
About me
Marc Hulcelle - Computer Science Doctor
Social Robotics & Affective Computing.
Jan. 2024 - Jan. 2025: Post-doctoral researcher at the
DiiP Institute affiliated to the
Université Paris Cité. My research interests are at the crossroad of Machine Learning and Sociology,
where I study social inequalities. I worked on two different projects. First, I studied fairness methods under data drift constraints
applied to detect gender and racial inequalities in access to housing between US states. Second, I study the correlation between grammatical/pronominal
gender and the existence of gender disparities in societies across the world. Both projects led to papers that are currently under review (resp. conference and journal).
Oct. 2020 - Dec. 2023: PhD studies in the
Signal, Statistics and Learning
(S2A) team at the
Image, Data and Signal
(IDS) Department of the
Laboratory Treatment and Communication of Information
(LTCI) at
Télécom Paris,
Palaiseau, under the supervision of
Chloé Clavel (Télécom Paris),
Giovanna Varni (Télécom Paris), and
Nicolas Rollet
(i3 Lab, Télécom Paris).
My work focused on the analysis of trust in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). In particular, I created an annotation scheme named TURIN to study trust throughout the entire interaction,
and built several multimodal computational models of trust by leveraging Interactionist Sociology theories. I aim to provide a better explanation of how trust builds and develops during an interaction with said models.
I also explored the differences between currently existing Psychological models of trust in HRI that adopt a mentalist approach and Interactionist Sociology theories for trust Analysis
as can be done in Conversation Analysis. Through these differences, I investigated how these two approaches can complement each other
Sept. 2016 - June 2018: Robotics software engineer at Blue Frog Robotics. I worked on developing both the AI of the Buddy robot
(R&D on natural interactions, robot "personnality") and its software (architecture, remote-control application).
April 2016 - Sept. 2016: Academic exchange program at Tohoku University. I conducted
research on obstacle detection using a time-of-flight camera for a moon exploration rover at the Space Robotics Lab
I also hold an Engineering Degree from EMSE (France).
Publications
Journals
Conferences
Thesis
Academic duties
Reviews
- Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing Journal (2024)
- Reviewer for the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2023)
- Reviewer for the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2023)
- Reviewer for the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022)
Teaching
- HCI922: Gestural and Mobile Interaction (2021-22)
- MDI220: Statistics (2021-22)
- IA315-IA715: Multimodal Dialogue (2020-23), Dynamic Time Warping (2021-2023)
- "Fil rouge": supervision of a group of 4 students working on automatic multimodal detection of stress (2020-21)
- PACT: technical supervision and counseling of numerous groups for a 6-months-long project (2022-2023)
Presentations and Talks
- HAI 2023: “Comparing a mentalist and an interactionist approach for trust analysis in Human-Robot Interaction”. Paper Talk Slides
- HAI 2023: “Leveraging Interactional Sociology for Trust Analysis in Multiparty Human-Robot Interaction”. Poster Presentation Poster
- ACII 2021: “Turin: A coding system for trust in human robot interaction”. Poster Presentation Poster Video
- "Fête de la science": Exhibit "Machines Detecting Human Emotions" presented to the general public (Oct. 2021).
Contact
I am always excited to discuss about new projects and ideas, and am open for collaboration !
Feel free to contact me !