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 or a summary on this very page.
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.
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.
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.
Agathe Herrou, Symmetric semi-discrete optimal transport for mesh interpolation, https://theses.hal.science/tel-04102942.
Email: [firstname][at][lastname].fr