How to Contact Jérôme Dockès or Verify His OpenPGP Key

The site lists a direct contact email, [email protected], and links to his GitHub account. It also publishes an OpenPGP public key, rsa4096/BB047DAC040B35F4, together with its fingerprint, so you can check that a signed message or key really belongs to him. These details come from the page itself; the site does not describe response times or any contact preferences beyond the email address.

Contacting Jérôme Dockès

The page gives one direct channel:

He is a research engineer in the SODA lab at Inria, in France, and works mainly on skrub, an open-source machine-learning library. If your question is about a specific project, naming it in your message helps route it to the right context. The page does not state which channel he prefers for project questions, so treat the email as the general route and GitHub as the place to inspect code, issues, and contribution activity.

Verifying the OpenPGP Key

The page publishes the key ID and fingerprint so you can confirm a key you already hold, or one you receive, matches the published one.

1. Get the key from the source you are checking — for example, a signed release, a keyserver result, or a message from him.
2. Read its fingerprint with gpg --fingerprint BB047DAC040B35F4 (or with the full key ID you were given).
3. Compare the output against the fingerprint published on jeromedockes.github.io. A match confirms the key is the one he publishes; a mismatch means you are looking at a different key.
4. Import and use it only after the fingerprints match, e.g. gpg --import key.asc followed by decryption or signature verification.

The expected result is a fingerprint identical to the published one. The common snag is comparing only the short key ID: short IDs are easier to spoof, so compare the full fingerprint character by character. Another pitfall is fetching a key from an unverified keyserver and assuming it is his — the published fingerprint, not the keyserver listing, is the reference point.

What the Page Does and Does Not Tell You

The page is a personal homepage for a research engineer, not a company site or a support portal. It confirms his role at Inria's SODA lab, his maintainer work on skrub and Nilearn, his development of NeuroQuery with Romain Primet and Hande Gözükan, and his work on pubget and labelbuddy. It also lists publications and the OpenPGP details above.

It does not publish a phone number, a postal address, office hours, or a stated turnaround for email. If you need a formal or time-sensitive response, the page alone will not tell you whether email is the right route — you would need to confirm that through the channel itself.