One of the organizers of the Multimodal Machine Translation shared task at WMT.
Research Experience
Previously, he was a researcher and Associate Professor at LIUM (University of Le Mans) for 11 years, followed by 2 years as a Senior Lecturer in the NLP group at the University of Sheffield. Participated in many international projects such as EuroMatrix+, MateCAT, DARPA BOLT, and national projects like ANR Cosmat, PACTE 'Projet d’Investissement d’Avenir', and a large industrial project PEA TRAD. Coordinated the EU ChistERA M2CR project and is actively involved in the ChistERA ALLIES and French ANR ON-TRAC projects.
Education
Obtained his PhD in the field of automatic speech recognition from the University of Avignon in 2008.
Background
Research Scientist at Meta AI. Research interests include statistical and neural machine translation, particularly factored neural machine translation, multimodal neural machine translation, and designing lifelong learning methods for MT.
Miscellany
Photos: Cité Plantagenêt, Le Mans Tourisme; By Henk Monster, CC BY 3.0.