Sami Beaumont’s PhD defense @ Sorbonne Universit\u00e9, 15 December 2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Sami Beaumont, PhD candidate that I co-supervised with Philippe Domenech at Ecole Doctorale Cerveau Cognition Comportement<\/a>, has defended his thesis on 15 Dec 2022 at Sorbonne Universit\u00e9. His thesis is entitled \u00ab\u00a0Meta-learning under uncertainty: behavioral and computational study of adaptability in humans\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is with great pleasure that I can announce the release of the first book that I edited. The book is an introduction to cognitive neuroscience, including a chapter on computational modeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chapters:<\/strong> R\u00e9mi Dromnelle, PhD candidate that I co-supervised with Raja Chatila<\/a> and Beno\u00eet Girard<\/a> at EDITE doctoral school<\/a>, has defended his thesis on 1 July 2021 at Sorbonne Universit\u00e9. His thesis is entitled \u00ab\u00a0Architecture cognitive g\u00e9n\u00e9rique pour la coordination de strat\u00e9gies d\u2019apprentissage en robotique\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The tenth international symposium on the biology of decision-making took place virtually on May 10-12th 2021. It was co-organised by Roeland Heerema, William Hopper, Mehdi Khamassi, Thelma Landron et Mathias Pessiglione. Invited speakers from different countries (USA, UK, Europe, Japan) presented different approaches (ethology, economics, neural, behavioral and computational approaches) to decision-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More information here:\u00a0https:\/\/sbdm2021.sciencesconf.org<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n It is with great pleasure that I learned that I have been promoted to director of research by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). I’ll continue working in the same research institute, with new possibilities and directions now open for the researches of our group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The tenth international symposium on the biology of decision-making should have taken place in Paris, France on May 27-29th 2020. It has been postponed to 2021 due to the pandemics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More information here: https:\/\/sbdm2020.sciencesconf.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Fran\u00e7ois Cinotti<\/a>, PhD candidate that I co-supervised with Beno\u00eet Girard<\/a> at l’Ecole Doctorale Cerveau Cognition Comportement<\/a>, has defended his thesis on 8 July 2019 at Sorbonne Universit\u00e9. His thesis is entitled \u00ab\u00a0Computational modelling of the variability and regulation of reinforcement learning and the associated dopaminergic signalling in Rats\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The nineth international symposium on the biology of decision-making took place in Oxford, UK, on May 27-29th 2019. It was co-organised by Dan Bang, Andrew Bell, Alessandro Bongioanni, Thomas Boraud, Kenji Doya, Neil Garrett, Mehdi Khamassi, Miriam Klein-Fl\u00fcgge, Etienne Koechlin, Nils Kolling, Patricia Lockwood, Aliz\u00e9e Lopez-Persem, Jill O’Reilly, Mathias Pessiglione, Matthew Rushworth, J\u00e9r\u00f4me Sallet, Hannah Sheaha, Chris Summerfield, Mark Walton and Marco Wittmann. Invited speakers from different countries (USA, UK, Europe, Japan) presented different approaches (ethology, economics, neural, behavioral and computational approaches) to decision-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More information here: http:\/\/sbdm2019.isir.upmc.fr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Khamassi, M.<\/a> and Chalvatzaki, G. and Tsitsimis, T. and Velentzas, G. and Tzafestas, C. (2018). A framework for robot learning during child-robot interaction with human engagement as reward signal.<\/em> Download the PDF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The eighth international symposium on the biology of decision-making took place in Paris, France on May 21-23th 2018. It was co-organised by Kenji Doya, Roeland Heerema, Mehdi Khamassi, Etienne Koechlin, Fanny Lachat, Marine Magne and Mathias Pessiglione. Invited speakers from different countries (USA, UK, Europe, Japan) presented different approaches (ethology, economical, neural and computational approaches) to decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More information here: http:\/\/sbdm2018.isir.upmc.fr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thibaud Griessinger<\/a>, PhD candidate that I co-supervised with Giorgio Coricelli<\/a> at l’Ecole Doctorale Cerveau Cognition Comportement<\/a> and funded by Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure<\/a>, has defended his thesis on 18 December 2017 at l’ENS. His thesis is entitled \u00ab\u00a0The cognitive roots of strategic learning in repeated social interactions – from cognitive neuroscience back to behavioral economics\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nassim Aklil<\/a>, PhD candidate that I co-supervised with Beno\u00eet Girard<\/a> and Ludovic Denoyer<\/a> at l’Ecole Doctorale Cerveau Cognition Comportement<\/a> and funded by Labex SMART<\/a>, has defended his thesis on 27 September 2017 at ISIR, UPMC. His thesis is entitled \u00ab\u00a0Apprentissage actif sous contrainte de budget en robotique et en neurosciences computationnelles – Localisation robotique et mod\u00e9lisation comportementale en environnement non stationnaire\u00a0\u00bb. Nassim now works in the private sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The seventh international symposium on the biology of decision-making took place in Bordeaux, France on May 14-16th 2017. It was co-organised by Thomas Boraud, Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, Kenji Doya, Mehdi Khamassi, Etienne Koechlin, Mathias Pessiglione and Nicolas Rougier. Invited speakers from different countries (USA, UK, Europe, Japan) presented different approaches (ethology, economical, neural and computational approaches) to decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More information here: http:\/\/sbdm2017.isir.upmc.fr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2017, I have been an invited researcher at the Department of Experimental Psychology of the University of Oxford, UK. There I mainly collaborate with J\u00e9r\u00f4me Sallet<\/a>, Matthew Rushworth<\/a>, Chris Summerfield<\/a> and Mark Walton<\/a>, partly thanks to the support of the Mission for Interdisciplinarity of the CNRS<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Guillaume Viejo<\/a>, PhD candidate that I co-supervised with Beno\u00eet Girard<\/a> at the Brain Cognition & Behavior doctoral school (ED3C)<\/a> and funded by B2V, has defended his thesis on 28 November 2016 at ISIR, UPMC. His thesis is entitled \u00ab\u00a0Coordination de syst\u00e8mes de m\u00e9moire : mod\u00e8les th\u00e9oriques du comportement animal et humain\u00a0\u00bb. Guillaume is now post-doc with Adrien Peyrache<\/a> at Montr\u00e9al University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Erwan Renaudo<\/a>, PhD candidate that I co-supervised with Raja<\/a> Chatila<\/a> and Beno\u00eet Girard<\/a> at the EDITE doctoral school<\/a> and funded by DGA, has defended his thesis on 6 June 2016 at ISIR, UPMC. His thesis is entitled \u00ab\u00a0Des comportements flexibles aux comportements habituels : meta-apprentissage neuro-inspir\u00e9 pour la robotique autonome\u00a0\u00bb. Erwan is now post-doc at Innsbruck University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The sixth international symposium on the biology of decision-making took place between Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle and Universit\u00e9 Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France on May 25-27th 2016. It was co-organised by Thomas Boraud, Kenji Doya, Mehdi Khamassi, Etienne Koechlin, Marine Magne, Natacha Logerot, Delphine Oudiette and Mathias Pessiglione. Invited speakers from different countries (USA, UK, Europe, Japan) presented different approaches (ethology, economical, neural and computational approaches) to decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More information here: http:\/\/sbdm2016.isir.upmc.fr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Since January 2016, I have been an invited researcher at the Robotics Laboratory of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. There I mainly collaborate with Costas Tzafestas<\/a> within the frame of the European project \u00ab\u00a0Baby Robot\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jean Bellot<\/a>, PhD candidate that I co-supervised with Beno\u00eet Girard<\/a> at the Brain Cognition & Behavior doctoral school (ED3C)<\/a> and funded by Ville de Paris, has defended his thesis on July 7th 2015 at ISIR, UPMC. His thesis is entitled \u00ab\u00a0Mod\u00e9lisation computationnelle du r\u00f4le de la dopamine dans les boucles cortico-striatales dans l’apprentissage et la r\u00e9gulation de la s\u00e9lection de l’action\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fifth symposium on the biology of decision-making took place between Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle and Universit\u00e9 Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France on May 11-13th 2015. It was co-organised by Bastien Blain, Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, Thomas Boraud, Kenji Doya, Mehdi Khamassi, Etienne Koechlin, Aliz\u00e9e Lopez-Persem, Marine Magne and Mathias Pessiglione. Invited speakers from different countries (USA, UK, Europe, Japan) presented different approaches (ethology, economical, neural and computational approaches) to decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More information here: http:\/\/sbdm2015.isir.upmc.fr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n I have joined the Editorial Board of the journal Frontiers in Neurorobotics as Associate Editor. The journal will obtain an impact factor which will be announcezd during the Summer 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info here: http:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/Neurorobotics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Florian Lesaint<\/a>, Phd candidate that I co-supervised with Olivier Sigaud<\/a> at the EDITE doctoral school<\/a> and funded by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, has obtained his thesis on September 26th 2014 at ISIR, UPMC. His thesis is entitled \u00ab\u00a0Modelling animal conditioning with factored representations in dual-learning systems – Explaining inter-individual differences at behavioural and neurophysiological levels\u00a0\u00bb can be downloaded here in pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fourth symposium on the biology of decision-making took place between Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle and Universit\u00e9 Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France. It has been co-organised by Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, Thomas Boraud, Kenji Doya, Mehdi Khamassi, Etienne Koechlin, Aliz\u00e9e Lopez-Persem, Marine Magne, Mathias Pessiglione and Lionel Rigoux. Invited speakers from different countries (USA, UK, Europe, Japan) presented different approaches (ethology, economical, neural and computational approaches) to decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More information here: http:\/\/sbdm2014.isir.upmc.fr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n I have defended my Habilitation to Direct Researches entitled \u00ab\u00a0Coordination of parallel learning processes in animals and robots\u00a0\u00bb on May 6th 2014 at ISIR, UPMC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Click here to download the pdf file of my HDR<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have joined the editorial board of the Intellectica journal, which is concerned by the ensemble of disciplines interested in the study of cognition. Intellectica published theoretical work as well as original experimental work. It also publishes syntheses, research reports, critical notes and historical perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info here: http:\/\/intellectica.org\/en\/Home\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n I have been invited researcher at the Center for Mind\/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy, in 2014-2015. There I have mainly collaborated with Giorgio Coricelli<\/a> within the frame of his European ERC project \u00ab\u00a0Transfer Learning Between and Within Brains\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The third symposium on the biology of decision-making took place at Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, in Paris, France. It was co-organised by Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, Thomas Boraud, Kenji Doya, Mehdi Khamassi, Arnaud Lucas, Mathias Pessiglione, Aurore San-Galli and Vasilisa Skvortsova. Invited speakers from different countries (USA, UK, Europe, Japan) presented different approaches (ethology, economical, neural and computational approaches) to decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More information here: http:\/\/sbdm2013.isir.upmc.fr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The GT8 workgroup of the Robotics GDR<\/a> is organizing on November 29-30th two \u00ab\u00a0Robotics and Neuroscience\u00a0\u00bb days. These days will take place at ISIR, in Paris. The first day is co-organized with the GDR Neuroscience of Memory<\/a> and will have the following topics: Learning, conditioning and goal-directed behaviors. The second day is specific to the GDR Robotics but will also gather neurobiologists and roboticists around the topics: Attention and saccadic eye movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Registration is free but mandatory by e-mail (see documents below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Click here to download the program of Day 1 \u00ab\u00a0Learning, conditioning and goal-directed behaviors\u00a0\u00bb.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Click here to download the program of Day 2 \u00ab\u00a0Attention and saccadic eye movements\u00a0\u00bb.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Bellot, J. <\/a>and Sigaud, O.<\/a> and Khamassi, M.<\/a> (2012). Which Temporal Difference Learning algorithm best reproduces dopamine activity in a multi-choice task?<\/em> SAB 2012 Conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBook release: Neurosciences cognitives (In French), 12 October 2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
1 Perception et attention – Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Collins et Laura Dugu\u00e9
2 Le cerveau, le mouvement, et les espaces – Alain Berthoz
3 \u00c9tude des syst\u00e8mes de m\u00e9moire dans le cadre d\u2019un comportement : la navigation – Laure Rondi-Reig
4 D\u00e9cision et action – Aliz\u00e9e Lopez-Persem et Mehdi Khamassi
5 Neurolinguistique – Perrine Brusini et \u00c9lodie Cauvet
6 Conscience et m\u00e9tacognition – Louise Goupil et Claire Sergent
7 Cognition sociale – Marwa El Zein, Louise Kirsch et Lou Safra
8 Psychologie et neurosciences : enjeux pour l\u2019\u00e9ducation – Emmanuel Sander, Hippolyte Gros, Katarina Gvozdic et Calliste Scheibling-S\u00e8ve
9 Initiation \u00e0 la mod\u00e9lisation computationnelle – Anne Collins et Mehdi Khamassi<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/pages.isir.upmc.fr\/mkhamassi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/09\/9782807329218_Couverture_KHAMASSI_petit-1024x710.jpg\")
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R\u00e9mi Dromnelle’s PhD defense @ Sorbonne Universit\u00e9, 1 July 2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Tenth International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making (online meeting), 10-12 mai 2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Promotion to director of research by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 1 October 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Tenth International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making, Paris, France, 27-29 May 2020 (postponed to 2021 due to the pandemics)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Fran\u00e7ois Cinotti’s PhD defense @ Sorbonne Universit\u00e9, 8 July 2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Nineth International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making, Oxford, UK, 27-29 May 2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Best late breaking report award (Nanjing City Prize) at IEEE RO-MAN 2018, Nanjing, China, 27 August 2018<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Eighth International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making, Paris, France, 21-23 May 2018<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Thibaud Griessinger’s PhD defense @ ENS, 18 December 2017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Nassim Aklil’s PhD defense @ UPMC, 27 September 2017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Seventh International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making, Paris, France, 14-16 May 2017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Invited Researcher at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK, 2017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Guillaume Viejo’s PhD defense @ UPMC, 28 November 2016<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Erwan Renaudo’s PhD defense @ UPMC, 6 June 2016<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Sixth International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making, Paris, France, 25-27 May 2016<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Invited Researcher at the Robotics Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 2016-2017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Jean Bellot’s PhD defense @ UPMC, 7 July 2015<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Fifth International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making, Paris, France, 11-13 May 2015<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Associate Editor @ Frontiers in Neurorobotics, April 2015<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Florian Lesaint’s PhD defense @ UPMC, 26 September 2014<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Fourth International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making, Paris, France, 26-28 May 2014<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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HDR defense @ UPMC, 6 May 2014<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Participation to the editorial board of Intellectica, January 2014<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Invited Researcher at the Center for Mind\/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy, 2014-2015<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Third Symposium on Biology of Decision Making, Paris, France, 29-30 May 2013<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Robotics and Neuroscience Days, ISIR, Paris, France, 29-30 November 2012<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Best paper award to Jean Bellot at SAB 2012<\/h2>\n\n\n\n