Céline Moucer

2 rue Simone Iff
75012 Paris, France
Office C406 (on floor 4)
celine[dot]moucer[at]gmail[dot]com
Hello, and welcome to my website!
I am Céline Moucer, currently working at the French Ministry of Finance (Direction du Budget). Since taking on this role, I have slowed down my research activities, but I’m always happy to receive suggestions, comments, and questions, and I make sure to respond in a timely manner.
In october 2024, I completed a PhD in optimization for machine learning, under the supervision of Adrien Taylor and Francis Bach. My research focuses on developing constructive approaches to concentration inequalities and first-order convex optimization methods, exploring their applications to potentially sparse machine learning problems and their continuous-time formulations. I am particularly interested in computer-aided techniques for the worst-case analysis of optimization methods, also known as Performance Estimation Problems.
Before starting my PhD, I graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (X2016) and got a master degree in Maths, Vision and Learning in 2020 (master MVA) from Ecole Normale Supérieure and Ecole des Ponts. I am also a civil servant engineer (Corps des IPEF), working for the French administration.
You can find a list of my publications and codes here.
news
Oct 1, 2024 | I have successfully defended my PhD thesis at Inria Paris! |
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Aug 30, 2023 | Our paper on continuous-time Lyapunov analysis was accepted at SIOPT! |
Aug 24, 2023 | Presenting PEPit and continuous-time PEP at EUROPT2023. |
Feb 14, 2023 | PEP talks took place à Louvain-la-Neuve, thanks to all the participants! |
Oct 24, 2022 | During two days, we welcome 25 high school girls at INRIA Paris as part of the RJMI program. |
Jul 25, 2022 | Presenting PEPit at ICCOPT. |
Sep 1, 2021 | Starting my PhD at INRIA Paris. |