Resume

Team leader of the computational neuroscience team at the institute of neurodegenerative diseases. Co‐founder and editor in chief of ReScience C and Rescience X, editor for PeerJ Computer Science, review editor for Frontiers in Neurobotics, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers in Psychology, member of the COSO Logiciel (Software and Source Codes College), member of the COFIS (Ofis Advisory Board), co-funder and member of the FRRN (French National Reproducibility Network) advisory board.

Former elected member of the national Inria evaluation committee, vice‐head of the Mnemosyne project, member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. I have directed 16 Phd Students, 4 post‐docs, 4 enginerrs, ≈30 master students, reviewed and examined ≈40 PhD thesis and participated in more than 20 hiring committees (tenured position). I’m regularly teaching cognitive science, computational neuroscience, numerical computation and scientific visualization at university, doctoral schools and summer schools. I’ve also published several resources about scientific computation, scientific visualization and machine learning.

History

2021 - … Director of Research at (Inria)
Vice-head of the Hypermondes association
2020 - … Head of the Computational Neuroscience team (IMN)
Vice-head of the Mnemosyne team-project (Inria Bordeaux)
Member of the DART team (LaBRI)
2013 - 2020 Researcher (tenured) at Inria Bordeaux
Vice-head of the Mnemosyne team-project
Member of the Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Member of the LaBRI laboratory
2011 Habilitation, Université Nancy 2
Fondements biologiques pour le calcul distribué
2002 - 2013 Researcher (tenured) at Inria Nancy
Member of the Cortex team-project
Member of the Loria laboratory
2000 - 2002 Associate Researcher at Colorado University, Boulder
Member of the O’Reilly Cognitive Psychology laboratory
1997 - 2000 Ph.D. in Computer Science, Université Henri Poincaré
Modèles de mémoires pour la navigation autonome
(1996-1997) Military service in the naval air force
1993 - 1996 Engineer Telecom Nancy (ex ESIAL)
DEA (Master) in Computer Science, Université Nancy 1

People

PhD students

Post-doc and engineers

PhD students

Yousra Ouazzani Touhami 2025-2028
Mélanie Romano 2025-2028
Maeva Andriantsoamberomanga 2022-2025
Naomi Chaix-Echel (PhD) 2021-2024
Nikolaos Vardalakis (PhD) 2020-2024
Fjola Hyseni (PhD,MD) 2020-2023
Snighda Dagar (PhD) 2019-2023
Remya Sankar (PhD) 2018-2022
Anthony Strock (PhD) 2017-2020
Ikram Chraibi Kaadoud (PhD) 2015-1018
Aurélien Nioche (PhD) 2014-2018
Meropi Topalidou (PhD) 2013-2016
Georgios Detorakis (PhD) 2010-2013
Wahiba Taouali (PhD) 2009-2012
Jérémy Fix (PhD) 2005-2008
Julien Vitay (PhD) 2002-2006

Post-doc and engineers

Roshni Borse 2024-2025
Fabien Benureau 2016-1017
Zhor Ramdane-Cherif 2005-2006
Rémi Coulom 2003-2004
Alistair Bray 1998-2000

Interns

Yves Apriou (2025, ENSC, Bordeaux) Héloise Troublé (2024, ENS, Rennes) Pierre Schmittbuhl (2024, ENS, Lyon) Gautham Venugopal (2023, IIIT Hyderabad, India) Victor Leroy (2022, ENST, Bordeaux) Rebecca Lafont (2022, Bordeaux INP) Bhushan Rugbursing (2021, Medicine/Science, Bordeaux), Karen Sobriel (2021, Univ. de Nantes), Quentin Lanneau (2021, ENSEIRB, Bordeaux), Kepa Labescau (2020, Medicine/Science, Bordeaux), Dimitri Lerévérend (2020, ENS, Rennes), Nicolas Thou (2020, ENSEIRB, Bordeaux), Adrien Tétar (2019, ESIEE, Paris), Gabriel Gouraud (2019, Polytechnique, Saclay), Théophile Boraud (2018, Univ. Warwick, UK), Edwige Cyffers (2018, ENS, Lyon), Basile Garcia (2018, Univ. Bordeaux), Remya Sankar (2017, IIIT Hyderabad, India), Anthony Strock (2017, ENS, Rennes), Sabyasachi Shivkumar (2016, IIIT Madras, India), Barghav teja Nallapu (2015, IIIT Hyderabad, India), Aurélien Marie (2015, Univ. Bordeaux), Hima Mehta (2014, IIIT Hyderabad, India), Meropi Topalidou (2013, Univ. Crête, Greece), Zoé Barbanneau (2011, Ecole Estienne, Paris), Wahiba Taouali (2009, Ecole des Mines, Nancy), Andrew Szabados (2008, Univ. Jussieu, Paris), Johnatan Gall (2006, Supélec, Metz), Jérémy Fix (2003, Supélec, Metz), Yoann Dieu (2003, Univ. Strasbourg, Strasbourg), Julien Vitay (2002, Supélec, Rennes).