FLOWERS is a joint project team associating Inria, University of Bordeaux and Ensta ParisTech.

Permanent researchers

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Research director, Inria (Head of team)

Hélène Sauzéon (Inria and Univ. Bordeaux), see also here.

Clément Moulin-Frier (Inria)

Cécile Mazon (Univ. Bordeaux)

Didier Roy

David Filliat, Professor, Ensta ParisTech.

Sao Mai Nguyen (Ensta ParisTech)

Administrative assistant

Nathalie Robin

Postdocs

• • Cedric Colas [INRIA, Post-Doctoral Fellow]

• Marion Pech [INRIA, Post-Doctoral Fellow, from Apr 2023]

Research Engineers

Corentin Léger

Zaccharie Bugaud

PhD Students

• • Rania Abdelghani [EVIDENCEB]

• • Maxime Adolphe [ONEPOINT]

• • Thomas Carta [UNIV BORDEAUX]

• • Marie-Sarah Desvaux [UNIV BORDEAUX, from Oct 2023]

• • Gautier Hamon [INRIA]

• • Grgur Kovac [INRIA]

• • Jeremy Perez [UNIV BORDEAUX, from Oct 2023]

• • Matisse Poupard [CATIE, CIFRE]

• • Julien Pourcel [INRIA, from Nov 2023]

• • Clément Romac [HUGGING FACE SAS, CIFRE]

• • Isabeau Saint-Supery [UNIV BORDEAUX]

• Nicolas Yax [ENS Paris, from May 2023]

Alumni

Jesse Lin [INRIA, Engineer, until Oct 2023]

Eric Meyer [INRIA, Post-Doctoral Fellow, until Aug 2023]

Louis Annabi [ENSTA, until Aug 2023]

Mayalen Etcheverry (2019-present)

Laetitia Teodorescu (2019-present)

Tristan Karch (2019-present)

Remy Portelas (2018-present)

Alexander Ten (2018-present)

Hugo Caselles-Dupré (2018-present)

Timothée Lesort (2018-present)

Julius Taylor (2020-present)

Eleni Nisioti

Masataka Sawayama

Guillermo Valle

Benjamin Clément (PhD 2015–2018, research engineer 2019-present)

Natalia Diaz Rodriguez

Adrien Laversanne-Finot (postdoc)

Florence Carton (PhD)

Vyshakh Palli Thazha (PhD)

Thibault Desprez (PhD)

Alexandra Delmas (PhD)

William Schueller (PhD)

Sébastien Forestier (PhD)

Florian Golemo (PhD)

Alexandre Péré

Stéphanie Noirpoudre

Théo Segonds

Olivier Sigaud (Inria detachment, UPMC)

Manuel Lopes, Research scientist, Inria

Adrien Matricon

Damien Caselli

Clément Masson

Yuxin Chen

Louis-Charles Caron

Pierre Rouanet

Yoan Mollard

Nicolas Rabault

Matthieu Lapeyre

Loïc Dauphin

Baptiste Busch (PhD, 2014-2017)

Gennaro Raiola (PhD, 2014-2017)

Céline Craye (PhD, 2014-2017)

Thibaut Munzer (PhD, 2013-2015)

Panagiotis Papadakis (2014-2017)

Cem Karaoguz (2015-2017)

Alvaro Ovalle Castaneda (2016-2017)

Anna-Lisa Vollmer (Starting Research Position)

Alexandre Gepperth, Associate professor, Ensta ParisTech.

Freek Stulp, Associate professor, Ensta ParisTech, Paris.

Clément Moulin-Frier (2011–2014), INRIA Bordeaux-Sud Ouest.

Louis-Charles Caron (PhD, 2011–2014)

Guillaume Duceux (2011–2014)

Jérome Béchu (2008–2012), engineer)

Matthieu Lapeyre (2010–2014, coming from ENS Cachan, Master in Mechanics).

Jonathan Grizou (2011–2014, coming from INSA Toulouse)

Fabien Benureau (2010–2015, coming from ENS Lyon, magistère informatique).

Steve Nguyen (2014)

Olivier Mangin (2010–2014, coming from Ecole Polytechnique and Master MVA at ENS Cachan).

Antoine Hoarau (Engineer)

Paul Fudal (Engineer, 2010–2014)

Thomas Cederborg (2009–2013, coming from Master in statistical physics, Chalmers University, Sweden)

Mai Nguyen (2010–2013, coming from Ecole Polytechnique and Master in Cognitive Robotics, University of Osaka, Japan)

Natalia Lyubova (2010–2013)

Adrien Baranes (PhD, 2008–2011, coming from Master “Robotique et systèmes intelligents”, University Paris VI – and he did his master’s thesis in FLOWERS under Pierre-Yves’ supervision)

Thomas Degris (2011–present), INRIA Bordeaux-Sud Ouest.

Olivier Ly, Labri/University of Bordeaux (in delegation at INRIA Flowers in 2010–2011).

Sébastien Forestier (Master internship, 2 months in 2012, coming from ENS Cachan)

Jonathan Sprauel (Master intership, 2 months, in 2011, coming from Ecole Polytechnique)

Louis ten Bosch (visiting researcher, 3 months in 2010)

Fabien Danieau (associate researcher, 2010, from Master Ergonomie et Cognitique, Institut de Cognitique, Bordeaux)

Damian Cavaillé (Master internship, 2010, 6 months, coming from Master Automatique, University Bordeaux I)

Jonathan Sprauel (arriving in spring 2011, coming from Ecole Polytechnique)

Timothée Devaux (arriving in summer 2011, coming from Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)

Jeremy Laviole (Master internship, 2010, 6 months, coming from Master informatique, University Bordeaux I)

Alexandre Monge (Master internship, 2010, 6 months, coming from Master Automatique, University Bordeaux I)

Blaise Solé-Blanco (Master internship, 2010, 6 months, coming from master Mécanique, University Bordeaux I)

Ming Li (visiting PhD student, 6 months in 2009 in the PhD internship program, coming from City University of Hong-Kong)

Franck Labat (Master internship, 2009, 6 months, coming from Master informatique, University Bordeaux I)

Bérenger Bramas (Master internship, 2008, 6 months, coming from ISIMA engineering school, Clermont-Ferrand)

Frédéric Delaunay (Master internship, 2008, 6 months, coming from Master “Robotique et systèmes intelligents”, University Paris VI)

Thomas Schatz (Master internship, 2008, 6 months, coming from ENS Cachan, Master informatique).