Scientific Activities
Research projects and funding
- EXPLAINER (2025–2027) — Inria–UCL international associated team, researching implicit arguments; funding for a two-year postdoctoral position.
- EXPLAINER / AMI IDEES – IdEx Université Côte d’Azur (2026) — funding for a one-year postdoctoral position on implicit argument interpretation.
- ANR AGGREEY (2023–2026) — participation in an argumentation and e-democracy project.
- ANR DAPHNE (2020–2023) — participation in historical prosopographical knowledge extraction.
Research supervision
Supervision and co-supervision of master’s, research engineering, doctoral and postdoctoral work.
| Period and role | Researcher | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| PhD · 2026–2029 | Nino Pireaud | Understanding and predicting persuasion and manipulation. |
| Postdoc · 2026–2028 | Ameer Saadat-Yazdi | LLM reasoning, neuro-symbolic methods and implicit arguments. |
| Postdoc · 2026 | Elfia Bezou Vrakatseli | Generating alternative interpretations of implicit arguments. |
| Research engineer · 2025–2026 | Theo Alkibiades Collias | Transparent and interpretable similarity models. |
| Research engineer · 2026 | Nino Pireaud | Persuasion prediction and interpretable similarity. |
| M2 internship · 2025 | Nino Pireaud | Learning gradual argumentation semantics to predict persuasion. |
| M2 internship · 2025 | Loup Doinel | Learning extension-based argumentation semantics. |
Scientific service
Conferences
AAAI (2022, 2026, 2027) · KR (2026) · ECAI (2025) · SAC-KRR (2024, 2025, 2026) · ICAART (2023) · COMMA (2022).
Workshops
SAFA (2026) · Arg&App (2025) · ArgU (2025) · AI³ (2022).
Journals
Artificial Intelligence Journal (2026) · Argument & Computation (2026) · Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2024, 2025) · CILC special issue (2021).
Invited seminars
- 8 March 2022 — Télécom Paris, DIG group.
- 24 March 2022 — ENS Paris, Valda group.
- 4 April 2022 — Sorbonne Université, LIP6, SMA group.