Prof. Madalina CROITORU, PhD

Selected new publications
Grants and Supervision
Current community service

After obtaining my BSc in Applied Mathematics in Iasi, Romania (2002) and my PhD in Computer Science in Aberdeen, Scotland (2007) I arrived in Montpellier in 2008. Since 2019 I am a full professor at the University of Montpellier. I am doing my research in the IDH research team of the Robotics department in the LIRMM laboratory and teaching at the Department of Computer Science of the Faculty of Science. I am equally a second year PhD student in Cognitive Science at the University Paul Valery under the supervision of Nathalie Blanc and Royce Anders.

My second PhD thesis investigates how human emotions affect the interaction with ChatGPT like bots with a focus on middle school children education. My current research as a professor focuses on human-machine cognitive interaction with a particular focus on dialogues (deliberation, negotiation, inquiry etc.) and/or normative systems. I am both interested in analysing the computational aspects of such interactions and in the study of the human experience.

My email is mysurname@lirmm.fr. My office at LIRMM is 01/063.

Selected New Publications

Madalina Croitoru, Nathalie Blanc, Royce Anders: Symbolic Artificial Intelligence for Schema Therapy Using Knowledge Graphs. CONCEPTS 2024.
Madalina Croitoru, Pablo Laviron, Sio Bando, Eric Gilles, Amine Milled, Royce Anders, Nathalie Blanc, Gowrishankar Ganesh, Emmanuelle Brigaud: A Child-Robot Interaction Experiment to Analyze Gender Stereotypes in the Perception of Mathematical Abilities. SGAI 2024.

For a complete list of my publications please refer to my DBLP page . For any PDF do not hesitate to email me.

Grants and Supervision

Current supervision:

Florian Lecourt (PhD student, Occitanie Region Project funding) with Konstantin Todorov.
Sandra Victor (PhD student, EU AI4CCAM Project funding) with Ganesh Gowrishankar.
Aziz Sfar (PhD student, CIFFRE funding) with Dina Irofti (EDF).

Past supervision:

Shashank Shekar (PostDoc, Regional Funding) with Rachid Alami.
Martin Jedwabny (PhD student, ministerial funding) with Pierre Bisquert.
Bruno Yun (PhD Student 2016-2019) with Srdjan Vesic and Rallou Thomopolous. Ministerial Funding.
Clement Sipieter (Programmer 2018-2019) with Patrice Buche and Jerome Fortin within the DOCAMEX Project
Arthur Boixel (Master 2 Student 2018) with Pierre Bisquert. EU H2020 NoAW funding .
Cesar Proute (Master 1 Student 2018, Master 2 student 2019) with Pierre Bisquert. GRAPHIK funding .
Abdelraouf Hecham (PhD Student 2015-2018 then Postdoc 2019) with Pierre Bisquert. AVERROES funding, respectively EU H2020 funded GloPack Project.
Nikos Karanikolas (Postdoctoral Researcher 2016-2017) with Pierre Bisquert, Rallou Thomopolous and Patrice Buche within the EU NoAW project .
Abdallah Arioua (PhD Student 2014-2016) with Patrice Buche and Jerome Fortin within the ANR Dur-Dur Project
Bruno Paiva Lima de Silva (PhD Student 2010-2014) with Jean Francois Baget
Lea Guizol (PhD Student 2011-2014) within the Qualinca Project
Wael Hamdan (Master Student 2014)
Patricio Mosse (Master Student and Programmer 2012-2014) with Patrice Buche and Jerome Fortin within the EcoBioCap Project
Nouredine Tamani (INRIA Postdoctoral Researcher 2013-2014)

Grants:

The Horizon EU funded AI4CCAM Project running from 2023-2025. Priviledged research topic: human behavior using AI techniques (PhD co-supervision with Ganesh Gowrishankar).
The EU H2020 funded GloPack Project running from 2018 to 2021. Priviledged research topic: argumentation for better packaging conception.
The EU H2020 funded NoAW Project running from 2016 to 2020. Priviledged research topic: argumentation and practical reasoning for reducing vineyard waste.
The Agriculture Ministry funded DOCAMEX Project running from 2017 to 2020. Priviledged research topic: non monotonic reasoning with rules in cheese making.
The EU COST Action funded FoodMC Project running from 2016 to 2020. Priviledged research topic: argumentative decision making for agronomy applications.
The ANR funded DUR-DUR Project running from 2014 to 2018. Priviledged research topic: explanation dialogues, argumentation and inconsistency tolerant semantics for durum wheat selection. Please check more details about our results here .
The ANR funded ASPIQ Project running from 2012 to 2017. Priviledged research topic: inconsistency tolerant query answering semantics.
The ANR funded Qualinca Project running from 2012 to 2016. Priviledged research topic: identitity in logical systems, entity resolution and generation of referring expressions for bibliographical data.
The EU FP7 funded EcoBioCap Project running from 2012 to 2016. Priviledged research topic: fuzzy argumentation systems and decision making for packaging conception.

Current community service

I am on the Steering Committee of the new CONCEPTS conferece born from the union of the ICCS, FCS and CLA conferences taking place this year, in 2024, in Cadiz, Spain. Below some invited talks:

Participation in the expert pool to develop the metropolitan strategy for Montpellier's artificial intelligence for an ethical territorial model (since September 2023).
Introductory guest lecture on AI at the 1st Franco-Italian-German Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Administrative Law (Montpellier, May 24-25, 2023).
Keynote expert at the Forum Les Interconnectés on generative AI for local authorities (Montpellier, December 7, 2023).
Roundtable participant at the AI Conference organized by the digital school Oreegami (live on LinkedIn on March 28, 2024).

Last update: November 2024.