Projects

Research Projects

  • Coordinator, ANR Syncogest (2025-2029) – Speech and Gesture synchronization – Collaboration with Praxiling et EuroMov DHM.
  • Participant, ANR RHU I-DEAL (2024-2028) – Innovative remote tools and precision imaging for early management of Crohn’s disease.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Défi Inria COLaF (2023-2028) – Corpus and Tools for the Languages of France. Collaboration with ALMANACH team (Inria Paris)
  • Participant, MSCA Doctoral Networks – Joint Doctorates (2025–2030) – Privacy for Smart Speech Technology (PSST): Research on privacy-preserving speech technology.
  • Participant, EU Project LLMs4EU (2025-2028) – Large Language Models for the European Union.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, HumaneAI-NET (H2020 ICT-48-2020, 2020–2023) – European network for human-centered AI research. Responsible for networking and communication at CNRS (LORIA).
  • Co-Principal Investigator, CNRS PRIME 80 – GEPACI (2021–2024)
  • Interdisciplinary research on speech-gesture interaction. Collaboration with Praxiling.
  • Lead Partner, ANR BENEPHIDIRE (2019–2022) – AI-based detection of speech disfluencies for stuttering diagnosis and therapy. Collaboration with LORIA, Praxiling, and Montpellier Neuroscience Institute.
  • WP Leader, PIA-2 e-Fran METAL (2017–2021) – Pronunciation learning for second-language acquisition. Supervised PhD/postdoc researchers and engineers.
  • WP Leader, ANR Full3DTalkinghead (2021–2024) – AI-driven 3D talking head with aeroacoustic simulation. Focus on facial control modeling.
  • Contributor, ANR LOR-AI (2021–2024) – AI-driven sign language generation from speech.
  • Contributor, AI4EU (H2020, 2019–2021) – European AI-on-demand platform – Collaboration with Technicolor/Interdigital.
  • Coordinator, ANR ViSAC (2009–2013) – Bimodal speech synthesis. Led a research team of PhD/postdoc researchers and engineers.
  • Scientific Lead, STIC-AmSud MCC (2015–2016) – South American collaboration on multimodal communication corpus.
  • Scientific Lead, CORExp (2014–2016) – Expressive audiovisual speech synthesis corpus.
  • Scientific Lead, ExpLoria (2015–2016) – Multimodal communication corpus acquisition.
  • Participant, Various National and International Research Projects: MODALISA (2017), SYNABE (2016), ORTOLANG (2012–2015), ANR ARTIS (2009–2013) – Speech articulation modeling, corpus development, and AI-based audiovisual speech processing.
  • France-Tunisia CMCU Projects (2007–2013), France-Berkeley Fund (2004–2006) –Articulatory-acoustic speech analysis and lip-coarticulation studies.

 

Development & Technology Transfer Projects

  • Project Lead, EPIC Games MegaGrants (2022–2023) -Ultra-realistic speech animation system with MetaHuman and Unreal Engine.
  • Project Lead, INS2I MULTIMOD (2022–2023) – Enhancement of a multimodal platform for social interaction analysis.
  • Project Lead, INRIA PuppetFace (2018–2020) – AI-driven speech animation system development.
  • Project Lead, Dynalips Maturation Project (2017–2018) – Intelligent lipsync for animated 3D characters.
  • Project Lead, INRIA ADT VisArtico (2013–2015) – Development of articulatory data processing and visualization software.
  • Economic Valorization & Startup Incubation (2018–2020) – Explored commercialization opportunities for lipsync and talking head technologies in collaboration with Incubateur Lorrain and Sayens (SATT-Grand Est).