CV
Education
2006-2011 PhD Thesis, "Speech anchors and dynamic models of prosody: application to acted and spontaneous emotion recognition", Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR), Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) – Paris VI (France). Under the supervision of Pr. Jean-Luc Zarader and Pr. Mohamed Chetouani. Funding from the French Minister of National Education and Research (MENRT). President of the jury: Pr. Olivier Adam (LAM, UPMC). Rapporteurs: Pr. Hervé Glotin (LSIS, UTLN), Pr. Yannis Stylianou (MMI, UOC). Examiners: Pr. Olivier Adam (LAM, UPMC), Pr. Björn Schuller (MMK, TUM). Invitee: Pr. David Cohen (CHU La pitié Salpêtrière).
2004-2006 Master on engineering sciences (MSDI), Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) – Paris VI (France), specialised on signal, sound and image processing (TSSI).
2003-2004 Bachelor on electrical engineering (LIE), Université d’Orléans la Source, Orléans (France).
2001-2003 Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie (D.U.T.), Université d’Orléans la Source (France), Institut Universitaire de Technologie (I.U.T.) of Chartres, option electrical engineering and industrial informatics (GEII), specialised on electronic.
Professional experience
2017-now Associate Professor, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, Université Grenoble Alpes, France.
2016-2017 Assistant Professor, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, Université Grenoble Alpes, France.
2016-2017 Senior Researcher, audEERING GmbH, Gilching, Germany.
2015-2016 Research Assistant and Lecturer, Chair of Complex & Intelligent Systems (CIS), University of Passau, Passau, Germany. Under the supervision of Pr. Björn Schuller.
2014-2015 Postdoctoral Researcher, Machine Intelligence & Signal Processing (MISP), Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. Under the supervision of Pr. Björn Schuller.
2011-2013 Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer, Document, Image & Voice Analysis (DIVA), University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland. Under the supervision of Pr. Denis Lalanne.
2011-2011 Postdoctoral Researcher, Man-Machine Communication (MMK), Technische Universität München (TUM), Munich, Germany. Under the supervision of Pr. Björn Schuller.
2009-2011 Temporary Researcher and Lecturer Assistant (ATER), Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR), Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) – Paris VI, Paris, France. Under the supervision of Pr. Mohamed Chetouani.
Domains of interest
Affective computing
Machine learning
Multimodal interaction
Social and atypical behaviours
Research grants and fundings
2020-2025 Banque Publique d'Investissement, project THERADIA
2019-2023 PhD Thesis CIFFRE - Atos
2017-2018 NeuroCog-Pôle Grenoble. Cognition, project AMI
2016-2019 EU Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation Action (RIA) #688835 - DE-ENIGMA
2015-2017 EU Horizon 2020 Innovation Action (IA) #644632 - MixedEmotions
2009-2011 French Minister of National Education and Research (ATER)
2006-2009 French Minister of National Education and Research (PhD Thesis)
Awards
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award, in recognition of outstanding and vibrant contributions in the field of Multimedia between 2011 and 2020, ranked #26 in the world, and #1 in France, AMiner.
2022 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award, in recognition of outstanding and vibrant contributions in the field of Multimedia between 2011 and 2020, ranked #26 in the world, and #1 in France, AMiner.
2021 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award, in recognition of outstanding and vibrant contributions in the field of Multimedia between 2011 and 2020, ranked #22 in the world, and #1 in France, AMiner.
2019 MMSP2019-GAIN Best Paper Award, IEEE 21st International Workshop on Multimedia Processing (MMSP2019-GAIN): Lukas Stappen, Vincent Karas, Nicholas Cummins, Fabien Ringeval, Klaus Scherer, Björn Schuller, “From Speech to Facial Activity: Towards Cross-Modal Sequence-to-Sequence Attention Networks”, Global Artificial Intelligence Network (GAIN)/IEEE, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2016 Winner of the IEEE Spoken Language Processing Student Travel Grant 2016 honoring the student(s) of an outstanding paper in spoken language processing area accepted for publication in a conference (IEEE ICASSP) or a workshop (IEEE ASRU): George Trigeorgis, Fabien Ringeval, Raymond Brueckner, Erik Marchi, Mihalis Nicolaou, Björn Schuller, Stefanos Zafeiriou: “Adieu features? End-to-end speech emotion recognition using a deep convolutional recurrent network”, in Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016, Shanghai, China, April 2016.
2015 Best result MediaEval 2015 Benchmark Affective Impact of Movies Task: George Trigoergis, Eduardo Coutinho, Fabien Ringeval, Erik Marchi, Stefanos Zafeiriou, Björn Schuller: “The ICL-TUM-Passau Approach for the MediaEval 2015 “Affective Impact of Movies” Task”
2013 Mr. Alistair Doswald: “Using biosignals to control the Nao robot”; work selected for the best master thesis award from the Swiss Informatics Society.