I grew up in
France, where I did my undergraduate in Computer Science, and
graduated from Université de
la Méditerranée (Aix-Marseille II) with a Technology Degree (DUT)
in 1994, then with a Masters by Research (DEA) in 1997. My Masters
thesis was in Computational Music, supervised by Vincent Risch.
From 1997 until 2001 I worked in
France as a Software Engineer in the IT industry at SOPRA. Casually, I also used
to teach Mathematics and Computing in high school at Institut Leschi in
Marseille.
I moved to
Australia in 2001, first to work as an IT Consultant for IPP Technologies Pty Ltd. I
then spent 2 years working as a Research Programmer at the Centre for Language Technology
(CLT) at Macquarie University
in Sydney.
In 2003 I was awarded a Research Scholarship from Macquarie Uni., which I enrolled as a Ph.D. candidate in Computing, to study in the field of Computational Linguistics. I graduated in 2008, from both Macquarie Uni. and Université de Provence under a joint supervision agreement (cotutelle). My Ph.D. work was supervised by Diego Mollá and Mark Dras at Macquarie, and Philippe Blache at Provence.
I left Australia in 2007, and after a short stay in France working as a Research Assistant at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL) I then moved to Manchester (UK) in 2008, to work as a Natural Language Processing Specialist at numéro (Smart Analytics Ltd.). I came back (again) to France in 2009, to join the Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale (LIFO) at Université d'Orléans as a post-doctoral researcher, where I worked on the CRoTAL project led by Isabelle Tellier.
Since November 2010 I have now been a Lecturer in Computing at Université Montpellier 2 (UM2), still in France. I am teaching Computing at the local Technology Institute (IUT) and Science Faculty, and doing my research within the NLP team at LIRMM (joint UM2-CNRS Computing research lab.).