Matthieu BRANTHÔME
Associate Professor in Computer Science
Maître de conférence en informatique
University of Rennes > IUT Lannion // IRISA > DRUID Team
Rue Edouard Branly 22300 Lannion - France / +33 (0)2 96 46 92 20
Email : matthieu.branthome@univ-rennes.fr
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Reasearch interests
Artificial Intelligence for Education
Learning Analytics
Serious Games
Computer Science Education
News:
January 2026 : Proceedings Co-Chair and member of the Program Committee of the AIED 2026 conference in Seoul (South Korea) and member of the Program Committee of the RJC-EIAH 2026 conference in Grenoble (France).
November 2025 : I took part in the panel discussion “AI and Education” during the Research and Innovation Conference organized by the Côtes-d’Armor Departmental Council.
June 2025 : I was co-head of the workshops organization for the EIAH 2025 conference in Lille (France).
April 2025:
The article "Impact of Adaptive Feedback on Learning Programming with a Serious Game in High Schools’ Classes", co-authored with Sébastien Lallé, has been accepted in ACM UMAP 2025 conference in New-York, USA (see publication section)
The article "Learning from Teachers: AI-Driven Feedback for a High School Python Serious Game", co-authored with Sébastien Lallé, has been accepted in ACM L@S 2025 conference in Palermo, Italy (see publication section)
The article "Learning Feedback Policy from Historical Data: An Offline Approach within Pyrates" has been accepted in AIED 2025 conference in Palermo, Italy (see publication section)
March 2025 : I was a member of the Program Committee of the AIED25 conference (26 th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education> Late Breaking Results Track)
October 2024 : I took part in the University of Lille's "Ludopédagogie" podcast (Myth 8: Artificial Intelligence will be the voice of students)
July 2024 : I've been offered the position of Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Rennes. My teaching activities will take place at IUT Lannion and my research will be carried out within the DRUID team of the IRISA laboratory
June 2024 : I co-led a workshop on practical statistics for TEL at RJC-EIAH conference in Laval (France)
March 2024: I was a member of the Program Committee of the AIED24 conference (25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education> Late Breaking Results Track)
January 2024: My thesis manuscript is available on line (see publication section)
December 2023: The article "Pyrates: Design and Evaluation of a Serious Game Aimed at Introducing Python Programming and Easing the Transition from Blocks" has been accepted in ACM Transactions on Computing Education journal (see publication section)
October 2023 :
I presented the planned extensions to my thesis work at the IRISA laboratory's DRUID team seminar: "Feedback Prediction with the Pyrates Serious Game"
I defended my PhD thesis entitled "Computer programming education: analyses and resources to support the transition from middle school to high school" on October 11, 2023 at INSPE de Bretagne in Rennes
September 2023: I joined ENSSAT Lannion and IRISA laboratory as a teaching and research assistant (enseignant-chercheur contractuel LRU)