PhD Program
ENSAI is co-accredited to grant the PhD within the MathSTIC Doctoral School (Mathématiques et Sciences et Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication).
With over 1100 PhD students, the MathSTIC Doctoral School is one of the largest in the region in terms of students and theses defended annually. It includes doctoral students from: Université de Rennes 1, Université de Rennes 2, INSA Rennes, Institut Mines-Telecom Atlantique, and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Rennes.
ENSAI is also a partner school of the EDGE Doctoral School (Sciences Economiques et sciences De Gestion).
ENSAI researchers can advise or direct a dissertation in a wide array of subjects including Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, and Statistics.
Doctoral Students
| Name | Laboratory | Field | Research interests |
| DUBOIS Amandine | CREST | Statistics | Differential privacy – Statistical learning |
| GENETAY Edouard | CREST | Statistics | Classification – Robust algorithms – Medians-of-Means |
| GOLOVKINE Steven | CREST | Statistics | Functional data analysis – Non-parametric statistics – Unsupervised classification |
| ZINZOU Max | CREST | Statistics | Categorical time series |
| CHEDEMAIL Elie | CREST | Statistics | Cybersecurity – Differential privacy – Machine learning |
Past Doctoral Students
Post-docs (co-)Directed at ENSAI
| Name | Period | Previous Affiliation |
| Chunhao CAI | 2016-2018 | Nankai University, China |
Doctoral Students (co-)directed at ENSAI
| Name | Year of Defense | Current Position |
| Daniel BECKER visiting PhD | Bonn Graduate School of Economics, Universität Bonn | |
| Vincent BRIANE | 2017 | Post-doc |
| Mercedes CONDE AMBOAGE visiting PhD | 2017 | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela |
| Xiafei MA | 2017 | |
| Gaspar MASSIOT | 2017 | Post-doc ONERA |
| Clément VITAL | 2016 | BNP Paribas |
| Cyril FAVRE MARTINOZ | 2015 | Insee |
| Weiyu LI | 2015 | China University of Petroleum (Huadong) |
| Samuel MAISTRE | 2014 | Université de Strasbourg |
| Eric LESAGE | 2013 | Insee |
| Daniel BONNERY | 2011 | Maryland University |
| Olivier LOPEZ | 2008 | UPMC |
| Agathe GUILLOUX | 2004 | Université d’Évry Val d’Essonne |
| Céline VIAL | 2003 | Polytechnique Lyon |
| Salim LARDJANE | 2000 | Université Bretagne Sud |
