Christophe Cerisara

CNRS Researcher in Deep Learning, Natural Language and Speech Processing (NLP)

Awards

• Invited CNRS talk on generative AI at Vivatech 2024

• Referent AI for the French National Plan for AI in 2020

• Head of the AI-NLP transversal axis at LORIA from 2019

• Distinguished Program Committee Member of IJCAI 2019

• Nominated in the list of “200 AI French talents” by the magazine Usine Nouvelle in 2018

• Head of the SYNALP research team since 2012

Expertise

AI

Deep learning, Bayesian inference, unsupervised learning…

NLP

LLM, speech recognition, dialogue, summarization…

Computer Science

Python, go, java, C, git, JAMstack…

Developer: linux, android; preferred tools: github, gitlab, markdown (Mkdocs, Hugo, Jekyll, Reveal.js…), GPU computing (via Pytorch, Tensorflow, JAX), latex, ActivityPub federation, …

Experience

Research

Since 2001: CNRS researcher in computer science, speech and NLP

Since 2019: Leader of the AI-NLP transversal axis at the LORIA laboratory

Since 2012: Leader of the SYNALP research team

1999-2000: Researcher at Panasonic Speech Technology Laboratory (Santa Barbara, USA)

Teaching

Since 2017: Resp. of the Machine Learning course at Ecole des Mines de Nancy

Since 2019: Resp. of the Lexical Resources course at Master M2 TAL Nancy

2019: Co-organizer of Python4NLP summer school

Since 2017: Implied in the management of the ERASMUS MUNDUS Master and construction of the new 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

Education

Mar 2010

Habilitation (HDR), Computer Science; Univ. de Lorraine

Accreditation to supervise researchers

Sep 1999

PhD, Computer Science; Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine

Thesis title: Multi-Band Automatic Speech Recognition

Jun 1996

Engineer, Computer Science; ENSIMAG

Projects

European

AI-PROFICIENT (ICT-38), PAPUD (ITEA), ModelWriter (ITEA), Emospeech (Eurostars), HIWIRE (STREP), Amigo (FP6), OZONE (FP6), MIAMM (FP6)

French

LLM4ALL (leader), PLM4all (leader), LUE IMPACT OLKi (leader), LEAUDS, CPER LCHN (workpackage leader), ISTEx, ORTOLANG, ORFEO, ContNomina, Web-NLG, CPER MISN TALC (co-leader), ESTER, ETAPE, RAPSODIS (leader)

Management

• (co-)supervised 13 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

• Member of 33 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), 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), Pavel Priban (2024), Alexandre Audibert (2024)

• Member of 6 MCF Selection Committees: Marseille (2017,2019), Nancy (2019,2020), Paris (2020), Paris (2024)

• Reviewer for HCERES, ANR, ANRT and several funding agency

• Regular reviewer for *-ACL, AAAI, IJCAI, COLING, INTERSPEECH, ICASSP, EMNLP, ECML…

cerisara@loria.fr • https://members.loria.fr/CCerisara
Nancy, France