Co-responsible for the Computer Science section of the IAEM Doctoral School
Member of the National Council of Universities (CNU 27, 2020–2023)
Vice President of the French Association for Spoken Communication (AFCP, 2021–2024)
Research Experience
Leading the Multispeech research team on multimodal speech
Coordinator of the ANR project Syncogest (2025–2029) on speech-gesture synchronization
Co-principal Investigator of the Inria Challenge COLaF (2023–2027) for developing resources for the languages of France
Involved in interdisciplinary collaborations such as the ANR RHU I-DEAL project
Active contributor to various other research initiatives
Background
Professor of Computer Science at the University of Lorraine (IUT Nancy-Charlemagne)
Head of the Multispeech research team, a joint team between Inria, CNRS, and the University of Lorraine
Research focuses on multimodal speech communication, investigating relationships among acoustic signals, articulatory movements, facial expressions, and co-speech gestures (head, hands, posture)
Aims to analyze, model, and synthesize these interactions for applications in expressive audiovisual/multimodal speech synthesis (talking heads), articulatory modeling, and technology-enhanced second language learning
Currently developing a new research axis on sign language generation and recognition