Resume

History of positions

Postdoctoral researcher
IMT-Mines Alès, France

Jan. 2025 - Now
Working with Sébastien Harispe and Nicolas Soulié for the study of the impact of XAI on human-computer interaction.

C++ developer for operational research
GIRO, Montréal, Canada

June 2023 - Dec. 2024
Developement of optimization algorithms for public transportation (metaheuristics).

PhD student
University of Angers, France

Sep. 2019 - Dec. 2022

Supervised by Bétrice Duval, Benoit Da Mota and Thomas Cauchy for the discovery of molecules with machine learning and combinatorial optimization.


Teaching

Teaching activity as a postdoctoral researcher
IMT-Mines Alès, France

2025-Now
  • Supervision of engineering students internships and research projects on XAI-related subjects.

Teaching activity as a PhD student
University of Angers, France

Sep. 2019 - June 2022
  • 192h of teaching over three years, mainly to an audience of BSc and MSc students.
  • Subjects : entry-level programming and advanced programming (design patterns).
  • Supervision of several internal graduation internships for BSc students.


Activity

2025

Reviewing activity

A total of 5 reviews for the following journals and events.
  • Scientific reports
  • Journal of cheminformatics
  • SoftwareX
  • Workshop STRAI@ARES2025

Events organization

Member of the program commitee of the Workshop STRAI@ARES2025.

Talks

Talk at the workshop HCAI of the GDR IHM held at ISIR, Paris, France. (Hybrid event, remote participation).
« A protocol to study the impact of XAI on AI-assisted decision making »
25 November 2025 (did not happen yet)

Talk at the workshop XAI4U held at the IHM '25 conference in Toulouse, France.
« A protocol to study the impact of XAI on AI-assisted decision making »
slides
4 November 2025

Talk at the workshop Human-centric AI organized by the ENFIELD project at UPB, Bucharest, Romania.
« A protocol to study the impact of XAI on the performance of AI-assisted decision making »
9 September 2025


Awards

🏆 3rd place at the PINKCC Challenge

Participation to the PINKCC Challenge for image segmentation of ovarian cancer with the IMT Mines Alès team, where we obtained the 3rd prize.

🏆 Best applicative article at EGC2019

Best applicative article prize at the conference EGC2019, for our article "Des réseaux de neurones pour prédire des distances interatomiques extraites d’une base de données ouverte de calculs en chimie quantique".


Other responsabilities

Representative of doctoral students
LERIA laboratory, University of Angers, France

Sep. 2020 - June 2022