Hey there!

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I am H Ambre Ayats (she/her or they/them). I am a French postdoctoral researcher, working at University of Eastern Finland, as part of the Algorithmic Data Analysis group in Kuopio, Finland.

Current position - postdoc

My postdoctoral project, titled DaTHum: From Data-centered To Human-centered AI, is financed by the YUFE4Postdoc initiative and is supervised by Prof. Pauli Miettinen (School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio (Finland)) and Prof. Dagmar Borchers (Department 9 – Cultural Studies, Universität Bremen, Bremen (Germany)). This project, interleaving computer science and philosophy, aims to study the data-centered paradigma in artificial intelligence, from its emergence to its contemporary consequences, and to sketch the possibility a human-centered – or user-centered – paradigma.

PhD thesis

I defended my PhD thesis, titled Construction of Knowledge Graph from Texts with a User-Centered, Explainable AI in December 2023. Supervised by Sébastien Ferré and Peggy Cellier at University of Rennes (France), this thesis presents a novel workflow for the conception of user-centric AI system for the construction of knowledge graphs from text. This approach interleaves diverse machine learning techniques, symbolic (k-nn instance-based machine learning techniques, formal concept analysis) as well as statistical (deep learning, large language models) for producing a system aiming to optimize both the user control on the result and the automation of the process. A recording of my defense can be found here.

Research topics

  • Human-centered AI
  • Machine Learning
  • Formal Concept Analysis
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Ethics, history and politics of AI
  • Ethics of research

Personal interests

  • Music (both as a listener and producer) - check my RateYourMusic profile
  • Cinema - check my Letterboxd profile
  • Crafting: knitting, crochet, sewing, cutlery
  • Philosophy: metaphysics, political philosophy, queer studies, philosophy of science - Spinoza, Deleuze, Marx, Presciado…

Contact

E-mail:

  • h<dot>ambre<dot>ayats<at>gmail<dot>com
  • ambre<dot>ayats<at>uef<dot>fi

Phone:

  • +358 (0)5-04-35-12-14

Postal address:

University of Eastern Finland
For H Ambre Ayats, School of Computing
Yliopistonranta 8
70210 Kuopio
FINLAND