Meet the team!
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Permanent research staff
Benoît Sagot
Benoît Sagot
Senior researcher (Scientific leader, PRAIRIE chair)
Office: B021
Email: benoit.sagot[at]inria.fr
WebsiteWorking on: Language models (design, learning, use, biases and ethical and cultural issues), machine translation and other text transformation tasks (simplification), interface between text and speech and between text and image, development of linguistic resources, computational and historical linguistics. Focus on the French language in all its diversity, but also on issues relating to low-resource languages.
Djamé Seddah
Djamé Seddah
Working on: Syntactic analysis of non-canonical texts and for morphologically rich languages, data-driven methods for the syntactic-semantic interface, contextual syntactic analysis, neural language models interpretation
Éric de La Clergerie
Éric de La Clergerie
Working on: Parsing (symbolic, statistical and neural); grammar engineering; information extraction; knowledge acquisition; interactions between context, knowledge and language; cognitive aspects of language
Rachel Bawden
Rachel Bawden
Working on: Machine translation, multilingual natural language processing, robustness
Chloé Clavel
Chloé Clavel
Justine Cassell
Justine Cassell
Thibault Clérice
Thibault Clérice
Working on: Digital Humanities, Computational humanities, natural language processing for ancient languages
Associated members
Laurent Romary
Laurent Romary
Associated (Directeur de recherches)
Main affiliation: Inria, Direction de la Culture et de l'Information Scientifiques
Office: (Berlin)
Email: laurent.romary[at]inria.fr
WebsiteWorking on: Linguistic data modelling, lexical resources, information extraction, digital humanities
Nicolas Rollet
Nicolas Rollet
Délégation, novembre 2024-- (Associate Professor)
Main affiliation: Télécom Paris, IPParis, I3-CNRS
Office: B0028
Email: nicolas.rollet[at]inria.fr
Working on: language in interaction, HRI/HCI, socialization through language, conversation analysis, ethnomethodology
Postdocs, Engineers and Research Assistants
Virginie Mouilleron
Juliette Janès
Marius Le Chapelier
Malik Marmonier
Malik Marmonier
Engineer
Office: B007
Email: malik.marmonier[at]inria.fr
Working on: Machine Translation with large language models in low-resource scenarios and for unseen languages
Supervisors: Rachel Bawden and Benoît Sagot
Cindy Evellyn de Araujo Silva
Cindy Evellyn de Araujo Silva
Engineer
Office: B030
Email: cindy-evellyn.de-araujo-silva[at]inria.fr
Working on: Hyperscanning of pairs of children in order to better understand the neural correlates of rapport, and the impact of rapport on learning
Supervisors: Justine Cassell
Hassen Aguili
Aina Garí Soler
Aina Garí Soler
Postdoc
Secondary affiliation: Telecom-Paris
Office: B011
Email: aina.gari-soler[at]inria.fr
WebsiteWorking on: Automatic analysis of alignment between speakers in conversations
Supervisors: Chloé Clavel
Panagiotis Tsolakis
Sinem Demirkan
Oussama Silem
Lucence Ing
Lucence Ing
Engineer
Email: lucence.ing[at]inria.fr
Sarah Bénière
Nicolas Angleraud
Nicolas Angleraud
Engineer
Office: B012
Email: nicolas.angleraud[at]inria.fr
Marie Singi Kinkela Butel
Marie Singi Kinkela Butel
Engineer
Benjamin Kiessling
PhD students
Alix Chagué
Alix Chagué
PhD student
Secondary affiliation: Université de Montréal and CRIHN
Office: Montréal
Email: alix.chague[at]inria.fr
WebsiteWorking on: Methodology for the creation of training data and the application of handwritten text recognition to the Humanities.
Supervisors: Laurent Romary, Emmanuel Château-Dutier and Michael Sinatra
Francis Kulumba
Francis Kulumba
Working on: Authorship attribution and verification in scientific writing through learned representations of writing style.
Supervisors: Laurent Romary and Guillaume Vimont
Alisa Barkar
Rian Touchent
Rian Touchent
Working on: Information Extraction on French Electronic Health Records
Supervisors: Laurent Romary and Éric de La Clergerie
Simon Meoni
Wissam Antoun
Wissam Antoun
Working on: Detecting Dataset Manipulation and Weaponisation of NLP Models
Supervisors: Benoît Sagot and Djamé SeddahYou Zuo
Nicolas Dahan
Ziqian Peng
Lucie Chenain
Biswesh Mohapatra
Biswesh Mohapatra
Working on: Improving chatbot dialogue systems through collaborative grounding
Supervisors: Justine Cassell and Laurent RomaryHugo Scheithauer
Armel Zebaze
Rasul Dent
Rasul Dent
PhD student
Office: B005
Email: rasul.dent[at]inria.fr
Working on: Large-scale language identification (numerous languages, massive data, distinction between closely related varieties) with a focus on the languages of France and French-based creoles.
Supervisors: Benoît Sagot, Thibault Clérice and Pedro Ortiz
Anh Ha Ngo
Pierre Chambon
Pierre Chambon
PhD student
Email: pierre.chambon[at]inria.fr
Working on: Code generation with language models
Supervisors: Benoît Sagot and Gabriel SynnaeveOriane Nédey
Reem Al Najjar
Gabrielle Le Bellier
Gabrielle Le Bellier
PhD student
Office: B004
Email: gabrielle.le-bellier[at]inria.fr
Working on: Controlled generation for biais mitigation and cultural awareness in conversational language models
Supervisors: Benoît Sagot and Chloé Clavel
Célia Nouri
Célia Nouri
PhD student
Office: B015
Email: celia.nouri[at]inria.fr
Working on: Toxicity and Opinions Detection and Analysis on Social Media Conversations
Supervisors: Chloé Clavel and Jean-Philippe Cointet (MediaLab)Cecilia Graiff
Yi Yu
Yi Yu
PhD student
Secondary affiliation: Telecom-Paris
Office: B011
Email: yi.yu[at]inria.fr
Working on: Automatic analysis of the human ability to collaborate in dyadic and group conversations, with a view to educational applications.
Supervisors: Chloé Clavel and Maria Boritchev (Telecom-Paris)
Romain Froger
Romain Froger
PhD student
Main affiliation: META AI Paris
Industrial Phd with META
Office: n/a
Email: rfroger[at]meta.com
Working on: Planning and Reasoning in Dynamic Environments: Towards Real-Time, Interactive, Intelligent, and Efficient Systems with Large Language Model Agents
Supervisors: Djamé Seddah and Thomas Scialom (Meta)Interns
Zofia Milczarek
Zofia Milczarek
Intern
Office: B015
Email: zofia.milczarek[at]inria.fr
Working on: Prompting and fine-tuning LLMs for natural speech-like (text) dialogue generation
Supervisors: Justine Cassell and Marius Le Chapelier
Clara Coridon
Clara Coridon
Intern
Office: B015
Email: clara.corridon[at]inria.fr
Working on: How rapport is built in French conversations through verbal and nonverbal behaviors
Supervisors: Justine Cassell
Giovanni Duca
Giovanni Duca
Intern
Office: B015
Email: giovanni.duca[at]inria.fr
Working on: Reinforcement learning techniques to improve conversational grounding in dialogue systems
Supervisors: Justine Cassell and Biswesh Mohapatra
Théo Lasnier
Théo Lasnier
Intern
Office: B007
Email: theo.lasnier[at]inria.fr
Working on: Code generation evaluation
Supervisors: Djamé Seddah
Melce Hüsünbeyi
Melce Hüsünbeyi
Intern
Office: B010
Email: zehra-melce.husunbeyi[at]inria.fr
Adriano Rivierez
Adriano Rivierez
Intern
Office: B007
Email: adriano.rivierez[at]inria.fr
Kshitij Ambilduke
Kshitij Ambilduke
Working on: Exploring multimodal interactions for video game corpus
Supervisors: Djamé Seddah
Sofia de Tremiolles
Sofia de Tremiolles
Intern
Main affiliation: Medialab Science Po
Office: B004
Email: sofia.de-tremiolles[at]student-cs.fr
Working on: Socio Cultural biases
Supervisors: Djamé Seddah and Jean-Phillipe Cointet
Yassine Machta
Yassine Machta
Intern
Office: B015
Email: yassine.machta[at]inria.fr
Mayank Palan
Mayank Palan
Intern
Office: B015
Email: mbpalan_b22[at]it.vjti.ac.in
Admin
Julien Guieu
Julien Guieu
Administrative assistant
Email: julien.guieu[at]inria.fr
Alumni
Permanent research staff
- Laurent Romary (Jan 17-Dec 21). Now associated member in the team
- Pierre Boullier (Jan 17-Apr 19). Now retired
Postdocs, Engineers and Research Assistants
- Hasan Onur Keles (Jul 24-Jun 25)
- Nathan Godey (Feb 25-Apr 25)
- Samuel Scalbert (Oct 23-Mar 25)
- Sarah Bénière (Oct 23-Jan 25). Now engineer in the team
- Sinem Demirkan (Jan 24-Jan 25). Now engineer in the team
- Sophie Etling (Sep 24-Dec 24)
- Cecilia Graiff (Dec 23-Nov 24). Now PhD student in the team
- Aina Garí Soler (Sep 21-Sep 24)
- Emer Gilmartin (Oct 22-Sep 24)
- Lauriane Aufrant (Nov 23-Sep 24)
- Oriane Nédey (Dec 23-Sep 24). Now PhD student in the team
- Thibault Clérice (May 23-Aug 24). Now researcher in the team
- Hao Wang (Jan 24-May 24)
- José Carlos Rosales Núñez (Aug 23-Apr 24). Now ML researcher & Research project manager at Sogeti
- Menel Mahamdi (Sep 22-Aug 23, Sep 23-Apr 24)
- Seth Aycock (Aug 23-Nov 23). Now PhD student at the University of Amsterdam
- Hugo Scheithauer (Oct 21-Oct 23). Now PhD student in the team
- Anna Chepaikina (Mar 22-Sep 23). Now R&D project manager at Winespace
- Julien Abadji (Apr 21-Aug 23). Now Founding Engineer at poolside
- Niyati Bafna (Oct 22-Jun 23). Now PhD student at Johns Hopkins University
- Deepak Yadav (Apr 23-May 23)
- Tanti Kristanti Nugraha (Nov 17-Apr 23)
- Rua Ismail (Jan 22-Mar 23)
- Wissam Antoun (Mar 22-Feb 23). Now PhD student in the team
- You Zuo (Oct 21-Nov 22). Now PhD student in the team
- Lucas Terriel (Nov 20-Oct 22). Now ML & Web Engineer at École Nationale des Chartes
- Yves Tadjo Takianpi (Sep 20-Jun 22)
- Jesujoba Alabi (Feb 22-Jun 22). Now PhD student and researcher in the Spoken Language Systems (LSV) group, Saarland University
- Syrielle Montariol (Apr 21-May 22). Now Postdoc at EPFL
- Thibault Charmet (Feb 21-Jan 22). Now PhD student at Université de Technologie de Compiègne and Renault
- Alix Chagué (Oct 18-Oct 21). Now PhD student in the team
- Floriane Chiffoleau (Mar 20-Oct 21). Now Engineer in Digital Humanities in the ObTIC team at Sorbonne Université, Paris
- Arij Riabi (Oct 20-Sep 21)
- Thomas Wang (Apr 21-Sep 21). Now Research Engineer at Mistral AI
- Quentin Burthier (Feb 21-Mar 21). Now Software engineer at Shift Technology
- Murielle Popa-Fabre (Nov 18-Aug 20). Now Senior consultant (Tech & Gen AI governance), United Nations
- Mohamed Khemakhem (Sep 19-Aug 20). Now CEO at MandaNetwork
- Gaël Guibon (Jun 19-Jun 20). Now Lecturer at Université de Lorraine
- Lionel Tadjou Tadonfouet (May 17-Mar 20). Now DATA/AI engineer at Gedeon
- Farah Essaïdi (Oct 19-Dec 19). Now Project manager at RATPgroup
- Yoann Dupont (Jun 18-Dec 19). Now Lecturer at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
- Alba Marina Malaga Sabogal (Sep 17-Sep 19). Now Assistant professor at Université de Lorraine, Nancy – Saint Dié des Vosges
- Clémentine Fourrier (May 18-Sep 19). Now Research scientist at Hugging Face
- Ganesh Jawahar (Mar 18-Sep 19). Now PhD student at the University of British Columbia
- Charles Riondet (Nov 15-May 19). Now In charge of the old archives at the École des Ponts ParisTech, Paris, France
- Dorian Seillier (Oct 16-May 19). Now Digital project manager at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
- Ilia Markov (Jun 18-May 19). Now Post-doc at the University of Antwerp, Netherlands
- Achraf Azhar (Nov 17-Apr 19). Now Developer at CCSD, France
- Luca Foppiano (Jan 16-Dec 18). Now Research engineer at the National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
- Benjamin Muller (Apr 18-Sep 18). Now Research scientist at META
- Marie Puren (Jan 16-Aug 18). Now Associate professor at EPITECH
- Elias Benaïssa (Apr 17-Apr 18). Now Computational linguist at Orange, Paris
- Émilia Verzeni (Apr 17-Apr 18). Now Associate linguist via Adecco Outsourcing for Google
- Wigdan Abbas Mekki Medeni (Apr 17-Apr 18). Now Working at the Linguistics Data Consortium (USA)
- Hector Martínez Alonso (Feb 16-Nov 17). Now Research engineer at Apple, London, UK
PhD students
- Lydia Nishimwe (Oct 21-Jun 25). Robust Neural Machine Translation of User-Generated Content
- Matthieu Futeral-Peter (Nov 21-Jun 25)
- Arij Riabi (Oct 21-Mar 25)
- Yanzhu Guo (Oct 23-Mar 25). Automatic Evaluation of Human and Machine Generated Language
- Lorraine Vanel (Oct 23-Feb 25). Natural Language generation for socially competent agents
- Nathan Godey (Dec 21-Dec 24). Improving representations for language modeling
- Floriane Chiffoleau (Oct 21-Oct 24). Understanding the Automatic Text Recognition Process : Model Training, Ground Truth and Prediction Errors. Now Engineer in Digital Humanities in the ObTIC team at Sorbonne Université, Paris
- Cyril Chhun (Oct 23-Apr 24). Meta-Evaluation Methodology and Benchmark for Automatic Story Generation
- Tú Anh Nguyễn (Apr 21-Apr 24). Spoken Language Modeling from Raw Audio. Now Research scientist at META
- Chadi Helwé (Oct 23-Mar 24). Evaluating and Improving the Reasoning Abilities of Language Models
- Paul-Ambroise Duquenne (May 21-Mar 24). Reasoning in Sentence Embeddings for Massively Multilingual Speech and Text Processing. Now Research scientist at META
- Alafate Abulimiti (Nov 23-Dec 23). The Role of Socio-conversational Strategies in Task-Oriented Dialogues in the Case of Peer-Tutoring Interactions: A Focus on Off-Task Talks and Hedges
- Robin Algayres (Oct 19-Sep 23). Unsupervised word discovery on speech data. Now Research Scientist at MBZUAI
- Lionel Tadjou Tadonfouet (Mar 20-Sep 23). Constitution de fils de discussion cohérents à partir de conversations issues d'outils professionnels de communication et de collaboration. Now DATA/AI engineer at Gedeon
- Roman Castagné (Oct 21-Sep 23). Now Technical staff member at Cohere, Paris
- José Carlos Rosales Núñez (Jun 18-Jul 23). Traduction Automatique de Contenus Générés par l’Utilisateur: une Évaluation des Systèmes de Traduction Neuronaux dans des Conditions Zero-shot. Now ML researcher & Research project manager at Sogeti
- Clémentine Fourrier (Oct 19-Sep 22). Approches neuronales pour la reconstruction de mots historiques. Now Research scientist at Hugging Face
- Benjamin Muller (Oct 18-Jul 22). How Can We Make Language Models Better at Handling the Diversity and Variability of Natural Languages?. Now Research scientist at META
- Pedro Ortiz Suarez (Oct 18-Apr 22). A Data-driven Approach to Natural Language Processing for Contemporary and Historical French. Now Senior researcher at the Common Crawl Foundation
- Louis Martin (Jun 18-Aug 21). Automatic Sentence Simplification using Controllable and Unsupervised Methods. Now Research scientist at Mistral AI
- Jack Bowers (Oct 16-Oct 20). Language Documentation and Standards in Digital Humanities: TEI and the documentation of Mixtepec-Mixtec. Now ML Data Linguist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Mathilde Regnault (Oct 17-Sep 20). Annotation et analyse syntaxique de corpus hétérogènes : le cas du français médiéval. Now Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Stuttgart
- Mohamed Khemakhem (Sep 16-Aug 20). Standard-based lexical models for automatically structured dictionnaries. Now CEO at MandaNetwork
- Loïc Grobol (Oct 16-Jul 20). Coreference resolution for spoken French. Now Maître de conférences (Assistant Professor) at Université Paris-Nanterre
Interns
- Imani Stone (Jan 25-Jun 25)
- Gabrielle Alimi (Oct 24-Oct 24, Jan 25-Jun 25)
- Barokshana Baskaran (Oct 24-Oct 24, Jan 25-Jun 25)
- Célia Nouri (Apr 24-Oct 24). Now PhD student in the team
- Gabrielle Le Bellier (Apr 24-Sep 24). Now PhD student in the team
- Anna Celina Desiderio (Jun 24-Aug 24)
- Théo Charlot (Jun 24-Aug 24)
- Diana Bakina (Mar 24-Aug 24)
- Zofia Milczarek (May 24-Aug 24). Now intern in the team
- Mira Lee (Feb 24-Aug 24)
- Mathilde Deletombe (May 24-Aug 24)
- Javier Alejandro Lopetegui González (May 24-Jul 24)
- Reem Al Najjar (Mar 24-Jul 24)
- Qinhyue Xu (Jan 24-Jul 24)
- Irène Metz (Feb 24-Jul 24)
- Léo Labat (Nov 23-Mar 24)
- Ilyas Lebleu (Dec 23-Mar 24)
- Samuel Scalbert (Apr 23-Jul 23)
- Sarah Bénière (Apr 23-Jul 23). Now engineer in the team
- Rishika Bhagwatkar (Jul 22-Dec 22)
- Rian Touchent (Jun 22-Nov 22). Now PhD student in the team
- Galo Castillo Lopez (Jun 22-Aug 22)
- Pierre Vauterin (Jun 22-Aug 22)
- Kelly Christensen (Apr 22-Jul 22)
- Jules Nuguet (Apr 22-Jul 22)
- Abderraouf Farhi (Apr 22-Jul 22)
- Camille Rey (Sep 21-Mar 22, May 22-Jun 22)
- Nacim Talaoubrid (Jun 22-Jun 22)
- Matthieu Futeral-Peter (Jul 20-Jul 20, May 21-Oct 21)
- Roman Castagné (Apr 21-Sep 21). Now Technical staff member at Cohere, Paris
- Sonal Sannigrahi (Jun 21-Aug 21)
- Manon Ovide (Mar 21-Aug 21)
- Hugo Scheithauer (Apr 21-Aug 21). Now PhD student in the team
- Quentin Burthier (Sep 20-Jan 21). Now Software engineer at Shift Technology
- Jean-Damien Genero (Mar 20-Sep 20)
- Lucas Terriel (Apr 20-Jul 20). Now ML & Web Engineer at École Nationale des Chartes
- Victoria Le Fourner (May 19-Jul 19)
- Abhishek Srivastava (May 19-Jul 19)
- Hafida Le Cloirec (Jun 19-Jun 19)
- Pedro J. Ortiz Suárez (Apr 18-Sep 18). Now Senior researcher at the Common Crawl Foundation
- Farah Essaïdi (May 18-Sep 18). Now Project manager at RATPgroup
- Amal Fethi (Apr 18-Aug 18)
- Pauline Brunet (Mar 18-Aug 18)
- Marie-Laurence Bonhomme (Mar 18-Jul 18)
- Alix Chagué (Apr 18-Jul 18). Now PhD student in the team
- Rebecca Blevins (Jun 18-Jul 18)
- Tanti Kristanti Nugraha (May 17-Oct 17)
- Siham Feredj (Apr 17-Sep 17)
- Maram Romdhane (Apr 17-Sep 17)
- Raphael Avoustin (May 17-Aug 17)
- Julie Tytgat (Jun 17-Aug 17)
- Yann-Alan Pilatte (Jun 17-Jul 17)
- Roua Torjmen (Apr 17-May 17)
Associated members
- Marine Carpuat (Sep 24-Jun 25)
- Kshitij Ambilduke (Jan 25-Apr 25). Now intern in the team
- Marco Bronzini (May 24-Jun 24)
- Damien Biabiany (Dec 18-Sep 20)
- Kim Gerdes (Mar 18-Aug 20). Now Associate professor at LISN, CNRS
- Tommaso Venturini (Sep 19-Oct 19)
- Basant Agarwal (Aug 17-Sep 17)
- Daniel Dakota (Oct 16-Jan 17)