Engineer
INRIA
sinem.demirkan [at] inria.fr
Neural correlates of social interaction
My research focuses on understanding how kids aged 5 to 12 collaborate. I use a method called fNIRS hyperscanning to study their brain activity together as they interact. My aim extends to use what we learn from neuroscience to help create an empathetic AI for children.
Hyperscanning and social cognition in middle childhood.
Master degree in Systems Biology at Sorbonne University
Study of the neural correlates of social skills.
My work aims to better understand the development of social skills. In this vein, I use hyperscanning techniques, which allow the recording of the brain activity from at least two individuals engaged in social exchange, providing a novel type of neural correlate: the inter-brain synchrony. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of how the social brain develops and how rapport management occurs by looking at moments of high or low rapport with neural synchrony.
Engineer
ICM Institute
camille.brianceau [at] icm-institute.org
ClinicaDL
ClinicaDL is an open-source software for deep learning processing on neuro-imaging data. My works consists in extending this software with new features and standard deep learning tools of the community, and providing PhD students and researchers with support.
Learning policies for object manipulation from real videos
Learning accurate policies for diverse tasks and environments is a long-standing challenge in computer vision and robotics. The goal of this project is to learn policies for object manipulation by reconstructing and modeling hands and objects in real videos with people performing related actions.
Research Software Engineer
Université Paris Dauphine-PSL
ghislain.vaillant [at] icm-institute.org
PhD, King’s College London
Clinica
Clinica is the software platform for clinical neuroimaging studies involving processing of multimodal data (imaging and phenotypic) for patients with cognitive diseases. My work consists in extending this platform to provide its functionalities as a service in the Cloud in order to serve a wider scientific audience.
Modelling neurodegenerative diseases.
I study the modeling of neurodegenerative diseases’ progression using imaging and clinical data. In particular, I investigate the influence of various cofactors, including genetics, on Parkison’s Disease progression.
Florian Yger is an associate professor of computer science at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL and a researcher in the MILES team at LAMSADE since 2015. From 2014 to 2015, he was a JSPS postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Pr. Sugiyama in Tokyo University. He received his PhD in Computer science from LITIS, Université de Rouen under the supervision of Alain Rakotomamonjy in 2013. He is a visiting researcher at RIKEN AIP, Japan since 2017.
Trustworthy machine learning, Causal inference, interpretable AI
Florian Yger will address the questions of trust, explainability and interpretability in machine learning models (including deep learning) with a focus on the robustness to adversarial examples and counterfactual reasoning on data. This project has natural and practical applications in the medical field.
In the last decade, deep learning has made possible breakthrouhgts in several domains (e.g. computer vision, machine translation, games, …). Yet those hardly interpretable algorithms are fed with huge amounts of -sometimes sensitive- data and can suffer from malicious attacks: attacks on the privacy of the data and attacks on the robustness where adversarial examples are generated to fool the algorithm. This is a critical issue (especially in medical applications) and we feel that an effort toward a deeper theoretical analysis is needed.
