Teaching

At École Centrale de Nantes (ECN)

Part-time teaching (vacations)

• 2021/2022

  • Lab sessions: Algorithms and Programming - engineering students (EI1)
    Introduction to algorithm implementation: operations on large integers, sorting and complexity analysis, list and tree algorithms, OOP (applying swarm intelligence concepts).

• 2022/2023

  • Lab sessions: Algorithms and Programming - engineering students (EI1)
  • Lab sessions: Mathematics for Engineers - engineering students (EI1)
    Numerical analysis: Finite element method, solving ill-posed linear systems.
    Optimisation: unconstrained, constrained, linear programming.
    Probability and statistical inference.
  • Lab sessions: C$^{\text{3}}$: Signals and Systems - engineering students (EI1)
    Spectral and time-frequency analysis: automatic music transcription.

• 2023/2024

  • Lab sessions: Scientific Computing and Optimisation - engineering students (EI2,3)
    Differentiable convex optimisation: line searches, trust regions, quadratic penalty and logarithmic barrier algorithms, regularisation …
    Non-differentiable convex optimisation: subdifferential/gradient, proximal operators, regularised primal-dual algorithm - B. Pascal’s teaching materials.
  • Lab sessions: Mathematical Tools for Signal and Image Processing - CORO-SIP Master’s
    Non-differentiable convex optimisation: subdifferential/gradient, proximal operators, regularised primal-dual algorithm - B. Pascal’s teaching materials.
  • Lab sessions: Mathematics for Engineers - engineering students (EI1)
  • Lab sessions: C$^{3}$: Signals and Systems - engineering students (EI1)

• 2024/2025

  • Lab sessions: Scientific Computing and Optimisation - engineering students (EI2,3)
  • Lab sessions: Mathematical Tools for Signal and Image Processing - CORO-SIP Master’s

Note:

• Many teaching materials (notes, exercises, worked solutions) have been prepared, in French, for these courses and are available on request: send a request.
• Animations: a series of Matlab animations has been prepared, in French, to illustrate these concepts - see the Mathematical animations page.
• Advice: a guide with tips for writing lab reports is available on the Tips for writing a lab report page.

Student supervision

Internships and literature review projects supervised (LS2N / Subatech-IMT Atlantique collaborations).

• 2023: Supervision of E. Gecimli’s internship, Master 1 in Fundamental Physics and Applications - University of Nantes.

  • Topic: Study and implementation of event reconstruction algorithms for 3-photon PET imaging applied to the XEMIS2 camera. - Internship duration: 4 months.
  • Extraction and analysis of data obtained from a GEANT4 simulation of the XEMIS2 camera, provided by N. Beaupère (Subatech Laboratory - IMT Atlantique).

• 2023: Supervision of Y. Oumarou’s literature review project, CORO-SIP Master’s - École Centrale de Nantes.

  • Topic: Literature review on the state of the art of projectors in Compton imaging - ComProj project. Project duration: 3 months.
  • Grade obtained by the student: A+, Certificate.

Science mediation

I have taken part in several science outreach activities related to medical imaging, tomographic reconstruction and signal processing.

INPACT - Art and Science

Presentation of research work as part of the “Engineering for art, culture and heritage” course at École Centrale de Nantes.

“Nuit Blanche des Chercheurs”

Participation in “science speed-dating” sessions, presenting a PhD project in a few minutes to a non-specialist audience - Nuit Blanche des Chercheurs.