Francis Bach, member of the French Academy of Sciences and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Machine Learning Research, is joining ISBI 2024 in Athens. Francis Bach is a researcher at Inria, leading since 2011 the machine learning team which is part of the Computer Science department at Ecole Normale Supérieure. Francis Bach is primarily interested in machine learning, and especially in sparse methods, kernel-based learning, large-scale optimization, computer vision and signal processing. He received the Inria young researcher prize in 2012, the ICML test-of-time award in 2014 and 2019, as well as the Lagrange prize in continuous optimization in 2018, and the Jean-Jacques Moreau prize in 2019.
Read more about Francis Bach, and all ISBI 2024 plenary speakers, in our Program/Keynotes section.