2020: Published 'Emergent Jaw Predominance in Vocal Development through Stochastic Optimization' in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems.
2020: Published 'Modeling the Formation of Social Conventions from Embodied Real-Time Interactions' in PLOS ONE.
2020: Published 'Interdisciplinary Research in Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities' in Frontiers in Big Data.
2019: Published 'From Motor to Visually Guided Bimanual Affordance Learning' in Adaptive Behavior.
2018: Published 'The Morphospace of Consciousness' as an arXiv preprint.
2018: Work related to iCub-HRI software framework (incomplete listing)
Research Experience
2019-present: Flowers lab, Inria, Bordeaux, permanent researcher, principal investigator of ORIGINS and ECOCURL projects.
2017-2019: Cogitai Inc., USA, research scientist.
2015-2017: SPECS laboratory, UPF, Barcelona, post-doctoral researcher, involved in WYSIWYD, INSOCO, SocSMCs, and CDAC projects.
2012-2014: Flowers lab, Inria, Bordeaux, researcher, focused on self-organisation of early vocal development.
2011: LPPA, Collège de France -- CNRS, Paris, post-doctoral researcher, ROMEO project.
2009: USC Brain Project, Los Angeles, visiting scholar, researched recognizing speech in a novel accent.
2007-2011: GIPSA-Lab, Speech and Cognition Department, Grenoble, Ph.D. student and teaching assistant, worked on COSMO project and Bayesian model of speech communication.
Education
Ph.D. in Engineering of Cognition, Interaction, Learning, and Creation from GIPSA-Lab, Speech and Cognition Department, Grenoble, under the supervision of Pierre-Yves Oudeyer; Master's in Computer Science, Master's in Cognitive Science, and Bachelor's in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Grenoble (2000-2007).
Background
Research interests include cognition, interaction, learning, and creation. Focuses on studying emergent communication through curiosity-driven multi-agent reinforcement learning.