Agathe Herrou, PhD

Hello! My name is Agathe Herrou, and I'm a computer scientist.

I am currently at a crossroads between pursuing an academic career or going into the industry.

You can read my Curriculum Vitae in long form (if you are an academic), in short form (if you are from the private sector) or a summary on this very page.

Industry skills

During my PhD, I studied optimal transport algorithms for mesh interpolation. This project gave me experience with various fields of applied mathematics, including non-linear optimisation methods, such as gradient descent and its variants, and Newton methods, and mesh manipulation techniques.

I have experience with development inside large software projects. In particular, I am proficient with C++, python, bash, git and GNU/Linux.

Research interests

As a researcher, I am mainly interested in the application of mathematical techniques to the arts. I have been practicing musical live-coding for over 7 years now, my interest thus naturally gravitates towards questions of live-coding and algorithmic composition. I was in the organisation committee of the Journée Live Coding, a one-day conference on the topic of live-coding, and the first such event in France.

I would like to explore the ways in which mathematics can be used for computer-based creativity. My interest for lambda-calculus and functional languages theory was part of what drew me towards TidalCycles, and I would love to take a more theoretical approach to the study of properties of algorithmic patterns.

Curriculum

I was a post-doctoral researcher at Grame CNCM from October 2022 to April 2024. I was appointed on the Fast project, working on a fixed-point extension for the Faust compiler.

I did my PhD under the supervision of Nicolas Bonneel, Julie Digne and Bruno Lévy, at LIRIS (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1), on optimal transport algorithms for mesh interpolation.

I have a master's degree in computer science and two bachelor's degrees (in mathematics and computer science) from the ENS de Lyon. During my pre-PhD studies, my research focus was on lambda-calculus and programming language theory.

Publications list

Journal and conference papers

Preprints

PhD thesis

Agathe Herrou, Symmetric semi-discrete optimal transport for mesh interpolation, https://theses.hal.science/tel-04102942.

Talks

Contact

Email: [firstname][at][lastname].fr

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