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Short Bio ========= Jean-François Bonastre is Senior Researcher (Directeur de Recherche) at Inria since October 2022, in the Defense&Security department where he heads the reseacrh aspects. He is also professor of computer science (classe exceptionnelle) at Avignon University and associated member of LIA, the computer science laboratory. He was the director of the LIA from 2016- to 2020. He is the foinder of the Avignon University chair in Artificial Intelligence "LIAvignon", focused on "Speaker, Voice and Speech" and responsible of the "Security and Defense" axes of the chair. JF Bonastre received his PhD on automatic speaker recognition in 1994 and his “Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches” (HDR) in 2000. He is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France (promotion Junior 2006). From 2008 to 2015, he was **vice-president of Avignon University.** He was an auditor of the **26th session of IHEDN/FMES** (the Mediterranean session of the Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale) in 2015. He spent a sabbatical year at **Panasonic Speech Technology Laboratory** (Santa Barbara, California, USA) in 2002-2003. He was the President of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) from 2011 to 2013 and the President of the Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée from 2000 to 2004. JF Bonastre was awarded "ISCA Fellow Member" in 2021 and "Fellow member of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association” in 2023. He is an IEEE Senior Member and was elected member of the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee and IEEE Biometrics Council. He is one of the founders of ISCA's Special Interest Group "Speaker and Language Characterization" (SPLC). He was a member of the **Scientific Committee of the Montreal Computer Research Center (CRIM)** from 2016 to 2020. He has supervised 20 **defended PhDs** and is currently supervising 4 **PhD students**. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 papers, with +6900 citations, an h-index of 39 and three patents. Detailled CV ============ PhD in Computer Sciences, Avignon University (1994)“ Knowledge oriented analytic strategy for speaker characterization and recognition ” Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (2000)“ Speaker recognition and statistical approach: Description, limits and potential ” Full Professor (Exceptional Class) in computer sciences, Avignon University Member of the « Institut Universitaire de France » (promotion junior 2006) Auditor of the « 26ème session des Hautes Etudes Stratégiques de la Méditerranée », IHEDN Med (FMES, 2015-2016) President of the « Conseil Départemental de Concertation du Département de Vaucluse/CDC » (2014-2015) – CDC is an advisory council of the local government which produces analysis and proposals on all local government related topics. Administrative responsibilities ---------------------------------- Holder of the Avignon University chair in Artificial Intelligence "LIAvignon" Head of the Avignon University Computer Lab (LIA) (March 2016- March 2020) Provisory administrator of Avignon University (August 2015-December 2015) Vice-President (in charge of the administrative council) of Avignon University (2008-2015) First Vice-President of Avignon University (2012-2015) Board member and Treasurer of the “Association Nationale des Vice-Présidents des Conseils d’Administration” (2013-2015) Board member of the “Institut Universitaire de France” (2010-2013) Responsible of Avignon University PhD school « Collège des Etudes Doctorales » (2007-2008) **Responsibilities in scientific societies** President of the International Speech Communication Association/ISCA (2011-2013) ISCA Vice-President (2007-2011) Elected member of ISCA board (2005-2013) IEEE Senior member IEEE Speech and language Technical Committee member (2 years) IEEE Biometric council Technical Committee (2 years) President of the Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée/AFCP (2000-2004) Elected member of AFCP Administrative council (2000-2006 and 2015-) President of the Groupe Francophone de la Communication Parlée/GFCP (1999-2000) GFCP Vice-President (1997-1999) GFCP board elected member (1995-2000) Founder of SPLC, the « Speaker and Language Characterization » ISCA Special Interest (1999). SPLC was created after the international RLA2C workshop organized by JF Bonastre in 2008, in order to insure the continuity of this initiative. SPLC activity is mainly to organise the ISCA/“Speaker Odyssey” workshops (2001/2004/2006/2008/2010/2012 :2014/2016), which are the main events in the field. Founder and co-chair of the working group GT1 "Caractérisation du Locuteur et de la Langue" (speaker and language characterization) of the GDR-PRC CHM (1995-1998). Co-chair of the « speech group » of the GDR-PRC I3 until december 2005. Member of the steering and adivisory board of the ISCA "SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN SPEECH COMMUNICATION (SPSC)" Responsibilities in terms of scientific evaluation / editing ---------------------------------------------------------------- Member of the scientific council of the « Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal » (2015-2020) Member of the scientific council of SEE-ERA.NET PLUS (1 year) Committee member of the program "FIT-IT”, FFG (Autrisch National research agency, 2006/2007) and referee for the Spanish program « Consolider » (2010) Member of evaluation committees for the French national evaluation agency/AERES (GIPSAlab) and the CNRS (Unité international de Hanoi/MICA) Member of the organising committee for ESTER/EVALDA evaluation campaign Guest editor for CSL Special issue on Speaker and language characterization and recognition: voice modeling, conversion, synthesis and ethical aspects, planned for June 2019 Associed Editor for the journal IEEE TSALP, Guest Editor for Speech Communication and Signal Processing. Referee for Pattern Recognition letters, JASA, JASP… Arbitre pour ICASSP, Interspeech, LREC, ASRU, SLT… Member of the scientific committee of TAL special issue on “TAL et éthique" (2015) Research stays ----------------- Sabbatical stay at Panasonic Speech Technology Laboratory (Santa-Barbara/USA), February 2002 – February 2003 Short research stay (AStar guest) at I2R/Singapore, September 2010 Short research stay (spanish national program guest) UPC/Barcelonal), 2006 Invited talks ---------------- o Three lectures in the 5th ISCA Supported Summer School on Speech Signal Processing (S4P-2019), Gandhinagar, India o Panel « Apprentissage et Modèle » du GDR TAL/CNRS, 14 Mars 2019 o National Bank of Canada, Montréal, 23/11/2018 : Biométrie et voix, état de l’art, avancées et limites, o Colloque HumanIA (keynote talk), UQAM/Montréal, 21/11/2018 : Reconnaissance du locuteur, sciences forensiques et intelligence artificielle o Panel «Intelligence artificielle : l’erreur n’est-elle qu’humaine ? « , la France à l’Uqam, 21/11 :2018 (https://france.uqam.ca/programme/) o VIT-AP University, Amaravati (Inde), 8/09/2018 : Automatic speaker recognition systems: are they recognizing speakers? o La Legal Tech, moteur de transformation du droit, Montréal, 18/05/2018 : Sciences forensiques & l’identification par la voix o Atelier « Towards a biometric World », CSIS/DGSE, Paris, 26/04/2018 : Biometrics in the real world: Advances in voice identification o Ateliers SCIENCES et VOIX, Grenoble, 8/03/2018 : Voix et Criminalistique (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OykS4rZ48Is) o CNIL, Paris, 02/2017 : La voix n’est pas une biométrie classique o NIST OSAC, 18/21 Avril 2017, Washington : Certification and Normalization for Forensic Voice Comparison: problems and propositions o IC1206 Second training school on De-identification for privacy protection in multimedia content, Las Palmas 2017, Speaker discriminant information o l'Odyssée des sciences, CRIM, Montréal, « La voix comme clef, la voix à la barre » », 12/05/2016 o Spring School on Individual-centered approaches to speech processing, Schloss Dagstuhl, avrill 6-9 2014: From automatic speaker verification to forensic phonetics o Afeka speech conference, Tel-Aviv, juillet 2014, Keynote speaker: The Notion of Performance: A Paradigm Shift in Speaker Recognition and Voice Comparison? o Technopolice 2013, Paris, Comparaison de voix : notions de performance et de fiabilité o Workshop on Advances in Speech Technologies, 23/06/2011 (IRCAM/Paris) : Speaker recognition: a new binary representation o The Prospective of Speech-based Interfaces for Future Digital Services (Workshop de l’institut européen) « Institute for Prospective Technological Studies », Seville, Mars 2008 (invitation to participate as « expert ») o Summer school ERMITES, Septembre 2007, Recherche d’Information dans des documents audio radiodiffusés o Journées Scientifiques IUF 2007, Avignon, Mai 2007, Le traitement automatique de la parole : une technique d’investigation ? o Summer school ERMITES, Septembre 2006, Indexation audio et recherche d’information multimédia o MMUA, Toulouse, 2006, Keynote speaker: Evaluation paradigm: Advantages and limits o INRETS, Paris, 2006, SÛRETÉ DANS LES TRANSPORTS -Identification et Surveillance, Authentification vocale des personnes o Tutorial for PARISTIC, Bordeaux, 2005, L’authentification biométrique vocale o Residential Workshop “NOE-BIOSECURE”, Paris, Août 2005, Evaluation paradigm: Advantages and limits o RJC, Toulouse, 2005, Le paradigme de l'évaluation, avantages et limites o Seminar de l’Université de Montréal, 2005 : La reconnaissance du locuteur au LIA o Seminar Mc Gill University/Montreal, 2005 : Sequential analysis of acoustic events using statistical models with application to speaker detection o Seminar DGA-CTA, Paris, 2004 : Les activités en traitement de la parole au LIA o Seminar, Lyon, 2004, conférence « criminalistique » : L’état actuel des possibilités de la reconnaissance vocale o Seminar de l’Université de Maribor, 2004 : Speaker Recognition, Speaker segmentation and indexing, Audio information retrieval o Seminar, UPC, Barcelona, 2003 : LIA Speaker recognition activities Main international collaborations (plus one national, with cosupervised PhDs) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joint ANR-JST (Japan) project Voice Personaë (2019-2025), with NII/Tokyo and Eurecom/France CENATAV, la Havane/Cuba (Jose Calvo) : o A bilateral project funded by the french embassy o Gabriel Hernandez PhD, defended in 2014 under a « cotutelle » (double PhD program) with 3 stays in Avignon (5/6/4 months) Ecole royale Militaire de Bruxelles/Belgique (Patrick Verlinde) : o Multiple stays and participation to teaching activities in both directions during about 8 years o Co-supervision of Teva Merlin PhD, defended in 2004 Swansea University/UK (John Mason) : o Anthony Larcher / Benoit Fauve co-supervised PhDs (defended in 2009), with the mention “in collaboration with” o Joint PhD program between Swansea and Avignon university Université de Fribourg/Suisse (Jean Hennebert) o Florian Verdet PhD, co-supervised under the « cotutelle » system, with a double PhD (defended in 2011) Laboratoire Informatique de Grenoble (Solange Rossato) o Co-supervision of Juliette Kahn PhD, defended in 2012 o Co-supervision of Moez Ajili PhD, defended in 2017 Afeka College/Israel (Itshak Lapidot) o Multiple stays of I Lapidot (~10 months prevuisously and 7 months in 2019) Tefonica/Espagne (Xavier Anguera) o Innovative binary approach proposition, with a joint patent o Young researcher visits and stays Université de Maribor/Slovénie (Zdravko Kacik) o Bilateral program (2 years) Responsibilities in the area of collaborative projects --------------------------------------------------------- Coordinator (French part) for the ANR/JST (Japan) VoicePersonae project (2018), on voice anonymisation Participant to the ANR “Robovox” project (2018), on voice authentication for mobile robots Coordinator of the ANR “VoxCrim” project (2017), on forensic voice comparison Responsible (LIA) for the ANR “The Voice” (2017) Responsible (LIA) for the European projects MTM, COST-275, BIOSECURE, HARTES, MOBIO, Eurostar BIOSPEAK, COST IC1206, and for the ARC-LINKAGE project (QUT/Brisbane, funded by Australia) or NuSpecs project (funded by Italia) Coordinator of national French projects BIO\_MUL (ACI), ALIZE (Technolangue), MISTRAL (ANR), FABIOLE (ANR) and member of BIOBIMO (ANR), GAFES (ANR) and DesPho-APaDy (AN)) projects. Responsibilities in the field of scientific event organization ----------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Program Chair of Interspeech 2024 Co-Organizer of the VoicePrivacy initiative&challenge (https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/) Co-Chair of Speaker Odyssey 2018 Chairman of RLA2C, Avignon 1998 Chaiman of the organizing committee of the “Journées Scientifiques de l’IUF”, Avignon 2007 Co-chair of JEP-TALN 2008 (Avignon) and President of the program committee of the JEP 2002 and 2004. Member of the program committee for the JEP 1998, 2000, 2006 et 2016, member of the local organizing committee for the JEP 1996. Co-chair of the workshop MMUA 2006 (Toulouse) Permanent member of the program committee of the workshops « Speaker Odyssey »-01/04/06/08/10/12/14 and 2016 Area Chair ISCA/Interspeech, Speaker and Language Characterization and Recognition (2008, 2015, 2016, 2017) Co-chair of ESTER evaluation campaign workshop, Avignon 2005 Activities linked to societal aspects of forensic voice comparison --------------------------------------------------------------------- Founder and chair of the working group GT1 "Caractérisation du Locuteur et de la Langue" (GDR-PRC CHM, 1995). Special sessions/events on "forensic" for Interspeech 2003 and 2015, RLA2C 1998. Round table for JEP 2000. Special session during JEP 2012. Several speech/debates on the topic: « Café des Sciences d’Avignon », « Vino Voice 2015», Afeka Speech conference 2014, Schloss Dagstuhl 2014 or Technopolice 2013. Author or coauthor of several “position” articles in Langue, Justice, J’essaime, Eurospeech 2003, JEP 2004, JEP 2010. Also coauthor of a journal paper in « Signal Processing » (2009) and a book chapter in 2015. Several testimonies in the French courts about forensic voice comparison as scientific witness (~10) Several interviews in newspapers or radios (Radio Télévision Suisse, Sciences et Avenir…) Evaluation campaigns ----------------------- Continuous participation to the NIST/SRE (Speaker Recognition Ev.) evaluation campaign since 1998. Several participations to NIST-LRE (Language Recognition Ev.), ESTER, REPERE, NIST RT, ETAPE or DUC. The ALIZE project Founder and chair of ALIZE project. ALIZE is an open source (under LGPL license) software dedicated to voice characterization and speaker recognition. ALIZE is currently used by ~150 laboratories in the world, from academic and industry. ALIZE was supported by various projects including ALIZE, MISTRAL, BIOBIMO, MOBIO or Hartes. ALIZE was selected as reference system by the NOE BIOSECURE. Dissemination and teaching invited talks Participation to he « Séance du café des sciences d’Arles » around the movie « Hedy Lamarr, From Extase to Wifi », 02/10/2018 Conference at « Université pour tous de Vaison la Romaine », on the topic « Votre voix en dit-elle trop sur vous ? », 21/11/2017 Midiscience, Université d’Avignon, 3/03/2016, La voix comme clef, la voix à la barre (https://pod.univ-avignon.fr/midisciences/video/0107-midisciences-2016-la-voix-comme-clef-la-voix-a-la-barre-par-jean-francois-bonastre/)Nancy 2015, journée ISN-EPI, Retrouver ou vérifier une identité par la voix : dialogue entre science informatique et monde judiciaire Master IDL/Grenoble, 2015 « L'authentification vocale est-elle biométrique ? », 2006 « la reconnaissance du locuteur » Master EGIM Marseille, 2006 : « speech processing » (8 h) and ESIL Marseille, 2006: « speech processing » (4h) UPC, Barcelona, 2006: « speaker recognition and audio indexing » (20h) ERM/Bruxelles (Royal Military School), several teaching sessions about speech processing and speaker recognition (~8 years) Awards --------- Best paper award for Imen Ben Amor and Jean-François Bonastre, "BA-LR: Binary-Attribute-based Likelihood Ratio estimation for forensic voice comparison," 2022 International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF) Best AFCP PhD (Juliette Kahn, 2012) Best Interspeech student paper (Mitchell MacLaren Interspeech 2008) Best odyssey student paper (Nicolas Scheffer, Odyssey 2006) National Award of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba, 2015 PhD supervision ------------------ Supervision of 21 defended PhD : Laurent Besacier (1998, Professor LIG/Grenoble and IUF junior member), Corinne Fredouille (2000, Lecturer Avignon university), Sylvain Meignier (2002, Lecturer/HDR Le Mans university), Teva Merlin (2004, Engineer Avignon university), Olivier Bellot (2006, Teacher), Christophe Levy (2006, project leader NEOPOST), Nicolas Scheffer (2006, Senior researcher, Facebook), Nimaan Abdillahi (2007, Director of research center/Djibouti), Benoit Favre (2007, Lecturer Aix-Marseille university), Benjamin Lecouteux (2008, Lecturer Grenoble), Alexandre Preti (2008, Engineer DCAN), Gilles Pouchoulin (2008, Research Engineer CNRS/LPL), Anthony Larcher (2009, Lecturer, Le mans university), Benoit Fauve (2009, Senior R&D Engineer Validsoft, Florian Verdet (2011, Lecturer Fribourg university, Juliette Kahn (2011, Research Engineer, Ministère des Armées), Pierre-Michel Bousquet (2014, Teacher, Avignon university), Gabriel Hernandez (2014, Researcher CENATAV/Cuba), Moez Ajili (2017, Research Engineer, Bertin), Adrien Gresse (2020, Research Engineer Semaxone), Mathias Quillot (2022, Researcher Oaacle) Four ongoing PhD supervisions +80 participation to PhD/HDR defenses outside Avignon. Reviewer for +60 PhD/HDR (France 2011-2019 : Z Elloumi, PhD, LIG, Grenoble, G. Lelan, PhD LIUM/Le Mans, Natalia Tomashenko, PhD LIUM/Le Mans, S. Meignier, HDR LIUM/Le Mans ; N. Evans, HDR Eurecom/Nice ; F. Aman, PhD LIG/Grenoble ; A. Rilliard, HDR LIMSI :Paris ; M. el Amine Sehili, PhD INT/Evry ; R. Jourani, PhD IRIT/Toulouse ; A. Lelong, PhD GIPSA/Grenoble ; S. Bozonnet, PhD Eurecom/Nice ; C. Barras, HDR LIMSI/CNRS ; Outside of France, 2011-2019: S. Dey , PhD, EPFL Lausanne/Suisse, H. Behravan, PhD, UEF, Finland P. Lopez-Otero, PhD Univ. Vigo/Portugal ; N. Pearson, PhD Swansea/UK, J. Mariethoz, PhD/IDIAP/Suisse, X. Anguera, PhD UPC/Spain)

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