Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events: Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

X. Hinaut: Co-organizer of the workshop on language learning at IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2019, Oslo, Norway, August 2019; of the "Day of the NeuroRobotics Working Group", Nov 2019, Bordeaux, France; Session chair at the CogSci conference, Montréal, Canada. Jul 2019.

N.Rougier: co-chair for the track on Neuroscience and Cognitive science during the SciPy conference (Austin, Texas, USA)

Member of the Conference Program Committees

X. Hinaut: IROS Workshop on Deep Probabilistic Generative Models for Cognitive Architecture in Robotics, Macau, China. Nov 2019. International Workshop on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Granada, Spain. Oct 2019.

Reviewer

X. Hinaut: CogSci'19, ICANN'19, ICDL-Epirob'19, IWANN'19; S. Pagliarini: ICDL-Epirob'19;

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• Frédéric Alexandre: Academic Editor for PLOS ONE; Review Editor for Frontiers in Neurorobotics;

• Nicolas Rougier: Editor in chief for ReScience, Academic editor for PeerJ, review editor for Frontiers in Neurorobotics.

• Xavier Hinaut: guest editor in the Journal Advanced Robotics of a special issue on "Machine Learning Methods for High-Level Cognitive-Capabilities-in-Robotics"; guest editor for Frontiers Robotics and AI special issue on "Language and Robotics" https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/8861/language-and-robotics ; Member of the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Neurorobotics as Review Editor.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• F. Alexandre: Elife; EMBC; Frontiers in Neurobotics; Cognitive Computation; PLoS ONE

• Xavier Hinaut: Cognitive Computation, Entropy, Front. in Neurorobotics, Neural Networks, PeerJ, ReScience, IEEE Transactions in Cognitive Developmental Systems (TCDS).

• N.Rougier: Current Biology, PLoS Computational Biology, Journal of Open Science Software, PeerJ

Invited Talks

F. Alexandre:

• Invited speaker at the joint workshop between Inria and LIAMA (The Sino-European Laboratory of Computer Science, Automation and Applied Mathematics), Paris, April 3rd, for the talk: “Setting the basis of a bio-inspired Reinforcement Learning”;

• talk to the Interdisciplinary and Translational Neuroscience research network (IT-Neuro) of the University of Lorraine, Nancy, April 25th: “Modeling the frontal cortex for motivated decision making”;

• Invited talk “A computational model to study the dynamics of representations of rewards in the orbital and medial frontal cortex”, on October 2nd to the 2019 Bordeaux Neurocampus Conference on Reward http://brainconf.u-bordeaux.fr/;

• Invited talk “Trusted AI in medicine” and participation to a round table on december 11th in Merignac at MediSpace congress on transfers of technologies and best practices between space, aeronautical and medical industries https://www.medispace2019.com/en/presentation-2/

X. Hinaut:

• “How to ground sensorimotor sequence of symbols ? From robot learning languages to songbirds”, ICDL- Epirob workshop on Language Learning (M. Spranger), Olso, NW. Aug 2019.

• “Random recurrent networks for language and bird song learning”, B. Golosio, Physics dept., University of Cagliari, IT.

• “Modélisation de l'encodage neuronal pour l'apprentissage de séquences complexes : applications à l'interaction homme-robot et aux chants des oiseaux”. LIRIS, Lyon, June 2019.

• “Modèles Neuronaux Récurrents pour le Traitement de Séquences Complexes”, Journée GT-ACAI-Neurorobotique: Neuroscience et multimodalité dans les interactions humain-humain, humain-agent ou humain-robot, ACAI-GT8 common working group day, Telecom ParisTech, Paris, FR.

• “Modélisation de l’encodage neuronal pour l’apprentissage de séquences complexes”, “Acoustic Perception” seminar from ETIS lab, University of Cergy-Pontoise, FR. March 2019.

• “Little Mechanisms of AI: from Ants to Language”, PhD Retreat of Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity of Paris. Arcachon, June 2019.

• “How to ground sensorimotor sequences of symbols? From robot learning languages to songbirds”, ICDL-epirob workshop on Language learning, Oslo, Aug. 2019.

• Symposium organised by regional chair on technological systems for human augmentation, March 28—29, 2019, Bordeaux, France.

• “Echo State Networks”, invited lecture at the International MSc “Intelligent Adaptive Systems”, KT lab, University of Hamburg, Germany, June 2019.

N.Rougier: Invited talk at the “Robotics, development and neurosciences” conference (Cergy, France)

Leadership within the Scientific Community

X. Hinaut:

• Co-Head of the "NeuroRobotics" CNRS Working Group Organisation of several workshops throughout the year

• IEEE Task Force (TF) member: "Reservoir Computing", "Cognitive and Developmental Systems Technical Committee": "Language and Cognition" TF and "Action and Perception" TF.

• President of the association MindLaBDX: “open citizen lab” in Cognitive Sciences and Artificial Intelligence in Bordeaux.

Nicolas Rougier: Editor in chief for ReScience

Scientific Expertise

F. Alexandre is the french expert for Mathematics and Computer Science of the PHC (Hubert Curien Program) Utique for scientific cooperation between France and Tunisia.

Thierry Vieville has been required as expert to review a large neuroscience lab by the HCERES agency. He has also contributed to a large audience report on « AI in the media and creative industries » [25].

Research Administration

• F. Alexandre is member of the steering committee of Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest Project Committee; Corresponding scientist for Bordeaux Sud-Ouest of the Inria COERLE ethical committee; Member of the national Inria committee for international chairs; Member of the steering committee of the regional Cluster on Information Technology and Health; of the regional Cluster on Robotics; Expert of the ITMO 'Neurosciences, Sciences Cognitive, Neurologie, Psychiatrie'

• X. Hinaut: Member of the “Committee for Technological Development” of Inria, Bordeaux, FR

• N. Rougier is vice-head of the Mnemosyne team-project; elected member of the Inria Evaluation Committee; IES referent for Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest; Member of the commitee for researcher recruitment; Member of the steering committee for the BioComp CNRS consortium; Editor in chief and co-founder of ReScience.

• Thierry Viéville is involved in the http://classcode.fr project and in charge, for Inria of the MSc SmartEdTech at Univ. Cote d'Azur (UCA).