La Presse
Quand l’IA détecte le désespoir
Reporting on speech analysis and suicide-prevention research, with an interview about the work and its possible uses.
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Talks & public conversation
Selected talks and media coverage on speech, emotion, explainable AI and responsible practice, with links to original sources.
The research in public
In the press
Concordia University
Speech analysis in crisis-helpline research
Concordia reports on Alaa Nfissi’s doctoral work on speech emotion analysis and its potential to support crisis counsellors.
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Radio-Canada
AI, emotions and suicide-prevention research
Radio-Canada coverage of research into recognizing emotion in speech in a suicide-prevention context.
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Université TÉLUQ · CNW
Learnable signal representations at ICLR 2026
Université TÉLUQ announces the ICLR 2026 paper on learnable fractional superlets and the research behind it.
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Inside Telecom
AI voice analysis and crisis-helpline research
International coverage of Alaa Nfissi’s ICSC research and the Best Student Paper Award, discussing possible uses of speech emotion analysis in crisis support.
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Invited talks & instruction
Sustainable AI Practices: Balancing Innovation with Responsibility
Invited instruction for a Mitacs activity at Concordia’s Applied AI Institute on 18 March 2026.
Open recordGenerative AI as a project-management assistant
Invited instruction for PMI Montréal on 17 June 2026, delivered in English through Concordia’s Applied AI Institute.
Open recordGrand Forum de la prévention du suicide
Invited speaker · AQPS · Saint-Hyacinthe · October 2024
Open recordAn introduction to explainable AI
Invited presentation for Concordia’s Hardware Verification Group in 2023, followed by scientific mentoring meetings.
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