Research works: Federated Deep Learning, particularly in two aspects: privacy and deployment on small devices (TinyML on FPGA, IoT...).
Applications: From Health care to Network Management.
Previous research domain: Trust and reputation models, organizational models and agent communication, especially the context of Open and Decentralized Multi-Agent Systems. Small background and related works bibliography
2002-2006: PhD in Computer Science (with highest grade)
Title: Using Norms and Reputations to Detect and Sanction Contradictions -- Contribution to the Social Control of Interactions in Open and Decentralized Multi-Agent Systems
Keywords: Multi-Agent Systems, Trust, Reputation, Norms, Social Commitments, Peer-to-peer.
Supervisors: O. Boissier (ÉNSM.SÉ, Saint-Etienne) and L. Vercouter (ÉNSM.SÉ, Saint-Etienne).
Reviewers: Y. Demazeau (IMAG, Grenoble) and C. Sierra (UAB, Barcelona).
Examiners: S. Hassas (UCB, Lyon), A. Herzig (UPS, Toulouse) and J. Rouchier (Univ. Méd., Marseille).
Implementation link:a clean re-implementation, by L.G. Nardin, of a part of LIAR is included in SOARI
École Nationale Superieure des Mines, Saint-Étienne (ÉNSM.SÉ), G2I/SMA Lab.
2004: European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information
Principal lecturers: I. Pratt-Hartmann, H. Schlingloff, C. Kirchner. Nancy, France (granted by IJCAI).
2003: European Agent Systems Summer School
Principal lecturers: M. Wooldridge, M. Luck, N. Jennings, F. Dignum, C. Sierra.
Barcelona, Spain.
Theme: Designing an Intelligent and Communicating Domestic Assistant (ADIC: Assistant Domestique Intelligent et Communicant), particularly the dialog management system.
Keywords: Multi-Agent, Dialog Management, Agent Communication Languages, BDI architecture, JadeX.
Supervisors: F. Charpillet (LORIA, Nancy) and Vincent Zgueb (Intuitive Machine, Nancy).
Project: PAUSA (Partage d'AUtoritÉ dans le Système AÉrien)
Theme: Sharing and distribution of authority and responsibilities between (1) board (pilots) and ground (controllers) and (2) humans and machines.
Advising of 3 Master2 internships (M. Rancha Godage: Federated Learning + SLIDE, C. Gormond: Embeded Deep Learning, A. Tavernier: Market Prediction with Tweets)
Advising of 1 final year engineer internship (F. Probst: Deep Learning on FPGA)
Advising of 1rst year engineer internship (H. Jaouen: Software Development)
Advising of 4 Research & Innovation projects for 3rd year engineers (IA, ML, Deep Learning)
Advising of many (20+) Java & OpenCV projects for 2nd year engineers
September 2006 to August 2007 ATER at École d'Ingénieurs de Luminy (ÉSIL, Marseille): part-time
Music: classical (particularly: F. Chopin, W.A. Mozart et J.S. Bach), jazz (particularly: K. Jarrett, J.F. Pastorius, C. Parker and D. Gillespie)
Movies: H. Miyasaki, L. von Trier, T. Burton
Associations:ASEC, RÉzoDoc, CoreDump and CJC (Young researchers associations, resp. in SaintÉtienne, Marseille and France), ALOLISE, AXUL and Mirabellug (Free Software promotion associations, resp. in Saint-Étienne, Marseille, Nancy), Aide-et-Action (Children Education)
