{"id":2145,"date":"2025-05-21T07:22:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T07:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalogeratos.com\/psite\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2025-06-15T19:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T19:38:56","slug":"alejandro-de-la-conchas-phd-defense-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalogeratos.com\/psite\/alejandro-de-la-conchas-phd-defense-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Alejandro de la Concha&#8217;s PhD defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2146\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kalogeratos.com\/psite\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-20250519-WA0015.jpg?resize=600%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kalogeratos.com\/psite\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-20250519-WA0015.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kalogeratos.com\/psite\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-20250519-WA0015.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kalogeratos.com\/psite\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-20250519-WA0015.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kalogeratos.com\/psite\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-20250519-WA0015.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kalogeratos.com\/psite\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-20250519-WA0015.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kalogeratos.com\/psite\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-20250519-WA0015.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;Graph-based machine learning for detection tasks on complex systems&#8221; and I had the pleasure to co-supervise him with Nicolas Vayatis, by working very closely with him for 5 years!<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Big thanks also to the reviewers of the thesis manuscript and\u00a0the jury members of the defense:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cedric RICHARD (Professor, Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur)- reviewer<\/li>\n<li>Taiji SUZUKI (Professor, University of Tokyo) &#8211; reviewer<\/li>\n<li>Agn\u00e8s, DESOLNEUX (Directror of research, ENS Paris- Saclay)<\/li>\n<li>C\u00e9line L\u00c9VY-LEDUC (Proffesor, Universit\u00e9 Paris Cit\u00e9)<\/li>\n<li>Gilles BLANCHARD (Professor, Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 19th May, 2025, Alejandro de la Concha has successfully defended his PhD in Applied Mathematics at the ENS Paris Saclay. 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