Ghislain Durif

Ghislain Durif

Research Engineer

CNRS

LBMC

ENS Lyon

About me

Research engineer at CNRS, newly working at the Laboratory of Biology and Modeling of the Cell (LBMC), ENS Lyon, France.

Former post: Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck (IMAG), University of Montpellier

Interests
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Statistics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
  • Applications to Biology
  • Software Development, Programming and Computing
  • Reproducible Research and Open Science
Education

  • PhD in Statistics, 2016

    Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University

  • Master degree in Applied Mathematics, 2013

    Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University

Background

 
 
 
 
 
Research Engineer
CNRS
Jul 2022 – Present Lyon, France

Laboratory of Biology and Modeling of the Cell (LBMC) at ENS Lyon

Support for researchers in biology regarding applied mathematics, software development, programming and computing

 
 
 
 
 
Research Engineer
CNRS
Feb 2019 – Jun 2022 Montpellier, France

Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck (IMAG) at University of Montpellier

Support for researchers in applied mathematics regarding mathematical engineering, software development, programming and computing

 
 
 
 
 
Research Engineer
Inria
Feb 2017 – Jan 2019 Grenoble, France

THOTH team

Engineering and research work in machine learning, under the supervision of Julien Mairal.

 
 
 
 
 
PhD
Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University
Oct 2013 – Jan 2017 Lyon, France

Biometry and Evolutionary lab (LBBE)

Computational statistics applied to biology (genomic data analysis), under the supervision of Franck Picard and Sophie Lambert-Lacroix.

Contact

Softwares

NIPD
Bayesian inference for non-invasive prenatal diagnostic of genetic diseases
Dec 16, 2021 NIPD
Code
YALES2BIO
Numerical solver for fluid mechanics
Dec 7, 2021 yales2bio
Code
BenchOpt
Benchmark repository for optimization
Mar 8, 2021 IMAG, Machine Learning
Code Doc
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Recent Publications

C. Liautard-Haag, G. Durif, C. VanGoethem, D. Baux, A. Louis, L. Cayrefourcq, M. Lamairia, M. Willems, C. Zordan, V. Dorian, C. Rooryck, C. Goizet, A. Chaussenot, L. Monteil, P. Calvas, C. Miry, R. Favre, E. Le Boette, M. Fradin, A. F. Roux, M. Cossée, M. Koenig, C. Alix-Panabière, C. Guissart, M. C. Vincent (2022). Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis of genetic diseases induced by triplet repeat expansion by linked read haplotyping and Bayesian approach. Scientific Reports.

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Thomas Moreau, Mathurin Massias, Alexandre Gramfort, Pierre Ablin, Pierre-Antoine Bannier, Benjamin Charlier, Mathieu Dagréou, Tom Dupré la Tour, Ghislain Durif, Cassio F. Dantas, Quentin Klopfenstein, Johan Larsson, En Lai, Tanguy Lefort, Benoit Malézieux, Badr Moufad, Binh T. Nguyen, Alain Rakotomamonjy, Zaccharie Ramzi, Joseph Salmon, Samuel Vaiter (2022). Benchopt: Reproducible, efficient and collaborative optimization benchmarks. arXiv.

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Zaineb Smida, Lionel Cucala, Ali Gannoun, Ghislain Durif (2022). A median test for functional data. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics.

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Recent & Upcoming Talks (selection)

Statistics and machine learning for applications in biology
Jan 14, 2022 14:00 — 15:00 LBMC, ENS Lyon, France
Slides
Reproducible research, Good practices and useful information
Jun 23, 2021 09:45 — 10:45 Online (from Montpellier University, France)
Slides
R shiny: building interactive graphical applications seamlessly
Feb 18, 2021 14:00 — 15:00 Online (from IMAG, Montpellier University, France)
Slides
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Courses/Training

Courses given at the university.

Training and/or tutorials given for an academic audience in various contexts.

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Tags

Autodifferentiation Classification Data visualization Dimension reduction Gene expression genomics GPU High-dimensional data Kernel operation Logistic regression Machine Learning Matlab Matrix Factorization Matrix reduction Python R RNA-seq Single-cell Sparse PLS Statistics
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