Below is a web version of my research CV.
You can alternatively download the PDF English version.
To follow my scientific travels (literally and academically), please check the list of occupied positions.
| Jean-Charles QUINTON | Born November 17, 1981 |
| 150 Place du Torrent, Campus de Saint Martin d'Hères | French citizenship |
| 38400 Saint Martin d'Hères, France | |
| Phone : (+33) 4 57 42 17 78 | |
| Email : jean-charles.quinton(at)imag(dot)fr | |
Positions
| 2015+ | Associate professor at UPMF / LJK |
| | Statistics for Life Sciences team (SVH) within the Probability & Statistics department (Grenoble, France) |
| 2011-2015 | Associate professor at Polytech Clermont-Ferrand / Pascal Institute |
| | Modeling, Autonomy and Control in Complex Systems (MACCS) within the Image, Perception Systems and Robotics (ISPR) research group (Clermont-Ferrand, France) |
| 2011 | Visiting research fellow at the ISTC-CNR (collaboration with Giovanni Pezzulo) |
| | Anticipatory models of visual active perception at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies - National Research Council (Rome, Italy) |
| 2011 | Postdoctorate researcher at LASMEA (supervized by Youcef Mezouar) |
| | Distributed models for vision based robotic navigation (Clermont-Ferrand, France) |
| 2009-2011 | Postdoctorate researcher at Inria/CORTEX (supervised by Bernard Girau) |
| | Dynamic neural fields and sensorimotor interactions (Nancy, France) |
| 2009 | Research fellow at CCNR (supervised by Ezequiel DiPaolo/Luc Berthouze) |
| | Autonomy and distributed learning models (Center for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics - University of Sussex) (Brighton, UK) |
| 2007 | Research intern at NII (supervised by Tetsunari Inamura) |
| | Humanoid robotics and human-robot interactions (National Institute of Informatics) (Tokyo, Japan) |
| 2005-2009 | Research associate at IRIT (supervised by Jean-Christophe Buisson) |
| | Interactivist models of sensorimotor behaviors (Computer Science Research Institute) (Toulouse, France) |
Functions and responsibilities
| 2022+ | Vice-director of UFR SHS (Univ. Grenoble Alpes) |
| | to contact the direction, please use shs-direction(at)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr |
| 2021-2025 | Steering committee (head of Cognition axis) of CDP CerCog (IdEx) (Univ. Grenoble Alpes) |
| | to contact the direction, please use cercog-copil(at)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr |
| 2021-2022 | Joint director of psychology department (UFR SHS - Univ. Grenoble Alpes) |
| | to contact the direction, please use shs-dir-psychologie(at)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr |
| 2020-2023 | Director of (S)FR Pôle Grenoble Cognition (CNRS / Univ. Grenoble Alpes / Grenoble-INP) |
| | to contact the direction, please use direction(at)grenoblecognition.fr (now closed) |
Education
| 2005-2008 | Ph.D. in computer science and artificial intelligence |
| | Implicit coordination of sensorimotor interactions as a cornerstone of cognition (National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France) |
| 2004-2005 | M.Sc. in artificial intelligence |
| | Reasoning, Cooperation and Language (Université de Toulouse III, France) |
| 2002-2005 | French Engineering degree in computer science and mathematics |
| | M.Sc. specialization in Advanced Multimedia Technologies (ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France) |
| 1999-2002 | Preparation for national examination for the French Grandes Écoles |
| | Mathematics and Physics specialization (CPGE Fermat, Toulouse, France) |
Languages
| French | Native speaker |
| English | Fluent (score of 930 at TOEIC) |
| German | Intermediate (lack of practice) |
| Japanese | Intermediate (lack of practice) |
| Dutch | Intermediate (oral comprehension) |
Research interests
| Modeling | Predictive coding: active perception, sensorimotor contingencies, learning of spatiotemporal regularities (with applications to object recognition, coordination and decision-making) |
| Computational neuroscience | Dynamic Neural Field models: predictive (PNF), high dimensional, sparse (SNF) and parallel implementations, saliency maps (with applications to visual perception, attention and tracking) |
| Psychology | Active perception: epistemic/pragmatic actions (e.g. eye/hand movements), influence of context on categorization (embodied, individual, social) (with experiments in cognitive and social psychology) |
| Robotics | Visual SLAM: visual memory based navigation, probabilistic learning of topological maps (with applications to autonomous mobile vehicles) |
