Dr. Michaël Aupetit

Senior Scientist

Email

maupetit@hbku.edu.qa

Phone

+974 44 547 150

Office location

A155, 1st floor, RC B1

Dr. Michaël Aupetit

Senior Scientist

Educational Qualifications

Accreditation for Research Supervision (HDR) in Computer Science

PhD in Industrial Engineering

Entity

Qatar Computing Research Institute

Division

Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence

Biography

Dr. Michaël Aupetit joined QCRI in August 2014. He is a Senior Scientist at the Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence (QCAI), working on AI foundation models design and analysis, and applying his research to health and material sciences.

Before joining QCRI, Michaël worked for 10 years as a research scientist and senior expert in data mining and visual analytics at CEA LIST in Paris Saclay, where he designed decision support systems to solve complex industrial problems in health and security domains.

Michaël initiated and co-organized 5 international workshops. He has been a PC member of IEEE VAST, EuroVis, EuroVA, PacificVis, ESANN, and ICANN conferences, and is a regular reviewer for IEEE TVCG, and the Computer Graphics Forum journal. He has published over 100 scientific papers and holds 6 US, 3 WO, and 1 EP patents. He obtained the Habilitation for Research Supervision (HDR) in Computer Science from Paris 11 Orsay University in 2012, and the PhD degree in Industrial Engineering from Grenoble National Polytechnic Institute (INPG) in 2001.
 

Accreditation for Research Supervision (HDR) in Computer Science

Paris 11 Orsay University; Orsay/France

2012

PhD in Industrial Engineering

Grenoble National Polytechnic Institute (INPG); Grenoble/France

2001

MSc in Robotics and Microelectronics

Montpelier University, Montpellier, France

1998

Engineering in Computer Science specialized in Artificial Intelligence

Ecole pour les Etudes et la Recherche en Informatique et Electronique (EERIE); Nîmes/France

1998

  • Statistical and generative machine learning
  • Representation learning
  • Visual analytics
  • Topological data analysis

Senior Scientist

Qatar Computing Research Institute; Hamad Bin Khalifa University

2019 - Present

Scientist

Qatar Computing Research Institute; Hamad Bin Khalifa University

2014 - 2018

Senior Expert Scientist

Laboratory for Integration of Systems and Technology; CEA Tech

2008 - 2014

Research Scientist

Department of Earth and Environmental Science; CEA DAM

2004 - 2008

Postdoc

Department of Earth and Environmental Science; CEA DAM

2002 - 2004

Jeon, H., Aupetit, M., Shin, D., Cho, A., Park, S., & Seo, J. (2025). Measuring the validity of clustering validation datasets. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 1, 1–14.

Colange, B., Peltonen, J., Aupetit, M., Dutykh, D., & Lespinats, S. (2020). Steering distortions to preserve classes and neighbors in supervised dimensionality reduction. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 33, 13214–13225.

Nonato, L. G., & Aupetit, M. (2019). Multidimensional projection for visual analytics: Linking techniques with distortions, tasks, and layout enrichment. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25(8), 2650–2673.

Aupetit, M. (2006). Visualizing distortions and recovering topology in continuous projection techniques. Neurocomputing, 70(7–9), 1304–1330.

Aupetit, M. (2005). Learning topology with the generative Gaussian graph and the EM algorithm. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 18.

Complete Publication Listing(s): The dblp computer science bibliography

  • 2007; Award for the Best presentation at CAp 2007 French conf. on Mach.Learning; SPSS; France
  • 1998; Best M.Sc internship; CEA; Nîmes/France