Research director at Inria; working at LIRMM, the computer science laboratory of the University of Montpellier, in an Inria research team called ZENITH; scientific and technical director of the Pl@ntNet citizen science platform which develops an AI-based plant identification application with more than 20 million end-users; founder and general chair of the LifeCLEF virtual lab which organizes yearly machine learning challenges related to biodiversity since 2014; regularly involved in the steering board of research projects at international scale (e.g. GUARDEN, Cos4Cloud) and national scale (e.g. Pl@ntAgroEco).
Background
Interests in machine learning, computer vision, and data management applied to biodiversity.
Miscellany
Pleasure of mentoring brilliant PhD students and post-docs, with whom we work hard to push back the boundaries of the state of the art at the crossroads of ecology and computer science.