Research and professional experience 

Since 2019       Full Professor in Affective Computing, Image Data Signal dept., Telecom Paris

2013-2019 : Associate Professor in Affective Computing at Telecom-ParisTech

2009-2012 Researcher and project supervisor in heterogeneous data analysis  in EDF R&D

2007-2009  Researcher in audio mining  in Thales Research and Technology

2003-2007  Phd carried out between Thales Research and Technology/HIT (Human Interaction Team) and the following laboratories : CNRS-LIMSI/TLP ( Spoken Language Processing) and Telecom-ParisTech/TSI (Image and Signal Processing)

2003 Master research Internship. Musical sound separation : bayesian approach and Monte-Carlo methods. (4 months)  (Telecom-Paris, TSI)

2002 Engineer internship on grapheme to phoneme transcription in Dialoca company (4 months)

Training

2017 HdR – Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches/ accreditation to supervise research-
Habilitation thesis: Opinion analysis in interactions from text mining to human-agent interactions
Committee : Dirk Heylen (Université twente, Pays-Bas), Nicolas Sabouret (Université Paris-Sud), Bjorn Schuller (Imperial College London),  Frédéric Béchet (Aix-Marseille Université), Mohamed Chetouani (Université Pierre et Marie Curie), Patrick Paroubek (Université Paris-Sud).

2007 PhD Thesis : Acoustic analysis and detection of fear-type emotional manifestations occurring during abnormal situations (Analyse et détection des indices acoustiques des manifestations émotionnelles liées à la peur intervenant lors de situations anormales)

2003 Master II research ATIAM (Acoustique Traitement du Signal Informatique Appliqué à la Musique)  Jussieu (Paris VI).

2001-2003  Engineer student at Télécom-ParisTech.

2001  Master I -Applied Mathematics – Jussieu (Paris VI)

2000  License – Fondamental Mathematics – Jussieu (Paris VI)