Current Position

 
CNRS Researcher at the Image and Sound Team of the Bordeaux Computer Science Research Laboratory (LABRI), in Bordeaux, France
 

Work Experience

 
10/2008-08/2010: CNRS Researcher at the Spoken Language Processing Group (TLP) of the Computer Science Laboratory for Mechanics and Engineering Sciences (LIMSI) in Orsay, France.

02/2007-09/2008: Post-doctorate fellow at the National Research Institute on Transports and Security (INRETS) in Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. Work on automatic analysis of conversation in a public transport vehicle, in the framework of the BOSS project (On Board Wireless Secured Video Surveillance).

09/2006-02/2007: Post-doctorate fellow at Laboratório de sistemas de Língua Falada (L2F) in Lisbonne, Portugal, head Prof. Isabel Trancoso. Post-doctorate fellowship awarded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior). Work on automatic language identification in audio-video broadcast news documents as a pre-processing for speech recognition.

2005-2006: Post-doctorate fellow at the National Research Institute on Transports and Security (INRETS) in Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. Research in the framework of the EVAS project (Study for a Video and Audio wireless surveillance system).

2001-2005: Phd student at the Computer Science Research Institute (IRIT) in Toulouse, France. Research subject: Automatic language identification using rhythmic and intonative features.

 

Education

 
2005: PhD in Computer Science Dissertation topic: Characterisation and Automatic Language Identification. Supervisor (co-supervisor): Régine André-Obrecht (François Pellegrino). PhD defended on 11 March 2005.

2001: Master in Signal, Image and Audio processing Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse, France. Master's thesis: Intérêt de la prosodie en Identification automatique des langues. Supervisor: Régine André-Obrecht.

1999: Bachelor in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Automatics Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse.

 

Languages & Skills

 
Speech processing, signal processing and pattern recognition
Languages: fluent French & English, basic knowledge of Spanish and Portuguese.
Computer language & software: C, Shell Unix (bash), Awk, Sed, Tcl/Tk, Matlab, Labview.