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Laurence Likforman-Sulem is an Associate Professor at Institut Polytechnique de Paris, affiliated with the Signal, Statistics and Learning (S2A) team in the Image, Data, Signal (IDS) department. She has been at Télécom Paris since 1991, where she teaches Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, and Document Analysis.
- PhD from ENST-Paris (1989)
- HDR from Sorbonne University (2008)
Her research integrates Markovian methods (HMMs, Bayesian Networks) and deep learning (BLSTMs, CNNs) for:
- Handwriting recognition in historical documents
- Character analysis in Byzantine seals
- Parkinson’s disease detection through multimodal signals
- Biometric authentication using hand shape
Recent work focuses on Byzantine seal character recognition (BHAi project) and multimodal group cohesion analysis (IEEE ICMI 2021 Best Paper). She has supervised 10 PhD students and numerous Master internships.
Scientific Awards
- Winning system at ICDAR 05 Arabic Hand-Written Word Recognition Competition
- Fondation Telecom Thesis Award 2014 (2nd prize for Olivier Morillot)
- Best Paper Award, ICMI 2021
Active in conference leadership, she chaired ICDAR 2015 and ICPR 2022 document analysis tracks. Her 15 most recent publications span Byzantine document analysis, Parkinson’s detection, and low-energy neural architectures.
