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• Salima Mdhaffar is a full-time senior researcher at Avignon University (LIA).

She received a PhD in Computer Science from Le Mans University on 2020. Her thesis work is part of the ANR  PASTEL project. In 2020, she joins the LIA (Avignon University) as a postdoctoral researcher.

As a postdoctoral researcher at LIA, she works on neural end-to-end systems for the detection of named entities, speech understanding, self-supervised representation, as part of the European SELMA project.  She works also on federated learning and privacy preserving for ASR systems as part of the ANR DeepPrivacy project.

Her main research interests are automatic speech recognition, semantic information extraction from speech and self-supervised learning.