As most of what I try fails, I have decided to list some of my failures here. (Inspired by Dr Veronika CH’s shadow CV)

Rejected Applications/Papers/Grants/…

2023-present (startup projet)

• Docteur-entrepreneur Nancy 2023
• Prix Pépites 2023
• i-PhD 2023, 2024

2023-present

• Permanent position (MCF) at Univ Caen

2018-2022 (as PhD student)

• Paper at Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (co-author)
• Paper at XKDD 2021 (first author)
• Paper at ECML/PKDD 2021 (first author)
• Paper at IDA 2021 (first author)

2012-2017 (as BSc & MSc student)

• Paper at DS 2016 (co-author)
• Paper at CSCW 2016 (co-author)

Grants, awards

2018-present (as PhD student)

• Programa Pessoa 2020-2021

Other academic (and non-academic) rejections

• Participating in Reinforcement Learning Summer SCOOL (as PhD student)
• (some) PhD positions I was rejected:
  • TU Delft, UvA, KU Leuven, U. of Bergen, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, U. of Luxembourg.
• Research project at INESC-TEC (as former MSc student)
• Undergraduate internship at Google Belo Horizonte (as final year BSc student)