About

I am a Research Engineer in Natural Language Processing at EDF R&D 1, where my work covers the following areas:

  1. Scientific monitoring. I follow the state of the art in NLP through the literature, seminars and peer review for the main conferences of the field.
  2. Applied research and prototyping. I design and develop proofs of concept to assess the maturity of emerging methods and their relevance to EDF’s operational needs.
  3. Technology benchmarking. I build evaluation protocols on internal data to support EDF business units in selecting commercial or open-source solutions.
  4. Generative AI expertise. I contribute to EDF’s internal generative AI community through tool development, workshops, training sessions and technical support.
  5. Research supervision. I supervise PhD students and interns, primarily on encoder models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and more recently on synthetic data generation.

Professional Experience

PeriodPosition
Since June 2024Research Engineer — EDF R&D, SEQUOIA department, Palaiseau, France
Jan. 2019 – May 2024Research Engineer — CEA LIST, SIALV laboratory, Palaiseau, France
Sept. 2018 – Dec. 2018Temporary Lecturer and Researcher (ATER) — IUT d’Orsay, Université Paris-Saclay, France

Education

PeriodDegree
2015 – 2018PhD in Computer Science — Université Paris-Saclay, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France
2014 – 2015MSc in Natural Language Processing (Research & Development track) — Université Paris-Nanterre, France

Doctoral thesis: Extracting Clinical Event Timelines: Temporal Information Extraction and Coreference Resolution in Electronic Health Records. Supervised by Xavier Tannier (director), Aurélie Névéol and Olivier Ferret (co-supervisors). Examination committee: Philippe Muller (reviewer), Matthieu Roche (reviewer), Claire Nédellec, Sandra Bringay and Guergana Savova.

Supervision

PhD Students

PeriodNameRoleResearch topics
2023 – 2026Eve SauvageCo-supervisor (dir. Cyril Grouin)Representation learning, long document processing
2022 – 2024Paul GrimalCo-supervisor (dir. Olivier Ferret)Domain adaptation, diffusion models
2021 – 2024Evan DufraisseCo-supervisor (dir. Armelle Brun)Sentiment analysis, representation learning
2020 – 2023Aboubacar TuoCo-supervisor (dir. Olivier Ferret)Event extraction, few-shot learning
2019 – 2023Guilhem PiatCo-supervisor (dir. Alexandre Allauzen)Named entity recognition, semantic annotation, biomedical NLP

Postdoctoral Researchers

PeriodNameResearch topics
2023 – 2024Hugo BoulangerSynthetic medical text generation

Interns

YearNameResearch topics
2026Simon LegrisRepresentation learning for tabular data
2026Mohamed Amine GriniSynthetic data generation for information retrieval in complex industrial documents
2025Khadija AbattaneKnowledge graph extraction, Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2023Rida LaliEvent extraction, knowledge injection
2022Babacar SowText classification
2021Salma SalhiEvent extraction

  1. Électricité de France (EDF) is a French state-owned electric utility company. See Électricité de France on Wikipedia. ↩︎