About
Deputy Director, SCAI Paris
Musicologist · DH Researcher
I'm a musicologist who became suspicious of computers early on, then couldn't stop. Trained at Bordeaux Montaigne and Sorbonne, I did a PhD in Music & Digital Humanities (2011), with research stays at the University of Sheffield (White Rose Scholarship), Brown University, UC Berkeley, and a sabbatical year at UWA in Perth that confirmed: no matter how far you go, you're still thinking about medieval manuscripts.
Back in Paris, I co-founded SCAI — the Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence — alongside mathematician Gérard Biau. Running SCAI meant organizing a few hundred seminars, managing European grants across three languages, and convincing a lot of scientists that the humanities might actually have something useful to say about AI.
In February 2026, I moved to Abu Dhabi to become Director of SCAI at Sorbonne Abu Dhabi. The lab followed. The medieval sources did not, but the servers talk to Eurasia just fine over SSH.
The CAPTAL Lab is where I house everything: AI models for music generation, computational musicology, open datasets, DH tools, and the occasional philosophical detour into AI ethics. The name stands for Computational Analysis of Polyphonic and Traditional Artworks Lab — which nobody actually says out loud.