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Conference Info > Keynotes
Keynotes
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Keynote 1: Efficient optimization methods for machine learning |
| Francis Bach is a researcher at Inria, leading since 2011 the machine learning team which is part of the Computer Science department at Ecole Normale Supérieure. He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in 1997 and completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley in 2005, working with Professor Michael Jordan. He spent two years in the Mathematical Morphology group at Ecole des Mines de Paris, then he joined the computer vision project-team at Inria/Ecole Normale Supérieure from 2007 to 2010. Francis Bach is primarily interested in machine learning, and especially in sparse methods, kernel-based learning, large-scale optimization, computer vision and signal processing. He obtained in 2009 a Starting Grant and in 2016 a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council, and received the Inria young researcher prize in 2012, the ICML test-of-time award in 2014 and 2019, as well as the Lagrange prize in continuous optimization in 2018, and the Jean-Jacques Moreau prize in 2019. He was elected in 2020 at the French Academy of Sciences. In 2015, he was program co-chair of the International Conference in Machine learning (ICML), and general chair in 2018; he is now co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Machine Learning Research. |
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Keynote 2: Infrared Radiative Properties of Materials |
| Jacques Hameury is the head of the research group in charge of the measurements of the thermophysical properties of solid materials at LNE (Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d'Essais), the main national metrology institute in France. The basic formation of Jacques Hameury is in heat transfers and energetics. He has been working on measurements of infrared radiative properties of materials and developments of techniques for measurement of thermophysical properties and visible/infrared radiometry for thirty-four years. In the context of metrological developments and international intercomparisons, he has developed advanced skills in the practical evaluation of uncertainties in measurements. |
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Keynote 3: IR thermal imaging, a tool for control and tomography |
| Christophe Pradère career in thermal science coupled with his past experiences has allowed him to develop multidisciplinary skills in the field of thermal, optics, microfluidics and materials. Today, as part of his research project, he apply all these skills to problems related to energy conversion. Such a system will degrade energy (mechanical, chemical reaction, phase change ...) into temperature variation. The idea of his work is to develop an instrument that allows measurement of temperature field at multiscale (spatial and temporal) and novel inverse methods to provide maps of thermophysical properties and especially the estimation of heat source released by the energy conversion. Recently he changed of position by taking the direction of the research for a company specialized in the thermal transfers. The objective here is to generalize NDT transfers to the industry. |
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Keynote 4: Retrieval and Validation of Land Surface Temperature |
Frank-Michael Göttsche 
Frank-Michael Göttsche is a senior researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, where his work focusses on satellite-retrieved Land Surface Temperature (LST) and its validation with radiometric in-situ measurements. Frank received his M.Sc. degree in Physics (1993) and his PhD in Geophysics (1997) from the University of Kiel, Germany. During his career, Frank performed research at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, lectured Physics and Remote Sensing classes at the University of the United Arab Emirates, UAE, and served as scientific consultant to EUMETSAT’s Land Surface Analysis Satellite Application Facility (LSA SAF). As a long-term team member of LSA SAF, he is primarily responsible for the validation of LST retrieved from Europe’s meteorological satellites, i.e., Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) and MetOp. Additionally, Frank contributes to ESA, Copernicus, and NASA projects, which investigate LST and emissivity retrieval from a variety of satellite sensors. Since 2017, he serves as focus area lead (Europe) of the CEOS Land Product Validation (LPV) sub group on LST & Emissivity.
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