Vernade Lab
PhD Students
I have the privilege to work with a talented team of students. I co-supervise some of them and collaborate on a regular basis with colleagues (and friends) from various institutions and countries:
Aurélien Garivier (ENS Lyon, France -- w/ A. Marthe)
Andras György (Google Deepmind, London, UK -- w/ Nicolas Nguyen)
Michael Muehlebach (MPI-IS, Tübingen, Germany-- w/ Onno Eberhard)
Claire Vernade
Group Leader
Bandit algorithms, RL Theory, Learning theory
PhD student (2023- now)
Bayesian methods for lifelong bandit problems
-> Priori-dependent Allocation for Bayesian Fixed-Budget Best Arm Identification in Structured Bandits
PhD student (2023 - now), co-supervised with Michael Muehlebach
Dynamical aspects of RL
-> A Pontryagin perspective on Reinforcement Learning (Open-Loop RL)
PhD student (2023 -now)
Foundations of Inverse Reinforcement Learning
-> Open Problem: Reward Estimation in Inverse Bandits (ARLET @ ICML 2024)
PhD student (2024 - now)
Diffusion models for control
PhD student (2022 - now), co-supervised with Aurélien Garivier
Theory of Distributional RL, Risk-Aware RL
Masters and Bachelor
Current:
Julian Zürn (Master student, University of Tübingen)
Alumni:
Interns (Amazon Berlin and Deepmind London)
Jeremias Knoblauch (now Lecturer at UCL, UK)
Flore Sentenac (Assist. prof at HEC, France)
Yoan Russac (RE at G Research, London UK)
Master and Bachelor students:
Fenosoa Randrianjavoto (AIMS student)
Yannick Streicher (co-advised with Peter Dayan)
Till Freihaut (co-advised with Prof. Leif Döring -- now, PhD student at University of Zürich)
Clémence Réda (Master project in 2019 -- now, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Universität Rostock since 2023/05)
Abel Adary, Louis Fournier (Master project in 2020)
Antoine Moulin (Master project in 2020, now PhD student with Gergely Neu in Barcelona)
Yoann Lemesle (Bachelor year-long project 2020-2021)
Mentoring
Current:
Momentum Program (Uni Bielefeld): Annika Österdiekhoff
Past:
I was a mentor with the Deepmind Scholar program (2021-2022): Mariangela (Brasil, 1 year)
I ran the Mentorship Program of WiML-T (www.wiml-t.org)