{"id":2,"date":"2020-12-04T15:11:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T15:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quentin-duchemin.alwaysdata.net\/wiki\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:02:08","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/quentin-duchemin.alwaysdata.net\/wiki\/index.php\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1YYtCE7wGcHN5kY0ZY_QIME6FkYfBowYW\/view?usp=sharing\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1YYtCE7wGcHN5kY0ZY_QIME6FkYfBowYW\/view?usp=sharing\">PhD dissertation<\/a>, Universit\u00e9 Gustave Eiffel. (Defended on June 20, 2022) <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1WMV0_gnDENGI2yMAxx_vGpnVkD-9F3i0\/view?usp=sharing\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1WMV0_gnDENGI2yMAxx_vGpnVkD-9F3i0\/view?usp=sharing\">Slides of the defense<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Publications<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmd.copernicus.org\/articles\/18\/8663\/2025\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/gmd.copernicus.org\/articles\/18\/8663\/2025\/\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2025WR042835\">A data-driven model to estimate time-variable catchment transit time distributions<\/a>, with Miazza, R.; Kirchner, J. W.; Benettin, P.  <strong>Water Resources Research<\/strong>, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmd.copernicus.org\/articles\/18\/8663\/2025\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/gmd.copernicus.org\/articles\/18\/8663\/2025\/\">Data-Driven Estimation of the hydrologic response via Generalized Additive Models<\/a>, with&nbsp;Maria Grazia Zanoni,&nbsp;Marius G. Floriancic,&nbsp;Hansj\u00f6rg Seybold,&nbsp;Guillaume Obozinski,&nbsp;James W. Kirchner,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Paolo Benettin. <strong>Geoscientific Model Development<\/strong>, 2025<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1002\/mrm.29951\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1002\/mrm.29951\">Rapid quantitative magnetization transfer imaging:Utilizing the hybrid state and the generalized Bloch model,<\/a> <strong>Magnetic Resonance in Medecine<\/strong>, 2023.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1051\/ps\/2022019\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1051\/ps\/2022019\">Reliable Time Prediction in the Markov Stochastic Block Model,<\/a> <strong>ESAIM: Probability &amp; Statistics<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>2022. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/quentin-duchemin\/inference-markovian-SBM\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Python Notebook<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hal.archives-ouvertes.fr\/hal-03622277v2\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hal.archives-ouvertes.fr\/hal-03622277v2\">The Random Geometric Graph: Recent developments and perspectives<\/a>, with Yohann De-Castro. &nbsp;<strong>High Dimensional Probability volume 9<\/strong>,  2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2006.07001\">M<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/projecteuclid.org\/journals\/electronic-journal-of-statistics\/volume-16\/issue-1\/Markov-random-geometric-graph-MRGG--A-growth-model-for\/10.1214\/21-EJS1969.full\">arkov Random Geometric Graph (MRGG): A Growth Model for Temporal Dynamic Networks<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2006.07001\">,<\/a> with Yohann De-Castro. <strong>Electronic Journal of Statistics<\/strong>, 2022. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/quentin-duchemin\/Markovian-random-geometric-graph\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Python Notebook<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hal.archives-ouvertes.fr\/hal-03014763v4\">Concentration inequality for U-statistics of order two for uniformly ergodic Markov chains,<\/a> with Yohann De-Castro and Claire Lacour. <strong>Bernoulli,  <\/strong>2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jmlr.org\/papers\/v23\/21-0819.html\">Three rates of convergence or separation via U-statistics in a dependent framework<\/a>, with Yohann De-Castro and Claire Lacour. <strong>Journal of Machine Learning Research<\/strong>, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2109.10535\">Cram\u00e9r-Rao bound-informed training of neural networks for quantitative MRI<\/a>, with Xiaoxia Zhang, Kangning Liu, Sebastian Flassbeck, Cem Gultekin, Carlos Fernadez-Granda and Jakob Assl\u00e4nder. <strong>Magnetic Resonance in Medicine<\/strong>, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>Preprints<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2502.05157\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2502.05157\">Efficient distributional regression trees learning algorithms for calibrated non-parametric probabilistic forecasts<\/a>, with Guillaume Obozinski. 2025<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hal.archives-ouvertes.fr\/hal-03622196v2\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hal.archives-ouvertes.fr\/hal-03622196v2\">SIGLE: a valid procedure for Selective Inference with the Generalized Linear Lasso<\/a>, with Yohann De-Castro. 2026<br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>Conference papers<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ismrm.org\/2022\/0623.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/archive.ismrm.org\/2022\/0623.html\">Rapid quantitative magnetization transfer imaging: utilizing the hybrid state and the generalized Bloch model<\/a>, J. Assl\u00e4nder, C. Gultekin, X. Zhang, Q. Duchemin, K. Liu, R. WE Charlson, T. Shepherd, C. Fernandez-Granda, and S. Flassbeck. Proc. 31th Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2022 (<strong><em>selected for oral presentation<\/em><\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ismrm.org\/20\/program_files\/DP09-07.htm\">Optimized dimensionality reduction for parameter estimation in MR fingerprinting via deep learning<\/a> Q. Duchemin, K. Liu, C. Fernandez-Granda, J. Asslaender. Proc. 28th Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2020 (<strong><em>selected for oral presentation<\/em><\/strong>)<br><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1hMG403TcyzksAtuN1deDJIHLa_JBYPh2\/view?usp=sharing\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1hMG403TcyzksAtuN1deDJIHLa_JBYPh2\/view?usp=sharing\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-cyan-blue-color\">Watch the video presenting our work<\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ZmQw7_5ctJM4v0caGHjCpPLZ7TEkAje_\/view?usp=sharing\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ZmQw7_5ctJM4v0caGHjCpPLZ7TEkAje_\/view?usp=sharing\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">read the slides of the presentation.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concentration inequality for U-statistics for uniformly ergodic Markov chains, and applications, Q.Duchemin, Y. De Castro &amp; C. Lacour. Bernoulli-IMS&nbsp;10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics 2021 (<strong><em>selected for oral presentation<\/em><\/strong>) <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ndWRPLWjbUYGeav9-tukeQAmS_5ttxP3\/view?usp=sharing\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ndWRPLWjbUYGeav9-tukeQAmS_5ttxP3\/view?usp=sharing\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-cyan-blue-color\">Watch the video presenting our work<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1OU-i5vNQPwd7Zg7uhASZPbMylWNyIEfg\/view?usp=sharing\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1OU-i5vNQPwd7Zg7uhASZPbMylWNyIEfg\/view?usp=sharing\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">read the slides of the presentation<\/span><\/a> and <span class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-pink-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1GKD547cm29qg6gtspdRYUqSBz5YoA3PB\/view?usp=sharing\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1GKD547cm29qg6gtspdRYUqSBz5YoA3PB\/view?usp=sharing\">read our poster<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>Awards<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Selected as a<strong> Top Reviewer for ICML 2025<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Maths &amp; Computer science PhD Prize<\/strong> <strong>2023<\/strong><br>Each year, Paris-Est Sup&#8217;s Thesis Prizes are awarded to each of its doctoral schools for the best work by the site&#8217;s PhDs, shortlisted from the previous year&#8217;s graduates for its quality, originality and social relevance.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Andr\u00e9 Pasquet 2020 Prize<br><\/strong>Prize that rewards the best student graduating from the engineering school &#8220;Ecole des Ponts&#8221;. An article was published with my acceptance speech: https:\/\/www.fondationdesponts.fr\/prix-pasquet-quentin-duchemin\/<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>Activities<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Reviewing : AISTATS 2021, Statistics and Probability Letters (in 2021), Bernoulli Journal (in 2022), NeurIPS (in 2023), ICML (2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organization of seminars : <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/seminairedoctorantsuge\/accueil\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/seminairedoctorantsuge\/accueil\">PhD seminars of UGE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attended Conferences: <br>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.cirm-math.fr\/2542.html\">Theoretical Computer Science Spring School: Machine Learning<\/a>, May 2022<br>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/jps-2021.sciencesconf.org\/\">Colloque Jeunes Probabilistes et Statisticiens<\/a>, October 2021<br>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcp-conference.org\/\">&nbsp;12th International Conference on Multiple Comparison Procedure<\/a>, September 2021<br>&#8211; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wc2020.org\/\">IMS&nbsp;10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics 2021<\/a><\/em>, July 2021 (<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Xg4YfsFY9s_vkNwBxcjbUaxBjjtPvxBv\/view?usp=sharing\">selected for a presentation<\/a>)<br>&#8211; <em>Franco-Dutch meeting \u00ab&nbsp;B\u00e9zout-Eurandom&nbsp;\u00bb<\/em>, IHP Paris, July 2021 (invited as speaker)<br>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/phd-school.sciencesconf.org\/resource\/page\/id\/2\"><em>Convex geometry and random matrices in high dimensions<\/em>,<\/a> June 2021<br>&#8211; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imo.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/~mhc2021\/\">International conference on Mixtures, Hidden Markov models and Clustering<\/a><\/em>, June 2021<br>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cirm-math.com\/virtual2536.html\"><em>Robustness<\/em> and computational efficiency of algorithms in statistical learning<\/a>, CIRM Luminy, December 2020<br>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/icml.cc\/virtual\/2020\/papers\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/icml.cc\/virtual\/2020\/papers\"><em>ICML<\/em>, July, 2020<\/a><br><br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>Talks<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>01\/2024 at EPFL (SDSC Academic group seminar): Exploring Advanced Modeling Approaches for (Structured) Temporal Signals<br>11\/2023 at EPFL (SDSC PhD Fellows Workshop): Transformer Models for the Estimation of Transit Time in Watersheds<br>10\/2023 at Universit\u00e9 d&#8217;Angers: Concentration inequality for U-statistics in a dependent framework.<br>08\/2023 at EPFL: Factorization Machines for recommendation systems<br>04\/2023 at ETH Zurich: Numerical Gaussian Processes<br>10\/2022 at SDSC (EPFL): Community detection in the Stochastic Block Model <br>05\/2022 at Inria Paris (Dyogene Team): Post Selection Inference in the Generalized Linear Lasso<br>04\/2022 at Universit\u00e9 d&#8217;Orsay: Concentration inequality for U-statistics and applications<br>03\/2022 at Universit\u00e9 Paris-Nanterre (S\u00e9minaire Modal&#8217;X): Concentration inequality for U-statistics and applications<br>01\/2022 at LAMA UGE: Introduction to optimal transport: connections between Monge formulation, Kantorovitch relaxation and its dual. (Reading group)<br>12\/2021 at LJK Grenoble: The MRGG model: A Growth Model for Temporal Dynamic Networks<br>11\/2021 at CERMICS (ENPC): Geometry detection in Random Geometric Graphs (Part 2\/2)<br>10\/2021 at CERMICS (ENPC): Geometry detection in Random Geometric Graphs (Part 1\/2)<br>07\/2021 at IHP Paris for Franco-Dutch meeting \u00ab&nbsp;B\u00e9zout-Eurandom&nbsp;\u00bb<br>07\/2021 at IMS 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics: MCMC method for the estimation of spectra of signed integral operator.<br>04\/2021 at T\u00e9l\u00e9com Paris: Concentration inequality for U-statistics in a dependent framework.<br>03\/2021 at Universit\u00e9 de Rouen: Concentration inequality for U-statistics in a dependent framework.<br>02\/2021 at Universit\u00e9 de Caen: Introduction to random graphs.<br>10\/2020 at ENS Lyon (DANTE team): Link prediction in random graphs.<br>04\/2020 at Cermics ENPC: The Stochastic Block Model: A survey.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD dissertation, Universit\u00e9 Gustave Eiffel. (Defended on June 20, 2022) Slides of the defense. Publications A data-driven model to estimate time-variable catchment transit time distributions, with Miazza, R.; Kirchner, J. W.; Benettin, P. Water Resources Research, 2026 Data-Driven Estimation of the hydrologic response via Generalized Additive Models, with&nbsp;Maria Grazia Zanoni,&nbsp;Marius G. Floriancic,&nbsp;Hansj\u00f6rg Seybold,&nbsp;Guillaume Obozinski,&nbsp;James W.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link\">\n             <a href=\"https:\/\/quentin-duchemin.alwaysdata.net\/wiki\/index.php\/research\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/a>\n        <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quentin-duchemin.alwaysdata.net\/wiki\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quentin-duchemin.alwaysdata.net\/wiki\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quentin-duchemin.alwaysdata.net\/wiki\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quentin-duchemin.alwaysdata.net\/wiki\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quentin-duchemin.alwaysdata.net\/wiki\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":83,"href":"https:\/\/quentin-duchemin.alwaysdata.net\/wiki\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959,"href":"https:\/\/quentin-duchemin.alwaysdata.net\/wiki\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quentin-duchemin.alwaysdata.net\/wiki\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}