About Me

I’m a PhD candidate in Machine Learning at the University of Colorado Boulder in the CLIMB lab. I graduated from École Polytechnique with a degree in Computational Mathematics and a minor in Machine Learning, and hold a master's degree in “Mathematics, Computer Vision, and Learning” from ENS Paris-Saclay.


My interests mainly lie within applied artificial intelligence and machine learning. I worked on deep and hierarchical reinforcement learning as an intern at RIKEN AIP Labs, Tokyo. During my PhD, supervised by Claire Monteleoni, I focused on representation learning and deep clustering, with the goal of scaling spectral clustering methods. This work culminated in building a novel probabilistic approach for optimizing graph cuts. Currently, I’m exploring the "CL" part of "CLIMB" by applying Graph Neural Networks and other approaches for climate model assimilation and projection.

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Publications

Reinforcement Learning with Options
Ayoub Ghriss
Policy Gradient Methods
Ayoub Ghriss, Van Huy Vo — Reinforcement Learning, MVA
Deep Automatic Chord Recognition
Audio Signal Processing, MVA
Artistic Styles: Neural Style Transfer vs Generative Adversarial Networks
Object Recognition and Computer Vision, MVA
A Martingale Hypothesis Test
Master Thesis, Ecole Polytechnique
Volatility Derivatives: Variance Swap
El-Ghali Lalami, Ayoub Ghriss — Financial Mathematics Project

Mini-Projects

Spectral Clustering for Online Face Recognition

Supervised Learning, MVA

Mixture of Probabilistic PCA

Probabilistic Graphical Models, MVA

SymSpell Implementation

Tweets normalisation, NLP, MVA

Ant Colony Algorithm

Introduction to Python, ENSAE