Activities
Academic service
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Responsibilities
- since 2022
Head of the MULTISPEECH team
Joint project-team of Inria, CNRS and Université de Lorraine. 8 researchers, faculty members & permanent engineer – 20 PhD students, 5 postdoctoral researchers, 5 engineers
- since 2025
Co-head, Computer Science section, IAEM Doctoral School
- 2021 – 2024
Vice-President, AFCP
Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée – a Special Interest Group of ISCA (International Speech and Communication Association)
- 2020 – 2023
Member, CNU section 27
French National Council of Universities, Computer Science.
- since 2016
ATER Recruitment coordinator, IUT Nancy-Charlemagne
- since 2013
Secretary/Treasurer, AVISA
the Auditory-VIsual Speech Association – a Special Interest Group of ISCA (International Speech and Communication Association)
- since 2021
Representative of Université de Lorraine, AIDA
AI Doctoral Academy — a European academy of some eighty institutions coordinating doctoral and postdoctoral training in artificial intelligence. I initiated and carried through the University's membership, and represent it there.
- since 2021
LORIA representative, CAIRNE
Formerly CLAIRE — the European network for artificial-intelligence research, federating more than three hundred groups and centres across thirty-seven countries. I took the steps to bring LORIA into the network.
- 2011 – 2017
Elected member, LORIA laboratory council
Collège B, two consecutive terms.
- 2013 – 2019
Member, council of the Charles Hermite research federation
The Lorraine federation for mathematics, computer science and their applications.
Expertise and evaluation
Research funding — ANR (panel CE48, 2022), CIFRE/ANRT (2021), the Austrian Academy of Sciences, including its New Frontiers Research Groups Programme (2014, 2017), FWO Research Foundation Flanders (2016), and the European Commission under H2020.(2023)
Research units — HCERES evaluation panels for GIPSA-Lab in Grenoble (2020), LIA in Avignon (2022) and LJK in Grenoble (2025).
Academic recruitment — selection committees for professor and associate professor posts at IUT Nancy-Charlemagne, which I co-chaired (2025), Université de Toulouse / IRIT (2025), Université Paris-Saclay / LISN, including IUT Orsay (2024, 2025), and Université de Strasbourg / ICube (2024).
Conference organisation
- 2026
AVSP 2026 — International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing
Organising & programme committee - 2024
ISSP 2024 — International Seminar on Speech Production
Organising & programme committee - 2020
JEP-TALN 2020
Co-OrganiserNancy.
- 2013·2015·2017·2019
AVSP — Auditory-Visual Speech Processing
Co-chair & co-organiserAnnecy 2013, Vienna 2015, Stockholm 2017, and 2019. Proceedings co-editor for the 2013 and 2017 editions.
- 2008
ISSP'08 — International Seminar on Speech Production
ChairStrasbourg.
Programme committees and reviewing
- 2024
ISSP — International Seminar on Speech Production
Programme committee - 2022,2024,2026
JEP — Journées d'Étude sur la Parole
Programme committee
Reviewing
Journals — Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Speech Communication, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Computer Speech and Language, Journal of Phonetics, Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology.
Conferences — INTERSPEECH, ICASSP, ICMI, EUSIPCO, AVSP, FAAVSP, ISSP, IVA.
Books — manuscript reviewer for Cambridge University Press.
Editorial work
Editorial team of the Revue TAL special issue on inter- and multimodal natural language processing (2022); co-editor of the proceedings of JEP-TALN-RÉCITAL 2020 and of AVSP 2013 and 2017.
Doctoral and HDR juries
2015 – 2026Reviewer for five doctoral theses and member of a dozen doctoral and HDR juries, outside my own institution unless stated.
| Year | Candidate | Institution | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Anna Deichlers | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm | Jury member |
| 2025 | Nezih Younsi | ISIR, Sorbonne Université | Reviewer |
| 2024 | Lina Rojas (HDR) | Université de Lorraine | Examiner |
| 2024 | Hamza Bayd | IMT Mines Alès | Chair, examiner |
| 2024 | Evan Dufraisse | CEA-LIST | Chair, examiner |
| 2024 | Sanjana Sankar | Université Grenoble-Alpes | Reviewer |
| 2024 | Samir Sadok | CentraleSupélec, Rennes | Reviewer |
| 2022 | Nicolas Olivier | Université de Rennes | Reviewer |
Earlier juries, before 2022, include two as reviewer and two as examiner.
Outreach and media
Public engagement
- 2024 – 2025
Féru des sciences exhibition, Nancy
With a doctoral student and an engineer, we produced short films explaining how the lips of a virtual character are animated during speech — written for children and for visitors with no background in the field.
- 2023
MATh.en.JEANS
Presentation of the multimodal acquisition platform to secondary-school pupils, with my doctoral students.
- 2022
Les visites insolites du CNRS — LORIA
The MultiMod platform opened to the general public: visitors take part in the experiments and see a working laboratory from the inside.
- 2019 – 2023
Demonstrations and science festivals
Dynalips at VivaTech and at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival (2023); lip-synchronisation work shown at GEN 2019, at Inria's fiftieth anniversary and at the Village des Sciences.
In the media
Television report on Dynalips, France 3 Grand-Est (2024); interview on how digital tools can help speech therapists diagnose and treat stuttering, Inria Actualités (2022); interview on Dynalips animating MetaHuman, LORIA Actualités and Factuel (2022).