Data Science for Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences

This action (WP1) will exploit the huge potential of applying modern data analytics in ESES. It will overcome disciplinary and technical barriers and provide new statistical and computational approaches, in particular for data in astrophysics to better characterize exoplanets, in oceanography to better infer vertical exchange in the ocean, and in ecology to reconstruct interaction networks between species.

Activities
  • One World ABC Seminar: Matti Vihola
    on the December 10, 2020
    For this fifteenth session of the One World ABC Seminar, Matti Vihola from University of Jyväskylä will talk about "On the use of ABC-MCMC with inflated tolerance and post-correction".
  • Focus on... Adekunle Ajayi and the variability of oceans
    on the November 15, 2020
    Adekunle Ajayi is a machine learning research engineer at the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute. His research project focuses on applying deep learning techniques to predict the atmospherically-forced component of the ocean. Adekunle has a PhD in Ocean Physics from Université Grenoble Alpes.
  • One World ABC Seminar: David Nott
    on the November 12, 2020
    For this fourteenth session of the One World ABC Seminar, David Nott from National University of Singapore will talk about "Marginally-calibrated deep distributional regression".
  • One World ABC Seminar: Agnieszka Borowska
    on the October 29, 2020
    For this thirteenth session of the One World ABC Seminar, Agnieszka Borowska from University of Glasgow and CLDS will talk about "Gaussian process enhanced semi-automatic ABC for inference in a stochastic differential equation system for chemotaxis".
  • One World ABC Seminar: David Frazier
    on the October 15, 2020
    For this twelfth session of the One World ABC Seminar, David Frazier from Monash University will talk about "Robust and Efficient Approximate Bayesian Computation: A Minimum Distance Approach".
  • One World ABC Seminar: Marko Järvenpää
    on the October 1, 2020
    For this eleventh session of the One World ABC Seminar, Marko Järvenpää from the university of Oslo will talk about "Batch simulations and uncertainty quantification in Gaussian process surrogate ABC".
  • One World ABC Seminar: Flora Jay
    on the September 17, 2020
    For this tenth session of the One World ABC Seminar, Flora Jay from Paris-Sud University/Paris-Saclay/CNRS/INRIA will talk about "Deep learning for population size history inference: design, comparison and combination with approximate Bayesian computation".
  • One World ABC Seminar: Pierre-Alexandre Mattei and Samuel Wiqvist
    on the September 3, 2020
    For this ninth session of the One World ABC Seminar, Pierre-Alexandre Mattei from Inria and Samuel Wiqvist from Lund university will talk about "Partially Exchangeable Networks and Architectures for Learning Summary Statistics in Approximate Bayesian Computation".
  • One World ABC Seminar: Ruth Baker
    on the July 16, 2020
    For this eighth session of the One World ABC Seminar, Chris Drovandi from University of Oxford will talk about "Multi-fidelity Approximate Bayesian computation"
  • Internships on data and societal issues
    on the July 15, 2020
    The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute launched an interdisciplinary call on ethical, environmental and societal practices and issues of data processing. The first internships present their projects.
  • One World ABC Seminar: Chris Drovandi
    on the July 2, 2020
    For this seventh session of the One World ABC Seminar, Chris Drovandi from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) will talk about "Improving Bayesian Synthetic Likelihood via Transformations".
  • One World ABC Seminar: Hien Duy Nguyen
    on the June 18, 2020
    For this sixth session of the One World ABC Seminar, Hien Duy Nguyen from La Trobe University will talk about "Approximate Bayesian computation via the energy statistic".
  • One World ABC Seminar: Irene Tubikanec
    on the June 4, 2020
    For this fifth session of the One World ABC Seminar, Irene Tubikanec from the Institute for Stochastics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz will talk about "Focused Bayesian Prediction".
  • One World ABC Seminar: Gael Martin
    on the May 21, 2020
    For this fourth session of the One World ABC Seminar, Gael Martin from Monash University will talk about "Focused Bayesian Prediction"
  • ABC World Seminar: Umberto Picchini
    on the May 7, 2020
    For this third session of the ABC World Seminar, Umberto Picchini from Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg will talk about "Stratified sampling and bootstrapping for approximate Bayesian computation"
  • ABC World Seminar: Ivis Kerama and Richard Everitt
    on the April 23, 2020
    For this second session of the ABC World Seminar, Ivis Kerama from the University of Reading and Richard Everitt from the University of Warwick will talk about "Rare event ABC-SMC^2"
  • Workshop DPP in the Alps
    from April 15, 2020 to April 17, 2020
    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.
  • Results of the call for proposals 2020
    on the April 15, 2020
    The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute launched an interdisciplinary call on ethical, environmental and societal practices and issues of data processing. The committee selected 10 projects.
  • One World ABC Seminar
    from April 9, 2020 to July 16, 2020
    Inspired by the "One World Probability Seminar", we decided to run The One World ABC 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.
  • ABC World Seminar: Dennis Prangle
    on the April 9, 2020
    For this first session of the ABC World Seminar, Dennis Prangle the University of Newcastle will talk about "Distilling importance sampling"
  • Workshop Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) in Grenoble
    from March 19, 2020 to March 20, 2020
    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.
  • Health Data Challenge 2019: Feedback
    on the March 13, 2020
    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.
  • Seminars “Navigating through ‘omics data: a multivariate perspective”
    from March 9, 2020 to March 10, 2020
    Prof Kim-Anh Lê Cao from University of Melbourne will be giving two talks on her work “Navigating through ‘omics data: a multivariate perspective”.
  • Call for proposals 2020
    from January 27, 2020 to February 20, 2020
    The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute launches an interdisciplinary call on ethical, environmental and societal practices and issues of data processing.
  • Data stewardship committee
    on the December 18, 2019
    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.
  • Focus on... The DATASAFE project: Understanding data accidents for traffic safety
    on the December 17, 2019
    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.
  • Mathematical statistics and data science days
    from November 1, 2019 to November 4, 2019
    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.
  • 9th Workshop on Climate Informatics
    from October 2, 2019 to October 4, 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.
  • Workshop "Around nonparametric and spatial statistics"
    on the September 18, 2019
    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.
  • 14th Peyresq Summer School in Signal and Images Processing
    from June 30, 2019 to July 6, 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.
  • Focus on... Sylvain Douté and image analysis of the planet Mars
    on the April 18, 2019
    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".
  • Focus on… Carlos Gomez and image processing for astrophysical applications
    on the February 20, 2019
    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).
  • Focus on… Maike Sonnewald and ocean models
    on the January 14, 2019
    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.
  • Seminar: Maike Sonnewald
    on the January 8, 2019
    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.
  • Seminar: Optimization-based Sampling Approaches for Hierarchical Bayesian Inference
    on the December 3, 2018
    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.
  • Call for proposals: Exchange program
    on the October 15, 2018
    The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute launches a call for international collaborations with Data Institutes.
  • Focus on Redouane Lguensat and Machine Learning for Oceanography
    on the October 15, 2018
    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.
  • Seminar: Minibatch and incremental learning of exponential family mixtures, and the soft k-means clustering problem
    on the September 17, 2018
    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.
  • Bayesian workshop: 2nd Italian-French Statistics Seminar
    from September 6, 2018 to September 7, 2018
    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.
  • Focus on…Marielle Malfante (GIPSA-Lab) and the Vosica project
    on the August 28, 2018
    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.
  • Seminar: Machine learning and numerical models in geoscience
    on the July 9, 2018
    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.
  • POSTPONED Data Institute Seminar: Learning & Ocean Big Data
    on the May 23, 2018
    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.
  • Feedback and videos of the workshop "Data Science in the Alps"
    on the April 10, 2018
    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!
  • Focus on… Hassen Fourati (GIPSA-Lab) and the SPACE project
    on the April 9, 2018
    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".
  • Workshop: Data Science in the Alps
    on the March 20, 2018
    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.
  • Data Institute Seminar: Introduction to graph signal processing by Pierre Borgnat from ENS Lyon
    on the October 5, 2017
    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.
  • Data Institute Seminar: co-clustering through optimal transport by Charlotte Laclau (LIG)
    on the September 21, 2017
    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.
  • Call for projects - September 2017
    from September 18, 2017 to October 15, 2017
    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.
  • French speaking international conference on teaching statistics
    from September 6, 2017 to September 8, 2017
    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.
  • Meet-up event between Data scientists and domain scientists
    on the July 3, 2017
    On Monday July 3 from 09:00 to 14:00, come and meet scientists with complementary research topics
  • Open seminars about reproducible research
    from March 23, 2017 to March 30, 2017
    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.

Recruited


Carlos Alberto Gomez Gonzalez

Carlos Gomez is a data scientist. In October 2017, he was recruited by the Data Institute of the University Grenoble Alpes as a Junior Researcher in Data Science for Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences