Prof. Stéphane Marchand-Maillet has obtained his PhD in Applied Mathematics at Imperial College (London, UK) in 1997. He joined the Department of Computer Science of the University of Geneva in 1999, working on Multimedia Information Retrieval. He became MER in 2003 and Associate Professor since 2011.
His research group (Viper) specialises in large-scale, high-dimensional distributed machine learning and information retrieval, mining and indexing, with applications to data modelling and prediction, including social network analysis. He has authored, co-authored or edited a number of publications on these topics. He and his group are part of several national and European and international projects in the domain. He is Senior PC Member of the International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI, one of the oldest established conferences in AI). He was general co-chair of the International Conference of the ACM-SIG on Information Retrieval in 2010 (ACM-SIGIR 2010) and Program co-chair of the 11th Intermational Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2018).