Marwen Belkaid

Researcher - Computational modeling, Neuroscience, Robotics

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I am a postdoc in the NCB-BU research project involving the Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique (ISIR) and the Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS) laboratories at Sorbonne Université, Paris, France. Check out the NCB-BU webpage!

I received my PhD in December 2016 from the University of Cergy-Pontoise where I was working with the Equipes Traitement de l'Information et Systèmes (ETIS) laboratory. Priori to that, I received my degree in Computer Science engineering from the National School of Engineers of Tunis (Ecole Nationale d'Ingenieurs de Tunis), Tunisia in June 2012 and my MSc in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Cergy-Pontoise and Ecole Nationale Superieure de l'Electronique et de ses Applications (ENSEA), France in September 2013.

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Publications

My full list of publications is available at my ResearchGate and GoogleScholar profiles.

Selected publications

Belkaid, M., Bousseyrol, E., Durand-de Cuttoli, R., Dongelmans, M., Duranté, E. K., Yahia, T.A., Didienne, S., Hannesse, B., Come, M., Mourot, A., Naudé, J., Sigaud O.and Faure, P. "Mice adaptively generate choice variability in a deterministic task".
bioRxiv, doi: 10.1101/527580, 2019.
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Belkaid, M., Cuperlier, N., and Gaussier, P. "Autonomous cognitive robots need emotional modulations: introducing the eMODUL model".
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics: Systems, doi: 10.1109/TSMC.2018.2792542, 2018.
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Belkaid, M., Cuperlier, N., and Gaussier, P. "Emotional Metacontrol of attention: top-down modulation of sensorimotor processes in a robotic visual search task".
PLoS ONE, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0184960, 2017.
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Theses

Belkaid, M. "Interactions between cognitive and emotional processes: a study in neuromimetic mobile and social robotics". PhD Thesis, Univ. de Cergy-Pontoise, 2016.
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Belkaid, M. "A Logical Model of Affective and Interaction-Oriented Theory of Mind". Master Thesis, Univ. de Cergy-Pontoise, 2013.
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Resources

Software

Belkaid, M. "Code for Basic Q-Learning Model Fitting".
Zenodo, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.2564854, 2019.
Link (GitHub repository)
Example code for fitting a basic Q-Learning model with various hyperparameter optimization methods based on the scikit-learn Python library.

Datasets

Belkaid, M., Cuperlier, N., and Gaussier, P. "A dataset for robotic outdoor visual navigation with multiple passages through trajectory segments".
Zenodo, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1168075, 2016.
Link
Images and compass data recorded in the outdoors using Roburoc robotic platform. Dataset used in the paper: Belkaid et al., IJCNN, 2016 (Link).

Videos

Emotional metacontrol of attention

Experiment described in the following paper:
Belkaid, M., Cuperlier, N., and Gaussier, P.
"Emotional Metacontrol of attention: top-down modulation of sensorimotor processes
in a robotic visual search task".
PLoS ONE, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0184960, 2017.

Emotional modulation of peripersonal space

Experiment described in the following paper:
Belkaid, M., Cuperlier, N., and Gaussier, P.
"Emotional modulation of peripersonal space as a way to represent reachable and comfort areas".
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS),
pages 353–359, doi: 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353397, 2015.

Emotional metacontrol of strategy selection

Experiment described in the following paper:
Jauffret, A., Belkaid, M., Cuperlier, N., Gaussier, P., and Tarroux, P.
"Frustration: a generic mechanism to improve autonomy in robotics".
Proceedings of the IEEE Joint International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob),
pages 1--7, doi: 10.1109/DevLrn.2013.6652540, 2013.

Synchony-based learning of sensorimotor navigation

Experiment described in the following paper:
Belkaid, M., Lesueur-Grand, C., Mostafaoui, G., Cuperlier, N., and Gaussier, P.
"Learning sensorimotor navigation using synchrony-based partner selection".
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (ICAIR),
pages 19:1–19:5, doi: 10.1145/2952744.2952754, 2016.