Supervisions

Scientific supervision and co-supervision of post-docs, PhD students, research engineers, and master's interns.

Post-doctoral Researchers

Madjid Sadallah · 🌐 website

2024–2026 · ANR SAPS COOBRA

Post-doctoral research within the ANR SAPS COOBRA project (*COOpération entre voyants et déficients visuels BRAillistes pour apprendre et travailler ensemble*), focused on HCI, digital accessibility, and collaborative work between sighted and visually impaired Braille users.

Abir-Béatrice Karami · 🌐 website

2016–2019 · FUI SIM2B · Co-supervised with Karim Sehaba (50%)

Post-doctoral research in the FUI SIM2B project (*Simulate To Be*) — simulation of emotional and social behaviour for non-player characters in video games and serious games.

Currently: Associate Professor in Computer Science and AI, Institut Catholique de Lille

Thomas Steiner · 🌐 website

2013–2014 · ANR Spectacle en ligne(s) · Co-supervised with Pierre-Antoine Champin (40%), Yannick Prié (20%)

Post-doctoral research in the ANR Corpus project *Spectacle en ligne(s)* — capturing, indexing, and sharing enriched archives of live performances using Semantic Web, hypervideo, and Linked Data technologies.

Currently: Chrome Developer Advocate, Google Hamburg

Abir-Béatrice Karami · 🌐 website

2012–2014 · FUI RobotPopuli · Co-supervised with Karim Sehaba (50%)

Post-doctoral research in the FUI RobotPopuli project — development of an advanced adaptive robotics platform for interactive applications. Focus on learning from user feedback to improve robot adaptation.

Magali Ollagnier-Beldame · 🌐 website

2009–2011 · DGCIS ACAV · Co-supervised with Yannick Prié (50%)

Post-doctoral research in the DGCIS ACAV project (*Annotation Collaborative pour l'Accessibilité Vidéo*) — improving web video accessibility for blind, deaf, and hard-of-hearing users through collaborative annotation.

Currently: CNRS Researcher (Chargée de recherche), ENS Lyon, ICAR Laboratory


PhD Students

Niels André · 🌐 website

October 2024 – · Bien à l’École (AMI IFS, France 2030) · Co-supervised with Élise Lavoué (33%), Audrey Serna (33%)

PhD thesis in Computer Science, Université Lyon 1: "Study of predictive behaviours of well-being and academic perseverance". Recruited on the Bien à l'École project (France 2030, AMI IFS).

Mathieu Chambard · 🌐 website

October 2024 – · ANR MODELI+ · Co-supervised with Béatrice Fuchs (33%), Karim Sehaba (10%)

PhD thesis in Computer Science, Université Lyon 1: "Prediction and explanation of learner performance for anatomy learning". Recruited on the ANR MODELI+ project.

Rémi Barbé · 🌐 website

September 2022 – June 2026 · CIFRE Tokatab · Co-supervised with Karim Sehaba (50%)

PhD thesis in Computer Science, Université Lyon 1: "Facilitating distance piano learning using learning analytics: adaptive and proactive dashboards for learning assistance". CIFRE thesis in collaboration with the edTech company Tokatab.

Madjid Sadallah · 🌐 website

January 2013 – April 2019 · CLAIRE · HUBBLE · Co-supervised with Yannick Prié (50%)

PhD thesis in Computer Science, Université de Béjaïa (Algeria): "Models and Tools for Usage-based e-Learning Documents Reengineering". Developed the concept of Reading Analytics as a sub-field of Learning Analytics to assist the redesign of online course documents based on learner reading activity.

Currently: Post-doctoral researcher, LIRIS, Université Lyon 1 (see EP5)


Research Engineers


Master’s Internships

Louis Guillotin

February–June 2021 · M2 Computer Science / AI track · Co-supervised with Élise Lavoué (33%), Audrey Serna (33%)

"Analysis of engaged behaviours on an interactive 360° video visualisation activity."

Jean-Baptiste Guimbaud

February–June 2020 · M2 Computer Science / AI track · Co-supervised with Karim Sehaba (50%)

"Development of decision-support tools for redesign assistance — analysis of usages of a heritage mediation device."

Yingdong Liu

February–June 2018 · M2 Cognitive Sciences / HCI track · Co-supervised with Karim Sehaba (50%)

"Does the MIA Confort application provide users with a satisfactory experience?" — user-centred study for a chronic pain management mobile application.

Washim Ahmed

February–June 2017 · M2 Computer Science / Data Science track · Co-supervised with Abir-Béatrice Karami (60%), Karim Sehaba (20%)

"Situation analysis from traces for adaptive games."

Stuart Hallifax · 🌐 website

February–June 2016 · M2 Computer Science / IAED track · Co-supervised with Karim Sehaba (33%), Jean-Charles Marty (33%)

"Design of educational scenarios in a collaborative context using interactive tables."

Kawtar Ousguine

February–June 2016 · M2 Computer Science / IAED track · Co-supervised with Karim Sehaba (50%)

"Usage assistance through the sharing of traced experiences."

Jose Francisco Saray Villamizar

February–June 2010 · M2 Computer Science / IAED track · Co-supervised with Yannick Prié (10%), Pierre-Antoine Champin (10%)

"Towards an interactive film visualisation system for people in disability situations: video-annotation adaptation during visualisation."

Olivier Helleu

February–June 2009 · M2 Cognitive Sciences / Applied Cognitive Sciences track · Co-supervised with Yannick Prié (50%)

"Research and experimentation for active perception by blind people."