Project: Advanced modeling and Control of AttitudE dynamics for quantum communication".

Marta Crispino and Fei Zheng (Both postdoc at Mistis) will present their PhD work. The event will take place on April, 3 at 2:00 pm at Inria Monbonnot.

The Data Club is opened to PhD candidates, master degree students and post-docs working in the data field. For this second session of the Data Club, Redouane Lguensat will speak about "Delving deep in the ocean with deep learning". Drinks are served during the second part of the session.

The French Society of Statistics and the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute organizes the conference « Artificial Intelligence: Which transparence? Which confidence? » on March 26, 2018 in Paris. This event is intended for a large audience.

The annual European Conference on Information Retrieval is the premier European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval.

Gilles Bastin and Sophie Kuegler from PACTE and the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute will give a talk on Methodological and ethical aspects of career data collection on LinkedIn : the case of journalists. The event will take place on Friday March, 23th from 12:00 to 14:00 in Imag building, seminar room n° 2.

Paul-Marie Grollemund from IMAG lab at the University of Montpellier will give a talk on "Bayesian linear regression on functional data". The event will take place on March, 22 at 2:00 pm at Imag building, room 106.

Grenoble Alpes Data Institute is pleased to organize the first “data science in the Alps” workshop. It will take place on March, 20th at the Stade des Alpes, salon sud-ouest.

Mr Jacques MARTINON, Head of the Mission against Cybercrime in the Directorate for Criminal Matters and Graces (DACG) of the Ministry of Justice, will give a conference on March 16 at the MSH-Alpes about “Going Dark, Going Cyber: Law Enforcement, Cybercriminality and Lawful Access to Data”.

The seventh working session of the Grenoble R community will be about Rcpp. Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

The Demarre SHS research Program within the Data Institute has led a joint call with the MSH-Alpes for research projects in HSS data science and Digital Humanities Discover here the selected projects.

The Python group kick off will be held on March, 8 in Imag building.

Riccardo Corradin from Milan Biccoca & Trinity College Dublin will give a talk on "Bayesian nonparametric methods for density estimation and clustering on the phase-space". The event will take place on March, 1 at 2:00 pm at Imag building, room 106.

The Data Club is opened to PhD candidates, master degree students and post-docs working in the data field. For this first session of the Data Club, Carlos Gomez will talk about "Academic data science: conducting research at the interface of different disciplines". Drinks are served during the second part of the session.

The GREAT project (GREnoble Alps Together) of the Grenoble Metropolitan authority with the participation of the Data Institute of University Grenoble Alps has been selected among 117 projects in the context of call for interest of the future investment program of French government.

The sixth working session of the Grenoble R community will be about best coding practices. Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

Eric Marchand from Université de Sherbrooke will give a talk on "Estimation with predictive densities: recent results". The event will take place on February, 8h at 2:00 pm at Imag building, room 106.

The CESICE, the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute, and la Maison Française d'Oxford are pleased to inform you of the holding of a workshop entitled "The invisible Man in the Digital Age: From Anonymity to Invisibilty ? " in Oxford on February 2, 2018

The fifth working session of the Grenoble R community will be about RStudio and git. Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the 7th seminar, we will welcome Merouane Debbah from Ecole Centrale Supélec.

Lukasz Rajkowski from University of Warsaw will give a talk on "Analysis of Mode A Posteriori in the Chinese Restaurant Process model". The event will take place on January, 116h at 11:00 am at Inria Montbonnot room F107.

The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute organized a workshop on Intelligence Oversight the 14th November 2017. More than 100 persons attended to the workshop that took place at Inria, Montbonnot.

Nicolas Papernot from Pennsylvania State University, USA will give a tutorial on Security and Privacy in Machine Learning. The event will take place on Tuesday January, 9th from 9:30 to 11:30 in Amphi D of Ensimag building.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the 6th seminar, we will welcome Sylvain Gigan from Kastler Brossel Laboratory

Theodore Christakis has just published his legal study for CEIS and Microsoft in the so-called "Microsoft Ireland Warrant Case" between the US government and Microsoft in the United States Supreme Court.

The fourth working session of the Grenoble R community will be about Geographical Information Systems. Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the 5th seminar, we will welcome Romain Couillet from Ecole Centrale Supélec, Univerty Paris-Saclay.

Hongliang Lü from Inria will give a talk on "Nonparametric Bayesian Image Segmentation". The event will take place on Monday November, 11th at 11:30 am at Inria Montbonnot room F107.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the fourth seminar, we will welcome Pierre Borgnat from ENS Lyon.

Johan Montagnat from CNRS I3S Laboratory will give a talk on "Integration of heterogeneous data for the implementation of learning techniques". The event will take place on Thursday November, 30th at 11:30 am at GIN.

The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute launched a call for 2-years research projects about data science applications in Life Science and in Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences.The projects below were selected.

The third working session of the Grenoble R community will be about igraph. Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

The Data Club Kick Off will be held on November, 22 at 5:30pm in Imag building. It is opened to PhD candidates, master degree students and post-docs who are interested in interacting with the private sectors. This discussion will take place around some food and beverages.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the third seminar, we will welcomeEustache Diemert from Criteo Research.

Julyan Arbel from Inria will give a talk on "Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC)". The event will take place on Wednesday November, 15th at 10:00 am at Inria Montbonnot room F107.

The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute is organizing a workshop on Intelligence Oversight the 14th November 2017 in INRIA, Montbonnot (Grenoble).

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the second seminar, we will welcome Sihem Amer-Yahia from CNRS LIG Grenoble.

The second working session of the Grenoble R community will be about ggplot2. Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

The Data Science Seminar Series bring high profile researchers to Université Grenoble Alpes to show the increasing role of data science in modern research. It is open to all researchers of Université Grenoble Alpes. For the first seminar, we will welcome Radu Horaud from INRIA Grenoble.

Pierre Borgnat from ENS Lyon will give a talk on “An invitation to Graph Signal Processing with Applications to Clustering”. The event will take place on Thursday 5 October at GIPSA-lab.

The first working session of the Grenoble R community will be an introduction to R. Drinks and snacks are served during the second part of the session.

A novel method for co-clustering will be presented : an unsupervised learning approach that aims at discovering homogeneous groups of data instances and features by grouping them simultaneously.

The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute launches a call for 2-years research projects with applications of data sciences in Life Science or in Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences.

The aim of the summer school is to provide a comprehensive overview on software and statistical methods for detecting genes involved in local adaptation. Lectures and software demos will be given during the summer school.

The fifth edition of the conference « Colloque Francophone International sur l’Enseignement de la Statistique » will take place in Grenoble from 6 to 8 September 2017.

On Monday July 3 from 09:00 to 14:00, come and meet scientists with complementary research topics

This joint workshop will gather the short-listed authors of a coming special issue of the French Journal of Sociology / Revue française de sociologie (www.rfs-revue.com). The authors will be given the opportunity to have their paper discussed before the final selection by the journal this autumn.

Progresses in high-throughput sequencing make it possible to study how epigenetic changes mediate the effect of environmental risk factors on diseases. Epigenetic changes are said to be mediators when they intervene in the causal pathway between environmental exposures and diseases.

From June 7 to 9, 30 researchers and students from all over Europe and from the USA contributed to the data challenge « Epigenetic & High-Dimension Mediation » in Aussois.

The Grenoble R users’ group is a local community interested in sharing experience and knowledge about the R language.

Arnaud Legrand (LIG) will start the open seminar series by giving a talk about reproducible research. Although reproducibility is one of the main principles of the scientific method, it has been shown that a substantial proportion of published research is not reproducible leading to the scientific 'crisis' of reproducibility.

The Grenoble Alpes data Institute was officially launched on March 10th. The kick-off meeting attracted more that 200 participants.

On March 9, two Grenoble Alpes Data Institute training projects were selected within the first round of the IDEX training call amongst 65 proposals.

Démarre SHS!”, a programme of the Data Institute Work Package 3 “Massive and Rich Data for Humanities” launches its first call for proposals.