Antoine Pasquali Chief Scientist Doctor in Experimental and Developmental Psychology Engineer in Cognitive, Computer, Electronic, and Automatic Control Sciences
[email protected] +81 80 7944 0108
EXPERTISE Management Neuroscience
Deep Learning Experiments Statistics Programming Embedded Systems Automatic Systems Languages
Research and Development, International Collaboration, Risk Analysis, Strategy Consciousness, Metacognition, Chunking, Unconscious Perception Neuroimaging (fMRI), Implicit Learning, Developmental Learning Artificial Intelligence, Developmental Robotics, Human-Computer Interaction CUDA/cuDNN/TensorRT, Tensorflow, Caffe Matlab (Psychtoolbox), PsyScope SPSS, SPM, Signal Detection Theory C++, Python NVIDIA Jetson, FPGA, Analogical Signals , Augmented Reality Mobile and Humanoid Robots, Industrial Robots, Numerical Controllers French (native), English (fluent), Italian (intermed.), Russian (begin.), Japanese (begin.)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2015 – XCompass Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan)
Chief Scientist. Research, Platform Development, Robotics. Principal Investigator in Artificial Intelligence. Conception and production of an Artificial General Intelligence. (Project Management, Research & Development, Deep Learning, Robotics)
2006 – Adam-NX (France/Japan)
Founder. Project Director. Consulting in Science and Technology. Conception and development of a sorting machine for the Food Industry. (Business Development, Research & Development, Project Management, Industry)
2005 – 2007 LIRALab - UGDIST (Genoa, Italy)
Cognitive Engineer (7 months). Collaboration (20 months). Neurocybernetics. Conception and development of inverse kinematics on an anthropomorphic robot in a reaching task. (Neural Networks, Developmental learning, Control Theory, Real-Time Processing)
2003 – 2004 ETIS (CNRS) (Cergy, France)
Collaboration (11 months). Cognitive Engineer (1 month). Neurocybernetics. Modeling of a neural network inspired from the Basal Ganglia, dedicated to reinforcement learning. (Neural Networks, Developmental learning, Koala robots)
2002 – 2003 Final Work Placement (9 months). R&D Engineer (4 months). Human-Computer Interaction. Thales Optronique European project STARMATE. Research and development on the techniques of Augmented Reality. (Guyancourt, FR) (VisualC++, Qt, WorldToolKit, Scenegraph, Wireless Networks, Plug-in Architecture) 2001 – 2002 Global Jade (Paris, France)
Technical Manager. Big Data. Conception and development of a city guide of Paris on PDAs and WAP phones. (Strategy, Management, Visual Basic, AppForge, CodeWarrior, WML, PalmOS)
2000 – 2001 Graphic Group Fr. (Paris, FR)
Software Developer. Human-Computer Interaction. Software for English speaking improvement, based on a real-time speech recognition system. (VisualC++, MFC, ActiveX, Dragon Naturally Speaking)
EDUCATION 2011 – 2013 CN - TODAI (Tokyo, Japan)
Postdoctoral fellowship in Cognitive Neuroscience (no grade applicable). Advisor: K. Sakai Thesis: Mechanisms of introspection: neuroimaging and modeling. (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Metacognitive Neural Networks, Consciousness)
2005 – 2009 Ph.D. in Experimental and Developmental Psychology (no grade applicable). Advisor: A. Cleeremans CO3 - ULB Thesis: Learning with and without consciousness: empirical and computational explorations. (Brussels, Belgium) (Implicit learning, Chunking, Metacognitive Neural Networks, Measures of Consciousness)
Antoine Pasquali Chief Scientist Doctor in Experimental and Developmental Psychology Engineer in Cognitive, Computer, Electronic, and Automatic Control Sciences
[email protected] +81 80 7944 0108
2003 – 2004 Postgraduate in Cognitive Science (The Greatest Distinction). Advisor: A. Cleeremans ULB Thesis: Reinforcement learning in non-markovian processes (in collaboration with CO3 & ETIS). (Brussels, Belgium) Study: The role of attention in automatic and controlled processes. 1996 – 2002 ESIEA (Paris, France)
Engineer (1st Class Honors). Specializations in Management and in Human-Computer Interaction. Thesis (5 persons): prototype of a 3D scanner. Project (4 p.): Organization of a skydiving initiation (14 participants – 4 days – 5 jumps). Study (5 p.): Mpeg Compression. Study (3 p.): Fractals and Chaos Theory.
1996 – 1999 STAP/BAFA (no grade applicable). Legal capacity to organize and supervise a youth camp. (Fontenay-A-R, FR) Team manager of 4 youth leaders and 20 teenagers (11/15 yrs. old).
GRANTS AND AWARDS 2012 – 2013
Grant in Aid (1,100,000 ¥) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
2011 – 2013
Postdoctoral fellowship (9,288,000 ¥) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
2009 – 2011
Project grant (117,000 €) from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the Territorial Collectivity of Corsica.
June 2007
Financial Aid Award (500 $) from the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.
June 2007
COST grant for participating the CNRS Summer School on Consciousness in Cargèse, France.
Sept. 2005
EC/FP6 grant for the IURS Summer School on Robotics & Neuroscience, Benicassim, Spain.
2005 – 2009
Research fellowship (103,000 €) from the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research.
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (IF: Impact Factor) Pasquali, A., Cleeremans, A., & Gaillard, V. (2018). Reversible Second-Order Conditional sequences in Incidental Sequence Learning tasks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Advance online publication. IF 2016: 2.129 Schmitz, R., Pasquali, A., Cleeremans, A., & Peigneux, P. (2013). Lateralized implicit sequence learning in uni- and bi-manual conditions. Brain and Cognition, 81, 1–9. IF 2012: 2.823 Timmermans, B., Schilbach, L., Pasquali, A., & Cleeremans, A. (2012). Higher-order thoughts in action: Consciousness as an unconscious redescription process. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 367, 1412–1423. IF 2012: 6.230 Jiménez, L., Méndez, A., Pasquali, A., Abrahamse, E., & Verwey, W. (2011). Chunking by colors: Assessing discrete learning in a continuous serial reaction-time task. Acta Psychologica, 137, 3, 318–329. IF 2012: 2.206 Pasquali, A.*, Timmermans, B.*, & Cleeremans, A.* (2010). Know thyself: Metacognitive networks and measures of consciousness. Cognition, 117, 2, 182–190. *shared first authorship IF 2010: 3.708 Cleeremans, A., Timmermans, B., & Pasquali, A. (2007). Consciousness and metarepresentation: A computational sketch. Neural Networks, 20, 9, 1032–1039. IF 2007: 1.951
CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS (P: Poster; T: Talk; K: Invited Keynote; D: Tutorial) Pasquali, A. (2017). Deep Learning: Implementing Consciousness. 21th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Beijing, China. D Pasquali, A., & Sakai, K. (2016). Know thyself: Brain imaging evidence of an intermediate level of meta-representation. 20th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Buenos Aires, Argentina. T Pasquali, A., & Sakai, K. (2013). Why are we conscious? A reverse engineering approach. 2nd Annual Seminar on Implicit Learning, Bergen, Norway. K
Antoine Pasquali Chief Scientist Doctor in Experimental and Developmental Psychology Engineer in Cognitive, Computer, Electronic, and Automatic Control Sciences
[email protected] +81 80 7944 0108
Pasquali, A., & Sakai, K. (2013). Consciousness dynamicity and the duarchical model. 17th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, San Diego, CA, USA. P Gaillard V., Destrebecqz, A., Pasquali A., & Cleeremans A. (2013). The process dissociation procedure in sequence learning: 10 years of research. 20th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Budapest, Hungary. T Pasquali, A., Chambaron. S., Ginhac, D., Sakai, K., & Cleeremans, A. (2012). Cross-domain interactions in implicit learning of serial actions. 1st Annual Seminar on Implicit Learning, Sopot, Poland. T Pasquali A., Gaillard V., & Cleeremans A. (2011). Comparing Effects of Orientation and Structure in Implicit Learning of Serial Actions with PDP, ANCOVA and SDT methods. 18th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, San Sebastian, Spain. T Pasquali, A., Timmermans, B., & Cleeremans, A. (2011). Know thyself: Metacognitive networks and measures of consciousness. 15th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Kyoto, Japan. T Pasquali, A., Jiménez, L., & Cleeremans, A. (2009). Chunking in serial reaction time tasks: an objective measure of conscious learning. 16th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Krakow, Poland. T Chambaron, S., Pasquali, A., Ginhac, D., & Cleeremans, A. (2009). The role of pace and time in sequence learning: What is the impact on learning? 8th Annual Summer Interdisciplinary Conference, Sarre, Italy. P Pasquali, A., Timmermans, B., & Cleeremans, A. (2009). Metacognitive networks and measures of consciousness. 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands. T Pasquali, A., Jiménez, L., & Cleeremans, A. (2008). Chunking in serial reaction time tasks: an objective measure of conscious learning. 12th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Taipei, Taiwan. P Pasquali, A., Castellini, C., Gaillard, V., Orabona, F., Metta, G., & Cleeremans, A. (2007). Developmental learning in non-markovian processes: Premises of a new biologically plausible cognitive architecture. 11th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Las Vegas, NV, USA. P Pasquali, A., Destrebecqz, A., & Cleeremans, A. (2006). Anticipation in non-markovian processes: a computational account for serial action. 2nd Annual Conference on Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Houston, TX, USA. P
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Pasquali, A., Timmermans, B., & Cleeremans, A. (2009). Metacognitive networks and measures of consciousness. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2620-2625.
PHD THESIS Pasquali, A. (2009). Learning with and without consciousness: Empirical and computational explorations. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. http://theses.ulb.ac.be/ETD-db/collection/available/ULBetd-06082009-125747/
COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS Reviewer
Consciousness and Cognition; Frontiers in Human Neuroscience; Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security
Membership
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness; Cognitive Science Society; Consciousness Club Tokyo
Media
"Sciences sans conscience n'est que ruine de l'âme, oui mais Conscience sans science n'est qu'un vilain gros mot", Jan. 2010. 35-minute interview by Alexandre Wajnberg on Radio Campus, 92.1 FM, Brussels. http://adam-nx.com/Public/2009_Thesis/2010_01_A.Pasquali_Radio_Campus.mp3
