Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

X. Hinaut: organisation of the Workshop on Language and Robotics (follower of the ML-HLCR workshop at IROS 2017), at IROS, 1st of October 2018, Madrid, Spain, http://iros2018.emergent-symbol.systems/. http://iros2018.emergent-symbol.systems/.

Member of the Conference Program Committees

F. Alexandre: TAIMA'18; SAB'18; X. Hinaut: ICDL-Epirob'18; N. Rougier: WSOM'18;

Reviewer

X. Hinaut: ICDL-epirob'18; CogSci'18; IJCNN'18; ESANN'18;

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"

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• F. Alexandre: Elife; EMBC; Frontiers in Neurobotics; Neurobiology of Disease; PLoS ONE

• André Garenne: Journal of Integrative Neuroscience

• Xavier Hinaut: Adaptive Behavior; Applied Science; Cognitive Computation; Cognitive Systems (CogSys); Neural Networks; ReScience; Transactions in Human-Robot Interaction (THRI); Transactions in Cognitive Developmental Systems (TCDS);

• Nicolas Rougier: Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, Frontiers in Neurobotics, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, PLOS Computational Biology, PeerJ;

• Thierry Viéville: Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, Frontiers in Neurobotics, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Invited Talks

F. Alexandre:

• “When cognitive neursciences revisit Artificial Intelligence”, Big Data Seminar of the Labri, February 8 and 22 (in two parts);

• “Understanding or transforming the human being ?”, Annual meeting of the International Catholic Center for cooperation with UNESCO, Paris, May 4;

• “Modelling the medial prefrontal cortex for the motivated behaviour of an autonomous agent in the Minecraft video game”, Symposium «Frontiers in medial prefrontal cortex research», Bordeaux, September 6;

• “Modeling the functional organization of the medial and ventral prefrontal cortex”, Symposium on Cognitive Systems, Chemnitz (Germany), September 13;

• “Does Artificial Intelligence learn from its errors ?”, Colloquium Cathy Dufour on Artificial Intelligence, University of Lorraine, November 16;

• “The contributions of Machine Learning to research on neurodegenerative diseases”, in the annual meeting of the Bordeaux Initiative for Neurodegenerative Disorders (BIND), about Technological Innovations and Neurodegenerative Diseases (November, 23);

Ikram Chraibi Kaadoud: La Grande Jonction (Bordeaux);

Silvia Pagliarini at the European Birdsong Meeting, Odense, Denmark;

N. Rougier:

• Berstein Conference / PhD symposium (Berlin);

• ICML, Workshop on reproducibility in Machine Learning (Stockholm);

• Loria (Nancy);

• Digital Aquitaine / Club Commerce Connecté (Bordeaux);

• Phiteco conference (Compiègne);

Leadership within the Scientific Community

X. Hinaut:

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

• member of the Administration Committee of Fresco association (French Federation of students in Cognitive Science)

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. He is also an expert for the Association Robert Debré for Medical Research.

Nicolas Rougier: UNESCO; Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK); Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris; Eurostars program (Eureka).

Research Administration

• F. Alexandre is member of the Inria Evaluation Committee, Deputy Scientific Delegate and Vice-head of the Project Committee of Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest (until september2018); member of the Inria monitoring and forecasting cell; Corresponding scientist for Bordeaux Sud-Ouest of the Inria COERLE ethical committee; Member of the national Inria committee for international chairs; Member of the local Inria committee for young researchers hiring; 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'

• 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 in charge of the http://classcode.fr project and in charge, for Inria, of the creation of a Master SmartEdTech at UCA within the scope of his mission for the Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditérannée direction.