Nicolas Lair

This is a personal page where you can find my research publications, my resume and maybe some personal thoughts :) Enjoy the reading and feel free to reach out to me for questions and friendly discussions.

Who I am

I am currently a PhD candidate in the Robot Cognition Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Peter Ford Dominey. We are a multidisciplinary CNRS & Inserm team of psychology, robotics and neuroscience researchers working to understand human cognition and to develop smart developmental robots. Funded by Cloud Temple, I am working on personal digital assistants that can learn from their interaction with users. Our goal is to draw inspiration from the way young children learn and use language to create an AI agent that can learn to interpret a user request and perform it in smart home environment.

Before that, I worked as a Data Scientist at Qucit, a smart cities startup in Bordeaux developping AI-based solutions for shared transportation and urban planning.

Resume

You can download my resume from here in French or English.

Publications

Selected publications

  • Language as a Cognitive Tool to Imagine Goals in Curiosity-Driven Exploration.
    Colas, C., Karch, T., Lair, N., Dussoux, J.-M., Dominey, P. F. & Oudeyer, P.-Y.
    34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020)
    paper code demo colab

  • User-in-the-loop adaptive intent detection for instructable digital assistant.
    Lair, N., Delgrange, C., Mugisha, D., Dussoux, J.-M., Oudeyer, P.-Y. & Dominey, P. F.
    International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI 2020, 116-127. doi : 10.1145/3377325.3377490
    paper & code

Other Publications

  • Language grounding through social interactions and curiosity-driven multigoal learning.
    Lair, N., Colas, C., Portelas, R., Dussoux, J.-M., Dominey, P. & Oudeyer, P.-Y.
    ViGIL workshop (NeurIPS 2019) : Visually Grounded Interaction and Language.
    paper

  • Temporal-Spatial Integration for Immediacy and Overrule in Discourse Comprehension.
    Uchida, T., Lair, N., Ishiguro, H. & Dominey, P. F., 2021
    A Model of Online Neurobiology of Language, 2(1), 83-105. doi : 10.1162/nol_a_00026
    paper & code