Welcome!

I am Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Innovation at LINEACT CESI.
My research interests include social behaviour modelling, human-human and human-computer interaction, socially interactive agents.

News

August 2025: Proud to serve as Program Chair for IVA 2025.
July 2025: We obtained funding from Région Pays de la Loire for our project "Emergence of Contextual Awareness in Robotics through Social Learning for the Detection of Industrial Risks and Energy Inefficiencies in Workplace Settings", in collaboration with Hakim Guedjou and Fabrice Duval from CESI LINEACT. More info here.
July 2025: We obtained funding from PEPR eNSEMBLE for our project "Socially Interactive Doppelgangers (SID)", in collaboration with Amine Chellali and Jean-Yves Didier from IBISC, Université d'Evry-Paris-Saclay and Mukesh Barange from CESI LINEACT. More info here.


Where to find me (and/or my work)


Previously, as postdoctoral researcher, I worked on the AI4SoftSkills project: Artificial Intelligence for Training Soft Skills, under the supervision of Mathieu Chollet (at the time: PACCE team of LS2N Laboratory, IMT Atlantique; today: Glasgow Interactive Systems group, University of Glasgow) and Chloé Clavel (at the time: S2A team of LTCI Laboratory, Télécom Paris; today: ALMAnaCH team, Inria Paris).

Before, I also worked under the supervision of Giovanna Varni (at the time: S2A team of LTCI Laboratory, Télécom Paris; today: DISI, University of Trento), on modelling social cognition in small groups, by focusing on non-verbal behaviour.

I received my PhD from Sorbonne University in 2019, at ISIR (Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics), under the supervision of Catherine Pelachaud. I developed a computational model for managing first impressions of an Embodied Conversational Agent in real-time interactions. More details about the ANR IMPRESSIONS project can be found here.

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