About me

I received my PhD on talking-face biometric authentication from Telecom ParisTech (France) in 2007.

In 2008, I joined Dublin City University (Ireland) to work on video summarization techniques applied to user-generated content.

I am currently on leave from CNRS where I have been a permanent researcher since 2008, working almost exclusively on speaker diarization and related tasks. I am proud to be known as “the guy behind pyannote

Since March 2025, I am Chief Science Officer and co-founder at pyannoteAI.

Curriculum vitae

Work experience

March 2025 - today: pyannoteAI

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer.

March 2025 - today: CNRS

On leave.

2020-March 2025: CNRS / IRIT / Toulouse, France

Research scientist. Member of the SAMoVA team. Speaker diarization

2010-2020: CNRS / LIMSI (now LISN) / Orsay, France

Research scientist. Member of the TLP team. Speaker diarization

2008-2010: CNRS / IRIT / Toulouse, France

Research scientist. Member of the SAMoVA team. Content-based video analysis

2008: DCU /Dublin, Ireland

Postdoctoral researcher. Member of the CDVP lab. Automatic summarization of user-generated content

Education

PhD / 2004-2007 / Télécom Paris / Paris, France

Talking-face biometrics

MSc / 2001-2004 / Télécom Paris / Paris, France

Signal processing and pattern recognition