Julien Velcin

Professor of Computer Science at the University Lyon 2, member of the Data Mining & Decision team of the ERIC Lab and teacher at the Institute of Communication (ICOM).

contact: julien.velcin@univ-lyon2.fr
office: ERIC Lab, bureau K198 - 5 av. Pierre Mendès-France - 69676 Bron Cedex, France

Research topics

artificial intelligence
machine learning
data mining
natural language processing
social media analysis
digital humanities

Publications

DBLP
Google scholar

Projects

DIKé (ANR, 2022-2026) : Bias, fairness and ethics of compressed NLP models (website)
LIFRANUM (ANR, 2020-2023): identify and structure the corpus of digital French literatures (website)

Recent talks

Peut-on représenter des auteurs dans un espace latent ? Recherches de similarité dans la production textuelle à l’aide de l’Intelligence Artificielle, Oct 24th 2024, talk for the closing conference of the LIFRANUM ANR projet: slides
Retour d’expérience sur des collaborations pluridisciplinaires entre Informatique et SHS, May 3rd 2024, invited talk for the Digital Humanities & AI days, jointly organized by AFIA and, GDR MADICS and MAGIS: slides
DIKé project: some attempts to improve fairness in (compressed) language models, March 6th 2024, invited talk at the Workshop organized by the ARENAS European project: slides

Teaching

I teach foundational courses in computer science, such as programming, as well as advanced courses in data science, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, social media analysis, and natural language processing. All of my lectures are supplemented by practical projects that use various programming languages (eg., Python, R, C++). My primary audience consists of computer science students (BSc in Computer Science and MSc in Artificial Intelligence), but I also engage with interdisciplinary programs, such as the MSc in Digital Humanities and MSc related to computational social sciences.

Service

Coordinator of the Master of Computer Science, University of Lyon 2 (head of the 1st year)
Deputy director of the Institute of Communication
Member (elected) of the Administrative Board of the Institute of Communication, University of Lyon 2
Member of the executive committee of IXXI, co-organizer of the seminar cycle AI & language
Member of conference PCs: IJCAI, NeurIPS, AAAI, ICLR, ARR (ACL, EMNLP…), ECAI, ECIR, LREC, EGC, CORIA/CIRCLE