French National Centre for Scientific Research

Faculty Member, Dynamique du Langage

Other Affiliations: University of Lyon, Université Lumière Lyon 2

About

Hi,
I have been a CNRS Research Professor in Linguistics (DR2 CNRS) since 2009 and the Director of the laboratory DDL 'Dynamique Du Langage' in Lyon since 2004.  I am also the coordinator of the new 'Laboratory of Excellence' ASLAN (Advanced studies on language complexity).
I received a Master Degree in electronic engineering and signal processing from the 'Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse' in 1994 and a Ph.D. in Computer science from the University of Toulouse (France) in 1998. I defended my 'habilitation à diriger des recherches' on language identification and phonological complexity in 2009.
I joined Lyon in 1999 and led the Language Identification group of the DDL laboratory for seven years. My research focuses primarily on speech communication and my interests range from the automatic modelling of rhythm to the study of the structure and dynamics of phonological systems in the light of the science of complexity. I am also involved in the study of the interaction between neurocognitive, perceptual and phonetic processes during the comprehension of degraded speech. Over the last dozen years, I have authored or co-authored about 15 journal papers or book chapters and about 50 papers in the proceedings of national and international conferences in speech and signal processing, linguistics and cognition.
In 2013, I will be the local chairman (General Co-Chair) of the Interspeech 2013 conference (in Lyon, 25-29 August).

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