Bachelor

International Bachelor
Data Science By Design
TEACHERS LIST

Admission: [email protected]
Visit our Website : https://bachelor-cytech.cyu.fr
Valérie NACHEF
Director of the International Bachelor Data Science by Design
Valérie Nachef has a PhD Thesis from Paris 6 University and an Habilitation thesis
from the University of Cergy-Pontoise. She is Associate Professor in Mathematics
at CY Cergy Paris Université. Her former research was descriptive set theory and
functional analysis. She now works in cryptography. She published articles in many
international conferences and she is also the co-author of a book in private key
cryptography.

For several years, she was the director of International Relations and Deputy Vice-
President for International Relations at the University of Cergy-Pontoise.

Elian MASNADA
Vice-director of the program.
Elian Masnada graduated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon in 2006. He
then got his Ph.D from University of Lyon in 2009 in Statistical Physics Applied
to Soft Matter under the supervision of Didier Long (supported by Rhodia-Solvay).
After this, he did, in the same field, a postdoc with Pr. Jean-Louis Barrat at the
University of Grenoble (supported by Michelin) and finally, in 2014, he got a position
at Georgetown University (Washington DC) in the Group of Peter Olmsted where
he was working on the Navier-Stokes equation applied to viscoelastic fluids. Since
2020, he is now working on statistical physics applied to soft matter at the LPPI
(CY Cergy Paris Université). As a teacher, he has taught, from undergrad to
graduate students mathematics, theoretical physics, electrical engineering and
quantum computing.

Matthieu CISEL
In charge of the Project Learning Unit.
Dr. Matthieu Cisel has a background in Data Science in the fields of Ecological
Modeling and Education Data Mining. During his PhD at ENS Paris-Saclay, he
worked on the topics of disengagement in MOOCs through the lens of learning
analytics. As a post-doctoral fellow in Université Paris-Descartes, he specialized in
the field of learning environment design.

In this unit, students are asked to develop learning apps based on artificial
intelligence. He also teaches some basic methods in the field of statistics. In
addition to these responsibilities, he is involved in the design of strategies to help
digitalize the curricula.
Constanza ROJAS-MOLINA
Born in Chile, where she did her undergraduate studies in mathematics before
moving to Paris to do a Master’s in Mathematics at the University Paris 6 (UPMC).
This was followed by a PhD in Mathematical Physics at the Universite de Cergy-
Pontoise (currently CY Cergy Paris Université). After her PhD, she spent time as a
visiting researcher in Stockholm, Paris and Maribor, in Slovenia. She then moved
to Germany, where she she did a two-year postdoc at the Analysis Group of the
University of Munich, (LMU) thanks to a Marie Curie Fellowship. This was followed
by two and a half years at the University of Bonn as a postdoc in the Probability
Group, before obtaining a Junior-Professor position in Stochastics at the University
of Düsseldorf.

After one year in Düsseldorf, she could not resist moving back to France to become
part of the recently created International Bachelor Data Science by Design at CY
Cergy Paris Université.

Her research focuses on the theory of random Schrödinger operators, a field of

Thanos MANOS
Dr T. Manos has a Bachelor ‘s degree in Mathematics and a Master’s degree in Applied
Mathematics from the Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, Greece. His
PhD thesis is on Applied Mathematics and Physics co-directed by the Department
of Physics, Université d’Aix-Marseille I (France) and Department of Mathematics,
University of Patras (Greece).

After obtaining his PhD, he has worked as post-doctoral researcher at the Max
Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden (Germany), University
of Florence (Italy), University of Nova Gorica (Slovenia), University of Maribor
(Slovenia) and as a senior researcher at the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine
(INM-7) at the Research Centre Jülich (Germany).

Since September 2019, he has been working as Assistant Professor at the Department
of Physics, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modélisation (LPTM) of CNRS,
CY Cergy Paris Université (France). He is a lecturer and project supervisor at the
“International Bachelor Data Science by Design” at CY Cergy Paris Université.

Marcus PIVATO
Marcus Pivato is a professor in the research unit «Théorie Economique, Modélisation
et Applications’ at CY Paris Université. His main research interests are collective
decision-making, social welfare, and normative economics. Earlier in his career
he also studied cellular automata and other dynamical systems. He has published
more than 50 academic research articles in theoretical economics, mathematics,
and philosophy, as well as a textbook on linear partial differential equations and
Fourier theory, and he is on the editorial boards of five journals. From 2014 until
2018, he held the Labex MME-DII Chaire d’Excellence at CY Paris Université. He
received his B.Sc. in Mathematics in 1994 from the University of Alberta, and his
PhD. in Mathematics in 2001 from the University of Toronto.
Emilie DUPONT
Physicist by training, she earned her PhD in Theoretical Physics in December
2006 at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec (Canada). Then, she taught at the
Universities Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris (2007-2008), Cergy-Pontoise (2010), Caen
(2012-2013). She also taught Sciences and Mathematics at middle and high school
levels in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (2008-2009), Lisieux (2013-2014) and Caen
(2014-2015).

Yérali GANDICA
Yérali Gandica holds a degree in Physics from the Universidad Simón Bolívar (Caracas-
Venezuela) and a PhD in Physics from the Venezuelan Institute for Research (IVIC).

She spent seven years between four Postdoctoral positions in Europe. First, at
the Center for Computational Physics in the Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.
There she started studies on Agent-based models and Big Data. Secondly, she
got a Postdoctoral fellow at the Namur Center for Complex Systems (naXys) at
the Mathematics Department of the University of Namur, where she worked on
Agent-based models (ABM) and started on Network Science. Afterwards, she
joined the Center for Research in Finance and Management (CeReFiM), at the
Business Department of the Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences and Business
Administration in the Université de Namur. During that Postdoctoral fellowship, she
started applying the concepts of Network Science to financial data. Later on, she
worked on an Associate Scientific Researcher at the Center for Operations Research
and Econometrics (CORE) and at Institute of Information and Communication
Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM) at the Université
Catholique de Louvain, working on Geo-localised Data. Yérali has complemented her
training following several courses in sociology (the first three years of this major).
She also has a broad experience working in computational social science, Big Data
and network science among several interdisciplinary groups (mathematics, finance,
geography, engineering and biology).
Director of International Relations
Michel Guilmault
Program Director
[email protected]
Valérie Nachef
Admission Officer
Maria Ivanova CY Cergy Paris Université
[email protected] CY Tech
Admission Assistant Site du Parc
Noemi Sixto CS 30221
[email protected] 95011 Cergy-Pontoise cedex
France
International Office
[email protected] cytech.cyu.fr

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