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Contact Information
| Name | Tess Breton |
| Professional Title | PhD Candidate |
| tess.breton@nospam.math.cnrs.fr | |
| Location | 45 rue des Saints-Pères, Paris, 75006 |
Professional Summary
PhD Candidate in Statistics
Experience
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2025 - 2028 Paris, France
Teaching Assistant
Université Paris-Cité
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2025 - 2025 Paris, France
Research Intern
Owkin, Frontier Research Team
Prediction of patient chemotherapy response from baseline gene expression profiles using models trained on pre-clinical data. Worked on bulk, single-cell and spatial RNA-sequencing data from the MOSAIC initiative.
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2024 - 2024 New York, United States
Research Intern
Columbia University, Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics (IICD)
Research internship supervised by Simon Tavaré and Khanh Dinh. Mathematical modeling and simulation of ecDNA dynamics in cancer cell populations. Moran process with selective pressure, ABC inference. Python code available on GitHub.
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2023 - 2023 Buc, France
R&D Intern
GE HealthCare
- Worked on evaluating the robustness of a Deep Learning algorithm for lung nodule detection and segmentation.
- CT scan images.
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2023 - 2023 Palaiseau, France
Tutor
École Polytechnique
Tutoring third-year Bachelor students in Asymptotic Statistics.
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2025 - 2025 Paris, France
Academic Tutor
Secours Populaire de Paris
Education
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2025 - 2028 Paris, France
PhD
Université Paris-Cité
Statistics
- Supervised by Antoine Chambaz and Julie Josse, and Geneviève Robin
- Causal inference, Interpretability and Conformal Prediction
- Collaborating with clinicians to better understand treatment response heterogeneity in diverse settings
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2024 - 2025 Palaiseau, France
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2021 - 2025 Palaiseau, France
Cycle Ingénieur
École Polytechnique
Applied Mathematics
Languages
French : Native speaker
English : C2
German : B2-C1
Spanish : B1
Interests
Hobbies: Hiking, Drawing, Piano, Singing