Nisrine Jrad

Nisrine Jrad is a Lecturer (HDR) at the Catholic University of the West (Angers), serving as Deputy Director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics (IMA) and Vice-Dean for Professionalization. She is affiliated with the Angevin Systems Engineering Research Laboratory (EA7315). Her research focuses on Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Signal Processing, with applications in biomedical domains like epilepsy, EEG signal analysis, and Brain-Machine Interfaces.

Education:

• PhD in Machine Learning, University of Technology of Troyes (2009)
• Research Master, National School of Electricity and Mechanics (ENSEM), Nancy (2006)
• Electrical-Electronics Engineering Diploma, Lebanese University (2005)

Research Interests: Supervised/unsupervised learning, deep clustering, EEG signal processing, epilepsy biomarkers, and high-frequency oscillations analysis. She has pioneered methods for seizure detection, cross-subject generalization, and medical data analysis using advanced neural networks and complexity measures.

Teaching: Algebra, Data Analysis, Linear Models, and Automatic Classification across academic levels (Bac+1 to Bac+5).

Students: Supervised PhD/MSc students include Rayane Chmaycem (spatio-temporal GNNs), Gaëlle Milon-Harnois (scalp HFO detection), and Elie Karam (graph-based clustering).

Labs/Teams: Leads research in MAI (Medical Applied Informatics) team and collaborates with interdisciplinary groups on ovarian cancer transcriptomics and environmental toxicology.