Supervision

PhD Students

• 2027–On-goingRecruitment to come — PhD in Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (France), within the STP-MEC project | 50% co-supervision with Patrice Bellot (Aix-Marseille Université). The thesis is funded by ANR (ANR-26-CE38-3075-02).
• 2026–On-goingRecruitment in progress — PhD in Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (France) on Multimodal and Emotional FALC | 50% co-supervision with Iris Eshkol-Taravella (MoDyCo, Université Paris Nanterre). The thesis is funded by the 80|PRIME CNRS programme.
• 2025–On-goingAmine Yousef Khodja — PhD in Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (France) on Anomaly Detection | 50% co-supervision with Jérémie Pantin. The thesis is funded by the RIN 100%.
• 2025–On-goingSami Mechtouf — PhD in Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (France) on Multimodal FALC Generation and Human-in-the-loop | 50% co-supervision with Laure Lejeune. The thesis is co-funded by the RIN 50% and the NORMANTHIIA Project.
• 2024–On-goingAurélien Bournonville — PhD in Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (France) on Web Page Main Content extraction and Boilerplate Detection. The thesis is funded by Babbar tech.
• 2023–On-goingNilesh Tete — PhD in Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (France) on Multimodal Interactions and Enactive Language Interfaces | 50% co-supervision with Gaël Dias and Mohammed Hasanuzzman. The thesis is co-funded by the RIN 50% and the Munster Technological University (Eire).
• 2022–2026François Ledoyen — PhD in Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (France) on Transcription automatique de textes en Facile à Lire et à Comprendre | 50% co-supervision with Youssef Chahir. The thesis is funded by the ANRT (CIFRE) and Koena association.
• 2021–On-goingAlexandre Perier — PhD in Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (France) on Hierachical Language Models | 50% co-supervision with Youssef Chahir. The thesis is funded by the RIN 100%.
• 2016–2020Judith Jeyafreeda Andrew — PhD in Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (France) on Task Oriented Web Page Segmentation | 50% co-supervision with Stéphane Ferrari. The thesis was funded by The french Ministry of Superior Education and Research and the PIA project Tagthunder.HTML
• 2012–2016Waseem Safi — PhD Thesis in Computer Science at the University of Caen Normandie (France) on Non-visual Vibro-tactile Navigation of Web Pages on Touch Screen Devices | 70% co-supervision with Pierre Beust. This thesis was funded by the ANR project ART-ADN. HTML

Post-doctoral contracts

• 2025–On-goingrecruitment in progress — Text and Image Relation for Exploring and Expertising Climbing Elite Performers. Funded by the 2E2MR ANR.
• 2017–2018Waseem Safi — Design of a Firefox Plugin for Querying the Tagthunder Platform. Funded by the NUMNIE CPER.
• 2016–2017Elena Manishina — Keyterm Extraction and Vocalisation from Segmented Web Pages. Funded by the NUMNIE CPER.
• 2016–2017Waseem Safi — Web Page Segmentation. Funded by the ANR project ART-ADN.

Engineers

• 2026Recruitment in progress — Smart Home. Funded by the Normandy Region and the NORMANTHIIA project.
• 2025Dhia Eddine Merzougui — Tagthunder Platform Development. Funded by INDYX Project
• 2024Azamat Kaibaldiyev — Eyetracking and Biometric capturing. Funded by ABC Project.
• 2022François Ledoyen — Intégration plateforme Tagthunder et logiciel headpilot (entreprise AccessMan). Funded by Tagthunder BPI Project.
• 2021David Condaminet — Tagthunder architecture deployment and finalization. Funded by Caen University and GREYC lab.
• 2020Nihal Yagmur Aydin — Improvement of the extraction and vocalization modules of the Tagthunder architecture. Funded by the BPI (PIA2).
• 2019Alexandre Baudrillard — Stabilization of the Tagthunder architecture and the query plugin. Funded by the BPI (PIA2).
• 2016Bastien Chapusot — Design of a modular architecture for generating Tagthunder from a URL. Funded by the NUMNIE CPER.
• 2013Constantin Radu — Design and electronic realization of the TactiNET. Funded by the ANR project ART-ADN.

Master Students

• 2026Erwann Coden — Tapisserie de Bayeux for Blind People (Funded by Normastic).
• 2025Thomas Pigeon — Processing and Analysis of ABC Project Data.
• 2025Thomas Berthelin — Tapisserie de Bayeux for Blind People (Funded by Normastic).
• 2024Aurélien Bournonville — Tagthunder Platform Development.
• 2024Edgar Madelaine — Sound generation and Binaural spatialisation.
• 2021François Ledoyen — Contrast-based image-to-text generation.
• 2016Bastien Chapusot — Design of a Modular Architecture for Generating Tagthunder from a URL.
• 2016Maxence Busson — Keyterm Extraction and Vocalisation from Segmented Web Pages.
• 2015Claire Giot — Experimental Study for the Proof of Concept of Tagthunder

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Arthur Compton became my graduate advisor. He was the ideal graduate advisor for me: he came into my research room only once during my graduate career and usually had no idea how I was spending my time.