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# Lilian Besson - Ecole Normale Supérieure de Rennes

Lilian Besson is a trained mathematician and computer scientist, and a graduate of the M.Sc. Mathématiques Vision Apprentissage (MVA) in 2016, from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (now ENS de Paris-Saclay), France. He obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Telecommunications from CentraleSupélec in Rennes in 2019, under the supervision of Prof. Christophe Moy, and at Inria in Lille, France, under Dr. Émilie Kaufmann. He is a passionate programmer, enthusiast about open-source and his research focus on machine learning, learning theory and cognitive radio. His PhD studied the possible gain in terms of radio collision mitigation thanks to multi-players multi-arms bandits models applied on the devices' side in Internet-of-Things networks. Lilian is the lead author of the SMPyBandits library (https://smpybandits.github.io/). He is an assistant professor in Computer Science at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Rennes (ENS de Rennes) since 2019, and will join Lycée Kléber in Strasbourg in September 2021.