Ongoing Thesis :
Yi Yu (2024-) Automatic analysis of the human ability to collaborate in dyadic and group conversations, co-supervision with Maria Boritchev (Telecom-Paris)
Cécilia Graiff (2024-) Modelling and automatic analysis of argumentation in political debates with a cross-cultural perspective, co-supervision with Emiliano Grossmann (Sciences Po, Center for Social-Political Data) and Benoît Sagot (INRIA Paris)
Célia Nouri (2024- ) Subjectivity, Belief Systems, and Social Influence: Modeling Opinion Dynamics in Digital Ecosystems, co-supervision with Jean-Philippe Cointet (Sciences Po, Medialab)
Gabrielle Lebellier (2024- ) Controlled generation for bias mitigation and cultural awareness in conversational language models, co-supervision with Benoît Sagot (INRIA Paris)
Ha Anh Ngo (2024- ) Multimodal models of repair in social human-agent interactions, co-supervision with Catherine Pelachaud (ISIR) and Nicolas Rollet (Telecom-Paris)
Lucie Chenain (2023 – ) Speech Emotion Recognition for Huntington’s Disease co-supervision with Anne-Catherine Bachoud Levy (ENS)
Alisa Barkar (2022- ) – Social Signal Processing for Public speaking training – co-supervision with Mathieu Chollet (University of Glasgow) and Beatrice Biancardi (CESI)
Lorraine Vanel (2022 – )- Generation of natural language utterances for socially competent agents CIFRE – co-supervision with Alya Yacoubi (Zaion)
Yanzhu Guo (2022 – ) co-supervision with M Vazirgiannis (école polytechnique)
Post-doc :
Aina Gari Soler (INRIA Paris) : Building textual representations of the dynamics of social interactions – co-supervised with Matthieu Labeau (Telecom-Paris)
Defended Thesis :
Cyril Chhun (April 2021 – November 2024 )- Automatic Story Generation and Evaluation – co-supervision with Fabian Suchanek
Chadi Helwé (January 2021-July 2024 ) Combining neural and symbolic approaches for logical reasoning on natural language- co-supervision with Fabian Suchanek
Marc Hucelle (Telecom-Paris) (September 2020-December 2023 ) – co-supervision with Nicolas Rollet and Giovanna Varni, now Post-doctoral researcher at the DiiP Institute affiliated to the Université Paris Cité
Alafate Abulmiti (June 2020- December 2023) – co-supervision (started from September 2021) with Justine Cassell, now AI Engineer/Data Scientist at L’Oreal
Emile Chapuis (Telecom-ParisTech) (October 2018 – December 2021 ) : sentiment analysis in interactions – co-supervision with Matthieu Labeau, now researcher at INA (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel)
Tanvi Dinkar (Telecom-ParisTech) (August 2018 – January 2022 ) : disfluencies in human-agent interaction – in collaboration with Ioana Vasilescu and Catherine Pelachaud, now
Pierre Colombo (Telecom-ParisTech- IBM) (November 2018 – November 2021) : Learning to Represent and Generate Text using Information Measures – co-supervision with Giovanna Varni and Emmanuel Vignon (IBM), now Associate Professor at CentraleSupelec and Chief Science Officer at Equall.ai
Léo Hemanou (Telecom-ParisTech-LIMSI-Easyrecrue) (October 2017 – February 2021): Automatic analysis of social signals during Job interviews Co-supervision with Jean-Claude Martin and Grégory Wajntrob. now Research Engineer NLP at Sanofi
Hamid Jalalzai (Telecom-ParisTech-LIG) : Weak signals detection for opinion analysis in twitter. Co-supervision with Anne Sabourin and Eric Gaussier (LIG) (defended in November 2020). Now postdoctoral researcher at INRIA Saclay
Alexandre Garcia (Telecom-ParisTech): Semi-supervised prediction for opinion detection – Co-supervision with Florence d’Alché-Buc and Slim Essid. (defended in October 2020). Now teacher of industrial science and computing at Lycée Chaptal
Valentin Barrière (Telecom-ParisTech): Feature Function Learning for Sentiment Analysis in speech interactions. Co-supervision with Slim Essid. (defended in April 2019). Now Assistant Professor at Universidad de Chile
Caroline Langlet (Telecom-ParisTech) : User’s sentiment analysis in human-agent interactions (defended in september 2018 ) Co-supervision with Catherine Pelachaud (Telecom-ParisTech). Now professeur des écoles in France
Irina Malslowski (Telecom-ParisTech-EDF R&D) : Analysis of customers’ opinions in their interactions with Embodied Conversational Agents for customer relationship management (defended in June 2018). Co-supervision with Delphine Largarde (EDF R&D) and Catherine Pelachaud. Now a computational linguist at OSS 360
Thomas Janssoone (Telecom-ParisTech-ISIR) : Multimodal analysis and recognition of social signals: application to social stance generation in virtual agents (defended in february 2018 ). Co-supervision with Gaël Richard, and K. Bailly (ISIR). Now a research engineer at Enchanted tools (robotics).
Camille Dutrey (EDF R&D) : Adaptation of information extraction methods to speech conversational data (december 2011 – defended in December 2014 ) Co-supervision with : Sophie Rosset (LIMSI-CNRS), Martine Adda (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), Ioana Vasilescu (LIMSI-CNRS ). Now Head of NLP R&D team at AMIAD
Rémi Lavalley (EDF R&D) : Automatic extraction of textual segments for the detection of speaker roles, topics, and polarities (defended in July 2012) Co-supervision with : Marc El-bèze (Université d’Avignon), Patrice Bellot (Université d’Aix Marseille)
Previous post-doc :
Beatrice Biancardi (Telecom-Paris, IMT Atlantique): Social signal processing for public speaking training- co-supervised with Mathieu Chollet (IMT Atlantique). Now Associate Professor at CESI-LINEACT
Gaël Guibon (Telecom-Paris, SNCF): Learning with a few examples for the automatic analysis of emotions in written conversations. co-supervised with Matthieu Labeau (Telecom-Paris) and Luce Lefeuvre (SNCF). Now Associate Professor at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Caroline Langlet (Telecom-Paris- ISIR) : Grammars for the verbal analysis of engagement and cohesion in interactions
Asma Atamna (Telecom-Paris) : Deep learning approaches for social computing in human-agent interactions
Mohamed Ben-Jannet (Telecom-ParisTech-EDF Lab) : Analysis of user emotional experience during human-human and human-agent interactions (started in November 2017). Co-supervision with Delphine Lagarde, now Lead Data Scientist at Trading Central
Atef Ben Youssef (Telecom-ParisTech-Softbank robotics) : Multimodal analysis of user’s behavior in human-robot interaction (started in September 2016). Co-supervision with Slim Essid and Angelica Lim (Softbank robotics), Head of R&D at Ludo-Vic
Brian Ravenet (Telecom-ParisTech): Automating the production of communicative gestures in embodied characters (started in February2017). Co-supervision with Catherine Pelachaud. Now Associate Professor at LISN
Guillaume Dubuisson-Duplessis (Telecom-ParisTech-ISIR) : Measuring verbal alignment in human-agent interaction. Co-supervision with Frédéric Landragin. Now Researcher in AI and NLP, software engineer, lead data scientist at EDF
Varun Jain (Telecom-ParisTech-ISIR) : Models of intra-synchrony for ECA’s behavior generation : speech and gesture (Oct. 2016-Oct. 2017, Aria-valuspa project). Co-supervision with Catherine Pelachaud. Now Research Scientist at HP Labs in India
Giovanna Varni (Telecom-ParisTech-ISIR) : Generalized computational models of interpersonal synchrony: from human-human to human-machine interaction (started in October 2015, Labex Smart). Co-supervision with Mohamed Chetouani, now Associate Professor at Università di Trento
Sabrina Campano (Telecom-Paristech) : Verbal alignment in human-agent interaction (July 2013 – May 2015). Now project manager at EDF Lab
Visits
Invited researcher at LIMSI and Telecom-Paris: Marylin Walker, Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz (July and December 2018)
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