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 research explores the nuances of multimodal conversational grounding. I am working on teaching 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. My technical background further includes extensive work with Knowledge Graphs and Ontologies.