Samir M. Perlaza | INRIA | Lectures, Keynotes and Talks

Statistics and Theoretical Machine Learning

Tutorials
  • ‘‘Characterizing the Generalization Error of Machine Learning Algorithms Via Information Measures’’ presented at the IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW2024), Shenzhen, China, november 24, 2024. Jointly with Gholamali Aminian (The Alan Turing Institute, UK), Yuheng Bu (University of Florida, USA), and Iñaki Esnaola (University of Sheffield, UK).

Talks
  • ‘‘An Exact Characterization of the Generalization Error of Machine Learning Algorithms’’ presented at Polytech Annecy-Chambéry / LISTIC, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Annecy Le Vieux, February 21, 2024. Host: Prof. Kave Salamantian.

  • ‘‘From Statistical Empirical Risk Minimization with f-Divergence Regularization to Generalization Theory’’ presented at GDR-AISIS Meeting on ‘‘Mesures informationnelles classiques, quantiques et généralisations - entropies, divergences, métriques intégrales de probabilité, et information de Fisher’’, Paris, France, July 5 2024 - Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP).

  • ‘‘Pricing in Digital Renting Platforms’’, presented in the Machine Learning Seminar at Booking.com, October 18, 2023, virtual. Host: Dr. Christina Katsimerou.

  • ‘‘On the Validation of Gibbs Algorithms: Training Datasets, Test Datasets and their Aggregation’’ presented at Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon . Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme (LIPS). Lyon, France, June 21, 2023. Host: Prof. Francesco Bronzino.

  • ‘‘An Upper Bound on the Error Induced by Saddlepoint Approximations—Applications to Wireless Communications’’ presented at Workshop on ‘‘Performance Guarantees in Wireless Networks’’. Laboratory for Information, Networking and Communication Sciences (LINCS). Palaiseau, France, March 8, 2023. Host: Prof. Francois Baccelli and Prof. Jean-Marie Gorce. (video)

  • ‘‘Empirical Risk Minimization and Zero-Sum Games with Noisy Observations’’ presented at:

    • Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM), Paris, France, December 12 2022. Host: Prof. Stefano Secci.

    • Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department. Indian Institute of Technology at Bombay (IITB), Mumbai, India, November 9 2022. Host: Prof. Manjesh Hanawal.

  • ‘‘The Role of Relative Entropy in Supervised Machine Learning’’ presented at:

    • Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Center for Statistics and Machine learning at Princeton University, Princeton NJ USA. July 28, 2022. Host: Prof. H. Vincent Poor and Prof. Peter J. Ramadge

    • Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY USA. July 26, 2022. Host: Prof. Ali Tajer.

    • Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information (LTCI), TelecomParis, Saclay, France. July 6, 2022. Host: Prof. Michèle Wigger.

  • ‘‘Machine Learning: The bridge connecting Information, Game and Learning Theory’’ presented at:

    • Department of Image and Signal Processing Group of Statistics and Applications, Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France, September, 2012.

    • Bell Labs, Paris-Saclay, Nozay, France, December, 2011.

    • GDR-ISIS Seminar, ‘‘10 ans de Radio Intelligente : Bilan et perspectives’’. Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France, May 2011.

    • Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC) at University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, August, 2010.

Simultaneous Information and Energy Transmission

Tutorials
  • Tutorial ‘‘Simultaneous Information and Energy Transmission in Wireless Networks’’ (video), presented at:

    • The First Winter School on Information Theory and Signal Processing for Internet of Things, Lyon, France, November 20, 2018.

    • The IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Singapore, Singapore, December 2017. Joint work with Marco Maso (Huawei, France), Marco di Renzo (CNRS, France) and Bruno Clerckx (Imperial College London, UK).

    • The European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Kos Island, Greece, August 2017. Joint work with Marco Maso (Huawei, France), Marco di Renzo (CNRS, France) and Bruno Clerckx (Imperial College London, UK).

    • The IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Paris, France, May, 2017. Joint work with Marco Maso (Huawei, France) and Marco di Renzo (CNRS, France).

    • The European Wireless Conference (EW), Oulu, Finland, May, 2016. Joint work with Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) and Selma Belhadj Amor (INRIA, France).

    • The International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Thessaloniki, Greece, May, 2016. Joint work with Selma Belhadj Amor (INRIA, France).

    • The International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks (CROWNCOM), Grenoble, France, May, 2016. Joint work with Selma Belhadj Amor (INRIA, France).

Talks
  • ‘‘Simultaneous Information and Energy Transmission in Decentralized Networks’’ presented at:

    • INRIA, Centre de Recherche Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 24, 2019

    • EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 26 2019.

  • ‘‘On Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Simultaneous Information and Energy Transmission Systems’’ presented at:

    • Lappeenranta University of Technology, School of Energy Systems. Lappeenranta, Finland, April 08 2019.

    • Université Notre-Dame-de-Louaizé, Lebanon, March 22 2019

  1. ‘‘Simultaneous Wireless Information and Energy Transmission’’ presented at:

    • Université de Lille. Institut d’électronique de microélectronique et de nanotechnologie (IEMN), Lille, France, October 4, 2018.

    • École Nationale Supérieure de l’Électronique et de ses Applications (ENSEA). Équipe Traitement de l'Information et Systèmes (ETIS), Cergy-Pontoise, France, May 18, 2017.

    • University of Sheffield. Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, Sheffield, UK., April 6, 2016.

Information Transmission

Keynote
  • ‘‘Channel Output Feedback in Wireless Communications’’ presented at:

    • The International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WICOM), Guilin, Popular Republic of China, August 2017.

    • Colombian Congress of Computer Sciences, Pereira, Colombia, September, 2014.

Tutorials
  • ‘‘Channel Output Feedback in Wireless Communications’’ presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), London, UK, June, 2015. Jointly with H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, NJ) and Ravi Tandon (Virginia Tech, VA).

Talks
  • ‘‘Shannon's Mathematical Theory of Data Transmission — Case of Low Latency and High Reliability’’ presented at the GTA 2021 Conference on Algebraic Geometry, Number Theory and Applications. The University of French Polynesia, Tahiti, French Polynesia, August 17, 2021.

  • Talk ‘‘Transforming Broadcast Codes to perform Covert Communications’’ presented at:

    • Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK, November 26, 2019.

    • Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Informatique (CERI), Université d'Avignon, France, November, 2019.

  • Talk ‘‘On the Benefits of Feedback in Wireless Communications’’ presented at:

    • Department of Telecommunications, CentraleSupélec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, December 2, 2016.

    • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, November, 2016.

    • École Nationale Supérieure de l’Électronique et de ses Applications (ENSEA). Equipes Traitement de l'Information et Systèmes (ETIS), Cergy-Pontoise, France, Juin, 2014.

    • Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, April 27, 2014.

    • INRIA, Centre de Recherche de Grenoble-Rhône-Alpes, Montbonnot, France, February 18, 2014.

    • INSA de Lyon, ‘‘Centre d'Innovation en Télécommunications et Integration de Services - Citi-Lab, Lyon, France, March, 2013.

  • Talk ‘‘On the Strong Converses in the Multiple Access Channel’’ presented at the Department of Electrical Engineering - Information Theory Reading Group at Princeton University. September, 2017, Princeton N.J. USA.

  • Talk ‘‘On the Impact of Network-State Knowledge on the Feasibility of Secrecy’’ presented at:

    • London Probability Seminar: advances in information theory, Imperial College London, London, UK, Juin, 2015.

    • INRIA, Centre de Recherche de Grenoble-Rhône-Alpes, Montbonnot, France, May 21, 2015

    • GDR-ISIS: Sécurité au niveau de la couche physique dans les réseaux sans-fil, Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France, May, 2014.

Power Systems

Talks
  • ‘‘Information-Theoretic Security in the Smart Grid’’ presented at the School of Energy Systems, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland, April 07, 2019.

Self-Configuring Networks

Talks
  • ‘‘Learning in Games Arising from Wireless Communication Systems’’ presented at the International Workshop on Femtocells (and HetNets), King's College London, London, UK, February, 2012.

  • ‘‘Games arising in Decentralized Multiuser Channels’’ presented at:

    • Université Paris-Sud, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI), Orsay, France, July, 2013.

    • Division of Communication Systems, Linköping University, Link"{o}ping, Sweden, March, 2013.

    • Wireless Networking, Signal Processing and Security Lab at University of Houston, Houston, TX, February, 2013.

    • Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia, August, 2011.

  • Talk ‘‘Satisfaction Equilibrium: Definition, Learning Dynamics and Applications’’ presented at:

    • Workshop on Algorithmic Game Theory: Dynamics and Convergence in Distributed Systems. Université de Grenoble, Laboratoire LIG, Grenoble, France, June 2011.

    • Bell Labs - Supelec, Annual Meeting. Supelec, Alcatel Lucent Chair in Flexible Radio, Gif sur Yvette, France, May 2011.

  • ‘‘Dynamic Spectrum Access in Self-Configuring Networks’’ presented at France Telecom R&D - Orange Labs, Issy les Moulineaux, France, December 2009.

  • ‘‘On the Base Station Selection and Base Station Sharing in Self-Configuring Networks’’ presented at:

    • Signal Processing Division and Telecom Department, Supélec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, September 2009.

    • France Telecom R&D - Orange Labs, Issy les Moulineaux, France, April 2009.

  • Talk ‘‘Distributed Resource Allocation in IDMA Networks’’ presented at:

    • Signal Processing Division and Telecom Dept. at Supélec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Mach, 2008.

    • ENST Bretagne, Brest, France, December, 2007.

    • Department of Mobile Communications - Institut Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France, December, 2007.