Meet the team!
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Permanent research staff
Benoît Sagot
Benoît Sagot
Senior researcher (Scientific leader, PRAIRIE chair)
Office: C108
Email: benoit.sagot[at]inria.fr
WebsiteWorking on: Language models (design, learning, use, biases and ethical and cultural issues), machine translation and other text transformation tasks (simplification), interface between text and speech and between text and image, development of linguistic resources, computational and historical linguistics. Focus on the French language in all its diversity, but also on issues relating to low-resource languages.
Supervisors:
Djamé Seddah
Djamé Seddah
Working on: Syntactic analysis of non-canonical texts and for morphologically rich languages, data-driven methods for the syntactic-semantic interface, contextual syntactic analysis, neural language models interpretation
Supervisors:
Éric de La Clergerie
Éric de La Clergerie
Working on: Parsing (symbolic, statistical and neural); grammar engineering; information extraction; knowledge acquisition; interactions between context, knowledge and language; cognitive aspects of language
Supervisors:
Rachel Bawden
Rachel Bawden
Working on: Machine translation, multilingual natural language processing, robustness
Supervisors:
Chloé Clavel
Chloé Clavel
Justine Cassell
Justine Cassell
Associated members
Laurent Romary
Laurent Romary
Associated (Directeur de recherches)
Main affiliation: Inria, Direction de la Culture et de l'Information Scientifiques
Office: (Berlin)
Email: laurent.romary[at]inria.fr
WebsiteWorking on: Linguistic data modelling, lexical resources, information extraction, digital humanities
Supervisors:Postdocs and Engineers
Aina Garí Soler
Aina Garí Soler
Postdoc
Main affiliation: Télécom-Paris
Office: (TelecomParis)
Email: aina.garisoler[at]telecom-paris.fr
WebsiteWorking on: Word Meaning Representation in Neural Language Models: Lexical Polysemy and Semantic Relationships
Supervisors: Chloé Clavel
Emer Gilmartin
Emer Gilmartin
Working on: Collaboration with researchers in Korea to understand and model the effects of interlocutor personality on dialogue, and the effects of conversational behaviors on personality. This is leading to a new model of ‘interpersonality’, how personality related behaviours of each participant in a conversation affect the conversation as a whole and, vice-versa, how conversational behaviors affect perceptions of personality.
Supervisors: Justine Cassell
Virginie Mouilleron
Thibault Clérice
Thibault Clérice
SRP (Starting Faculty Position)
Secondary affiliation: Centre Jean Mabillon
Office: (Lyon)
Email: thibault.clerice[at]inria.fr
WebsiteWorking on: Resources and tools for languages of France
Supervisors: Benoît Sagot
Juliette Janès
Sarah Bénière
Samuel Scalbert
Samuel Scalbert
Engineer
Office: C119
Email: samuel.scalbert[at]inria.fr
Working on: Detection of software in HAL articles using GROBID and Softcite in the context of the GrapOS project.
Supervisors: Laurent Romary
Lauriane Aufrant
Lauriane Aufrant
Engineer
Office: C120
Email: lauriane.aufrant[at]inria.fr
Working on: Extraction of information and automated construction of knowledge graphs for French, with a focus on subjects and tasks related to the field of defense and security.
Supervisors: Benoît Sagot
Marius Le Chapelier
Oriane Nédey
Cecilia Graiff
Sinem Demirkan
Sinem Demirkan
Engineer
Office: C103
Email: sinem.demirkan[at]inria.fr
Working on: Hyperscanning of pairs of children in order to better understand the neural correlates of rapport
Supervisors: Justine Cassell
Malik Marmonier
Malik Marmonier
Engineer
Office: C114
Email: malik.marmonier[at]inria.fr
Working on: Machine Translation with large language models in low-resource scenarios and for unseen languages
Supervisors: Rachel Bawden and Benoît Sagot
Cindy Evellyn de Araujo Silva
Cindy Evellyn de Araujo Silva
Engineer
Email: cindy-evellyn.de-araujo-silva[at]inria.fr
Working on: Hyperscanning of pairs of children in order to better understand the neural correlates of rapport, and the impact of rapport on learning
Supervisors: Justine Cassell
Hasan Onur Keles
Hasan Onur Keles
Engineer
Email: hasan-onur.keles[at]inria.fr
PhD students
Lydia Nishimwe
Lydia Nishimwe
Working on: Robust Neural Machine Translation
Supervisors: Benoît Sagot and Rachel Bawden
Arij Riabi
Floriane Chiffoleau
Floriane Chiffoleau
PhD student
Main affiliation: Université du Mans
Office: C121
Email: floriane.chiffoleau[at]inria.fr
WebsiteWorking on: Training data and creation of models for the text recognition of typewritten or handwritten corpus of archival collection
Supervisors: Anne Baillot and Laurent Romary
Matthieu Futeral-Peter
Matthieu Futeral-Peter
PhD student
Main affiliation: WILLOW, Inria
Office: C122
Email: matthieu.futeral[at]inria.fr
Working on: Text-image multimodal models
Supervisors: Ivan Laptev and Rachel Bawden
Alix Chagué
Alix Chagué
PhD student
Secondary affiliation: Université de Montréal and CRIHN
Office: C122 + Montréal
Email: alix.chague[at]inria.fr
WebsiteWorking on: Methodology for the creation of training data and the application of handwritten text recognition to the Humanities.
Supervisors: Laurent Romary, Emmanuel Château-Dutier and Michael Sinatra
Nathan Godey
Nathan Godey
Working on: Neural language modelling
Supervisors: Benoît Sagot and Éric de La Clergerie
Francis Kulumba
Francis Kulumba
Working on: Disambiguation of authors, institutions and bibliographic references in scientific publications
Supervisors: Laurent Romary and Guillaume Vimont
Alisa Barkar
Rian Touchent
Rian Touchent
Working on: Information Extraction on French Electronic Health Records
Supervisors: Laurent Romary and Éric de La Clergerie
Simon Meoni
Wissam Antoun
Wissam Antoun
Working on: Detecting Dataset Manipulation and Weaponisation of NLP Models
Supervisors: Benoît Sagot and Djamé Seddah
You Zuo
Nicolas Dahan
Ziqian Peng
Ziqian Peng
PhD student
Main affiliation: CNRS/ISIR
Office: C119
Email: peng[at]isir.upmc.fr
Working on: Machine translation of scientific documents
Supervisors: François Yvon and Rachel Bawden
Yanzhu Guo
Yanzhu Guo
Working on: Language model evaluation, argument mining, computational social science
Supervisors: Michalis Vazirgiannis and Chloé Clavel
Lucie Chenain
Lorraine Vanel
Biswesh Mohapatra
Biswesh Mohapatra
PhD student
Office: C330
Email: biswesh.mohapatra[at]inria.fr
Working on: Improving chatbot dialogue systems through collaborative grounding
Supervisors: Justine Cassell and Laurent RomaryHugo Scheithauer
Armel Zebaze
Armel Zebaze
PhD student
Office: C121
Email: armel.zebaze-dongmo[at]inria.fr
Working on: Analogy for Multilingual Natural Language Processing
Supervisors: Benoît Sagot and Rachel Bawden
Rasul Dent
Rasul Dent
PhD student
Office: C121
Email: rasul.dent[at]inria.fr
Working on: Large-scale language identification (numerous languages, massive data, distinction between closely related varieties) with a focus on the languages of France and French-based creoles.
Supervisors: Benoît Sagot, Thibault Clérice and Pedro Ortiz
Anh Ha Ngo
Pierre Chambon
Pierre Chambon
PhD student
Industrial Phd with META AI Paris
Office: C120
Email: pierre.chambon[at]inria.fr
Working on: Code generation with language models
Supervisors: Benoît Sagot, Gabriel Synnaeve and Baptiste Rozière
Hao Wang
Hao Wang
PhD student
Office: C303
Email: hao.b.wang[at]inria.fr
Working on: Benchmarking conversational grounding in LLMs.
Supervisors:Interns
Mira Lee
Mira Lee
Intern
Email: mira.lee[at]inria.fr
Working on: Analyzing properties of speech as a function of personality
Supervisors: Emer Gilmartin and Justine Cassell
Diana Bakina
Diana Bakina
Intern
Office: C103
Email: diana.bakina[at]inria.fr
Working on: Feature engineering on audio, video, and text signals to support modelling of personality-related conversational phenomena
Supervisors: Emer Gilmartin
Reem Al Najjar
Reem Al Najjar
Intern
Email: reem.al-najjar[at]inria.fr
Working on: Hyperscanning of pairs of children
Supervisors:
Gabrielle Le Bellier
Gabrielle Le Bellier
Intern
Office: C114
Email: gabrielle.le-bellier[at]inria.fr
Working on: Metrics and protocols for measuring bias in language models
Supervisors: Benoît Sagot and Chloé Clavel
Célia Nouri
Javier Alejandro Lopetegui González
Javier Alejandro Lopetegui González
Intern
Office: C114
Email: javier-alejandro.lopetegui-gonzalez[at]inria.fr
Working on: LLM alignment for different spanish dialects
Supervisors: Djamé Seddah
Zofia Milczarek
Zofia Milczarek
Intern
Email: zofia.milczarek[at]inria.fr
Working on: Integrating models of turn-taking in conversational agents
Supervisors:
Mathilde Deletombe
Mathilde Deletombe
Intern
Office: C103
Email: mathilde.deletombe[at]inria.fr
Working on: Difference between French and English linguistic devices (including nonverbal) for signaling rapport
Supervisors:
Anna Celina Desiderio
Anna Celina Desiderio
Intern
Email: anna-celina.desiderio[at]inria.fr
Théo Charlot
Admin
Christelle Rosello
Christelle Rosello
Administrative assistant
Office: C215
Email: christelle.rosello[at]inria.fr
Alumni
Permanent research staff
- Laurent Romary (Jan 17-Dec 21). now associated member in the team
- Pierre Boullier (Jan 17-Apr 19). now retired
Postdocs and Engineers
- Hao Wang (Jan 24-May 24). now PhD student in the team
- José Carlos Rosales Núñez (Aug 23-Apr 24). now ML researcher & Research project manager at Sogeti
- Menel Mahamdi (Sep 22-Aug 23, Sep 23-Apr 24)
- Seth Aycock (Aug 23-Nov 23). now PhD student at the University of Amsterdam
- Hugo Scheithauer (Oct 21-Oct 23). now PhD student in the team
- Anna Chepaikina (Mar 22-Sep 23). now R&D project manager at Winespace
- Julien Abadji (Apr 21-Aug 23). now Founding Engineer at poolside
- Niyati Bafna (Oct 22-Jun 23). now PhD student at Johns Hopkins University
- Deepak Yadav (Apr 23-May 23)
- Tanti Kristanti Nugraha (Nov 17-Apr 23)
- Rua Ismail (Jan 22-Mar 23)
- Wissam Antoun (Mar 22-Feb 23). now PhD student in the team
- You Zuo (Oct 21-Nov 22). now PhD student in the team
- Lucas Terriel (Nov 20-Oct 22). now ML & Web Engineer at École Nationale des Chartes
- Yves Tadjo Takianpi (Sep 20-Jun 22)
- Jesujoba Alabi (Feb 22-Jun 22). now PhD student and researcher in the Spoken Language Systems (LSV) group, Saarland University
- Syrielle Montariol (Apr 21-May 22). now Postdoc at EPFL
- Thibault Charmet (Feb 21-Jan 22). now PhD student at Université de Technologie de Compiègne and Renault
- Alix Chagué (Oct 18-Oct 21). now PhD student in the team
- Floriane Chiffoleau (Mar 20-Oct 21). now PhD student in the team
- Arij Riabi (Oct 20-Sep 21). now PhD student in the team
- Thomas Wang (Apr 21-Sep 21). now Research Engineer at Mistral AI
- Quentin Burthier (Feb 21-Mar 21). now Software engineer at Shift Technology
- Murielle Popa-Fabre (Nov 18-Aug 20). now Senior consultant (Tech & Gen AI governance), United Nations
- Mohamed Khemakhem (Sep 19-Aug 20). now CEO at MandaNetwork
- Gaël Guibon (Jun 19-Jun 20). now Lecturer at Université de Lorraine
- Lionel Tadjou Tadonfouet (May 17-Mar 20). now DATA/AI engineer at Gedeon
- Farah Essaïdi (Oct 19-Dec 19). now Project manager at RATPgroup
- Yoann Dupont (Jun 18-Dec 19). now Lecturer at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
- Alba Marina Malaga Sabogal (Sep 17-Sep 19). now Assistant professor at Université de Lorraine, Nancy – Saint Dié des Vosges
- Clémentine Fourrier (May 18-Sep 19). now Research scientist at Hugging Face
- Ganesh Jawahar (Mar 18-Sep 19). now PhD student at the University of British Columbia
- Charles Riondet (Nov 15-May 19). now In charge of the old archives at the École des Ponts ParisTech, Paris, France
- Dorian Seillier (Oct 16-May 19). now Digital project manager at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
- Ilia Markov (Jun 18-May 19). now Post-doc at the University of Antwerp, Netherlands
- Achraf Azhar (Nov 17-Apr 19). now Developer at CCSD, France
- Luca Foppiano (Jan 16-Dec 18). now Research engineer at the National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
- Benjamin Muller (Apr 18-Sep 18). now Research scientist at META
- Marie Puren (Jan 16-Aug 18). now Associate professor at EPITECH
- Elias Benaïssa (Apr 17-Apr 18). now Computational linguist at Orange, Paris
- Émilia Verzeni (Apr 17-Apr 18). now Associate linguist via Adecco Outsourcing for Google
- Wigdan Abbas Mekki Medeni (Apr 17-Apr 18). now Working at the Linguistics Data Consortium (USA)
- Hector Martínez Alonso (Feb 16-Nov 17). now Research engineer at Apple, London, UK
PhD students
- Cyril Chhun (Oct 23-Apr 24)
- Tú Anh Nguyễn (Apr 21-Apr 24). Spoken Language Modeling from Raw Audio. now Research scientist at META
- Chadi Helwé (Oct 23-Mar 24). Evaluating and Improving the Reasoning Abilities of Language Models
- Paul-Ambroise Duquenne (May 21-Mar 24). Reasoning in Sentence Embeddings for Massively Multilingual Speech and Text Processing. now Research scientist at META
- Alafate Abulimiti (Nov 23-Dec 23). The Role of Socio-conversational Strategies in Task-Oriented Dialogues in the Case of Peer-Tutoring Interactions: A Focus on Off-Task Talks and Hedges
- Robin Algayres (Oct 19-Sep 23). Unsupervised word discovery on speech data. now Research Scientist at MBZUAI
- Lionel Tadjou Tadonfouet (Mar 20-Sep 23). Constitution de fils de discussion cohérents à partir de conversations issues d'outils professionnels de communication et de collaboration. now DATA/AI engineer at Gedeon
- Roman Castagné (Oct 21-Sep 23). now Technical staff member at Cohere, Paris
- José Carlos Rosales Núñez (Jun 18-Jul 23). Traduction Automatique de Contenus Générés par l’Utilisateur: une Évaluation des Systèmes de Traduction Neuronaux dans des Conditions Zero-shot. now ML researcher & Research project manager at Sogeti
- Clémentine Fourrier (Oct 19-Sep 22). Approches neuronales pour la reconstruction de mots historiques. now Research scientist at Hugging Face
- Benjamin Muller (Oct 18-Jul 22). How Can We Make Language Models Better at Handling the Diversity and Variability of Natural Languages?. now Research scientist at META
- Pedro Ortiz Suarez (Oct 18-Apr 22). A Data-driven Approach to Natural Language Processing for Contemporary and Historical French. now Senior researcher at the Common Crawl Foundation
- Louis Martin (Jun 18-Aug 21). Automatic Sentence Simplification using Controllable and Unsupervised Methods. now Research scientist at Mistral AI
- Jack Bowers (Oct 16-Oct 20). Language Documentation and Standards in Digital Humanities: TEI and the documentation of Mixtepec-Mixtec. now ML Data Linguist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Mathilde Regnault (Oct 17-Sep 20). Annotation et analyse syntaxique de corpus hétérogènes : le cas du français médiéval. now Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Stuttgart
- Mohamed Khemakhem (Sep 16-Aug 20). Standard-based lexical models for automatically structured dictionnaries. now CEO at MandaNetwork
- Loïc Grobol (Oct 16-Jul 20). Coreference resolution for spoken French. now Maître de conférences (Assistant Professor) at Université Paris-Nanterre
- Axel Herold (Oct 16-Apr 19)
Interns
- Qinhyue Xu (Jan 24-Jul 24)
- Irène Metz (Feb 24-Jul 24)
- Léo Labat (Nov 23-Mar 24)
- Ilyas Lebleu (Dec 23-Mar 24)
- Samuel Scalbert (Apr 23-Jul 23). now engineer in the team
- Sarah Bénière (Apr 23-Jul 23). now engineer in the team
- Rishika Bhagwatkar (Jul 22-Dec 22)
- Rian Touchent (Jun 22-Nov 22). now PhD student in the team
- Galo Castillo Lopez (Jun 22-Aug 22)
- Pierre Vauterin (Jun 22-Aug 22)
- Kelly Christensen (Apr 22-Jul 22)
- Jules Nuguet (Apr 22-Jul 22)
- Abderraouf Farhi (Apr 22-Jul 22)
- Camille Rey (Sep 21-Mar 22, May 22-Jun 22)
- Nacim Talaoubrid (Jun 22-Jun 22)
- Matthieu Futeral-Peter (Jul 20-Jul 20, May 21-Oct 21). now PhD student in the team
- Roman Castagné (Apr 21-Sep 21). now Technical staff member at Cohere, Paris
- Sonal Sannigrahi (Jun 21-Aug 21)
- Manon Ovide (Mar 21-Aug 21)
- Hugo Scheithauer (Apr 21-Aug 21). now PhD student in the team
- Quentin Burthier (Sep 20-Jan 21). now Software engineer at Shift Technology
- Jean-Damien Genero (Mar 20-Sep 20)
- Lucas Terriel (Apr 20-Jul 20). now ML & Web Engineer at École Nationale des Chartes
- Victoria Le Fourner (May 19-Jul 19)
- Abhishek Srivastava (May 19-Jul 19)
- Hafida Le Cloirec (Jun 19-Jun 19)
- Pedro J. Ortiz Suárez (Apr 18-Sep 18). now Senior researcher at the Common Crawl Foundation
- Farah Essaïdi (May 18-Sep 18). now Project manager at RATPgroup
- Amal Fethi (Apr 18-Aug 18)
- Pauline Brunet (Mar 18-Aug 18)
- Marie-Laurence Bonhomme (Mar 18-Jul 18)
- Alix Chagué (Apr 18-Jul 18). now PhD student in the team
- Rebecca Blevins (Jun 18-Jul 18)
- Tanti Kristanti Nugraha (May 17-Oct 17)
- Siham Feredj (Apr 17-Sep 17)
- Maram Romdhane (Apr 17-Sep 17)
- Raphael Avoustin (May 17-Aug 17)
- Julie Tytgat (Jun 17-Aug 17)
- Yann-Alan Pilatte (Jun 17-Jul 17)
- Roua Torjmen (Apr 17-May 17)
Associated members
- Marco Bronzini (May 24-Jun 24)
- Damien Biabiany (Dec 18-Sep 20)
- Kim Gerdes (Mar 18-Aug 20). now Associate professor at LISN, CNRS
- Tommaso Venturini (Sep 19-Oct 19)
- Basant Agarwal (Aug 17-Sep 17)
- Daniel Dakota (Oct 16-Jan 17)