var store = [{
        "title": "hydroponics and vertical farming",
        "excerpt":"Recently I had fun making some short back of the envelop computation on the use of hydroponics 📨 in a future world. Unregarding any related challenges, what would be the footprint of a factory producing the world’s food supply? 🤔 what is hydroponics? Here by hydroponics I am talking about...","categories": ["Sustaining Humanity"],
        "tags": [],
        "url": "/ideas/hydropony/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/hydroponics.jpg"
      },{
        "title": "The BiorXiv of the futuuure",
        "excerpt":"First it would have to be available as a cross platform app. Something like F1000 or Mendeley where I can star, share, sort out my papers. It would have to contain some social networking thing like twitter, ResearchGate and Google Scholar with Q&amp;A, podcasts and job offers. This app should...","categories": ["Frustrations and Solutions"],
        "tags": [],
        "url": "/ideas/the-bioarxiv-of-the-future/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/twitter.jpeg"
      },{
        "title": "Why Rick had to invent to station of Ricks? [FR]",
        "excerpt":"my take on an aspect of this serie, inspired by the many fan-made-explanations out there Pourquoi Rick a du inventer la station des Ricks ? Dans Rick et Morty, il existe une infinité d’univers parallèles et à travers tous ces univers, seulement une seule station des ricks. Donc si un...","categories": ["random"],
        "tags": [],
        "url": "/ideas/why-rick-invented-the-station-of-ricks/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/rick_morty.jpg"
      },{
        "title": "Are We Really Conscious? pt1",
        "excerpt":"1. On the emergence of life This is the first part of a Serie on consciousness, life and intelligence As far as I can recall, the idea of an intelligent design in life always seemed strange to me. It seemed like the adults had little imagination to involve yet another...","categories": ["On consciousness"],
        "tags": ["Artificial Intelligence","Consciousness","Life","Intelligent Design"],
        "url": "/opinions/on-the-intelligent-design/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/brain.jpeg"
      },{
        "title": "Police Violence & Racism [FR]",
        "excerpt":"Les Violences Policières et le Racisme. Hello! Donc voilà, j’imagine que vous suivez tous au moins un peu ce mouvement mondial contre les violences policières et le racisme. Comme la plupart de mes collègues, j’ai aujourd’hui mené une grève d’une journée pour passer du temps à agir contre le racisme...","categories": ["Justice"],
        "tags": ["Violence","Justice","Racism","Society"],
        "url": "/opinions/on-police-violence-french/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/couverture.png"
      },{
        "title": "why most brain-machine interfaces ideas suck",
        "excerpt":"I have often heard 👂 how Brain Machine Interfaces, also known as BMIs, would one day be a consumer products. Imagine being able to have a third arm. To control machines from your thoughts. Imagine being able to not just be in virtual reality through a headset; but to live...","categories": ["Biology & Medecine"],
        "tags": [],
        "url": "/opinions/why-BMI-sucks/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/BMIchip.jpeg"
      },{
        "title": "Reproducibility in Biology",
        "excerpt":"Reproducibility in biology - bioinformatics research Having now worked for more than 2 years in a research environment and having been very sensitive about good, reproducible and open science. I have seen from large group computational labs and small group bench labs the issues and reasoning that might lead to...","categories": ["Scientific Method"],
        "tags": ["Computational Biology","Data Science","Research"],
        "url": "/opinions/reproducibility_in_biology/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/pipetting_bio.jpg"
      },{
        "title": "Why most ai discussions are dumb",
        "excerpt":"Today I wanted to share feelings and thoughts I often have while listening to discussions about Artificial Intelligence. We have heard a lot about this field, what it is doing now and its promises. We have also heard a lot about expectations and fears for the future. And it is...","categories": ["AI"],
        "tags": [],
        "url": "/opinions/why-most-ai-discussions-are-dumb/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/ai-universe.jpg"
      },{
        "title": "A French Engineering School",
        "excerpt":"It has now been six months since I officially finished my Engineering school, 🏫 I just received my diploma of Engineering. After my HighSchool, not knowing exactly what I should do to become like my heros: famous entrepreneurs and researchers, I set out to pass a “concours“ in order to...","categories": ["ECE"],
        "tags": ["Education","Carrier","France","Engineer","Prepa"],
        "url": "/blog/a-french-engineering-school/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/engschool1.jpeg"
      },{
        "title": "A semester abroad in Mexico",
        "excerpt":"During my third year of undergraduate studies, I went on to do a semester exchange in Mexico.🇲🇽 The city, 🌃 of Queretaro of the eponym region is placed in the center of Mexico and tops a 2000m plateau. There I studied computer, 💻 science, design and statistics at the Tec...","categories": ["ECE"],
        "tags": ["Mexico","Travel","Study Abroad","Life Experience"],
        "url": "/blog/a-semester-in-mexico/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/mexicotrip.jpeg"
      },{
        "title": "HighLife Intership",
        "excerpt":"HighLife has been the second internship of my higher education : It was a 2 month professional experience in the center of Paris. It is a biomedical startup which aims to implement semi biologic mitral valve through the femoral vein. Transforming complex open heart,💓 surgery into a simple ambulatory surgery....","categories": ["HighLife Med"],
        "tags": ["Proffessional Experience","Start Up","internship","Heart Anatomy","Design Process","Engineering Materials"],
        "url": "/blog/highlife-internship/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/highlife1.png"
      },{
        "title": "An Internship in New York",
        "excerpt":"I had the immense honour to get accepted for an internship at the Simons Institute’s Flatiron Institute. You can find out more about the work I did there in the Center for Computational Biology, 🧪, here. I fell in love, with New York. But that can be understandable. After reading,...","categories": ["Flatiron Institute"],
        "tags": ["New York","Proffessional Experience","NYU","Internship","Travel"],
        "url": "/blog/an-internship-in-new-york/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/internshipnyc.jpeg"
      },{
        "title": "The Human Brain Project",
        "excerpt":"The Human Brain 🧠 Project is a European Research Organization focused on understanding the Human Brain using today’s new computational power. I am part of this international research group thanks to my involvement in the 2017 Young Researcher Event and 2017 Researcher Event respectively in Geneva and Lausanne. A view...","categories": ["Flatiron Institute"],
        "tags": ["Comp Neuroscience","Simulation","Pynn","Neuromorphic Comp","Research"],
        "url": "/blog/human-brain-project/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/hbp.jpeg"
      },{
        "title": "A MSc at the University of Kent",
        "excerpt":"I recently came back from a graduation, 🎓 day in Canterbury, England. There, I have received in the most sumptuous Cathedral, a Master of Science in Advanced Computer Science, 🧪 and Computational Intelligence with Distinction from the University of Kent. I had a lot of choice of destinations to do...","categories": ["University of Kent"],
        "tags": ["Education","England","University","Study Abroad","Master Of Science"],
        "url": "/blog/a-msc-at-the-univeristy-of-kent/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/kentuni.jpeg"
      },{
        "title": "Interviews in Cambridge",
        "excerpt":"A few months ago, I went to Cambridge, UK, 🇬🇧 to participate to hiring days and interview for the European Molecular Biology, 🧬 Laboratory and European Bioinformatic Institute. I knew England pretty well now but never visited Cambridge. We were hosted in a magnificent hotel,🏨 in front of one of...","categories": ["University of Kent"],
        "tags": ["Cambridge","PhD","Job Interview","Research"],
        "url": "/blog/interviews-in-cambridge/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/cambridgeitw.jpeg"
      },{
        "title": "Boston Interviews",
        "excerpt":"I have had the chance to fly to Boston in the last week of January to spend a day at the Broad institute of MIT and Harvard. There I met with parts of the cancer data science team. Their goal is mainly to understand cancer and find new therapies by...","categories": ["ECE"],
        "tags": ["Broad Institute","Job Interview","Cancer","Data Science","Computational Biology","Travel"],
        "url": "/blog/broadinstitute-interview/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/broad1.png"
      },{
        "title": "Interviews at EPFL",
        "excerpt":"During the last week of January I had the chance to enter the hiring program of EPFL’s edcb program. There I spent four days with many PIs and around twice as much students 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 all over the world interested in computational biology🧪 . Each of them were extremely bright. Lausanne...","categories": ["ECE"],
        "tags": ["Computational Biology","PhD","Job Interview","Epfl","Research"],
        "url": "/blog/interviews-at-epfl/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/epflinter.jpeg"
      },{
        "title": "My first month at the Broad Institute",
        "excerpt":"I arrived 🛬 in Boston exactly a month ago. I managed to get my Visa 5 hours🕔 before catching my plane and the next➡️ thing you know. I was in an unfurnished apartment, waiting for it all to start. The Broad Institute is part of these institute a lot of...","categories": ["BroadInstitute"],
        "tags": ["Computational Biology","Associate","Job","Boston","Research"],
        "url": "/blog/a-month-at-the-broad/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/advancedstudy.jpg"
      },{
        "title": "UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection for Dimension Reduction",
        "excerpt":"Umap is a dimensionality reduction algorithm. It takes points defined by vectors of high dimensions: 2D vector= (x,y), 3D vector= (x,y,z), ND vector= (x,y,z,a,b,c,…n) And puts them back in lower dimensions. This allows for visualizing point clouds in 2D and also finding a subspace/ base / manifold in which the...","categories": ["BroadInstitute"],
        "tags": ["Computational Biology","Data Science","Mathematics","explanation"],
        "url": "/blog/umap-explanation/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/dimred.jpg"
      },{
        "title": "A year at the Broad Institute",
        "excerpt":"I have to say that when I had planned this article, I was not expecting the craziness of the next 6 months. I have now spent 1.5 years at the Broad. But 6 of them have actually been remote and back in France. I now expect to spend the entirety...","categories": ["BroadInstitute"],
        "tags": ["Computational Biology","Data Science","Associate Computational Biologist"],
        "url": "/blog/one-year-at-the-broad/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/yearbroaad.jpg"
      },{
        "title": "A look at Cobinding Analysis ",
        "excerpt":" ","categories": ["BroadInstitute"],
        "tags": ["AML","Cancer","Broad","Epigenetics"],
        "url": "/blog/cds-presentation/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/tf_cobinding.jpg"
      },{
        "title": "2 years at the Broad Institute",
        "excerpt":"2 years at the Broad Institute The last year was tough. Much tougher for some than others. Here I want to speak about the 2nd year at the Broad and what life was like during this pandemic. 😷 CCLE part The Broad continued functioning as fast as ever despite this...","categories": ["BroadInstitute"],
        "tags": ["Computational Biology","Data Science","Associate Computational Biologist"],
        "url": "/blog/two-years-at-the-broad/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/broad_far.jpg"
      },{
        "title": "PiPle: The Beginnings",
        "excerpt":"PiPle is the next generation professional communication tool. It is a cross platform project led by a team of Engineering student, 👩‍🎓 from ECEparis which is led by me. We won a couple of Prizes for this project last year. The Berger Levrault Citizen Challenge as well as ECE innov...","categories": ["PiPle"],
        "tags": ["Project Management","Team Management","App Development","Innovation","Design"],
        "url": "/projects/piple-the-foundation/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/piple1.jpeg"
      },{
        "title": "No Larsen Festival",
        "excerpt":"The NoLarsen Festival is a music, 🎧 festival that I managed and organised during the year 2016–2017 as part of my student, 👩‍🎓 society. It gathered 2000 people and was a heavy work to pull out during an intense school year. One of our Artist Made Poster One of the...","categories": ["ECE"],
        "tags": ["Management","Project Management","Festival","Organization","Business"],
        "url": "/projects/no-larsen-festival/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/nol.png"
      },{
        "title": "CaImAn",
        "excerpt":"Recent advances in calcium imaging acquisition techniques are creating data sets of the order of Terabytes/week. Memory and computationally efficient algorithms are required to analyse in reasonable amount of time terabytes of data. This projects implements a set of essential methods required in the calcium imaging movies analysis pipeline. Fast...","categories": ["Flatiron Institute"],
        "tags": ["Big Data","Matrix Factorization","ML","Python","Matlab"],
        "url": "/projects/caiman/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/caimann.png"
      },{
        "title": "PyCUB",
        "excerpt":"During my master thesis I had the chance to work with It a multidisciplinary team involving teachers in CS and Biology, 🧪 and a PhD student. I had the chance to work on sets of data from EMBL and from our lab at the University of Kent. Artist’s view of...","categories": ["University of Kent"],
        "tags": ["Codon Usage Bias","Science","Computational Biology","Data Science","Machine Learning"],
        "url": "/projects/pycub/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/pycub.jpg"
      },{
        "title": "PiPle: the startup",
        "excerpt":"A big decision has been made. With my fellow Engineer friend and maybe some day fellow scholar, Paul Best, we decided in the summer 2018 to launch, 🚀 PiPle and create a start-up. We have been working loosely on it since a year now and the need for PiPle seemed...","categories": ["PiPle"],
        "tags": ["Startup","Entrepreneurship","Consumer App","Innovation","Messaging"],
        "url": "/projects/piple-the-startup/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/piple1-teaser.png"
      },{
        "title": "What  Enhancers can tell us about Dependencies",
        "excerpt":"The Core Regulatory Circuitry (CRC) is a set of genes that define cell state and identity by encoding transcription factors. In certain cancers, we have shown CRC to be selective dependencies. We are now elucidating the critical CRC circuitry CTRC in acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). We have shown that BET...","categories": ["BroadInstitute"],
        "tags": ["Research","Broad Institute","Data Science","Cancer Dependencies","Epigenomics"],
        "url": "/projects/predicting-dependencies-from-enhancers/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/dependency-prediction.jpg"
      },{
        "title": "WRN dependencies",
        "excerpt":"A side project that I had the chance to participate in was the WRN dependencies study found in cancer cell lines by the DepMap project. Introduction At the Cancer Program in the Broad Institute, we are working on cancer cell lines, cancers from patients that have been grown in a...","categories": ["BroadInstitute"],
        "tags": ["Research","Broad Institute","Cancer Dependencies","Genomics"],
        "url": "/projects/wrn-dependencies/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/msi.jpeg"
      },{
        "title": "DepMap Omics: How to",
        "excerpt":"The goal of this blog post is to explain how to run the DepMap omics pipeline as our brave Associate Computational Biologist do. Introduction Large panels of comprehensively characterized human cancer models have provided a rigorous framework with which to study genetic variants, candidate targets, and small-molecule and biological therapeutics...","categories": ["BroadInstitute"],
        "tags": ["Research","Broad Institute","Data Science","Cancer Dependencies","Genomics"],
        "url": "/projects/depmap-omics-howto/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/depmap-logo.png"
      },{
        "title": "AMLproject",
        "excerpt":"The Core Regulatory Circuitry (CRC) is a set of genes that define cell state and identity by encoding transcription factors. In certain cancers, we have shown CRC to be selective dependencies. We are now elucidating the critical CRC circuitry CTRC in acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). We have shown that BET...","categories": ["BroadInstitute"],
        "tags": ["Research","Broad Institute","Data Science","Cancer Dependencies","Epigenomics"],
        "url": "/projects/AMLproject/",
        "teaser": "/assets/images/dependency-prediction.jpg"
      }]
