Samuel Boïté

Applied mathematics engineer from École polytechnique and MVA, interested in optimal transport, generative models, and tropical methods.

I also enjoy teaching and am currently seeking new opportunities.

Feel free to reach out at samuel.boite@polytechnique.edu!

Research

I am currently at Université Paris Cité (MAP5), working with Julie Delon and Eloi Tanguy on optimal transport between Gaussian mixtures.

At Inria, I developed efficient algorithms for tropical support vector machines with Xavier Allamigeon, Stéphane Gaubert, and Théo Molfessis.

Tropical SVMs have piecewise-linear decision boundaries that naturally divide space into multiple sectors, enabling interpretable multi-class classification.

Last year, at the Centro de Modelamiento Matemático (CMM), I investigated online algorithms for combinatorial auctions with José Correa and Andrés Cristi. In 2023, at Exotec, I designed control systems that doubled robot speeds.

I contribute to the Python Optimal Transport (POT) library.

Teaching

  • Sciences Po, Teacher in Statistics for social sciences (2025-present)
  • Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Oral examiner in MP and PSI (2024-present)
  • École polytechnique, Tutor in Convex optimization (2023-2024)
  • Académie de Versailles, Mathematics tutor (2023-2024)
  • Apprentis d'Auteuil, Educator (2021-2022)