Academic research

Research areas

Visual data analysis and synthesis

Generative and predictive AI.

Modeling and explainability

Modeling highly non-linear data, machine learning, deep learning, interpretability.

Cognitive neuroscience

Visual perception, facial attractiveness, social cognition.

Academic background

2025–March 2026
Research contract in AI for modeling and predicting neurodegenerative diseases — École Normale Supérieure (ENS Ulm).
2022-2024
Coordinator of an AI group in ecology and evolutionary biology.
2021-2024
PhD in computational cognition — CNRS.
2019-2021
MSc in bioinformatics — University of Nantes — top of class (1st/14).

Conference talks

2024 · International evolutionary biology conference

Presentation in Montreal, Canada.

2024 · AI in ecology workshop — Ecostats

Annual meeting in Montpellier, France.

2022, 2023 · Invited speaker

Bioinformatics department (Univ Rennes) and Cochin Institute (Paris).

2024 · PhD defense

“Attractiveness of faces in mandrills and humans: generative and predictive AI”.

Reproducibility

Public scientific code and protocols

A selection of repositories where methods, analyses and documented limitations can be inspected directly.

PLOS publication

Network sparsity and aesthetic judgments

Python and R scripts associated with the article published in PLOS Computational Biology. View the GitHub repository.

Epidemiology

Childhood factors and dementia in SHARE

Reproducible Python/R pipeline with synthetic tests; SHARE microdata and private labels are not published. View the GitHub repository.

Preregistration

Predictive modelling of hallucinations

Dated public mirror of the analysis protocol and falsification criteria; the development repository remains private. View the GitHub repository.

Contact

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