AI Scientific Expert - CNIL (French DPA) - AI Department
Nicolas Berkouk
I am currently an AI Scientific Expert at CNIL, the French Data Protection Authority. As part of the AI Department, I follow closely the scientific and technologic development of AI, in the light of actual (GDPR) and future (AI Act) European regulation. I conduct ML research project for CNIL, and collaborate with social scientists to understand certain aspects of the structure of the AI ecosystem.
Before CNIL, I obtained my Ph. D. from INRIA/École polytechnique in Topological Data Analysis under the supervision of Steve Oudot, and spent three years as a post-doctoral fellow at EPFL, in the Topology and Neuroscience team led by Kathryn Hess.
Broadly speaking, my academic research was focused on making abstract tools of algebraic topology such as derived sheaf theory amenable to understand data and algorithms. For an overview, you can have a look at my Ph.D. defense:
December 2022 Interactions between representation theory and topological data analysis workshop, CAS, Oslo. Persistence and the Sheaf-Function Correspondence.
November 2022 Chaire Pari Seminar (Paris - France). The field of Explainable AI : designing machines to explain machines ?
February 2018 Linking Topology to Algebraic Geometry and Statistics workshop, MPI, Leipzig, Germany. Poster: Computing the convolution distance for constructible sheaves over R.
December 2017 Journées de Géométrie Algorithmique, Aussois, France. Talk: Stable resolutions of multi-parameter persistence modules.
August 2017 Developing abstract foundations for TDA, Banff Center, Canada. Talk: Stable resolutions of multi-parameter persistence modules , video available here.
March 2017 Persistent homology working group, IHP, Paris. Talk: Stable resolutions of multi-parameter persistence modules.