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Benoit Favre is a Full Professor (PR, Section 27) at Aix-Marseille University and its engineering school Polytech Marseille since 2021. He leads the Data Science axis at the Laboratoire d'Informatique et Systèmes (LIS, CNRS UMR7020), encompassing research teams in NLP, machine learning, and multimodal processing. He completed his HDR (habilitation) in 2019 and serves as co-head of the multimodality group in the CNRS GdR on NLP.
His research focuses on Natural Language Processing with machine learning, including semantic content analysis, multimodal system fusion, and technology evaluation in realistic applications. He teaches advanced machine learning for NLP at the Master IAAA program and organizes the ILCB Summer School.
The 15 most recent publications highlight trends in Vision-Language Transformers, biomedical classification, historical domain adaptation, and cross-modal analysis. These works span from 2020 to 2024, with particular emphasis on multimodal representations, semantic parsing, and robust NLP systems.
Scientific Awards:
- Best paper at TALN 2011
- Ranked 1st in PERCOL consortium (REPERE 2013-2014)
- Ranked 1st in TAC 2008 and 2009
Benoit is also deeply engaged in community service, having organized major conferences like IEEE SLT 2010, SLAM 2013, and TALN 2014. He serves on scientific committees for selection of PhD grants and faculty positions.
Office location: University library building (Luminy campus), second floor, office C207
