Hachem KadriView profile
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Hachem Kadri is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at Aix-Marseille University and Head of the Data Science Department at LIS Lab since 2023. He was previously an Assistant Professor at the same institution from 2012 to 2019 and conducted postdoctoral research at INRIA Lille and LAGIS. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the National Engineering School of Tunis (2008) and completed his HDR (Habilitation) at Aix-Marseille University in 2019 on operator-valued kernel methods. His research spans machine learning with core expertise in kernel methods, functional data analysis, statistical learning theory, deep learning, and quantum machine learning, bridging theoretical foundations with applications in signal processing and quantum computing. Recent publications (2022-2024) demonstrate a strategic shift toward quantum machine learning and C*-algebraic frameworks, with significant contributions in implicit regularization for deep tensor factorization, quantum perceptron algorithms, and operator-theoretic kernel extensions. Key works appear in ICML, NeurIPS, and AISTATS, highlighting interdisciplinary innovation at the intersection of algebra, functional analysis, and ML. Professor Kadri leads the ANR Starting Grant QuantML (2019-2024) as Principal Investigator and co-led the Franco-Tunisian OPERA project (2019-2023). He was nominated to the National Universities Council (CNU) for 2024-2027 and elected Head of LIS Data Science Department in 2023, reflecting his leadership in French academia. As a core member of the QARMA machine learning group at LIS Lab, he co-organized the inaugural Quantum Machine Learning workshop at ECML-PKDD 2022 and serves as Vice-president of SSFAM (Société Savante Francophone d’Apprentissage Machine), actively shaping the European ML research landscape.











