Profile

Associate Professor of Computer Science with 12+ years in academia, specialising in machine learning and natural language processing. Published 35+ peer-reviewed papers (h-index 22) and secured over $2.4M in competitive research funding. Passionate about bridging industry and academia through applied research and mentoring the next generation of researchers.

Key Achievements

Secured $2.4M+ in competitive research funding across 5 grants
35+ publications with h-index of 22 and 3,500+ total citations
Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2018)

Experience

Associate ProfessorJan 2020 – Present

University of Queensland — Paris, France

Lead the NLP & Applied ML research group (8 PhD students, 3 postdocs)
Secured $1.8M ARC Discovery Grant for explainable AI research programme
Published 12 papers in top-tier venues (NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP) since 2020
Redesigned postgraduate ML curriculum adopted by 3 partner universities
Supervised 6 PhD completions with 100% employment placement rate

Senior LecturerMar 2016 – Dec 2019

University of Melbourne — Lyon, France

Taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses (200+ students/semester)
Co-authored textbook 'Applied Machine Learning' adopted by 15+ institutions
Established industry partnership programme with 4 tech companies
Received Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2018)

Postdoctoral Research FellowJun 2013 – Feb 2016

Stanford University — Toulouse, France

Conducted research in deep learning for biomedical text mining
Published 8 papers with 1,200+ citations
Collaborated with Stanford NLP Group on open-source toolkit development

Education

Doctorat en Informatique

École Polytechnique · 2009 – 2013

Master en Informatique

HEC Paris · 2007 – 2008

Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours)

Université Paris-Saclay · 2003 – 2006