Biography

Fabien Ringeval received the M.S. degree in speech and image signal processing from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, France, in 2006 and the Ph.D. degree for his researches on the automatic recognition of acted and spontaneous emotions from speech in 2011, from the same university. 

He is currently Associate Professor in the team GETALP at the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG), CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, France, since 2016 and provides scientific consulting services for companies through ISAC (Intelligent Speech Analysis Consulting). He previously worked with the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France, from 2006 to 2011, with the DIVA group, at the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland, from 2011 to 2013, with the MISP group at TUM, Germany, from 2013 to 2014, with the Chair of Complex and Intelligent Systems (CIS) at Universität Passau, Germany, from 2014 to 2016, and with audEERING GmbH from 2016 to 2017.

His researches focus on the automatic recognition of human affective behaviors from multimodal conversational signals. The overall goal is to equip machines with the ability to reliably detect affective states expressed by humans in natural environments from multimodal signals, so that they can be further exploited for analysis of higher level information (e.g., biometric, health, mental condition), or used as inputs for dialogue management and synthesis systems. His work is based on multiple inter-disciplinary collaborations with psychologists, clinicians, and healthcare providers, where the main applications focus on the automated diagnostic assistance of mental and/or cognitive conditions, and the longitudinal affective monitoring of therapy sessions. 

Dr. Ringeval (co-)authored more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed books, journals and conference proceedings in the field leading to more than 7,200 citations (h-index = 36). He serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Program Chair for the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing International Conference on Affective Computing (ACII 2023, MIT MediaLab), and Area Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Face & Gesture (FG 2023), acts as a reviewer for funding and projects (ANR, NSERC, NWO), as well as several IEEE journals and other leading international journals, conferences and workshops in the field. He also co-organised workshops and international challenges, including the Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC) series (2015 - 2019), and the  INTERSPEECH 2013 ComParE challenge. He received four years in the raw (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) the AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award by AMiner, in recognition of outstanding and vibrant contributions in the field of Multimedia, with world rank #26, and #1 in France.