Alejandro de la Concha’s PhD defense

On the 19th May, 2025, Alejandro de la Concha has successfully defended his PhD in Applied Mathematics at the ENS Paris Saclay. The title is “Graph-based machine learning for detection tasks on complex systems” and I had the pleasure to co-supervise him with Nicolas Vayatis, by working very closely with him for 5 years!

Despite the ups and downs of any such long and transformative process for young researchers, the outcome should make proud Alejandro for its high quality, technical level, methodological and conceptual contribution, and publication production.

Big thanks also to the reviewers of the thesis manuscript and the jury members of the defense:

  • Cedric RICHARD (Professor, Université Côte d’Azur)- reviewer
  • Taiji SUZUKI (Professor, University of Tokyo) – reviewer
  • Agnès, DESOLNEUX (Directror of research, ENS Paris- Saclay)
  • Céline LÉVY-LEDUC (Proffesor, Université Paris Cité)
  • Gilles BLANCHARD (Professor, Université Paris-Saclay)