Jean Rouat

Prix et distinctions

• (2100) Elected Senior Member IEEE. IEEE- Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers. (Distinction).
• (2018) Adjunct researcher INO. National Optics Institute. (Distinction).

Financement

• Grant. (Awarded). Principal Applicant. Algorithms and Evaluation for Neuromorphic Multimodal Assistive Systems. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Discovery. 205 000 $. (2023-2028)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. PROMPT IA - Volet Propulsion des Universités. PROMPT-Québec. IA-Propulsion des universités. 500 000 $. (2022-2024)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. Hardware implementation of spiking neural networks based on hybrid CMOS-memristors circuits for ultralow-power artificial intelligence at the edge. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). FRQNT-Équipe. 199 620 $. (2021-2024)
• Grant. (Awarded). Principal Applicant. Scene interpretation for sensory substitution and intelligent agents: a neurocomputational approach. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Discovery. 144 000 $. (2017-2023)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. Unsupervised spiking neural networks with analog memristive devices for edge computing. European Coordinated Research on Long-term Challenges in Information & Comm Sciences & Technologies. CHIST-ERA. 1 355 350 $. (2020-2023)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-applicant. Développement et renforcement de stimulations électriques pour implants auditifs. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Équipe. 162 000 $. (2018-2022)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-applicant. Centre Interdisciplinaire de recherche en musique, médias et technologie, CIRMMT. Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT). Regroupements Stratégiques. 3 000 $. (2021-2022)
• Grant. (Under Review). Principal Applicant. Formation à l'APP pour les enseignants de l'IFI et de l'université de Hanoï. Ministère des Relations Internationales du Québec. Coopération Québec-Vietnam 2019-2021. 12 000 $. (2019-2021)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-applicant. Neuromorphic Circuits for Large-Scale Quantum Systems. Canada First Research Excellence Fund. 237 000 $. (2019-2021)
• Grant. (Completed). Principal Applicant. Fonds d'innovation pédagogique de l'université de Sherbrooke: Médiatisation et formation à distance en apprentissage machine et génie neuronal. University of Sherbrooke. FIP. 20 000 $. (2018-2020)
• Grant. (Completed). Principal Applicant. INTEL Neuromorphic Research Community: Unsupervised regulation for the self-organized CRITICAL recurrent neural network project on LOIHI & Audio-Visual Scene Analysis with spike-based representations for SNN. Intel (USA). travel and INRC for Loihi implementations.. 3 800 $. (2019-2019)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-applicant. Équipement pour le projet développement et renforcement de stimulations électriques pour implants auditifs. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Recherche en équipe. 49 620 $. (2018-2019)
• Grant. (Completed). Principal Applicant. GPU for spiking neural networks and deep learning. Nvidia. Donation for research. 5 000 $. (2018)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-investigator. Multichannel neural signal recording instrumentation for the central auditory system. Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). John R. Evans Leaders Funds. 179 038 $. (2016-2017)

Publications

Articles de revue

• Commère*, Louis; Rouat, Jean. (2023). Evaluation of Short Range Depth Sonifications for Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (Accepted).
• Abdelnour*, J.; Rouat, J.; Salvi, G. (2023). NAAQA: A Neural Architecture for Acoustic Question Answering. IEEE Tr. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 45 (4), 4997-5009. DOI. (Published).
• Brousmiche*, Mathilde; Rouat, Jean; Dupont, Stéphane. (2022). Multimodal Attentive Fusion Network for Audio-visual Event Recognition. Information Fusion 85 52-59. DOI. (Published).
• Balafrej*, Ismaël; Alibart, Fabien; Rouat, Jean. (2022). P-CRITICAL: A Reservoir Autoregulation Plasticity Rule for Neuromorphic Hardware. Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering 2 (2), DOI. (Published).
• Commère*, Louis; Rouat, Jean. (2022). Sonified distance in sensory substitution does not always improve localization: comparison with a 2D and 3D handheld device. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 53 (1), 154-163. DOI. (Published).
• Garg, Nikhil; Balafrej*, Ismael; Stewart, Terrence C; Portal, Jean-Michel; Bocquet, Marc; Querlioz, Damien; Drouin, Dominique; Rouat, Jean; Beilliard, Yann; Alibart, Fabien. (2022). Voltage-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity (VDSP): Unsupervised probabilistic Hebbian plasticity rule based on neurons membrane potential. Frontiers in Neuroscience 16 DOI. (Published).
• Celotti* L, Brodeur* S, Rouat J. (2021). AriEL: volume coding for sentence generation. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2021 arXiv:2003.13600 (Submitted).
• Brousmiche* M., Dupont S., Rouat J. (2020). AVECL-UMONS database for audio-visual event classification and localization. arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.01018 (Published).
• Moinnereau M-A, Rouat J, Whittingstall K, Plourde E. (2020). A frequency-band coupling model of EEG signals can capture features from an input audio stimulus. Hearing Research 107994. DOI. (Published).
• Richan* E, Rouat J. (2020). A proposal and evaluation of new timbre visualization methods for audio sample browsers. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing DOI. (Published).
• Commère* L., Rouat J. (2020). Evaluation of a Vision-to-Audition Substitution System that Provides 2D WHERE Information and Fast User Learning. arXiv Preprint, arXiv:2010.09041 (Published).
• Brousmiche*, M.; Rouat, J.; Dupont, S. (2020). Multi-level Attention Fusion Network for Audio-visual Event Recognition. arXiv:2106.06736 DOI. (Published).
• Jérôme Abdelnour* and Giampiero Salvi and Jean Rouat. (2019). CLEAR: A Dataset for Compositional Language and Elementary Acoustic Reasoning. IEEE DataPort, http://dx.doi.org/10.21227/7x26-a025 [Online] DOI. (Published).
• Abdelnour* J., Salvi G., Rouat J. (2019). From Visual to Acoustic Question Answering. arXiv:1902.11280v1 (Published).
• Chanauria* N, Bharmauria V, Bachatène L, Cattan S, Rouat J, Molotchnikoff S. (2019). Sound induces change in orientation preference of V1 neurons: Audio-visual cross-influence. Neuroscience 404 (15 April), 48 - 61. DOI. (Published).
• Sean UN Wood* and Jean Rouat. (2019). Unsupervised Low Latency Speech Enhancement with RT-GCC-NMF. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics In Signal Processing 13 (2), 332 - 346. DOI. (Published).
• Belgoum*, Zakaria; Abdelnour* Jérôme , Brodeur* Simon , Rouat Jean. (2018). Audio dataset for Household Multimodal Environment (HoME). IEEE Dataport, http://dx.doi.org/10.21227/w77r-4902 [Online] DOI. (Published).
• Brodeur*, Simon; Carrier*, Simon; Rouat, Jean. (2018). CREATE: Multimodal Dataset for Unsupervised Learning, Generative Modeling and Prediction of Sensory Data from a Mobile Robot in Indoor Environments. IEEE Dataport, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/H2M94J. (Published).
• Moinnereau, Marc-Antoine; Brienne, Thomas; Brodeur*, Simon; Rouat, Jean; Whittingstall Kevin, Plourde Eric. (2018). Classification of auditory stimuli from EEG signals with a regulated recurrent neural network reservoir. arXiv:1804.10322 [eess.SP] (Published).
• Brodeur* S., Perez E., Anand A., Golemo F., Celotti* L, Strub F., Rouat J., Larochelle H., Courville A. (2018). HoME: a Household Multimodal Environment. arXiv:1711.11017 [cs.AI], published at ICLR (Published).
• Erfani* Y, Pichevar R, Rouat J. (2017). Audio watermarking using spikegram and a two-dictionary approach. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 12 (4), 840 - 852. (Published).
• Wood* S, Rouat J, Dupont S, Pironkov* G. (2017). Blind Speech Separation and Enhancement with GCC-NMF. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 25 (4), 3329-3341. (Published).
• M. Adeli* M, Rouat J, Wood* S, Molotchnikoff S, Plourde E. (2016). A Flexible Bio-inspired Hierarchical Model for Analyzing Musical Timbre. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing PP (99), 875-889. (Published).
• Chanauria* N, Bharmauria* V, Bachatene L, Cattan S, Rouat J, Molotchnikoff S. (2016). Comparative effects of adaptation on layer II?III and layer V?VI neurons in cat V1. European Journal of Neuroscience 44 (12), 3094-3104. DOI. (Published).
• Bharmauria*, Bachatene L, Cattan S, Chanauria* N, Rouat J, Molotchnikoff S. (2016). High noise correlation between the functionally connected neurons in emergent V1 microcircuits. Exp Brain Res 234 (2), 523-532. (Published).
• Bharmauria* V, Bachatene L, Ouelhazi A, Cattan S, Chanauria* N, Etindele-Sosso F, Rouat J, Molotchnikoff S. (2016). Interplay of orientation selectivity and the power of low- and high-gamma bands in the cat primary visual cortex. Neuroscience Letters 620 14-19. DOI. (Published).
• Bharmauria* V, Bachatene L, Cattan S, Brodeur* S, Chanauria* N, Rouat J, Molotchnikoff S. (2016). Network?selectivity and stimulus?discrimination in the primary visual cortex: cell?assembly dynamics. European Journal of Neuroscience 43 (2), 204-219. (Published).
• Bachatene L, Bharmauria* V, Cattan S, Chanauria* N, Rouat J, Molotchnikoff S. (2015). Electrophysiological and firing properties of neurons: Categorizing soloists and choristers in primary visual cortex. Neuroscience Letters 604 103-108. (Published).
• Bachatene L, Bharmauria* V, Cattan S, Rouat J, Molotchnikoff S. (2015). Modulation of functional connectivity following visual adaptation: Homeostasis in V1. Brain Research 1594 136-153. (Published).
• Bachatene L, Bharmauria* V, Cattan S, Rouat J, Molotchnikoff S. (2015). Reprogramming of orientation columns in visual cortex: a domino effect. Nature Science Report 5 9436. (Published).
• Bharmauria* V, Bachatene L, Cattan, S, Chanauria* N, Rouat J, Molotchnikoff S. (2015). Stimulus-dependant augmented gamma oscillatory activity between the functionally connected cortical neurons in V1. European Journal of Neuroscience 41 (12), 1587–1596. (Published).
• Bachatene L, Bharmauria* V, Cattan S, Chanauria* N, Rouat J, Molotchnikoff S. (2015). Summation of connectivity strengths in the visual cortex reveals stability of neuronal microcircuits after plasticity. BMC Neuroscience 16 (1), (Published).

Rapports

• N. Garg, I. Balafrej*, T. C. Stewart, J-M. Portal, M. Bocquet, D. Querlioz, D. Drouin, J. Rouat, Y. Beilliard, F. Alibart. (2022). Voltage-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity (VDSP): Unsupervised probabilistic Hebbian plasticity rule based on neurons membrane potential. Université de Sherbrooke. 19 p. DOI.
• Celotti*,Luca; Brodeur*, Simon; Rouat, Jean. (2021). AriEL: volume coding for sentence generation comparisons, https://openreview.net/forum?id=qTTccuW4dja. Université de Sherbrooke. 21 p.
• Brousmiche*, Mathilde; Rouat, Jean; Dupont, Stéphane. (2021). Multi-level Attention Fusion Network for Audio-visual Event Recognition, arXiv:2106.06736. Université de Sherbrooke. 10 p.
• Brousmiche*, Mathilde; Dupont, Stéphane; Rouat, Jean. (2020). AVECL-UMONS database for audio-visual event classification and localization, arXiv:2011.01018. Université de Sherbrooke. 5 p.
• Celotti*, Luca; Brodeur*, Simon; Rouat, Jean. (2020). AriEL: volume coding for sentence generation, https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13600. Université de Sherbrooke. 16 p.
• Commère*, Louis, Rouat, Jean. (2020). Evaluation of a Vision-to-Audition Substitution System that Provides 2D WHERE Information and Fast User Learning, https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09041. Université de Sherbrooke. 15 p.
• Rouat, Jean. (2019). IGLU, Interactive Grounded Language Understanding, Last year and dissemination activities report. Université de Sherbrooke. 190 p.
• Brodeur*, Simon; Carrier*, Simon; Rouat, Jean. (2018). CREATE: Multimodal Dataset for Unsupervised Learning, Generative Modeling and Prediction of Sensory Data from a Mobile Robot in Indoor Environments, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.10214.pdf. Université de Sherbrooke. 35 p.
• Moinnereau, Marc-Antoine; Brienne, Thomas; Brodeur*, Simon; Rouat, Jean; Whittingstall Kevin, Plourde Eric. (2018). Classification of auditory stimuli from EEG signals with a regulated recurrent neural network reservoir, arXiv:1804.10322 [eess.SP]. Université de Sherbrooke. 4 p.
• Rouat, Jean. (2018). IGLU, Interactive Grounded Language Understanding, Second year and dissemination activities report. Université de Sherbrooke. 249 p.
• Rouat, Jean. (2017). IGLU, Interactive Grounded Language Understanding, First year and dissemination activities report. Université de Sherbrooke. 123 p.

Documents de travail

• Abdelnour, Jérôme; Rouat, Jean; Salvi, Giampiero. (2021). NAAQA: A Neural Architecture for Acoustic Question Answering. 12 p. DOI.
• Balafrej*, Ismaël; Rouat, Jean. (2020). P-CRITICAL: A Reservoir Autoregulation Plasticity Rule for Neuromorphic Hardware. 10 p. DOI.

Ressources en ligne

• Zakaria Belgoum; Jérôme Abdelnour; Simon Brodeur; Jean Rouat. (2018). Audio dataset for Household Multimodal Environment (HoME). Site Web. DOI.
• Brodeur, Simon ; Carrier, Simon ; Rouat, Jean. (2018). CREATE: Multimodal Dataset for Unsupervised Learning, Generative Modeling and Prediction of Sensory Data from a Mobile Robot in Indoor Environments. Site Web. DOI.
• Brodeur, Simon; Perez, Ethan; Anand, Ankesh; Golemo, Florian; Celotti, Luca ; Strub, Florian; Rouat, Jean; Larochelle, Hugo ; Courville, Aaron. (2017). HoME: a Household Multimodal Environment. Site Web.

Articles de conférence

• El Ferdaoussi*, Ahmad; Rouat, Jean; Plourde Éric. (2023). Optimizing Neuromorphic Spike Encoding of Dynamic Stimulus Signals Using Information Theory. Proceedings, (Accepted).
• Yarga*, Sidi Yaya Arnaud; Rouat, Jean; Wood, Sean. (2022). Efficient spike encoding algorithms for neuromorphic speech recognition. Proc. International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems (ICONS), DOI. (Published).
• El Ferdaoussi*, Ahmad; Plourde, Éric; Rouat, Jean. (2022). Optimizing Spike Encoding of Speech Using Information Theory for Neuromorphic Systems. Proc. of ICONS 2022, (Accepted).
• Bahadi* S., Rouat J., Plourde E. (2021). Adaptive Approach for Sparse Representations Using the Locally Competitive Algorithm for Audio. proceedings of the IWMLSP, 1-6. DOI. (Published).
• Garg*, Nikhil; Balafrej*, Ismael; Beilliard, Yann; Drouin, Dominique; Alibart, Fabien; Rouat, Jean. (2021). Signals to Spikes for Neuromorphic Regulated Reservoir Computing and EMG Hand Gesture Recognition. International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems. (Published).
• Brousmiche*, Mathilde; Dupont, Stéphane; Rouat, Jean. (2020). Intra and Inter-modality Interactions for Audio-visual Event Detection. ACM First International Workshop on Human-centric Multimedia Analysis. 5-11. DOI. (Published).
• Brousmiche*, Mathilde; Rouat, Jean; Dupont, Stéphane. (2020). SECL-UMons Database for Sound Event Classification and Localization. Proc., 756-760. DOI. (Published).
• Richan*, E.; Rouat, J. (2019). A study comparing shape, colour and texture as visual labels in audio sample browsers. Proceedings, 223 -. DOI. (Published).
• Brousmiche* M, Rouat J, Dupont S,. (2019). Audio-Visual Fusion And Conditioning With Neural Networks For Event Recognition. IEEE, Int. Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing. DOI. (Published).
• Prince-Tremblay*, Jordan; Balafrej*, Ismaël; Labelle, Félix; Martel-Denis, Félix; Matte, Éric; Chouinard-Beaupré, Julien; Letourneau, Adam; Mercier-Nicol, Antoine; Brodeur, Simon; Ferland, François; Rouat, Jean. (2018). A Cooperative Visually Grounded Dialogue Game with a Humanoid Robot. https://nips.cc/Conferences/2018/Schedule?showEvent=12165, (Published).
• Abdelnour* J, Salvi G, Rouat J. (2018). CLEAR: A Dataset for Compositional Language and Elementary Acoustic Reasoning. https://nips2018vigil.github.io/static/papers/accepted/16.pdf, (Published).
• Moinnereau* M-A, Brienne T, Brodeur* S, Rouat J, Whittingstall K, Plourde E. (2018). Classification Of Auditory Stimuli From EEG Signals with a Regulated Recurrent Neural Network Reservoir. IEEE Proceedings of the MLSP workshop, (Submitted).
• Brodeur* S, Perez E, Anand A, Golemo F, Celotti* L, Strub F, Rouat J, Larochelle H, Courville A. (2018). HoME: a Household Multimodal Environment. OpenReview.net, [Online]. (Published).
• Celotti*, Luca; Brodeur*, Simon; Rouat, Jean. (2018). Language coverage and generalization in RNN-based continuous sentence embeddings for interacting agents. https://nips2018vigil.github.io, (Published).
• Commère*, Louis; Wood*, Sean; Rouat, Jean. (2018). Sensory substitution of vision by audition for the visually impaired. Neurosymposium 2018. Canada, (Accepted).
• Commère*, Louis; Grond, Florian; Côté, François; Rouat, Jean. (2018). Sonification Of 3D Point Clouds For Substitution Of Vision By Audition For Blind Users. Proceedings of the 24th int. conf. on Auditory display, United States of America, 256-258. DOI. (Published).
• El Ferdaoussi*, A.; Brodeur*, S., Calvet*, E.; Abdelnour*, J.; Richan*, E.; Bharmauria*, V.; Bachatène, L.; Charnauria*, N.; Molotchnikoff, S.; Rouat, J. (2018). Study of the emergence of cortical maps in large-scale simulation of the primary visual cortex. NeuroSymposium 2018. Canada, (Published).
• Richan*, Etienne; Rouat, Jean. (2018). Towards translating perceptual distance from hearing to vision using neural networks. TIMBRE 2018: timbre is a many splendored thing proceedings, Canada, 59-60. DOI. (Accepted).
• J. Abdelnour*, S. Brodeur*, M. Brousmiche*, L. Celotti*, J. Civera, A. Courville, J.-B. Delbrouck, H. de Vries, S. Dupont, F. Golemo, O. Mastropietro, P. Azagra, A. C. Murillo, P.Y. Oudeyer, O. Pietquin, B. Piot, G. Pironkov, J. Rouat, G. Salvi, O. Seddati, F. Strub, S. Wood*. (2018). Year 2 of Interactive Grounded Language Understanding. CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2018. France, (Published).
• Wood* S, Rouat J. (2017). Blind Speech Separation with GCC-NMF. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH, (Published).
• Chanauria* N, Bharmauria V, Bachatene L, Etindele Sosso F, Rouat J, Molotchnikoff S. (2017). Co-ordinated adaptive changes of layer 2/3 and layer 5/6 multiunit activity (MUA) orientation tuning in the cat visual cortex. Abstract's book of the society of Neuroscience, 227.21 / CC15. (Published).
• Brodeur* S, Perez E, Anand A, Golemo F, Celotti* L, Strub F, Rouat J, Larochelle H, Courville A. (2017). HoME: a Household Multimodal Environment. NIPS 2017 workshop, (Published).
• Brodeur* S, Rouat J. (2017). Optimality of Inference in Hierarchical Coding for Distributed Object-Based Representations. 15th. IEEE Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CIWT), 1 -- 5. (Published).
• Brodeur* S, Celotti* L, Rouat J. (2017). Proposal of a Generative Model of Event-based Representations for Grounded Language Understanding. proceedings of first int. workshop on Grounding Language Understanding, 81 -- 86. (Published).
• Wood* S, Rouat J. (2017). Real-Time Speech Enhancement with GCC-NMF. ISCA Proceedings, 2665--2669. (Published).
• Wood* S, Rouat J. (2017). Real-Time Speech Enhancement with GCC-NMF: Demonstration on the Raspberry Pi and NVIDIA Jetson. proceedings of INTERSPEECH, 2048--2049. (Published).
• Wood* S, Rouat J. (2017). Towards GCC-NMF Speech Enhancement for Hearing Assistive Devices: Reducing Latency with Asymmetric Windows. Proceedings of the CHAT conf., 83 -- 88. (Published).
• Chanauria* N, Bharmauria* V, Bachatène L, Cattan S, Etindele-Sosso F, Rouat J, Molotchnikoff S. (2016). Intriguing! Auditory stimulus shifts orientation selectivitity of visual neurons in cat V1. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, 434.08 / SS16. (Published).
• Séguin-Godin* G, Mailhot F, Rouat J. (2015). Efficient event-driven approach using synchrony processing for hardware spiking neural networks. Proceedings of IEEE-ISCAS, 2696-2699. (Published).
• Siahpoush* S, Erfani* Y, Rode T, Lim H, Rouat J, Plourde E. (2015). Improving neural decoding in the central auditory system using bio-inspired spectro-temporal representations and a generalized bilinear model. proceedings of the IEEE EMBS, 5146-5150. (Published).

Propriétés intellectuelles

Patents

• Rouat J, Pichevar* R, Loiselle* S, Le* T, Hoang* A, Lavoie*J, Bergeron* J. (2018). Spatio-Temporal Pattern Recognition Using A Spiking Neural Network And Processing Thereof On A Portable And/Or Distributed Computer. 8,346,692. United States of America. (Granted/Issued).
• Rouat, J.; Caron*, L.-C; de Ladurantaye*, V., Mailhot, F.; Bergeron*, J. (2017). Method, system and aggregation engine for providing structural representations of physical entities. 2,835,701. Canada. (Granted/Issued).
• Rouat J, Bergeron* J, Caron* LC, de Ladurantaye* V, Mailhot F. (2016). Method, system and aggregation engine for providing structural representations of physical entities. 9,317,540. United States of America. (Granted/Issued).
• Rouat J, Pichevar* R, Loiselle* S, Le* T, Hoang* A, Lavoie*J, Bergeron* J. (2013). Spatio-Temporal Pattern Recognition Using A Spiking Neural Network And Processing Thereof On A Portable And/Or Distributed Computer. 2,642,041. Canada. (Granted/Issued).
• Mailhot F, Séguin-Godin* G, Rouat J. Method and System for event based neural networks. PCT/CA2016/050579. United States of America. (Lapsed).

Autres contributions

Cours enseignés

• Intelligence artificielle bio-inspirée. GEI792.
• Intelligence artificielle probabiliste. GEI791. (2CR).
• Neurosciences computationnelles et applications en traitement de l'information. GEI723. (3CR).
• Sensation et Perception. GIF480. (2CR).
• Techniques avancées en analyse, représentation et filtrage des signaux. GEI787.

Gestion d'évènements

• Co-organizer. (2011-2022) Bi-annual NECOTIS research workshops on bridging neuroscience and engineering. (Workshop).
• Coordinator. (2015-2018) Bi-annual workshops of the CHIST-ERA IGLU consortium. They were held 2 times/year in Europe . The first was in Lille, France in Nov. 2015, the second was in Mons, Belgium in June 2016, the next in Barcelona, Spain in December 2016, etc. (Workshop).
• Co-organizer. (2018) Interactive Learning for Multimodal Communicative Robots, IROS 2018, Workshop, Madrid. (Workshop).
• Coordinator. (2018) CHIST-ERA HLU, Human Language Understanding and Grounding, "Summer school" ANR Paris, France. (Seminar).
• co-organizer. (2017) International Workshop on Grounding Language Understanding (GLU2017), KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. (Conference).
• Co-organizer. (2014-2017) Workshops on Sonification and Sensory Substitution organized on regular bases at CIRMMT (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology). (Seminar).

Activités de collaboration internationale

• Director & Coordinator. Sweden. I was the coordinator and leader of the CHIST-ERA IGLU (Interactive Grounded Language Understanding) consortium that comprises 7 research teams with international reputations from 5 countries (MILA lab - UdeM; NECOTIS - UdeS; KTH, Sweden; MONS Univ., Belgium; Lille1 Univ. & INRIA Bordeaux, France; Zaragoza Univ., Spain & Sheffield Univ, UK). I am in charge of the administration, of the legal aspects, of the organization and of the academic and scientific orientations of the consortium. I am still collaborating with these partners.