Supervision
People
Doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers I supervise or have supervised, within the MULTISPEECH team.
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Current
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10/2026 – 09/2029
Amani Mechergui
Semantically informed modelling and generation of co-speech gestures using multimodal language models. ANR Syncogest.
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03/2026 – 02/2029
Hamza Dalhoumi
Automatic multimodal detection of the disfluencies characteristic of stuttering. AAP 80|PRIME, with Praxiling.
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02/2026 – 01/2030
Victor Menestrel
Subjective and objective methods for evaluating speech characteristics, applied to privacy protection. PSST, MSCA Doctoral Network.
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08/2025 – 07/2029
Thiombiano Koguili
Assessing the privacy impact of complex attacks exploiting audio, speech and metadata. PSST, MSCA Doctoral Network.
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2024 – 2027
Guilhem Faure
End-to-end speech-to-sign-language generation. Défi Inria COLaF.
Doctoral alumni
| Name | Years | Thesis | |
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| Mickaëlla Grondin-Verdon | 2021–2025 | Modelling gesture and speech in interaction · CNRS PRIME 80 | |
| Louis Abel | 10/2021–02/2025 | Expressive audiovisual speech synthesis in interactive contexts· UL doctoral contract | |
| Shakeel Ahmad Sheikh | 10/2019–12/2022 | Identification and rehabilitation of disfluency in stuttering speakers, using neural networks · ANR BENEPHIDIRE | |
| Théo Biasutto-Lervat | 12/2016–01/2021 | Multimodal coarticulation modelling: towards an intelligible talking head · PIA-2 e-FRAN METAL | |
| Sara Dahmani | 01/2017–12/2020 | Expressive audiovisual speech synthesis: modelling emotions with deep learning· UL doctoral contract | |
| Utpala Musti | 10/2009–02/2013 | Acoustic-visual speech synthesis by bimodal unit selection · Inria CORDI-S | |
| Imen Jemaa | 03/2009–02/2013 | Formant tracking by multi-resolution analysis · cotutelle with Université El Manar, Tunisia — PHC UTIQUE |
Postdoctoral alumni
Manfred Pastätter (2019–2020); Élodie Gauthier (2018–2020, PIA-2 e-FRAN METAL); Ingmar Steiner (2010–2012); Sébastien Demange (ATER, 2009–2010); Asterios Toutios (2007–2011)@.
I have also supervised a number of Master's students from computer science, cognitive science and signal processing.
Joining the group
I regularly welcome inquiries from prospective PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. If no position is currently advertised, feel free to contact me directly with your CV and a short statement of research interests. Depending on your profile and interests, we can explore possible research topics and funding opportunities.