Alafate Abulimiti

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I am now a postdoc researcher at ISIR/UPMC working on human-agent collaboration, and obtained my PhD from INRIA and ENS/PSL December 2023. My primary area of research is the conversational strategies generation using cutting-edge NLG methods. Conversational strategies often refer to the ways of speaking that carry out the conversation helping the user to accomplish both task and social goals. I am also interested in various domains related to human-human interaction, such as dialogue reasoning, social science, and cognitive science. Before my Ph.D. program, I was a research intern in Université de Paris working on Dialogue and Semantics. I have a computer science engineering degree and a master’s degree in data science from Université de Tours. Lastly, I enjoy playing chess ♟️ (towards a chess master!), reading, and writing in my spare time.

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Jun 01, 2025 I am the one of the organizers at the workshop DEBP-PVA in IVA 2025, Join us! 🥂🥂🥂, check this out!
Jan 01, 2025 After a wonderful journey in L’Oreal, I am back in Academia, working as a postdoc at ISIR/UPMC with Catherine Pelachaud & Agnès HELME-GUIZON within the program PEPR eNSEMBLE!
Jun 01, 2024 I joined L’Oreal as a AI Engineer/Data Scientist!
Dec 14, 2023 I have successfully completed my thesis defense! 👨🏻‍🎓
Jul 01, 2023 My paper: “When to generate hedges in peer-tutoring interactions?” is accepted in SIGDIAL 2023 as the main conference paper 🎊, co-authored with Prof. Chloé Clavel and Prof. Justine Cassell.