Outreach

I enjoy giving talks and discussing new ideas with people. I am very much interested in finding ways to present and apprehend complicated theories. I could not agree more with the great physicist Richard Feynman who said:

If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it.

On another topic, I am worried about diversity in the machine learning community, and I try to raise awareness on that specific subject.

Technical talks and conferences

Since February 2017:

Interspeech 2022: Incheon, Korea, September 18-22, 2022; Proposed and lead the organization of the Special session Inclusive and Fair Speech Technologies, with Odette Scharenborg (Delft University of Technology, NL), Keith Burghardt (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA), Peng Liu, Anirudh Mani, and Tao Zhang (Amazon Alexa, USA), Priyankoo Sarmah (IIT Guwahati, India), Mahadeva Prasanna (IIT Dharwad, India), Mark Allan Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois, USA), and Laurent Besacier (Naver Labs Europe, France)
Festival IA 2021: Journée IA, Voix, Parole: LIAvignon - November 17-19, 2021; Round table: Les assistants personnels vocaux, généralistes ou spécifiques ? Jusqu’où personnaliser les services ?
Workshop on Speech as Personal Identifiable Information: Lorentz Center workshop - November 1-5, 2021; Round table: Reaching a common understanding
Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio: Colocated with ISMIR 2020 - October 16-17, 2020; Talk: Music data processing for voice control
Applied Machine Learning Days 2020: EPFL, Switzerland - January 12-17, 2020; Organized anc chaired the "AI & ML on the Edge" track, with 8 invited speakers: Brandon Reagen from Facebook AI, Abdel Younes from Synaptics, Camille Marini from Owkin, Anastasia Koloskova from EPFL, Frédéric Pétrot from INP/ENSIMAG, Andrey Ignatov from ETH Zürich, Francesco Caltagirone from Sonos, and Aurélien Bellet from INRIA.
International Conference on Audio, Speech, and Signal Processing: Brighton, UK - May 12-17, 2019; 2 poster presentations & 1 demo; Posters: Keyword Spotting and Embedded ASR systems, Federated Learning for Keyword Spotting; Demo: On-device private-by-design voice assistant
Journée Intelligence Artificielle du LIPN: Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris Nord - March 27, 2019; Talk: Spoken Language Understanding on the Edge
Element AI internal seminar: London - March 8, 2019; Talk: Snips approach to private-by-design spoken language understanding
Applied Machine Learning Days 2019: EPFL, Switzerland - January 26-29 2019; Talk: Spoken Language Understanding on the Edge
Privacy in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Workshop at ICML: Stockholm - July 15, 2018; Spotlight session talk: Snips Voice Platform: an embedded spoken language understanding system for private-by-design voice interfaces
Atelier sur la Protection de la Vie Privée, INRIA: Porquerolles, France - June 3-6, 2018; Talk: SNIPS: Use cases for decentralized machine learning (oral presentation by David Leroy)
Women in Machine Learning & Data Science meetup: Google HQ, Paris - May 29 2018; Talk: Snips Voice Platform: an embedded Spoken Language Understanding system for private-by-design voice interfaces
Paris AI Meetup: Algolia HQ, Paris - April 4, 2018; Talk: Snips, a cloud-independent private-by-design voice platform"
DataLadies Meetup: DataJob, Paris - November 22, 2017; Talk: Assistants vocaux embarqués: quels défis techniques ?
European Women In Tech Conference: Amsterdam - November 8-9, 2017; Seminar: Building an AI that Respects your Privacy: Natural Language Understanding and Speech Recognition on Device
NLP Meetup: Snips HQ, Paris - October 4, 2017; Talk: Benchmarking NLUs: how and why?
Chatbot Summit: Berlin - June 26, 2017; Panel discussion: The Frontiers of NLU

And more …

about Artificial Intelligence

From 2018 to 2020, I sat at the board of the CNC-RIAM as an Artificial Intelligence specialist. RIAM (Recherche et Innovation en Audiovisuel et Multimédia) provides financial grants to innovative R&D projects in production, processing, distribution, and publication of images and audio. It is a partnership between CNC (Centre National du Cinema et de l’image animée) and BPI France.
On September 12, 2019, I was invited as an expert in artificial intelligence to participate to the Committee of Equality and Non Discrimination of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Paris.
On June 13, 2019, I gave a presentation at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg about artificial intelligence and its gender equality implications. I was invited by Cécile Greboval and Caterina Bolognese from the Gender Mainstreaming Team of the CoE.
On April 21, 2019, I participated in a round table called “Comment rendre l’IA plus inclusive ?” with Aude Bernheim and Peggy Pierrot moderated by Elisa Braun at la Gaité Lyrique in the context of the series of events Computer Grrrls - History, Gender, Technology (in French).
In November 2018, I recorded a podcast in French about algorithms (for non-specialists), where I try to define and explain the basic concepts, give many examples, and talk about bias with Rachel Nullans from Brains Agency. “À la découverte des algorithmes” (in French).
On March 29, 2018, I participated in a round table about artificial intelligence moderated by Aline Richard Zivohlava. Rendez-Vous de l’Inspirations: Les Intelligences Artificielles. “Au commencement est l’humain” (in French).

about career opportunities

On November 9, 2021, I took part in a panel discussion on career paths inside and outside Academia in the PhD track of 1st ISCA Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication.
On September 17, 2021, I was invited to a round table “Physics and Machine Learning” at the “Recontres Physique - Entreprise - Recherche” organized by the Société Française de Physique.
In November 2019 and October 2020, I was invited to the “Corporate meeting” of the Physics department of the Ecole Normale Supérieure where I share my journey from theoretical physics to machine learning with master and PhD students.

Press and Awards

In February 2021, I gave an interview for the Ecole Normale Supérieure’s online alumni section (in French).
In January 2018, we won with my team the DAT-ICU datathon organized by l’APHP, see the Research section of this website for more infos (in French).
In February 2018, I was listed among the 100 French people who are making artificial intelligence in the “start-uppers” section by l’Usine Nouvelle (in French).