{"id":5,"date":"2019-08-21T14:57:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T14:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pageperso.lis-lab.fr\/~ronan.sicre\/wordpress\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2025-05-28T16:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:39:06","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pageperso.lis-lab.fr\/~ronan.sicre\/wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irit.fr\/~Ronan.Sicre\">NEW HOMEPAGE AT IRIT &#8211; University of Toulouse<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>On leave<\/em> assistant professor at <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centrale-marseille.fr\/en\"><strong>Ecole Centrale Marseille<\/strong><\/a><strong> and research at team <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/qarma.lis-lab.fr\/\"><strong>QARMA <\/strong><\/a><strong>in <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lis-lab.fr\/en\/home\/\"><strong>LIS laboratory<\/strong><\/a><strong>. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Affiliations: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Centrale Marseille,<\/b> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Aix Marseille Univ<\/b><b>, <\/b><b>CNRS, LIS, Marseille, France.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Teaching Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision courses at ECM.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Working on Machine Learning and Computer Vision<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>News<\/h2>\n<p><strong>May 2025: <\/strong>Habilitation (HDR) defense: image representations for visual recognition<\/p>\n<p><strong>February 2025: <\/strong>Starting a Chair position at University of Toulouse and IRIT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 2024: <\/strong>Multiple master internships opening: <a href=\"https:\/\/pageperso.lis-lab.fr\/~ronan.sicre\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AI4MS_Summary_v2.pdf\">AI 4 Multiple Sclerosis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pageperso.lis-lab.fr\/~ronan.sicre\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/stageM2_2024_seq-2.pdf\">Foundation models for RNA-Seq data<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>August 2024: <\/strong>Paper accepted at CVIU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1077314224001826\"><em>Opti-CAM: Optimizing saliency maps for interpretability<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>May 2024: <\/strong>Best paper award at ECML 2024\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2404.01964\"><em> CAM-Based Methods Can See through Walls<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>May 2024: <\/strong>becoming co-head of Centrale Digital Lab diploma<\/p>\n<p><strong>May 2024:<\/strong> Science diffusion &#8220;Rencontres de rue&#8221; in Marseille for <a href=\"https:\/\/explore.univ-amu.fr\/\">EXPLORE 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>April 2024:<\/strong> Paper accepted at CPVR workshop XAI4CV 2024\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2404.14996\"><em>CA-Stream: Attention-based pooling for interpretable image recognition<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>December 2023:<\/strong> Mathias Haugland joins our group as PhD on the MitoLearner project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 2023:<\/strong> 1 open PhD position: &#8220;MitoLearner: deep learning and explainable AI to understand the role of mitochondria genes in cancer cells&#8221; more details <a href=\"https:\/\/centuri-livingsystems.org\/phd2023-06\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 2023:<\/strong> 3 master internships opening: <a href=\"https:\/\/pageperso.lis-lab.fr\/~ronan.sicre\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/stageM2_2022_self.pdf\">Improving self-supervised vision transformers with attention<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/pageperso.lis-lab.fr\/~ronan.sicre\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/stageM2_2022_one_shot.pdf\">Weakly-supervised one-shot object detection<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/pageperso.lis-lab.fr\/~ronan.sicre\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Sujet_Stage_2022_non_supervisees.pdf\">Unsupervised learning for image and text classification<\/a> &#8211; Contact: ronan.sicre@lis-lab.fr<\/p>\n<p><strong>August 2022:<\/strong> The project \u201cInterpretability of deep neural networks for medical image classification\u201d was funded by Laennec Institute.<\/p>\n<p><strong>December 2021:<\/strong> 2 master internships opening on interpretability of Convolutional Neural Networks as part of the UnLIR project: <a href=\"https:\/\/pageperso.lis-lab.fr\/~ronan.sicre\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/proposal-intern-interpretability_hanwei21.pdf\">Learning a decoder to produce interpretable saliency maps<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/pageperso.lis-lab.fr\/~ronan.sicre\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/stageM2Felipe211.pdf\">saliency segmentation for CNN interpretability evaluation<\/a>&#8211; Contact: ronan.sicre@lis-lab.fr<\/p>\n<p><strong>July 2021:<\/strong> Hanwei Zhang joins our group as post doctoral researcher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>November 2020:<\/strong> Felipe Torres joins our group as PhD.<\/p>\n<p><strong>July 2020:<\/strong> Open PhD position (multiple opening) as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/unlir.lis-lab.fr\/\">UnLIR<\/a> project: <a href=\"https:\/\/pageperso.lis-lab.fr\/~ronan.sicre\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/unlir_PhD.pdf\">Learning discriminative representations to interpret image recognition models<\/a> &#8211; Computer vision and deep learning. Position closes on August 16th &#8211; PhD starting in September \/ October &#8211; Contact: ronan.sicre@lis-lab.fr<\/p>\n<p><strong>December 2019:<\/strong> Open Master internship: <a href=\"https:\/\/pageperso.lis-lab.fr\/~ronan.sicre\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/sujet_M2_2019.pdf\">Unsupervised learning for image recognition<\/a> &#8211; Computer vision and deep learning<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 2019:<\/strong> The ANR JCJC project UnLIR is accepted (internships, one PhD, and one postdoc available).<\/p>\n<h2>Short Bio<\/h2>\n<p>I received a Master degree in Intelligent Systems from the University of Toulouse, France, in 2007. During my master I studied at the University of Plymouth, England, at the University of Calgary, Canada, and at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. From 2008 to 2011, I worked toward the Ph.D. degree in the <a class=\"urllink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.labri.fr\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">LaBRI<\/a> at the University of Bordeaux in collaboration with <a class=\"urllink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mirane.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">MIRANE S.A.S.<\/a> Then, I obtained a Lecturer \/ Researcher (ATER) position in Bordeaux: I taught at the <a class=\"urllink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.enseirb-matmeca.fr\" rel=\"nofollow\">ENSEIRB-MATMECA<\/a> and worked as a researcher at the LaBRI. I then worked as a postdoc at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) at the <a class=\"urllink\" href=\"http:\/\/isla.science.uva.nl\/node\/27\" rel=\"nofollow\">Intelligent System Lab<\/a> (ISLA), at the University of Caen, in the image team of the <a class=\"urllink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greyc.fr\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">GREYC<\/a> lab, and at INRIA Rennes in the <a class=\"urllink\" href=\"http:\/\/www-linkmedia.irisa.fr\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Linkmedia<\/a> Team. I&#8217;m now Assistant professor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centrale-marseille.fr\/en\">Ecole Centrale Marseille<\/a> and belong to the <a href=\"https:\/\/qarma.lis-lab.fr\/\">QARMA<\/a> team at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lis-lab.fr\/en\/home\/\">LIS <\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Research Interest<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Deep learning<\/li>\n<li>Computer vision<\/li>\n<li>eXplainable AI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW HOMEPAGE AT IRIT &#8211; University of Toulouse On leave assistant professor at Ecole Centrale Marseille and research at team QARMA in LIS laboratory. Affiliations: Centrale Marseille, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, LIS, Marseille, France. Teaching Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision courses at ECM. 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