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In brief
I am a Full Professor at Université Côte d'Azur. Since September 2019, I joined i3S lab (UMR 7271 CNRS / UniCA) and Polytech Nice Sophia school. I am a member of SPARKS team.
Before joining Universté Côte d'Azur, I was an Associate Professor at Université de Lille from 2007 to 2019, with the Computer Science department of l'IUT 'A', and CRIStAL lab (UMR 9189 CNRS / Univ. Lille).
Research
My work focuses on Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) and event-based sensing, with the objective of developing a new generation of vision systems that depart from the energy-intensive paradigm of conventional deep learning. My research is driven by the conviction that SNNs, as biologically inspired models, offer a fundamentally different computational framework based on sparsity and asynchronous processing, enabling ultra-low-power intelligent systems. This vision requires addressing important interdisciplinary challenges at the interface of computer vision, machine learning, computational neuroscience, and hardware-aware design, including the evaluation of energy efficiency on neuromorphic platforms.
I was the coordinator for the CHIST-ERA European programme APROVIS3D (1/4/2020-31/21/2023), grant number ANR-19-CHR3-0008-03 (terminated).
I am the coordinator of the ANR-funded project NAMED (Neuromorphic Attention Models for Event Data), started Feb 1st 2024.
I participated in the ANR-funded project DeepSee (project lead: Pr. Benoît Miramond, LEAT), grant number ANR-20-CE23-0004-04.
Teaching
I am involved in several classes in Polytech Nice Sophia in 3rd/4th/5th years (several departments: Computer Science, Mathematics, Robotics), and also in the Mater of Mathematical Engineering, in Mod4NeuCog, and in the CS department of IUT Nice Côte d'Azur.
I am the coordinator of the Data Science track of the EIT Digital Master School at University Côte d'Azur from Sept. 2020 (the Head of our EIT hub is my colleague Pr. Françoise Baude).
Since January 2024, I am the PI with Pr. Françoise Baude of the EU programme EMotion Artificial Intelligence specialists for Europe (EMAI4EU), that received funding from the European Union‘s Digital Europe Programme under grant agreement no. 101123289. Since September 2025, I am the coordinator of the track of same name EMAI4EU of the EIT Digital Master School. @students: applications welcome!
Together with my colleague Audrey Occello, we are the coordinators of Apprenticeship (co-op students) for the 3-year engineer curriculum and for the second year of the Master of Computer Science since July 2022.
Other activities
I coordinate the Forum Numerica, a seminar series of the Academy of Excellence "Networks, Information and Digital society", dedicated to the digital sciences and their impact on the society and humans since February 2022.
Announcements
June: Congrats to students for 3 papers acceptance at ICANN 2026.March 2026: Welcome to new PhD student Pedro in the team!
October 2025: Welcome to new PhD student Mariia Berdnyk to the team!
January 2025: Welcome to new PhD students Sadia and Romaric in the team!
Feb. 2024: Our project ANR PRCI / SNSF project NAMED (Neuromorphic Attention Models for Event Data) with SCALab and ETHZ has started (until Jan. 2028).
Feb. 2024: Kick off for both EU proposals SPECTRO and EMAI4EU coordinated by EIT Digital -- UniCA is on-board to set up these exciting new Master programs.
Sept 14-15 2023: Final project meeting for APROVIS3D at IMSE, Sevilla, SPAIN.
Topic presentation slides for Call 2018 Analog Computing for Artificial Intelligence (ACAI), during CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2021
Contact
Room 248Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signaux et Systèmes de Sophia-Antipolis (I3S) - UMR7271 - UNS CNRS
2000, route des Lucioles - Les Algorithmes - bât. Euclide B 06900 Sophia Antipolis - France
Phone: +334-89-15-43-86.