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Olivier comes from Quebec and studies at Laval University. He has spent a semester as an exchange student at ESILV, an engineering school located in the heart of Paris business district. Financial engineering, wanderlust and life in Paris : find out what it is like to study abroad in France. Paris is always a good […]

Based on the CTI data, the ranking list published by French newspaper l’Usine Nouvelle classifies 130 engineering schools in France. ESILV ranked #10 in the overall ranking and #1 on the occupational integration criteria. This engineering school ranking uses the public and certified data delivered by the CTI, the relevant body in charge of carrying […]

Machine Learning is an artificial intelligence technology enabling pattern recognition and predictions based on statistics and data mining.  Computers have the ability to learn without requiring specific programming. Here are four projects led by 5th-year engineering students majoring in Computer Science, Big Data and Connected Objects and Financial Engineering which resorted to Machine Learning. 1- […]

An article by Sergio Focardi, professor and researcher in finance at ESILV and EMLV and member of the De Vinci Research Center’s Finance group, first published in The Conversation. This article is based on the monograph “Equity Valuation: Science, Art or Craft?” of the CFA Institute Research Foundation, coauthored by Frank Fabozzi, Sergio Focardi and […]

Letting engineering students prepare a class and teach it. This is the objective of the Artificial Intelligence master class launched last fall at engineering school ESILV. Clément Duhart, professor and researcher at ESILV and associate researcher at MIT Media Lab, created and launched this master class. He uses teaching methods inspired from the MIT’s. The […]

For engineering students, team work implies resorting to numerous soft skills which aim to enhance the project’s technical performance, to improve the results and the collaboration within the group. Project management is at the heart of ESILV’s educational approach. Throughout the five year course, engineering students “learn by doing”. The academic staff members supervising projects […]

Art, electronic voting, actuarial work, music… Blockchain is not just about bitcoin. Anywhere there is a transaction, blockchain can bring security. The blockchain technology secures transactions with transparence, through an autonomous peer-to-peer design. Mainly known since the invention of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin being the most famous of all, this technology is now used in various fields. […]

The UNESCO Chair Culture, Tourism, Development held its 8th seminar on “Tourism and Information Technology in the Unesco World Heritage Sites”. Gaël Chareyron participated in a round table on Webanalytics and Big Data. Gaël Chareyron is head of the Computer Science, Big Data and Connected Objects major at ESILV. He is also a member of […]