Helbert Céline

After preparatory classes, Céline Helbert entered the École des Mines de Saint-Etienne. She received her engineering degree in 2000. She then continued with a DEA in financial and insurance sciences from Lyon, then went on to complete a thesis in applied mathematics at Mines de Saint-Etienne. She graduated in 2005. She then stayed a few years in Saint-Etienne as an associate assistant professor, before becoming university lecturer at Université Pierre Mendès France in 2009. She teaches at the IUT 2 SD department and conducts her research within the LJK in Grenoble and in collaboration with the INRIA MOISE team currently AIRSEA. In 2012, she was recruited to the Ecole Centrale de Lyon on a university lecturer position. She conducts her research work within the ICJ. In 2019 she will obtain the accreditation to direct research.

Research Projects

Céline Helbert is a recognized researcher in the field of uncertainty quantification. She is involved in the design of new methods for sensitivity analysis, metamodeling, initial and sequential sampling. She works in collaboration with INRAE on environmental applications and with several other partners on industrial applications linked to transport and energy production in particular.

Since 2020 she has been scientific leader of the consortium CIROQUO, bringing together several academic partners from Toulouse, Nice, Grenoble, Saint-Etienne, Paris-Saclay and several technological research partners (IFPEN, Storengy, IRSN, BRGM, CEA) around questions of calibration, optimization, exploration of expensive computational codes.

Training activities

Céline Helbert is a teacher of applied mathematics. More specifically, she is responsible for statistics courses in the engineering curriculum.

• inferential statistics,
• linear and generalized linear regression,
• statistical learning,
• Bayesian statistics,
• Gaussian process regression.