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

• 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
• IA pour la science des textes, Nov 8th 2023, Invited talk for the Consortium-HN ARIANE : slides

Teaching

I give basic classes on computer science (e.g., programming) and more advanced classes in data science (e.g., artificial intelligence, machine learning, NLP). All my lectures are complemented by practical projects using various languages (python, R, C++).

Service

• Coordinator of the Master of Computer Science, University of Lyon 2 (head of the 1st year)
• Coordinator of the Pôle HuNIS, University of Lyon 2
• 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 (SPC), NeurIPS, AAAI, ICLR, ARR (ACL, EMNLP…), ECAI, ECIR, LREC, EGC, CORIA/CIRCLE