My collegue and friend Victor Elvira and his collaborator Francois Septier have three vacant PhD positions in Lille.

The first one is a cooperation with industry: the objective is to predict the evolution of the outputs in the supply chain of the industry partner, i.e. quantities in locations of storage or sales. The thesis will be about mathematical modeling of the supply chain and
inference methods for prediction.
The two other positions actually pertain to a recent and an older interest of mine, dynamical systems and importance sampling. You will study importance sampling based methods for probabilistic inference in complex non-linear high-dimensional systems. More specifically, you will work on novel adaptation schemes in order to overcome current limitations of more traditional IS-based techniques in such a challenging context. (Apply fast, or else I might!)