Professor at Universite Cote d'Azur

Research Lab: I3S Laboratory, INRIA - Maasai Project

Research interests: kernel-based SVM, Boosting, Ensemble Learning, Random Forest, Artificial Neural Networks, Deep Learning, (Inter-)Active learning, Long-term learning, Large Scale learning, Machine Learning Hybridization, Pattern Recognition

Research contexts: Multimedia Indexing/Classification, Content-Based Multimedia Retrieval, Text mining, Applications to Bio-Medical data, Application to environmental data, Application to sensor netowrks

Current PhD students:

• Laura Melissa Sanabria Rosas, 2017-2021, Detection and caracterisation of salient moments for automatic summaries. Regional Grant with Wildmoka, with Thomas Menguy
• Miguel Fabian Romero Rondon,2017-2021, Streaming virtual reality: learning for attentional models and network optimization. MENRT Grant, co-directed with Lucile Sassatelli (UCA)
• Tianshu Yang, 2018-2021, Machine learning for the revenue accounting workflow management. CIFRE grant with Amadeus, co-directed with Nicolas Pasquier (UCA)
• Laurent Vanni, 2019-2022, Understanding Deep Learning for political discourse analysis, co-directed with Damon Mayaffre (UCA)
• Yassine ELAMRAOUI, 2020-2023, Maximizing expert feedback in the detection of anomalies in time series. CIFRE Grant with Ezako, co-directed with Mireille Blay-Fornarino (UCA)
• Baptiste Pouthier, 2020-2023, Multimodal Speech Recognition. CIFRE with NXP, with Laurent Pilati
• Louis Ohl, 2021-2024, Cardiology analysis through Machine Learning. FFCR Grant, co-directed with Pierre-Alexandre Mattei (UCA), Arnaud Droit (U. Laval), Mickael Leclerc (U. Laval)
• Antoine Collin, 2021-2024, Automatic cell type annotation for cell atlas construction. 3IA Institute PhD Grant, co-directed with Pascal Barbry (IPMC, UCA), Christophe Becavin (IPMC, UCA)

Current Responsabilities:

• Scientific and Program Officer for Artificial Intelligence at French National Research Agency (ANR)
• Member of Scientific Council of the Theoretical and Computational Modelisation in Neuro and Cognitive Sciences (http://univ-cotedazur.fr/en/idex/projet-structurant/cauca)
• Member of Scientific Council of Observatoire sur les impacts technologiques, economiques et societaux de l'IA (https://otesia.eu/)

Former...

• PhD students at Universite Cote d'Azur:

  • John Anderson Garcia Henao, 2017-2021, Towards a Green Artificial Intelligence applied to health care and well-being. Labex Grant in collaboration with Hospital University Center
  • Melanie Ducoffe, Active Learning for Deep Networks, 2015-2018, ENS Grant
  • Katy Blanc, Analysis, Description and Recognition of Video content, 2014-2017, MENRT
  • Edson Alejandro Florez Suarez, Data Science at the service of pharmacovigilance (population approach) and personalized drug monitoring (data profiling), 2017-2020, Regional Grant with France Labs and in collaboration with Hospital University Center
  • Romaric Pighetti, Content-Based Information Retrieval combining evolutionary algorithms and SVM, 2012-2016, MESR
  • Stephanie Lopez, Interactive Content-based Retrieval based from Eye-tracking, 2013-2016, ANR Project VISIIR
  • Ameni Bouaziz, Short message mining (tweet trends and events), 2013-2016, Regional Grant with Semantic Grouping Company
  • Atheer Al-Nadji, Recommender system for Data Mining applied to sensor networks, 2013-2016, Irak gouvernment research grant

• Post-docs:

  • Geoffrey Portelli, Bio-Deep: A biology perspective for Deep Learning optimization and understanding, 2016-2018.
  • Souad Chaabani, Interactive Image Search Engine by Visual Control, 2017-2018.
  • Sujoy Chatterjee, Multiple Consensus Clustering for Multidimensional and Imbalanced Data, in collaboration with Amadeus, 2018-2020.

• Reasearch Engineers:

  • Taki-Eddine Mekhalfa, 2020-2021,Learning to explain and explain to learn (L2EE2L). 3IA Institute Research Engineer, collaboration with Marco Gori (University Siena & UCA)
  • Lirone Samoun, 3D Object interactive search engine, Digiart Project, 2016-2018.
  • Thomas Fisichella, Structure extraction from 3D point clouds, Digiart Project, 2016-2018.
  • Ayattalah Aly Halim, Human Action Recognition from 3D, 2014-2017, UFE research grant
  • Lucas Malleus, Algoritms for data search and retrieval based on 2D and 3D content, 2014-2017, contract with Autodesk

• Responsabilities:

  • Member of EDSTIC Doctoral School Council
  • Member of Pedagogical Committee for Computer Science Department of Polytech Engineering School

Projects: ANR VISIIR, H2020 DigiArt, ANR Deep in France, ICT-48 AI4Media.

Associate Professor at ENSEA

Research interests: Video segmentation and Tracking, Active Contours and Level-Sets, Video Indexing, Content-Based Image and Multimedia Retrieval, Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision.

Former PhD students:

• Guillermo Camara-Chavez (2005-2007)
• David Gorisse (2007-2010)
• Jean-Emmanuel Haugeard (2007-2010)
• Shuji Zhao (2007-2010)
• Mourad Boufarguine (2008-2011)
• Alexis Lechervy (2009-2012)
• Leila Meziou (2010-2013)

Projects : NoE MUSCLE, Projet Digiteo-Ile de France K-VideoScan, Projet ANR iTOWNS, Projet ANR EROS 3D.

Post-Doctorate :

with ITI, Institute of Telematics and Informatics at CERTH, Thessaloniki, in the Multimedia Knowledge Group of Professors Strintzis et Kompatsiaris

PhD thesis :

under the supervision of Pr Michel Barlaud in the CReATIVe group from October 1st, 2000, defended on September 24th, 2004 (manuscript PDF file, slides PDF file)