About me

I am fond of Data Science and an R(cpp) enthusiast.
I am the founder and former organizer (2017–2019) of the Grenoble R user group.
You can find me on Bluesky and GitHub as @privefl and on Stack Overflow as F. Privé.

Current work

I had been an academic researcher for 9 years.

From August 2025, I am now a Data Scientist at Aíma. I use machine learning and statistical tools to detect traces of (any) cancer in the DNA circulating in the blood.

Hometown – Education – Research

I am from Troyes, France. I naturally like Champagne.

I was in (Mathematics and Physics) preparatory school in Dijon.
Then, in 2016, I graduated from ENSIMAG, an engineer school in Informatics and Applied Mathematics in Grenoble.

In September 2019, I got a PhD in predictive human genetics in team BCM, Laboratoire TIMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France. My supervisors were Michael Blum (TIMC-IMAG) and Hugues Aschard (Institut Pasteur). My thesis was funded by the LabEx PERSYVAL-Lab.

I was interested in using statistical learning to advance precision medicine. Specifically, I have been developing tools (e.g. R package {bigsnpr}) to analyze very large datasets and methods to build predictive models based on large genetic data.

From October 2019 to December 2021, I was a postdoc at Aarhus University in Denmark with Bjarni Vilhjálmsson, founded by the Danish National Research Foundation (Niels Bohr Professorship to John McGrath).

From January 2022 to August 2025, I was a Senior Researcher at Aarhus University, funded by a Lundbeck Foundation Fellowship (to Bjarni Vilhjálmsson). I have been working fully remotely from France since December 2020.

Read more about my research work..