Master thesis/Engineer internship – Machine learning for time series prediction in environmental sciences

When:
01/03/2025 – 02/03/2025 all-day
2025-03-01T01:00:00+01:00
2025-03-02T01:00:00+01:00

Offre en lien avec l’Action/le Réseau : – — –/– — –

Laboratoire/Entreprise : LIFAT Université de Tours
Durée : up to 6 Months
Contact : nicolas.ragot@univ-tours.fr
Date limite de publication : 2025-03-01

Contexte :
The JUNON project, driven by the BRGM, is granted from the Centre-Val de Loire region through ARD program (« Ambition Recherche Développement ») which goal is to develop a research & innovation pole around environmental resources (agriculture, forest, waters…). The main goal of JUNON is to elaborate digital services through large scale digital twins in order to improve the monitoring, understanding and prediction of environmental resources evolution and phenomena, for a better management of natural resources. Digital twins will allow to virtually reproduce natural processes and phenomena using combination of AI and environmental tools.
JUNON will focus on the elaboration of digital twins concerning quality and quantity of ground waters, as well as emissions of greenhouse gases and pollutants with health effects, at the scale of geographical area corresponding to the North part of the Centre-Val-de-Loire region.

Sujet :
The Master Thesis/internship position will be focused on the prediction of water resources and pollutants in the air.
The goal will be to benchmark state of the art time series approaches and to propose new methods adapted to the specificities of the environmental data studied (multivariate time series). The benchmark on water resources relies on complex data with different seasonality and frequencies. Forecasting must be from short term to long term predictions. Regarding air pollutants, the benchmark is still to be elaborated.

Profil du candidat :
Academic level equivalent to a Master 2 in progress or Engineer in its last year in computer science

Formation et compétences requises :
– a good experience in data analysis and machine learning (in python) is required
– some knowledge and experiences in deep learning and associated tools is required
– some knowledge in time series analysis and forecasting will be highly considered
– curiosity and ability to communicate and share your progress and to make written reports and presentations
– ability to propose solutions
– autonomy and good organization skills

Adresse d’emploi :
Computer Science Lab of the Université de Tours (LIFAT), Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Group (RFAI)
64 av. Jean Portalis
37200 Tours

Document attaché : 202412060859_Fiche de poste stage Junon.pdf