Education and work experience
Trainings
2007: PhD in Arts, Unil
Dissertation: Apprentissage automatique de la morphologie: le cas des structures racine-schème (The unsupervised learning of root-and-pattern morphology)
2001: MA, Unil
Master's thesis: Du k-gramme au mot: variation sur un thème distributionnaliste (From k-gram to word: variation on a distributionalist theme)
Work experience
Since 2012: senior lecturer in Humanities computing
2007-2008: junior post-doctoral lecturer in linguistics and IMM, Unil
2008-2011: replacement lecturer in Humanities computing, UNIL
2011-2012: lecturer in Humanities computing, Unil
2005-2006: visiting scholar at the Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago (Prof. Goldsmith)
Visiting scholar (prospective researcher fellowship granted by the Swiss National Science Foundation), Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago (Prof. Goldsmith): research in computational phonology and morphology within the Linguistica project (http://linguistica.uchicago.edu)
2001-2005: graduate assistant in linguistics, Unil
2002-2007: graduate assistant in computer science and mathematical methods, Unil
2001: research assistant at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, EPFL
1999: Research on mandate for the Service de Psychiatrie de Liaison (SPL), CHUV
1998-2001: student assistant in linguistics, Unil
Others activities
Depuis 2012: Chair, Computer Science and Mathematical Methods department, Unil
Since 2009: member of the board of CLSL (Centre de linguistique et des sciences du langage), Unil
2009-2012: member of the research promotion committee (Faculty of Arts, Unil)
2007-2011: Délégué du corps intermédiaire au Conseil de Faculté, Arts, Unil
Participation in the "Crosslinguistic Project on Pre- and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition"
Organized by the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Linguistics department at Vienna University (Austria)
Competences
Theoretical Linguistics (phonology, morphology and syntax)
Formal grammars
Natural language processing
Probabilistic language modelling
Information theory
Statistics
Computational psycholinguistics
Connectionism
