Julien Mairal - Students

PhD students

• 2026 – present    Feyza Yavuz (with D. Larlus)

• 2025 – present    Eyal Benaroche (with P. Bojanowski)

• 2025 – present    Kenta Vert (with M. Arbel)

• 2025 – present    Vincent Herfeld (with J. Ponce)

• 2024 – present    Romain Seailles (with J. Ponce)

• 2023 – present    Ieva Petrulionyte (with M. Arbel).

• 2023 – present    Emmanuel Jehanno (with S. Grudinin).

• 2022 – 2025    Timothee Darcet (with M. Oquab and P. Bojanowski), research scientist at Meta.

• 2022 – 2025    Juliette Marrie (with D. Larlus and M. Arbel), research scientist at Kyutai.

• 2021 – 2025    Theo Bodrito (with J. Ponce), research scientist at Google DeepMind.

• 2021 – 2024    Gaspard Beugnot (with A. Rudi), research scientist at Alice & Bob.

• 2020 – 2023    Alexandre Zouaoui (with J. Chanussot and B. Rasti), data scientist at Neovision.

• 2020 – 2023    Houssam Zenati (with E. Diemert and P. Gaillard), post-doc at UCL.

• 2019 – 2023    Bruno Lecouat (with J. Ponce), research scientist at Apple.

• 2019 – 2022    Minttu Alakuijala (with J. Ponce and C. Schmid), research scientist at Meta AI.

• 2018 – 2021    Gregoire Mialon (with A. d'Aspremont), research scientist at Meta AI.

• 2018 – 2021    Mathilde Caron (with A. Joulin and P. Bojanowski), research scientist at Google AI. ELLIS best PhD award - Accessit for the Gilles Kahn best PhD award.

• 2017 – 2020    Andrei Kulunchakov (with A. Juditsky), now at Yandex.

• 2017 – 2020    Dexiong Chen (with L. Jacob), Assistant professor, HKUST-GZ.

• 2015 – 2020    Daan Wynen (with C. Schmid), Machine Learning Scientist at Ava Accessibility, Paris.

• 2016 – 2019    Alberto Bietti. Best PhD prize from the University Grenoble-Alpes, research scientist at Flatiron institute, NY.

• 2016 – 2019    Mikita Dvornik (with C. Schmid), research scientist at Samsung AI.

• 2015 – 2018    Arthur Mensch (with G. Varoquaux and B. Thirion), CEO and founder of Mistral AI.

• 2014 – 2017    Thomas Dias-Alves (with M. Blum), senior data scientist at HP, Grenoble.

• 2014 – 2017    Hongzhou Lin (with Z. Harchaoui), applied scientist at Amazon.

• 2015 – 2017    Mattis Paulin (whom I co-advised during part of his PhD only, with Z. Harchaoui, C. Schmid and F. Perronnin), research scientist at Helsing AI.

Post-docs

• 2025 – present    Charles-Gerard Lucas

• 2024 – present    Scott Pesme

• 2024 – 2026    Giacomo Meanti

• 2021 – 2025    Romain Menegaux, senior research scientist at Genbio AI.

• 2021 – 2022    Michael Arbel, permanent researcher at Inria.

• 2020 – 2022    Margot Selosse, researcher at Surgical Institute.

• 2013 – 2015    Anoop Cherian (with K. Alahari and C. Schmid), researcher at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) and Australian National University

• 2012 – 2014    Piotr Koniusz (with Z. Harchaoui and C. Schmid), researcher at NICTA/Data61, Canberra.

Research engineers

• 2021 – 2026    Thomas Ryckeboer

• 2024 – 2025    Juliette Bertrand

• 2020 – 2022    Gedeon Muhawenayo, PhD student at Arizona state university

• 2017 – 2019    Ghislain Durif, Research engineer at CNRS

Master students

• 2025    Kenta Vert (with M. Arbel)

• 2024    Balthazar Neveu (with J. Ponce)

• 2021    Juliette Marrie

• 2021    Timothee Darcet

• 2020    Gaspard Beugnot (with A. Rudi)

• 2019    Houssam Zenati (with E. Diemert)

• 2018    Gregoire Mialon

• 2018    Mathilde Caron (with A. Joulin and P. Bojanowski)

• 2017    Andrei Kulunchakov (with A. Juditsky and Z. Harchaoui)

• 2017    Dexiong Chen (with L. Jacob)

• 2016    Mikita Dvornik (with C. Schmid and F. Perronnin)

• 2014    Hongzhou Lin (with Z. Harchaoui)

• 2014    Daan Wynen (with C. Schmid)

• 2012    Elsa Bernard (with J.-P. Vert and L. Jacob)

International visitors (>= 1 month)

• 2024    Nassim Ait Ali Braham (DLR)

• 2022    Enrico Fini (Trento University)

• 2017    Courtney Paquette (University of Washington)

• 2015    Yuansi Chen (UC Berkeley)

• 2013    Hyun Oh Song (UC Berkeley)

• 2013    Adam Bloniarz (UC Berkeley)