Expertises

For ANR:

• 2026: 1 PRCE
• 2023: 1 PRCE

For the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF):

• 2026: 1 research project about medical robotics
• 2025: 1 research project about haptic simulation

For Canadian Mitacs

• 2024: 1 AI-related research project
• 2023: 2 projects concerning farming robotics
• 2022: 1 project on robotized inspection of bridges
• 2021: 1 project linked to AI
• 2020: 1 project about Pattern Recognition for Health

Other ones:

• 2024: 1 CIFRE founding project for the ANRT
• 2021: 1 project about chirurgical robotics for Canadian NFRFE
• 2019: 1 expertise on recruitment for APHP

PhD Juries

• 2026: Reviewer of the report and member of the jury for the PhD defense of Yingnan MA (University of Alberta) about “Restorable Arbitrary Style Transfer”
• 2025: President of jury for the PhD defense of Claire MARTIN (ICube, Strasbourg) about"Modeling and resolution of needle-tissue interactions for a fast and stable haptic rendering, application to hepatic percutaneous procedures"
• 2025: “Rapporteur” for the PhD of Maria BAMAAROUF (Institut Pascal, Clermong-Ferrand) about the “Development of a robotic assistance system for ultrasound examination, managing contact”
• 2025: “Rapporteur” for the PhD of Alexis BOULAY (INRIA, Bordeaux) about “Assisting humans by transferring skills to the robot in teleoperated vertical farming”
• 2023: “Rapporteur” for Thibault POIGNONEC (ICube, Strasbourg) : Apprentissage automatique pour l’assistance aux gestes chirurgicaux robotisés
• 2021: “Rapporteur” for Joseph DIAB (PRISME, Orléans) about “Hybrid robotic control through teleoperation and co-manipulation, applied to the positioning of an ultrasound probe in constrained environments”
• 2020: Examiner for the PhD of Mohammad ALKHATIB (Prisme) about a “Robotic assistance system based on ultrasound images analysis for regional anesthesia”

PhD Prize Contest Juries

• 2025: expertise of a PhD report for the PhD prize of the Société Française de Génie Biologique et Médical (SFGBM)
• 2021: member of the jury for the PhD prize of GDR Robotique (1 PhD report expertize)

Activities for the Robotics community

2025: Direction and participation in the writing of the chapter “Medical Robotics” for the upcoming white paper titled “Automation in Service of Health,” currently being edited by the leaders of the initiative “Automation in Service of Health: From Modeling to Closed-Loop Therapies” of the GDR Macs. The team recruited to write this chapter consists of Hassan Omran (ICube), Nabil Zemiti (LIRMM). 2024: Participation in the project to renew the “GDR Robotique” for the improvement of education and the attractiveness of robotics. Since then, co-animation of a 4-people team on this topic (AP3).

Edition

Guest Associate Editor (since 2019), in collaboration with :

• Carlos Rossa (Ontario’Tech University, Canada),
• Xiaojun Chen (Jiao Tong University, China), and
• Troy McDaniel (Arizona State University, USA) for the research topic “Haptic Training Simulation” in the open-access journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Volumes vol II and vol. III were published between 2021 and 2024. Volume IV was launched in January 2026.

In 2025, direction of the writing of a chapter in a book published by Elsevier: Robot Design, edited by Med Amine Laribi (P’Prime Institute) and Carl Nelson (University of Nebraska–Lincoln). The chapter is titled “Haptic Training Simulators in Medical Education,” co-written with :

• Florence Zara (LIRIS,
• Lucile Vadcard (LaRAC),
• Christine Barthod and Luc Marechal (SYMME),
• Richard Moreau (Ampère), and
• Rémi Chalard (IBISC). It aims to provide an overview of the methodological and technical challenges involved in designing a haptic simulator for learning.

Peer reviewing

He regularly performs peer reviewing for robotics international journals and conferences about Robotics. A short list ia available on Web of Science (see Peer Review). For instance, in following journals:

• BMC Medical Education (2023)
• IEEE Control Systems Letters (2020)
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2016, 2022, 2023, 2025, and 2026)
• IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics (2015, 2x2016, 2019, 2021)
• IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2x2016, 2017, 2x2018)
• Journal of Field Robotics (Wiley) (2023)
• Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2024)
• IFAC Journal of Systems and Control (2025)
• International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS) (2015, 2016)
• Mechatronics (2014, 2015, 2016)

And following conferences:

• ICRA (2013, 2014, 2015, 2x2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)
• IROS (2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2024)
• EuroHaptics (2018, 2024)
• IEEE World Haptics (2017)
• IEEE International Conference on Smart Multimedia (2018, 2025)
• Frontiers In Digital Health (2024)
• Frontiers in Robotics and AI, section Robotic Control Systems (2015)
• AIM (2019)

Presentations

Out of published papers presented during conferences:

• 2026: Teaching Robotics: simulated and immersive environments, at XR Numeria, Futuroscope, France, 10-11 June, 2026
• 2026: Medical Robotic at Ampère lab, to the students (mainly surgeons of the DIU Mini-invasive Surgery, Robotics and spinal planning option), Poitiers, 19 Jan 2026
• 2021: Progress of the GreenShield project to the members of the Vegepolys Valley cluster, with François Feugier (Greenshield Technologies) and Bruno Masenelli (INL)
• 2021: Progress of the GreenShield project to the members of Chambragri, an environmental news portal, with François Feugier