ACADEMIC CURRICULUM VITÆ

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7935-1617

My publications on Chapman Digital Commons - My publications on HAL - My publications on this site

• EDUCATION

2023 HDR - French accreditation to supervise research (Tenure) in Art and Philosophy, University of Lorraine, Metz, France

2020 Psychoanalysis Training, International Lacanian Association, Paris, France

2019 Bachelor, Psychology, Paris VIII University, France

2007 Master of Fine Arts, major Acting, minor Directing, Actors Studio Drama School, The New School, NY, USA

1997 PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Paris, France, Summa Cum Laude

1996 Master, Phonetics, Paris III University, France

1993 Master, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Paris XI University, France

1992 Engineer (Bachelor), Electrical and Computer Engineering, ENSEA, France

• CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION

2023 – Presidential Fellow, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA

• PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2020 – 2023 Affiliated Scholar, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA

2019 – 2023 Senior Researcher with CNRS, PRISM Laboratory, Marseille, France

2010 – 2018 Senior Researcher with CNRS, ACTE Laboratory, Paris, France

2008 – 2009 Assistant Professor, University of Évry, France

2007 – 2008 Independent Researcher, Paris, France

2001 – 2004 Researcher with CNRS, DDL Laboratory, Lyon, France

2000 – 2001 Assistant Professor, University of Avignon, France

1999 – 2000 Associate Researcher, IRISA, Rennes, France

1998 – 1999 Associate Researcher, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA

1997 – 1998 Researcher at Bell Labs, AT&T, New Jersey, USA


• OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES IN THE ARTS

2014 – Critic (film, theater, performance, music, art)

2012 – Founder, president, and artistic director of Aloha Films, a company that produces short films

2011 – 2014 Board member and head of the screenwriters' circle at Collectif Prod, a French organisation that helps young people become professionals in the French film industry

2009 – Founder and artistic director of Aloha Company, a theater company

2004 – Writer, director, director of photography, editor, colorist for cinema

2004 – Writer, director, lighting designer for theater

2003 – Actor in theater and cinema

2003 – 2004 Co-founder and co-artistic director of the Padrivantia Company, a theater company

• DISTINCTIONS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS

2026 Co-Teaching Award with Liz Maxwell, Interdisciplinary Methods in the Performing Arts, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA

2023 – Presidential Fellow, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA

2020 – 2023 Affiliated Scholar, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA

2004 – 2006 Scholarship, Actors Studio Drama School, The New School, NY, USA

2000 – 2001 Research fellowship, University of Avignon, France

1993 – 1996 Doctoral fellowship, Polytechnic Institute of Paris, France

• FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS (selection)

2013 – 2014 Co-leader of the project Race, Immigration, Technology, and the Creative Process in Performance: One-year project funded by The France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. Co-leader with Jennifer Brody from the TAPS department at Stanford University. Budget of $15k.

2001 – 2005 Co-leader of the RAIVES project: A four-year project to index radio documents on the web, funded by the French CNRS as part of the “Information Society” initiative. Co-leader of the project with Nathalie Parlangeau-Vallès. Budget of 800k€.

2003 – 2005 Partner in the AGIR project: A two-year multimedia indexing project funded by the French Ministry of Technology. Budget of €400k.

2002 – 2004 Project leader for ALIZÉ: A two-year project to develop a free software platform for automatic speaker verification, funded by the French Ministry of Research as part of the “Technolangues” initiative. Budget of 300k€.

• SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

2002 — Supervision of 1 Post-doctoral fellow, Lyon, France

1997 — Supervision of 4 PhD students, Rennes/Lyon/Paris, France

2000 — Member of 3 PhD committees, Paris, France

2001 — Supervision of 13 Masters Degree Theses, Lyon/Marseille, France & Orange, California, USA

• TEACHING ACTIVITIES (selection)

Online and In-Person classes, workshops, masterclasses on various topics connected to my scholarly and creative activities (acting, directing, writing, composing, leadership, creativity, innovation, artificial intelligence, etc.)

Regular interventions in colleagues’ classes: Music Composition, MBA class on AI and New Technologies, Dance Improvisation, etc.

2026 Course: Interdisciplinary Methods in the Performing Arts - Co-taught with Liz Maxwell @ Chapman University, Orange, California, USA

2024 Course: How Art Can Help Us Save the Planet - Art and Ethics @ Honors Program, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA

2023 Course: How Art Can Help Us Save the Planet - Art and Ethics @ Honors Program, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA

2023 Course: Creativity and Innovation @ EFAP, Aix-en-Provence, France

2022 Workshop: Exploring the Concept of Yin and Yang in Dance, Dance Department @ Chapman University, Orange, California, USA

2022 Course: Storytelling @ EFAP, Aix-en-Provence, France

2022 Course: Creativity and Innovation @ EFAP, Aix-en-Provence, France

2021 Course: AI and Creativity @ International Summer School on AI, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey

2021 Course: AI and Creativity in the Master Computational Creativity @ University of Toulouse, France

2021 Course: Color Grading @ École Kourtrajmé (Film School), Marseille, France

2020 Course: Why Do We Like What We Like - Criticism and Aesthetics @ Honors Program, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA

2019 Course: Directing Actors @ Srinakharinwirot University (Film Division), Bangkok, Thailand

2019 Course: Screenwriting/Directing @ ESRA (Film School), Paris

2009 – 2010 History of Stage Directing @ Evry University, France

2009 – 2010 Performance Workshop @ Evry University, France

2002 ELSNET Summer School on the Evaluation of Techniques and Systems in Speech and Language @ University of Odense, Denmark

2002 – 2004 Signal Processing @ Paris 13 University, France

2001 – 2004 Speech Processing @ Paris 13 University, France

2001 – 2004 Speech Processing @ Lyon 2 University, France

2000 – 2004 Speech Processing @ Polytechnic Institute of Paris, France

• ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS (recent, selection)

2025 The Cuisine Webinar, Online International Webinar co-curated with Allen Weiss, NYU

2025 International Symposium “ETES 2025: Teaching Ecological and Social Transitions in Higher Education”, Lyon, France. Member of the Scientific Committee.  (150 participants)

2024 International Symposium “ETES 2024: Teaching Ecological and Social Transitions in Higher Education”, Bordeaux, France. Member of the Scientific Committee.  (150 participants)

2023 International Symposium “ETES 2023: Teaching Ecological and Social Transitions in Higher Education”, Paris, France. Member of the Scientific Committee.  (120 participants)

2022 International Symposium “Pierre Vermersch’s contribution to the study of subjectivity”, Marseille, France. Co-director of the Symposium. Member of the Organizing and Scientific Committees. (85 participants)

2022 International Symposium “The Relevance of Francisco Varela’s Work Today”, Cerisy, France. Co-director of the Symposium. Member of the Organizing and Scientific Committees. (75 participants)

2020 Workshop “Collaborative Methods in Research and Creation”, Marseille, France. Member of the Organizing and Scientific Committees. (40 participants)

2019 International Conference CMMR 2019 (“Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research”), Marseille, France. Paper Chair and Member of the Reading Committee. (150 participants)

2015 International Symposium “The Science of Joint Improvisation”, Paris, France. Member of the Organizing and Scientific Committees. (40 participants)

2015 International Symposium “Flesh and Sound: International Encounters Between Buto Dance and Acousmatic Music”, Paris, France. Member of the Organizing and Scientific Committees. (150 participants)

2014 International Symposium “The Creative Process in the Performative, Visual, and Sound Arts”, Paris, France. Director of the Symposium. Member of the Organizing and Scientific Committees. (40 participants)

2013 International Symposium “IDEA PARIS 2013”, Paris, France. Member of the Organizing and Scientific Committees. Responsible of the Special Interest Group on Neuroscience. Organizer of a Roundtable on the Reception of Artistic Work in Performing Arts (1500 participants)

2012 International Symposium “The Aging Body in Performing Arts”, Caen, Normandy, France. Organizer and Moderator. (150 participants)

2012 International Symposium “The Living Archive”, Paris, France. Member of the Organizing and Scientific Committee. (80 participants)

• INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES (selection)

2025 – Member of the Strategic Committee of the College of Performing Arts, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA

2025 – Member of Chapman University Sustainability Committee, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA

2024 – Founder and Organizer of the Germinals Seminar, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA

2021 – 2023 Founder and Organizer of the Seminar “Les JEUDIS de PRISM”, PRISM Laboratory, Marseille, France

2017 – 2022 Co-Founder and Member of the task force “Theory and Practice”, EASTAP (“European Association for the Study of Theater and Performance”), Europe

2016 – 2017 Founder and Organizer of the Seminar “Phenomenology of Creation”, ACTE Laboratory, Paris, France

2015 Founder and Organizer of the Seminar “Experimental Aesthetics”, ACTE Laboratory, Paris, France

2012 – 2015 Member of the Executive Committee, ACTE Laboratory, Paris, France

2010 – 2018 Graduate Students Advisor, ACTE Laboratory, Paris 1 University, France

2010 – 2015 Founder and Director of the Research Team “Aesthetics of Performing Arts”, ACTE Laboratory, Paris, France

2002 – 2003 Organizer of the Intern Seminar for the DDL Laboratory, Lyon 2 University, France

2001 – 2004 Graduate Students Advisor, DDL Laboratory, Lyon 2 University, France

• REVIEWING ACTIVITIES

2024 — Co-founder of the journal JEESES (Teaching Socio-Ecological Issues in Higher Education), member of the steering and editorial committee.

2024 — Member of the editorial committee of the journal Art and Science.

2014 — Founder and Director of Publication of p-e-r-f-o-r-m-a-n-c-e, 8 volumes edited or co-edited, member of the scientific and reading committees.

1995 – 2004 Regular reviewer for: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Digital Signal Processing, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal on Applied Signal Processing.

• MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS (recent, selection)

2024 – Member of the North America Committee of IACAET (International Association for Creative Arts in Education and Therapy).

2024 – Co-founder and member of the nonprofit organization ERA (Environment, Resilience, and Action).

2024 – Co-founder and member of the nonprofit organization EESES (Teaching Socio-Ecological Issues in Higher Education)

2021 – Member, “APA” (“American Philosophical Association”)

2020 – Member, CNRS Research Network “LABOS1POINT5”, Working Groups “Arts&Sciences” (founder), “Pedagogy”, France

2020 – 2024 Member, CNRS Research Network “LABOS1POINT5”, Working Groups “Carbon Footprint”, “Communication”, France

2020 – 2023 Member, CNRS Research Network “Internet, AI, and Society”, Working Groups “AI, Art, and Creativity”, France

2020 – 2021 Member, “SPSCVA” (“Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts”)

2018 – Member, “SFCC” (French Association of Film Critics) and “FIPRESCI” (International Federation of Film Critics)

2017 – 2023 Founding Member, EASTAP (“European Association for the Study of Theater and Performance”), Europe

2016 – Member of the Executive Committee, Research Network “GREX2” (“Research Group on Explicitation”), France

• MAJOR COLLABORATIONS (recent, selection)

Nick Terry, Creativity and Free Will, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA

Marco Panza and Giulio Ongaro, Criticism and Aesthetics, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA

Allen Weiss, Richard Schechner, Diana Taylor, Performance Studies, New York University, New York, USA

Jennifer Brody, Performance Studies, Stanford University, California, USA