CV

Research experience

2012 - 2014

Research Associate
INSERM U846 - Stem-Cell and Brain Research Institute (Bron, France)
Research topic : Human-Avatar and Human-Robot Interaction

2009 - 2011

Postdoctoral fellow
MARCS Auditory Labs, UWS (Sydney, Australia)
Research topic : Evaluation of Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA)

2007 - 2008

Postdoctoral fellow
INSERM U821 - Brain Dynamics and Cognition (Lyon, France)
Research topic : Brain Computer Interfaces

2002 - 2006

Doctorate
Institut de la Communication Parlée (Grenoble, France)
Research topic : Cued Speech Synthesis

March - July 2002

DEA (Postgraduate degree) internship
Institut de la Communication Parlée (Grenoble, France)
Research topic : Evaluation of movement generation systems of a talking head

April - July 2001

Master's degree internship
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (Paris, France)
Research topic : Robust automatic speech recognition for proper nouns

Research Projects

• ANR "Retour Post-Doctorants 2011" project - SWoOZ, Guillaume Gibert, What make humans so different? Investigation of Human-Machine interaction using an innovative puppetry paradigm, the super Wizard of Oz, 2012-2014
• MARCS Early Career Research Funding, Virginie Attina & Guillaume Gibert, The electrophysiology of audiovisual speech integration in noise, 2009
• ARC and NH&MRC Special initiative, Denis Burnham, From Talking Heads to Thinking Heads, 2007-2011
• ANR RNTL project - OpenViBE, Anatole Lécuyer, Open Platform for Virtual Brain Environment, 2005-2008
• ANR RNTS project - TELMA, Denis Beautemps, Telephony dedicated to hearing impaired people, 2006-2009
• ANR RNRT project - ARTUS, Gérard Bailly, Watermarking of hand and face gestures of a virtual animated agent in a broadcasted audiovisual sequence, 2002-2005

Awards

• INPG PhD award 2007 for the best PhD thesis in Signal, Image, Speech and Telecommunications
• GALA (Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents) Audience award 2011 for the video "Realistic Eye Model Taking Into Account Pupil Dilation and Corneal Reflection"
• GALA (Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents) Jury award 2011 for the video "Realistic Eye Model Taking Into Account Pupil Dilation and Corneal Reflection"

Education

2002 - 2006

Ph.D in Signal, Speech and Image processing
Institut de la Communication Parlée (ICP, Institute of Spoken Communication)
Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)
Dissertation title : Implementation and Evaluation of a Text-To-Cued Speech Synthesizer
Supervised by Gerard Bailly

2002

Master degree in Signal, Image and Speech processing
Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)

2001

Undergraduate degree in physics (phases of matter and transport phenomena)
Option : Signal, image and speech processing
Université PARIS 7 - DENIS DIDEROT
One year in ERASMUS program at Universidad Complutense de Madrid