I am an AI researcher, currently Senior Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind. As a member of Dr Raia Hadsell‘s and Dr Shakir Mohamed‘s teams, I have been focusing on navigation-related research, on scaling up autonomous agents to real world environments, on weather and climate forecasting and now on human–centered AI, leading an interdisciplinary team working on AI and Society. Some of my work has been published in Nature, at ICLR and NeurIPS and covered by The Guardian, BBC, Financial Times and many other press outlets.

I studied computer science in France (ENSEEIHT, Toulouse) and obtained my PhD in computer science in 2011 at New York University, with a thesis on “Time Series Modeling with Hidden Variables and Gradient-based Algorithms” supervised by Prof. Yann LeCun (Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2011).

Prior to joining DeepMind, I worked at Schlumberger Research, at the NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, at Bell Labs (with Dr Tin Kam Ho) and at Microsoft Bing, on problems including epileptic seizure prediction from EEG, the inference of gene regulation networks, WiFi-based geolocalisation, Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping on a smartphone, robotics, natural language processing and search query auto-completion.

I am also a Visiting Researcher and Knowledge Exchange Scholar at Goldsmiths, University of London, and regularly give talks and lectures on the intersection of AI and human creativity. During my theatre and improv performances (with and without robots on the stage), I investigate the use of AI for artistic human and machine-based co-creation.

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