Sébastien Bubeck – Awards

• Best Paper Award at STOC 2023.

• Best Student Paper Award* at ALT (Algorithmic Learning Theory) 2023.

• Best Paper Award at NeurIPS 2021.

• Best Paper Award at NeurIPS 2018.

• Best Student Paper Award* at ALT (Algorithmic Learning Theory) 2018.

• Best Paper Award at COLT (Conference on Learning Theory) 2016.

• 2015 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Computer Science.

• Second prize for the best French Ph.D in Artificial Intelligence (AI prize 2011).

• Jacques Neveu prize 2010 for the best French Ph.D in Probability/Statistics.

• Second prize for the best French Ph.D in Computer Science (Gilles Kahn prize 2010).

• Best Student Paper Award at COLT (Conference on Learning Theory) 2009.

*Joint papers with interns at MSR

Notable presentations:

• SODA 2025, plenary speaker (title: Small Language Models)

• Stiefel Lecture 2024, ETH (title: Small Language Models)

• Hot Topics in Computing, MIT, 2023 (title: Sparks of AGI)

• ITA 2023, invited speaker (title: Physics of AI)

• AAAI 2023, invited speaker (title: Physics of AI)

• ISMP 2022, semi-plenary speaker (title: Set Chasing)

• ALT 2022, plenary speaker (title: Set Chasing)