François Bouchet, Ph.D.

Current position

Assistant Professor at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)

Researcher at Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6) in the MOCAH team

Education and degrees

2006 - 2010: PhD in Computer Science (Paris-Sud 11 University), with highest honors

2005 - 2006: Master in Computer Science (Paris-Sud 11 University), with highest honors

2001 - 2005: Master of Engineering (ESIEA), with highest honors

... - 2000: French baccalaureate, scientific section, with highest honors

Professional experience

Jan 2011 - Aug 2013: Postdoctoral fellow, McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
Member of Dr. Azevedo's SMART Laboratory, lead designer of MetaTutor (an agent-based intelligent tutoring system fostering self-regulated learning). Application of educational data mining techniques to study user-agent interaction, with focus on affective data.

Oct 2010 - Jan 2011: Development project manager, ArtiWit (Paris, France)
Update and maintenance of a dialog-based debate serious game (SparkDebate)

Oct 2009 - Sep 2010: Research Associate, LIMSI-CNRS (Orsay, France)
Member of the AMI team, research centered on the concept of cognitive biases in Embodied Conversational Agents

Sep 2006 - Sep 2009: PhD Student, LIMSI-CNRS (Orsay, France)
Design of a natural language processing chain for an assisting conversational agent, under the supervision of Jean-Paul Sansonnet

Mar 2006 - Aug 2006: Predoctoral internship, LIMSI-CNRS (Orsay, France)
Design of a corpus-based formal language to represent the semantic of requests issused to assisting conversational agents, under the supervision of Jean-Paul Sansonnet

Mar 2005 - Dec 2005: R&D assistant project manager, As An Angel (Paris, France)
Design and optimization of a lexical semantic frame-based analyzer (in Java & Python) for an entertaining conversational agent in the context of the SimDate project

Jun 2004 - Jul 2004: Intranet developer, Xerox Europe (Uxbridge, UK)
Design of a web-based interface for a Document Management System using SAP

Jun 2003 - Jul 2003: Network software developer, FLD Actua-Media (Saint-Aubin, France)
Design of a software (in C) controling hotel network switches using SNMP requests

Publications