I am a PhD student at Inria Paris, where I am a member of the Articulab group (part of Almanach). Supervised by Prof. Justine Cassell and Prof. Laurent Romary, my thesis titled "Beyond Fluency: Toward Robust Conversational Grounding in Neural Dialogue Systems" explores the nuances of multimodal conversational grounding. It teaches AI models how to build and maintain "common ground", from the immediate back-and-forth of clarifications and acknowledgments to the complex task of managing long-term shared context. 

My research interests span a broad spectrum, including NLP, Speech Language Models, Speech Processing, Spoken Dialogue Systems 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.