Chair holder | Alix Lhéritier

Alix Lhéritier was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1978. He received the Computer Engineer degree and the M.Sc. degree in computer science from the Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, in 2004 and 2010, respectively. In 2006, he was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA and at the Image Processing Laboratory of the University of Minnesota, MN. In 2011, he joined the Algorithms-Biology-Structure (ABS) team at Inria Sophia Antipolis, France as a doctoral student and he received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Université Nice Sophia Antipolis in 2015. He is currently with Amadeus, France, working on machine learning research and applications for the travel industry. His research interests include sequential decision problems, statistical dissimilarity and choice modeling.