Vincent Lemaire is a data scientist and a research project manager in the area "Data Analytics and Knowledge" in the research domain "Data and Knowledge" at Orange Labs, France. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Paris 12 in signal processing and was in the same period an Electronic Teacher. He obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Paris 6 in 1999. He thereafter joined the R&D Division of Orange (France Telecom), where he became a senior expert in data-mining. He obtained his Research Accreditation (HDR) in Computer Science from the University of Paris-Sud 11 (Orsay) in 2008. His research interests are the application of machine learning in various areas for telecommunication companies with an actual main application in data mining for business intelligence, fraud detection and churn prediction. He has organized several machine learning workshops and competitions including the KDD Cup 2009, the AISTATS 2010 challenge on Active Learning and other ECML, ICML, NeurIPS challenges, tutorials or workshops ...
