I hold an Electrical and Electronics Engineering degree (FPMs, 2007) and PhD degree (FPMs, 2011).
My master thesis was performed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technologies (EPFL) in Lausanne and dealt with audio-visual speech recognition and feature selection.
I obtained a FNRS grant for pursuing a PhD thesis from October 2007. The thematic of my thesis concerns glottal analysis and its usefullness in speech processing, with applications such as speech synthesis, voice pathology detection, speaker recognition, or expressive speech analysis.

I wrote or co-wrote more than 40 international scientific publications.
I was awarded by ISCA for Best Student Paper at the Interspeech 2009 conference. I was also among the finalists for the Best Student Paper at the Eusipco 2008 conference.
I hold a patent on speech synthesis and coding methods.
I was an invited researcher at the Izmir Institute of Technology (Jun-Jul 09) and at the University of California Los Angeles (Apr-Jun 10).
I am also a reviewer for the IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, the International Journal of Speech Technology, the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, as well as the ICASSP and EUSIPCO conferences.

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at TCTS Lab, University of Mons.

Research interests

• Speech analysis

• Speech synthesis

• Glottal flow estimation and modeling

• Biomedical signal processing