CNRS Researcher in LLM and Natural Language and Speech Processing (NLP)
Deputy Scientific Coordinator of the ENACT AI Cluster from 2026
AI point of contact in Grand Est for the Agence de Programme dans le Numérique in 2026
Member of the AI Advisory Committee of Univ. Lorraine in 2025
Contributed to 7 LLMs in 2025
Co-organizer of the NLP event at AI Action Summit 2025
Invited CNRS roundtable on generative AI at Vivatech 2024
Referent AI for the French National Plan for AI in 2020
Python, go, java, C, git, JAMstack…
Developer: linux, android; preferred tools: github, gitlab, markdown (Mkdocs, Hugo, Jekyll, Reveal.js…), GPU computing (via Pytorch, Tensorflow), latex, ActivityPub federation, …
Since 2001: CNRS researcher in computer science, speech and NLP
Since 2019: Leader of the AI-NLP transversal axis at the LORIA laboratory
2012-2025: Leader of the SYNALP research team
1999-2000: Researcher at Panasonic Speech Technology Laboratory (Santa Barbara, USA)
Since 2024: “Methodology of AI” course at Master of Cognitive Science in Nancy
Since 2019: LLM course at Master TAL (ERASMUS MUNDUS) in Nancy
2017-2024: “Machine Learning” course at Ecole des Mines in Nancy
2019: Co-organizer of the Python4NLP summer school
Since 2017: Implied in the management of the ERASMUS MUNDUS Master and construction of the Master TAL in Nancy
2009: Teaching at Univ. Lorraine
2007: Teaching at Ecole des Mines Nancy
2002-2004: Teaching at Univ. Lorraine
2000-2001: ATER teaching Computer Science at Univ. Lorraine & Eng. school
1996-1999: Moniteur teaching Computer Science at IUT, Licence, Master
Habilitation (HDR), Computer Science; Univ. de Lorraine
Accreditation to supervise researchers
PhD, Computer Science; Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine
Thesis title: Multi-Band Automatic Speech Recognition
(co-)supervised 14 Ph.D. thesis: Pavel Kral, Sébastien Demange, Christian Gillot, Thien Hoa Le, Guillaume Le Berre, Paul Caillon, Alaaeddine Chaoub, Ilias Abdouni, Gaspard Michel, Omar Cherif, Yaya Sy, Guy-Stéphane Waffo Dzuyo, Estelle Zheng, Alexanne Worm
Member of 42 HDR and Ph.D. defense committees: Pavel Kral (2007), Sébastien Demange (2007), Azeddine Zidouni (2010), Sethserey Sam (2011), Christian Gillot (2012), Aymen Baouab (2013), Bikash Gyawali (2016), Layla El Asri (2016), Michal Konkol (2016), Jérémie Tafforeau (2017), Elena Epure (2018), Michel Salomon (HDR, 2018), Gabriel Marzinotto (2019), Pierre Godard (2019), Kevin Löser (2019), Hazem El Saied (2019), Chiari Liti (2020), Jeremy Auguste (2020), Praboda Rajapaksha (2020), Marzieh Mozafari (2021), Nicolas Turpault (2021), Emile Chapuis (2021), Ashwin Geet D’Sa (2022), Koosha Zarei (2022), Betty Fabre (2022), François Buet (2022), José Carlos Rosales NÚÑEZ (2023), Sébastien Montella (2023), David Laiymani (HDR, 2023), Valentin Pelloin (2024), Alexandre Voisin (HDR, 2024), Hadi Abdine (2024), Lina Maria Rojas Barahona (HDR, 2024), Pavel Priban (2024), Duc Hau Nguyen (2024), Alexandre Audibert (2024), Arthur Amalvy (2024), Song Duong (2025), Virgile Rennard (2025), Hichem Ammar Khodja (2025), Razieh Chalehchaleh (2026), Irina Proskurina (2026)
Reviewing committee for ANR, HCERES, ANRT and several funding agency
Regular reviewer for *-ACL, AAAI, COLM, EMNLP, INTERSPEECH, ICASSP, ECML…
cerisara@loria.fr • https://members.loria.fr/CCerisara
Nancy, France