I’m a second year PhD student at the Data Science department of Eurecom based on the French Riviera, under the supervision of Raphael Troncy and Benoit Huet.
I am currently primarily working on multimodal models for video summarization. My work also spans to story understanding and storytelling.
Languages
French
English
German
Danish
Resume
Education
PhD. in Machine Learning
Eurecom and Sorbonne, France. Thesis title : Deep multimodal models for empowering audio-visual storytelling
MSc. in Information Technology and Cognition
University of Copenhagen. Thesis dealt with predicting the outcome of judicial decisions using communication text and Natural Language Processing techniques.
BSc. in Economics and Statistics
University College London (UCL). Thesis dealt with studying the link between deprivation rate and variability in asthma medication prescriptions in England.
Experience
AI Engineer at Cobiro, Copenhagen
Involved in optimising the data pipeline flow and implementing ML solutions.
Data Scientist at iCourts, Centre of Excellence for International Courts
Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. Projects involving Information Extraction and Semantic Parsing for legal cases
Student Worker at AMCS, Denmark
Translation and system testing
Intern at Intento
EPFL Campus, Lausanne. Worked on the Business Development of Intento's stroke rehabilitation solution.
Intern as Parliamentary assistant at the French Parliament
Research and synthesis work on different topics including environmental policies. Required reactivity and analytical skills.
Intern at Ulule, Paris
Project management for the crowdfunding plateform. Drafting of a user's guide
Publications
2020
Reboud, Alison ; Harrando, Ismael; Laaksonen, Jorma; Troncy, Raphaël. 2020. Predicting Media Memorability with Audio, Video, and Text representation. In Proceedings of MediaEval2020. https://www.eigen.no/
Harrando, Ismail; Reboud, Alison; Lisena, Pasquale; Troncy, Raphaël; Laaksonen, Jorma; Virkkunen, Anja; Kurimo, Mikko. 2020. Using fan-made content, subtitles and face recognition for character-centric video summarization. In Proceedings of TrecVid2020
2019
Alison Reboud, Ismail Harrando, Jorma T. Laaksonen, D. Francis, Raphaël Troncy, and H. Mantecón. Combining Textual and Visual Modeling for Predicting Media Memorability. 2019. In Proceedings of MediaEval2019, Sophia Antipolis, France (2019). CEUR Workshop Proceedings. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2670/
My Blog
March 19, 2018
100 Ways to be more happy
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Tips to losing more weight
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100 Ways to be more happy
March 19, 2018
Tips to losing more weight
March 19, 2018
100 Ways to be more happy
March 19, 2018