Jihene Serkhane

Jihène E. Serkhane had her PhD in Cognitive Sciences in November 2005 in the Speech Perception Group at ICP (Institut de la Communication Parlée, Grenoble France). She took her undergraduate degree in Biology of Organism and Population (2000) from UCBL (Université Claude Bernard Lyon I), a Master degree in Cognitive Sciences (2001) from INPG (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble) and a Master in Language Sciences (2006) from Universite Stendhal.

Her PhD work dealt with modeling speech development using "speech robotics" and Bayesian formalism, with a special concern for elaborating realistic models that may help analyze actual data in order to conceive new hypothesis about how speech emerges from embodied mechanisms. She received the best student paper award, at the International Conference in Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP 2002, Denver, Colorado) for some of her PhD work. She joined Partha Mitra's lab in March 2006 as a postdoc, where she works on the quantification of speech and communication development in human infants.