Christophe Cerisara

CNRS Researcher in LLM and Natural Language and Speech Processing (NLP)

Highlights

• Member of the AI Advisory Committee of Univ. Lorraine in 2025

• Co-organizer of the NLP event at AI Action Summit 2025

• Invited CNRS roundtable on generative AI at Vivatech 2024

• Referent AI for the French National Plan for AI in 2020

• Head of the AI-NLP transversal axis at LORIA from 2019

• Head of the SYNALP research team 2012-2025

Expertise

AI

LLM: compresson, optimization, low-cost, Deep learning…

NLP

dialogue, books understanding, automatic summarization…

Computer Science

Python, go, java, C, git, JAMstack…

Developer: linux, android; preferred tools: github, gitlab, markdown (Mkdocs, Hugo, Jekyll, Reveal.js…), GPU computing (via Pytorch, Tensorflow, JAX), latex, ActivityPub federation, …

Experience

Research

Since 2001: CNRS researcher in computer science, speech and NLP

Since 2019: Leader of the AI-NLP transversal axis at the LORIA laboratory

Since 2012: Leader of the SYNALP research team

1999-2000: Researcher at Panasonic Speech Technology Laboratory (Santa Barbara, USA)

Teaching

Since 2024: “Methodology of AI” course at Master of Cognitive Science in Nancy

2017-2024: “Machine Learning” course at Ecole des Mines in Nancy

Since 2019: Resp. of the Lexical Resources course at Master TAL in Nancy

2019: Co-organizer of the Python4NLP summer school

Since 2017: Implied in the management of the ERASMUS MUNDUS Master and construction of the Master TAL in Nancy

2009: Teaching at Univ. Lorraine

2007: Teaching at Ecole des Mines Nancy

2002-2004: Teaching at Univ. Lorraine

2000-2001: ATER teaching Computer Science at Univ. Lorraine & Eng. school

1996-1999: Moniteur teaching Computer Science at IUT, Licence, Master

Education

Mar 2010

Habilitation (HDR), Computer Science; Univ. de Lorraine

Accreditation to supervise researchers

Sep 1999

PhD, Computer Science; Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine

Thesis title: Multi-Band Automatic Speech Recognition

Jun 1996

Engineer, Computer Science; ENSIMAG

Projects

European

AI-PROFICIENT (ICT-38), PAPUD (ITEA), ModelWriter (ITEA), Emospeech (Eurostars), HIWIRE (STREP), Amigo (FP6), OZONE (FP6), MIAMM (FP6)

French

ENACT, OpenLLM, LLM4ALL (leader), PLM4all (leader), LUE IMPACT OLKi (leader), LEAUDS, CPER LCHN (workpackage leader), ISTEx, ORTOLANG, ORFEO, ContNomina, Web-NLG, CPER MISN TALC (co-leader), ESTER, ETAPE, RAPSODIS (leader)

Management

• (co-)supervised 14 Ph.D. thesis: Pavel Kral, Sébastien Demange, Christian Gillot, Thien Hoa Le, Guillaume Le Berre, Paul Caillon, Alaaeddine Chaoub, Ilias Abdouni, Gaspard Michel, Omar Cherif, Yaya Sy, Guy-Stéphane Waffo Dzuyo, Estelle Zheng, Alexanne Worm

• Member of 38 HDR and Ph.D. defense committees: Pavel Kral (2007), Sébastien Demange (2007), Azeddine Zidouni (2010), Sethserey Sam (2011), Christian Gillot (2012), Aymen Baouab (2013), Bikash Gyawali (2016), Layla El Asri (2016), Michal Konkol (2016), Jérémie Tafforeau (2017), Elena Epure (2018), Michel Salomon (HDR, 2018), Pierre Godard (2019), Kevin Löser (2019), Hazem El Saied (2019), Chiari Liti (2020), Jeremy Auguste (2020), Praboda Rajapaksha (2020), Marzieh Mozafari (2021), Nicolas Turpault (2021), Emile Chapuis (2021), Ashwin Geet D’Sa (2022), Koosha Zarei (2022), Betty Fabre (2022), François Buet (2022), José Carlos Rosales NÚÑEZ (2023), Sébastien Montella (2023), David Laiymani (HDR, 2023), Valentin Pelloin (2024), Alexandre Voisin (HDR, 2024), Hadi Abdine (2024), Lina Maria Rojas Barahona (HDR, 2024), Pavel Priban (2024), Duc Hau Nguyen (2024), Alexandre Audibert (2024), Arthur Amalvy (2024), Song Duong (2025), Virgile Rennard (2025)

• Member of 6 MCF Selection Committees

• Reviewer for HCERES, ANR, ANRT and several funding agency

• Regular reviewer for *-ACL, AAAI, COLM, EMNLP, COLING, INTERSPEECH, ICASSP, ECML…

cerisara@loria.fr • https://members.loria.fr/CCerisara
Nancy, France