Supervision
My scientific supervision covers doctoral theses, postdocs and master's internships.
Ongoing PhD theses
2022 — 2026
Rim El Cheikh — RnX: deep neural networks and eXplainability
Université Clermont Auvergne · co-supervision with Engelbert Mephu-Nguifo · FEDER funding
2021 — 2025
Hélène Tran — Automatic emotion recognition from multimodal sources (facial, vocal and textual analysis)
Université Clermont Auvergne · co-supervision with Engelbert Mephu-Nguifo · CIFRE Logelis
Defended PhD theses
12/2025
Jingyao Wang — Edge AI for e-health: application to mobility monitoring
Université Clermont Auvergne · co-supervision with Emmanuel Bergeret (LPC) · I-SITE funding (Data axis) · defended on 16 December 2025
12/2022
Mourad El Hamri — Structural Optimal Transport for Domain Adaptation with Theoretical Guarantees
Université Sorbonne Paris Nord · co-supervision · doctoral fellowship · defended on 15 December 2022 · now an associate professor at Université Paris Cité
Postdocs & research engineering
2025 — 2026
Armel Soubeiga — Supply chain resilience through the integration and analysis of multimodal data · postdoc (12 months)
Université Clermont Auvergne · co-supervision with Nistor Grozavu (ETIS, CY Cergy Paris Université) · Safran project
2022 — 2023
Duc Trung Hoang — Time-series clustering for pain detection · postdoc (12 months)
Université Clermont Auvergne · co-supervision with Violaine Antoine (LIMOS) · e-MOB project / I-SITE challenge 3
2022 — 2023
Quentin Ruin — Pharmaceutical data analysis · research engineer (12 months)
Université Clermont Auvergne · co-supervision with Engelbert Mephu-Nguifo · NeuroDeRisk project
2021 — 2022
Shahriar Hassan — Pharmaceutical data analysis · research engineer (12 months)
Université Clermont Auvergne · co-supervision with Engelbert Mephu-Nguifo · NeuroDeRisk project
Master's internships (M2)
2026
Herman Tcheneghon Motcheyo — Domain adaptation for anomaly detection
M2 International Track in Computer Science · 5-month internship
H. T. Motcheyo, I. Falih, E. Mephu Nguifo, Online domain adaptation for data stream anomaly detection, CAp 2026.
2025
Cong Minh Tran — LLM agent as personal educational assistant
Université Clermont Auvergne · M2 International Track in Computer Science · 5-month internship
C. M. Tran, I. Falih, H. Chahdi, A protocol-driven platform for agent-agnostic evaluation of LLM agents, NeurIPS 2025 Workshop.
2024
Aymen Gondesh — Classification from multimodal sources
Université Clermont Auvergne · M2 International Track in Computer Science · 5-month internship
A. Gondech, H. Tran, I. Falih, X. Goblet, E. Mephu Nguifo, Multimodal emotion recognition: a comparative study, IFCS 2024.
2024
Soumyodeep Mukherjee — Probability density estimation with deep Gaussian processes
Université Clermont Auvergne · M2 International Track in Computer Science · 5-month internship · co-supervision with Chafik Samir (LIMOS)
S. Mukherjee, A. Fradi, C. Samir, I. Falih, A novel supervised learning model for regression and classification with constrained functional DNN, Information Sciences (major revision).
2023
Ndeye Aissatou Gassama — Non-aligned incomplete multi-view learning
Université Clermont Auvergne · M2 International Track in Computer Science · 5-month internship · co-supervision with Engelbert Mephu-Nguifo (LIMOS)
2022
Rim El Cheikh — Emotion recognition methods using facial expressions
Université Clermont Auvergne · M2 Computer Science, SIAD track · 6-month internship · co-supervision with Engelbert Mephu-Nguifo (LIMOS)
R. El Cheikh, H. Tran, I. Falih, E. Mephu Nguifo, A comparative study of emotion recognition methods using facial expressions, EGC 2023, Lyon.
2021
Andressa Nunes de Jesus — Unsupervised learning methods for multi-view data
Université Clermont Auvergne · M2 International Track in Computer Science · 5-month internship
2020
Khalid Barakat — Balancing accuracy and diversity in recommendations
Université Sorbonne Paris Nord · M2 · 6-month internship
2020
Anne Marthe Sophie Ngo Bibinbe — Hybridization of neural network and answer set programming
Université Clermont Auvergne · M2 · 6-month internship · co-supervision with Engelbert Mephu-Nguifo (LIMOS) and Christophe Rey (LIMOS)
I am open to new PhD, postdoc or master's internship proposals around the topics detailed on the Research page. To discuss a project, feel free to contact me.