Bastien Dubail

About Me

I am a postdoc in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at KTH, in the team of Alexandre Proutière. Before that, I did my PHD at INRIA Paris and Aix-Marseille Université, under the supervision of Laurent Massoulié and Charles Bordenave.

My research focuses on mixing times of Markov chains, notably on the so-called cutoff phenomenon, which is the abrupt convergence of a finite Markov chain to stationarity. Lately, I have started investigating how such concepts can be used to tackle more applied questions, notably in the field of reinforcement learning. Quite generally, I am interested in all kinds of probabilistic and statistical models, as well as stochastic processes and algorithms on graphs.

Here is a short academic CV.

Research Interests: probability theory, mixing times of Markov chains, cutoff phenomenon, random walks on groups, random graphs, reinforcement learning

Contact:

bastdub [at] kth.se

Office 709
KTH
Malvinas Väg 10
114 28 Stockholm, Sweden