Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr -- Bannay

Status :	Lecturer at Paul Sabatier University,
Team:	ADRIA
Contact:	Florence.Bannay@irit.fr
Localization:	IRIT1 / Level 3, Room: 320
Phone:	(33)5 61 55 6330
Publications:

Research: Artificial Intelligence

 Topics

• Reasonning about change (Revision, Updating, Extrapolation...) in knowledge base systems, Causality
• Argumentation and Dialog,
• Cognitive models for reasoning, communicating and deciding
• Weighted logics (penalty logic, possibilistic logic). Preference handling

Master 2 Internship or Phd subjects

 Career

• November 2015 - Habilitation to supervise research (HDR) Belief Change, Inconsistency and Argumentation (report, presentation)
  • scientific adviser : Jérôme Lang
  • reviewers : Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Pierre Marquis and Nicolas Maudet
  • examiners: Salem Benferhat, Philippe Besnard, Claudette Cayrol, Anthony Hunter, Henri Prade
• Since October 2014 - Holder of the French bonus for supervision and research (PEDR) (for 4 years)
• Since April 2005 - Lecturer at Paul Sabatier University, member of IRIT ADRIA team
• September 1997 - Lecturer at LERIA in Angers University computer science department
• September 1996 - Teacher assistant at Reims University
• December 1996 - PhD Thesis Gestion des croyances et de l'évolutif en logiques pondérées (handdling uncertainty in evolving systems with weighted logics) was done under the supervision of Didier Dubois and Henri Prade.

 Demos and Presentations

• ADRIA team seminar on the COMMEDIA team at ENIB with a focus on Computational Narratology (french): 9th October 2023
• DriveToGaether : Video two robots trying to cooperate for saving victims (one is driven by a human, the other by a program)
• DebateWEL video1, video2 : a Persuasion Dialog Protocol implemented in 2012 by two Bachelor students Julien Balax and David Villard

 Projects

• LELIE (An intelligent assistant for the analysis and the prevention of risks in industrial processes). ANR project 2011 - 2013.
• MICRAC (Computational and cognitive models of causal reasoning) achieved in june 2008.
• GeoFuse (Uncertain Data Fusion), achieved in october 2007.

 Supervision

• Jérémy Huteau : Master 2 student co-supervised with Adrian Basarab on the subject "Analysis of histopathological images by hybrid neuronal/logical model" (april-september 2021)
• Antoine Boulanger : Second Year Ingeneering Student co-supervised with Emmanuel Caux (IRAP) on the subject "Combinatorial classification of astrophysical spectra" (april-august 2021)
• Pierre Cry : stage Master 2 co-supervised with Emmanuelle Claeys on the subject "Combine learning and logic to understand causality. Application to the improvement of logistic processes" (april-september 2021)
• Mouna Mayouf : PhD student co-supervised with Tim Van de Cruys on the subject "To make an automatic learning system interact with an explicit reasoning system: application on medical data" (start dec 2019)
• Umer Mushtaq: Master 2 student co-supervised with Romain Guillaume on the subject Bipolar Layered Frameworks with weighted supports 2018.
• Abdelraouf Hecham: participation to the supervision of the PhD 2016-2019 (supervised by Madalina Croitoru)
• Pierre Bisquert: doctoral student co-supervised with MC. Lagasquie-Schiex on the subject Reasonning about change in argumentation (2010-2013) presented on the 6th December 2013.
• Aurore Miquel: Master 2 student co-supervised with Claudette Cayrol and MC. Lagasquie-Schiex on the subject Révision d'un système d'argumentation : une première approche 2007.
• Cédric Daligny: Master 2 student co-supervised with Stéphane Loiseau Validation de BC et interaction 2000.

 Committees

• Program Committee Co-chair of SUM 2022: 15th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management"
• Member of the program committees of/reviewer for KR'20, CNIA'2020, IJCAI'20 AAMAS'20, IJCAI'19, ECSQARU'19, AAMAS'19, International Journal of Decision Support System Technologies (IJDSST'18), IJCAI'18, AAMAS'18, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning'17, ECSQARU'17, AAMAS'17, IEA/AIE'17, CNIA'16, IJCAI'16, ICAART'15 (president of the doctoral consortium), ECAI'14, ICAART'14 (president of the doctoral consortium), EUMAS'13, IJCAI'13, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 2012, ECAI'12, AAAI'11, IJCAI'11, Fuzzy Sets and System 2010, KR'08, IJCAI'07, AI'07, MICAI'06, IJCAI'05, RJCIA'2003 (french young AI researcher meeting (president)) STAIRS'2002 (first European Starting AI Researcher Symposium), RJCIA'1998.
• Member of the organizing committees of Decision Making Workshop'2017 and Toulouse e-democracy Summer School'2017, EUMAS'13 (co-president with Valérie Camps), JELIA'2012, JFPC/IAF'2012, IJCAI'1993, Artificial Intelligence in Engineering 1993.

 Workshops

Participation to
• Multi-disciplinary Approaches to Reasoning with Imperfect Information and Knowledge - a Synthesis and a Roadmap of Challenges: Dagstuhl Seminar 15221, May 25 – 29 , 2015. Organised by Igor Douven, Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Markus Knauff, and Henri Prade, Schloss Dagstul, Wadern, Germany.
• BRA'15: 2nd Madeira Workshop on Belief Revision and Argumentation, February 9th - 13th 2015, Organized by Eduardo Fermé and Guillermo Simari Madeira, Portugal.
• Belief Change and Argumentation in Multi-Agent Scenarios: Dagstuhl Seminar 13231, June 02 – 07 2013, Organized by Jürgen Dix, Sven Ove Hansson, Gabriele Kern-Isberner and Guillermo R. Simari, Schloss Dagstul, Wadern, Germany.

 

 

Teaching

  Current year

• Internship Subject about mbots for Bachelors (in French)
• Internship Subjects for postgraduates (in French)
• Advanced algorithmic (Master 1 Informatique) : Course and tutorials (in French) .
• Artificial Intelligence ( Computer Science Bachelors) : Courses, tutorials and practical sessions (in French).
• Artificial intelligence and uncertainty handling (Master 2 IA-RF): Course and Practical Sessions (in french).
• Graphs (UPSSITECH ): Graph and UML teaching web site (in french).

  Previous teaching

• Graphs (Computer Science Bachelors ) : Graph teaching web site (in french).
• Logics
• Object and Relational Databases
• Optimal scheduling of production processes, Combinatorial optimization
• Operating Systems
• Linear Programming
• Prolog
• LISP
• Computer Science and Internet Certificate (C2i)

 

 

Responsibilities

Current Year

• Coordinator of the Common Core Teaching at UPSSITECH (since january 2016)
• Member of the Computer Science section of the French National Council of the Universities (since September 2015).

 Previous Years

• Correspondant new pedagogies for SRI branch at UPSSITECH (2015-2016) in the context of the ACTIFS project (Actions for Interactive, Formative and Solidary Courses for Toulouse Ingeneers)
• Member of the scientific comittee in computer science of Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse) (2009-2017)
• Member of the council of french AI association AFIA (from Jan. 2015 to Dec. 2018).

 

 

Scientific Mediation

  Current Year

• Guest Presentation at the spring school AI and Humanities: AI : how it works ? (in French)
• Guest Presentation at the general meeting of CNRS staff: Artificial Intelligence : Why? How? How far will it go? (in French). Toulouse, January 23rd, 2020.
• Guest researcher at the festival Je veux savoir, in Quai des Savoirs Toulouse, October 19th, 2019 (schedule of the festival in french). I have answered the question "Do intelligent robots exist ?" then I participate in a round table discussion with Sophie Pène (design anthropologist), Véronique Bordes (University Professor in educational sciences), Jérôme Ferret (sociologist).
• Co-organiser with Erik Martin-Dorel et Guillaume Chèze of the summer camp Recherche Midi on Artificial Intelligence (August 2019) : 5 days of tutorials and practical sessions on AI for about 40 high school and Bac+2 students.
• Creation and Facilitation of the workshop on "Research in State Spaces" for the summer camp Recherche Midi about AI in August 2019.
• Correspondant for the challenges Put AI in your engine for the french computer science nights since 2015.
• Member of the working group on AI competitions: co-organiser of
  • Drive ToGaether : Human/AI collaboration for guiding robots (july 2019)
  • AI and Video game Competition BotContest'2017 (2017)
  • AI on Robots French Competition (2016)

 Previous years

• Editor-in-chief of the quaterly journal Bulletin de l'AFIA (from jul 2015 to dec 2017)
• Coordinator of the French AI research teams dossier of the AFIA bulletin 96 (july 2017)
• Coordinator of the AI and Decision making dossier of the bulletin de l'AFIA 88 (in french) (april 2015).
• Referent researcher at Muret High-School for "Math en Jeans" from 2015 to 2019
• Supervisor of the project "AI on lego robots" as part of Math en Jeans (Aragon and de Gaulle high schools of Muret)
• Organizer of the workshop "Programming languages and lego robots" in the context of Maths en Scène festival 2017 on Mathematics and Languages
• "L'Intelligence Artificielle a 60 ans du test de Turing à la victoire d'AlphaGo" talk in french at the mathematic week 2016 in Muret High School
• "Visite guidée du métier de maître de conférences en Intelligence Artificielle" talk in french at the mathematic week 2015 in Muret High School