Mehdi Ammi
Full Professor
Dept. of Comp. Science
ANR CPLAY Project result: Dual-Stage Attention-Based Model for Rehabilitation Activity Recognition Using Multimodal Wearable Sensors
Technology Transfer of AI-BAT project to DeepQual startup: 3D Computer Vision for Intelligent Building Inspection and Structural Defect Detection.
Evolution of our Research on Embedded 3D Reconstruction: From Early ML Architectures on Kinect Prototypes to RandLA-Net Models with Attention for Next-Gen LiDAR Smartphones
I-Diab project result: Adversarial Transfer Learning for Personalized Glucose Prediction from Multimodal Wearable Sensors
CarPlat project result: CNN-Based Transfer Learning for Cardiometabolic Disease Assessment Using PPG Sensing
Research Fields
- Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence: Human-in-the-loop learning architecture, hybrid architectures, AI governance frameworks for real-world deployment.
- 3D Computer Vision: Deep and transformer-based architectures for 3D perception, reconstruction, and semantic understanding of point clouds.
- Generative AI & Large Language Models: Optimization and alignment of generative models for controllable and privacy-preserving reasoning.
- Smart Environments & Edge Intelligence: Embedded and federated AI for IoT, e-Health, and smart city applications enabling efficient real-time analytics at the edge.
- Human Modeling & Interaction: Activity and behavior recognition, cognitive and physiological modeling, human–AI collaboration.
Latest News
- Closing of the ANR CPLAY project — four years of research on using artificial intelligence for monitoring and rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy (CP). See the project page for more details: ANR CPLAY.
- Technology transfer of the AI-BAT project to the DeepQual startup — 3D Computer Vision for intelligent building inspection and structural defect detection.
- Launch of a collaboration project with Hitachi.
- Co-organization of the Artificial Intelligence Assises at Université Paris 8.
Current Duties
- Vice-President for Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence, University of Paris 8
- Member (elected) of the Research Council (Commission Recherche), University of Paris 8
- Member (elected) of the Academic Council (Conseil Académique), University of Paris 8
- Member (elected) of the Executive Board, LIASD Laboratory
- Member (elected) of the Executive Committee, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (French Chapter)
- Industry Relations Officer, UFR STN, University of Paris 8
Past Duties
Research Responsibilities
- Expert at the European Commission – EIC Pathfinder Challenges
- Scientific evaluation committee member - French National Research Agency (ANR) – Technologies for Health
- Head of the HAPCO Research Team, LIMSI-CNRS
- Vice-Chair for Publications, IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics (IEEE TCH)
- Vice-Chair for Industrial Relations, IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics (IEEE TCH)
- Leader of EuroVR Special Interest Group on Haptics (EuroVR Haptic SIG)
- Vice-Leader of EuroVR Special Interest Group on Haptics (EuroVR Haptic SIG)
Institutional and Pedagogical Responsibilities
- President of the Ethics and Deontology Committee, University of Paris 8
- Member of the Research Council, University of Paris 8
- Member of the Academic Council – Plenary and restricted, University of Paris 8
- Member of the LIASD Laboratory Council
- Vice-President for Budget, Computer Science Department, University of Paris-Sud
- Co-Head of the Computer Science Work-Study Program, Polytech Paris-Sud
- Head of the Continuing Education Computer Science Program, Polytech Paris-Sud