Samuel Boïté

Research

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

Last year, 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 many sectors.

Before that, 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 library.

Teaching

  • Sciences Po, Statistics for social sciences (2025)
  • Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Oral examiner (2024)
  • École polytechnique, Convex optimization (2023)
  • Apprentis d'Auteuil, Educator (2022)