Professional Experience

2014-
Assistant-professor/maître de conférences, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (France)
2011-2014
Postdoctoral researcher, CNGL, Dublin City University (Ireland), Information extraction and retrieval in the medical domain
2010-2011
Postdoctoral researcher, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Opinion mining in the pharmaceutical and medical domain
2008-2009
Temporary teaching and research assistant, University of Nantes (France)
2005-2008
Graduate teaching assistant and PhD student, University of Nantes (France), Characterization and compilation of comparable corpora
02/2006-03/2006
Internship, National Institute of Informatics (Japan), Multilingual information extraction and machine learning
02/2005-09/2005
Internship, LINA (Nantes, France), Automatic detection of scientific and popular science documents in the medical domain

Education

2009
Ph.D. in Computer Science University of Nantes
2005
M.Sc. in Computer Science University of Nantes
2003
B.Sc. in Computer Science University of Nantes

Administration activities

Events organization

2018
General chair of ECIR 2018 in Grenoble
2017
Lab chair of CLEF 2017, CLEF eHealth (co-chair) and CLEF CMC (organizer)
2016
Workshop MedIR (Medical Information Retrieval) in SIGIR 2016, CLEF eHealth (co-chair) and CLEF CMC (organizer), chair of the young researcher track (RJC) at SDNRI 2016
2015
CLEF eHealth (co-chair)
2014
COLING (publication co-chair), workshop MedIR (Medical Information Retrieval) in SIGIR 2014 (organizer), CLEF eHealth 2014 (co-chair and medical IR task leader)
2013
SIGIR (publication co-chair), CLEF eHealth 2013 (medical IR task leader)
2008
Colloque Interdisciplinaire des Doctorants (CID) (president of the scientific committee and organizing committee member)

Scientific Animation

2017
Volunteer for the festival Pint of Science
2014
Initiator of CNGL first Information Retrieval Reading Group
2012
Volunteer tutor at the Irish Linguistics Olympiads (AILO), organized by CNGL
2005-2009
Various associative activities in young researchers associations

Scientific committees

Reviewing papers for:
Journals
Journal of Information retrieval, Journal of Medical Internet Research, Databases, Traitement Automatique des Langues, Information Systems, PLOS ONE, Computers, JASIST
Conferences and workshops
SIGIR, ECIR, CIKM, CLEF, CORIA, KDIR