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).