| Doctorate | TU Munich, jointly with IDSIA (2011) PhD in machine learning (dr. rer. nat.) "Studies in Continuous Black-box Optimization"[26] (summa cum laude) Advisor: Jürgen Schmidhuber. |
| Master's | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (2005) MSc in computer engineering (dipl. ing. inf.) "Evolving a Compact Concept-based Sokoban Solver"[1] Advisors: Eric Baum and Boi Faltings. |
| Summer schools |
Cognitive Science and Machine Learning Summer School
(Sardinia, 2010) Advanced Scientific Programming in Python Winter School (Warsaw, 2010) Machine Learning Summer School (Cambridge, 2009) |
| Exchange years |
Columbia University (2004-2005) University of Waterloo (2002-2003) |
| Secondary ed. |
Lycée Classique de Diekirch (2000) |
| 2012 | Postdoctoral Fellowship National Research Fund Luxembourg |
| 2011 | PhD Challenge |
| 2011 | Solomonoff Student Prize Conference of Artificial General Intelligence |
| 2010 |
Kurzweil Best Paper Prize Conference of Artificial General Intelligence |
| 2009 | GECCO Best Paper Award |
| 2000 | International Mathematical Olympiad (South Korea) Bronze medal |
| 1996, 1997 | Olympiade Mathématique Belge Second price (twice) |
| 2011 - 2013 | New York Univeristy, Courant Institute, Vision Learning Group Research scientist (PostDoc) with Yann LeCun |
| 2007 - 2011 | Swiss AI institute IDSIA Graduate student researcher, with Jürgen Schmidhuber |
| 2005 - 2007 | Baum Research Enterprises Research consulting (relevance based planning in complex problems) |
| 2003 - 2004 |
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
| 2003 |
| Tutorial lectures |
IM-CLeVeR Workshop, Lugano, Switzerland (2011)
FACETS CodeJam Workshop, Marseille, France (2010) |
| Council member | NYU Postdoc Council (2012, 2013) |
| PC member |
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (2011, 2012, 2013)
European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (2012) Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (2010, 2011, 2012) Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (2010, 2011) |
| Reviewer |
Journal of Machine Learning Research (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics (2013) International Conference on Machine Learning (2012, 2013) International Conference on Representation Learning (2013) Neural Information Processing Systems (2011) IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2012, 2013) IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2013) IEEE Transactions on Computational and Artificial Intelligence in Games (2012) IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (2013) |
| Local organizer | Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (2010) |
| Support staff | Civilian European Land Robot Trial (2007) |