Employment

• 2018 – present : Associate Professor at INSA Lyon and LIRIS lab
• 2016 – 2018 : Teaching and research assistant (CER) at French Naval Academy Research Institute (IRENav)
• 2015 – 2016 : Teaching and research assistant (ATER) in the Computer Science University department (UPPA)
• 2013 – 2015 : Sessional lecturer in the Computer Science University department (UPPA)
• 2011-2012 : Software Engineer at Document Image Solutions (Bidart, France)

Supervision of students

PhD Students

2021 - 2024

• Alice Brenon, Méthodes et outils pour l’étude diachronique des discours géographiques dans les encyclopédies françaises. GEODE project, (co-supervised with Frédérique Laforest and Denis Vigier). LabEx ASLAN.

Postdoctoral Students

2020

• Jacques Fize, Conception de méthodes hybrides TAL et Data Mining pour l’extraction d’information géographique. HextGEO project. IMPULSION IDEX LYON.

MSc Students

2021

• Khaled Chabane, Machine Learning et Word embeddings pour la classification et l’analyse d’articles encyclopédiques. M2 Informatique – Data Mining, Université Lumière Lyon 2. LabEx ASLAN.

2020

• Hussam Ghanem, Word embeddings et Deep Learning pour la segmentation automatique de textes et l’extraction d’information géographique. M2 Informatique – Sciences des données et des systèmes complexes, Université de Strasbourg. (co-supervised with Prof. Thierry Joliveau). LabEx IMU.

2019

• Christopher Gizard, Conception d’une méthode hybride d’extraction d’informations géographiques à partir de données textuelles. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (co-supervised with Prof. Thierry Joliveau). LabEx IMU.
• Fabien le Chevanton, Extraction des connaissances relatives à la navigation maritime côtière à partir de données textuelles pour le peuplement d’ontologie. Université de Bretagne Occidentale (co-supervised with Prof. Eric Saux and Wissame Laddada)

Professional activities

Member of organization committees

2021

• 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities 2021
• Workshop Données et discours géographiques en France au 18e siècle. UChicago Center in Paris
• Workshop Humanités Numériques Spatialisées HNS 2021 at the SAGEO conference

2020

• 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities 2020
• 6th Workshop GAST 2020 at the EGC conference

2019

• 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities 2019
• 13th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval 2019
• 5th Workshop GAST 2019 at the EGC conference

Member of program committees and reviewer

2021

• 43nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2021)
• 4th International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story’21) at ECIR2021

2020

• EPIA’20 Thematic Track on Geospatial Artificial Intelligence
• 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2020)
• 3rd International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story’20) at ECIR2020

2019

• Workshop Speaking of location 2019 at the Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT)
• INFORSID 2019

2018

• Workshop Corpus in GIScience: Going Beyond Butterfly Collecting at the GIScience 2018 conférence
• Workshop Extraction de Connaissances à partir de données Spatialisées (EXCES), SAGEO 2018
• 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities 2018
• Spatial Cognition 2018

2017

• GeoSpatial Science Conference 2017
• 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities 2017
• IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2017)
• ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017

2016

• Workshop Extraction de Connaissances à partir de données Spatialisées (EXCES), SAGEO 2016

Reviewer in international journals

• Revue Internationale de Géomatique (RIG)
• ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI)
• International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (JDSA): special issue on Environmental and Geospatial Data Analytics
• Journal of Map & Geography Libraries: special issue on Semantic Historical Gazetteers
• International Journal of Geographical Information Sciences (IJGIS)

Other

• Member of the steering committee of the “Journée Sciences Navales (JSN) 2018”
• Travel grant (Early carreer support): 10th RDA Plenary Meeting à Montréal, September 2017
• WG Member of the keystone COST Action IC1302
• Member of the scientific committee at Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (2014-2016)