I am research director (DR1) at Inria , heading the Flowers team at Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest and Univ. Bordeaux (see PhD students ) . I was also a research visitor at Microsoft Research Montreal (2021-22), and permanent researcher in Sony Computer Science Laboratory for 8 years (1999-2007).
Together with a great team, I study lifelong autonomous learning, and the self-organization of behavioural, cognitive and language structures, at the frontiers of artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences. I use machines as tools to understand better how children learn and develop, and I study how one can build machines that learn autonomously like children, as well as integrate within human cultures, within the new field of developmental artificial intelligence.
We work on applications in education , aiming to use AI techniques as tools in the service of humans, fostering learning, curiosity and creativity (e.g. our algorithms are used in Adaptiv’Maths ). We also do outreach for democratizing access and understanding of AI, in diverse contexts ranging from schools to artistic projects . These projects led to several spin-off from the team, e.g. start-ups or NGOs .
automated-discovery.github.ioIntrinsically Motivated Discovery of Diverse Patterns in Self-Organizing Systems | Automated Discovery in Science and Engineerin
Workshop on Interactive Learning with Implicit Human Feedback