Biography

Prof. Mathieu Giraud is a CNRS Senior Researcher in the Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL), the departement of Computer Science of the Université Lille, in France. He obtained a MS in École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in 2002, and a PhD from the Université Rennes 1 in 2005, and an habilitation thesis from Université de Lille in 2016.

He previously worked on weighted automata and specialized architectures using FPGAs, on high-performance computing using GPUs and many-cores architectures, and on RNA bioinformatics. His current research interests target text algorithms and data-based methods for computer musicology and bioinformatics. With his colleagues, he designs and implements algorithms analyzing music scores and DNA sequences. He works both on theoretical studies and on applied projects involving musicians and clinicians. Mathieu strongly support open research and outreach programs.

Mathieu leads the Algomus computer music team (www.algomus.fr). The team design methods and algorithms to study high-level structure of music such as musical forms, combining musical expertise, text algorithms and data analysis. Mathieu was also a member of the joint bioinformatics Bonsai team with Inria Lille, working on the Vidjil project (www.vidjil.org) on immune repertoire analysis. He is now the CTO of the non-profit VijilNet consortium, counseling the development of bioinformatics software for health and the ethics on collecting and processing healthcare data. Mathieu is a former member of the Inria national evaluation board.