ENSAI is co-accredited to grant the PhD within the MATISSE doctoral school (Mathématiques, Télécommunication, Informatique, Signal, Systèmes Électroniques)..
With over 1100 PhD students, the Matisse 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, Université de Rennes 2, INSA Rennes, CentraleSupélec, 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 |
| Koffi AMEZOUWUI | CREST | Statistics | Hidden Markov chains – Mixture models – Football applications |
| Jérémy BETTINGER | CREST | Statistics | Concentration inequalities – Non-asymptotic statistics – Local averaging methods – Non-parametric statistics |
| Daphné AUROUET | CREST | Statistics | Functional data analysis – Time-to-event models – Banknotes performance |
| Guillaume FLAMENT | CREST | Statistics | Credit risk – Climate change – Factor models |
| Guillaume FRANCHI | CREST | Statistics | Dynamic modeling of abundance data – Ecology |
| Omar KASSI | CREST | Statistics | Multivariate Functional Data |
| Mohamed EL HASNAOUI | CREST | Statistics | Model selection – Mixture models – Life science applications |
| Hassan MAISSORO | CREST | Statistics | Functional data analysis |
| Gabriel MASTRILLI | CREST | Statistics | Spatial point processes |
| Simon VIEL | CREST | Statistics | Machine learning – Covariate shift |
| Sunny WANG | CREST | Statistics | Functional data analysis – Athlete performance |
Post doctoral Students
| Name | Period | Previous Affiliation |
| Touqeer AHMAD | 2023-2025 | Università di Padova |
Past Doctoral and Post-doc Students
Post-docs (co-)Directed at ENSAI
| Name | Period | Previous Affiliation |
| Amandine DUBOIS | June 21, 2021 | “Estimation, variable selection and testing problems under local differential privacy constraints” |
| Steven GOLOVKINE | June 18, 2021 | “Statistical methods for multivariate functional data” |
| Camille-Sovanneary GAUTHIER | March 17, 2022 | “List Recommendation with multi-armed bandits” |
| Edouard GENETAY | May 16, 2022 | “Some contributions related to data clustering: robustness, high-dimensionality, and intrusion detection” |
| Zinsou-Max DEBALY | October 11, 2022 | “Non-linear multivariate time series models with exogenous regressors” |
| Elie CHEDEMAIL | December 21, 2023 |
“Large graph signal denoising with application to differential privacy” |
Doctoral Students (co-)directed at ENSAI
| Name | Period | Previous Affiliation |
| Boutheina NEMOUCHI | 2021-2023 | University of Compiègne |
| Antoine USSEGLIO-CARLEVE | 2020-2021 | INRIA Grenoble Rhône Alpes |
| Chunhao CAI | 2016-2018 | Nankai University, China |
| 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 |
