Sidonie Lefebvre

Senior Research Scientist at ONERA, Optics and Associated Techniques Department (DOTA), Physical modelling of the optronic scene unit (MPSO) - coordinator of Environment and signatures for optronic sensors scientific topic

Member of LMA2S (Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées à l'Aéronautique et au Spatial) & AILab (Artificial Intelligence Laboratory)

ONERA DOTA
6, Chemin de la Vauve aux Granges - 91123 PALAISEAU

E-mail : sidonie(dot)lefebvre(at)onera(dot)fr LinkedIn

Research topics

Uncertainty Quantification, Sensitivity analysis, Machine/Deep Learning, Optimisation, Anomaly Detection

Short CV

2018-.. Senior Research Scientist at ONERA, Optics and Associated Techniques Department

2007-2017 Research Scientist at ONERA, Optics and Associated Techniques Department

2003-2006 PhD " Etude expérimentale et simulation numérique du comportement mécanique de structures sub-micrométriques de cuivre : application aux interconnexions de cuivre dans les circuits intégrés - CIFRE Altis Semiconductor / ECP - advisor: L. Kubin

2000-2002 Master degree EDP and scientific calcul at Orsay University

1999-2000 Bachelor degree in Mathematics at Orsay University

1996 - 2nd prize "Version Grecque" at Concours Général

Publications list

See Google Scholar or Researchgate

I also contribute to early-ML - A Python step-by-step primer for Machine Learning and Optimization github

Committees

Coordinator, with X. Zhu, of UQSay seminar- UQ, DACE and related topics @ Paris Saclay

Member of RT-UQ steering committee

Member of OpenTURNS (An Open source initiative for the Treatment of Uncertainties, Risks'N Statistics) steering committee

Member of GIS LARTISSTE scientific committee (UQ @Paris-Saclay)

Member of LNE scientific committee

Students supervision

Alina Ciocarlan (2021-2024) Small target detection by deep learning - co-advisor with Sylvie Le Hégarat Mascle - OPTRO 2024 best student paper

I am currently co-advisor of two PhD students:

Sélim Olivier (2023-...) Deep generative networks for cloud fields synthesis - co-advisor with Yann Gousseau

Ambroise Bouru--Gazeau (2025-...) Self Supervised Learning for Small target detection - co-advisor with Sylvie Le Hégarat Mascle