I am a Senior Research Engineer at the Institute of Foundation Models where I am working on building Speech Foundation Models. Previously, I did my PhD titled "Beyond Fluency: Toward Robust Conversational Grounding in Neural Dialogue Systems" at Inria Paris (with the team Almanach) under the supervision of Prof. Justine Cassell and Dr. Laurent Romary. 

My research interests span a broad spectrum, including Speech Language Models, Speech Processing, Spoken Dialogue Systems, NLP, and Multimodal Machine Learning. Recently, I have been interested on leveraging Reinforcement Learning on Conversational AI and have also been looking into Full-Duplex dialogue systems. My technical background further includes extensive work with Knowledge Graphs and Ontologies. My work has led to multiple first-authored publications at leading venues including EMNLP,  ACL,  ICASSP and LREC.