Gael Varoquaux#
| Membership Number: | 7625 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://gael-varoquaux.info/about.html |
| Publication Link: | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OGGu384AAAAJ&hl=en |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - today Inria, Research Director & Head of the Soda team
- 2019 - 2020 Université McGill and MILA (Montréal), Visiting Professor
- 2019 - today Inria, Research Director
- 2011 - 2019 Inria, research faculty (chargé de recherche)
- 2010 - 2011 INSERM, Post-doc
- 2008 - 2010 Inria, post-doc
- 2005 - 2008
- Doctoral Research et at Ecole Normale Supérieure (PhD obtained in 2008 in Physics, supervisor Alain Aspect)
Fields of Scholarship
- Software tools for machine learning
- Brain modelling
- Tabular learning
- Machine learning algorithms
- AI applications in neuroscience and human health
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Docteur honoris causa from UCLouvain
- 2024 Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite, awarded by Decree of the President of France
- 2019 Innovation Prize: INRIA - Académie des Sciences for the Scikit-learn tool and advances in Machine Learning, to Loïc Estève, Alexandre Gramfort, Olivier Grisel, Bertrand Thirion, Gaël Varoquaux
