Benoit Favre

**Full Professor** of Computer Science (CNU 27) at [Polytech](https://polytech.univ-amu.fr/), [Aix-Marseille Université](https://www.univ-amu.fr/) - Member of [TALEP](https://talep.lis-lab.fr/) natural language processing research group at [Laboratoire d'Informatique et Systèmes](https://www.lis-lab.fr/) (LIS), CNRS UMR 7020 - benoit.favre at lis-lab.fr, <https://pageperso.lis-lab.fr/benoit.favre/> **Responsabilities** - Head of Data science branch of LIS - Responsible for industry relations, CS dept of Polytech Marseille - Member of scientific council of [Mésocentre](https://mesocentre.univ-amu.fr/) supercomputer at AMU - Member of scientific committee of “AI for Health” [Laënnec](https://www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/institut-laennec) Institute - Member of scientific committee of “data for research” [CEDRE](https://cedre.univ-amu.fr/) project - Head of the "multimodality and intermodality" axis of the CNRS [research group on NLP](https://gdr-tal.ls2n.fr/) (GdR TAL) - President of the permanent organizing committee of the [TALN conference](https://www.atala.org/-Conference-TALN-RECITAL) (CPERM) - Member of the editorial board of the [journal TAL](https://www.atala.org/revuetal) - Chairman of ETAL NLP summer school **Education / positions** - HDR thesis, "Contextual natural language processing", Aix-Marseille University, 2019 - PhD thesis, "Automatic speech summarization", Avignon University, 2007 - Education: BSc &amp; MSc Computer science and engineering, Avignon University, 1998-2004 - Post-doc UC Berkeley, USA 2007-2009 - Post-doc Le Mans University, France 2009-2010 - Associate professor Aix-Marseille University, France, 2010-2021 - Full professor Aix-Marseille University, France, 2021- - Visiting Researcher at QUT Brisbane, Australia 2018 - Visiting Teacher at NIT Mizoram, India 2017