Training students who understand their tools, and designing tools that leave nobody out.
Welcome to my (semi-)professional website. I am an Associate Professor in computer science at 3iL Ingénieurs, on the Rodez campus (in Aveyron, France!), where I have taught since 2020. I coordinate the Development area there: I make sure design and software engineering have their place in the curriculum, and I teach in particular advanced development, object-oriented programming and software architectures. An ENSIMAG engineer (2012) with a PhD in computer science (Université Toulouse 3, 2017), I am also an associate researcher with the SIG team at IRIT.
I work on disability and with disability, which is also my own; since my surgery in January 2025, I am officially a cyborg.
Research · OAEI 2026
Since 2026, I have been co-supervising Inès Taktak's thesis, Alignement des données hétérogènes avec IA génératives (aligning heterogeneous data with generative AI), directed by Olivier Teste. First milestone: taking part in OAEI 2026, Bio-ML track.
Study · August 2026
A study carried out for my students: showing, on a real case, how a scientific question is framed, calibrated, studied and published. Paired prompts, datasets and reproducible figures.
Invited talk · August 2026
AI agents beyond the hype, at Visayas State University (Philippines): what a language model is, what an answer costs, what an agent adds to it.
Teaching · August 2026
The text of the pre-term course at the lycée Saliège: study methods, attention, and what you can ask of an AI.
All projects · All productions
Knowledge fusion and the OAEI campaigns, with one central question: how to explain, verify and make interpretable a result produced by an automated system.
Text entry for visually impaired users, the subject of my PhD, and the design of digital tools usable by everyone.
How generative AI handles disability: which guardrails, applied to whom, with what asymmetries.
What students and teachers actually do with it, measured rather than assumed, and what that entails in terms of responsibility when you train people to build systems.
More on these areas · The full list of publications, with DOIs, PDFs and BibTeX entries.
My PhD already dealt with text entry for visually impaired people, and disability now runs through two of my research areas. To find your way:
I have been publishing since 2013: I did not arrive on these topics with the wave of conversational agents. What has not changed since is the method. A protocol written before the experiment, published datasets, figures anyone can reproduce, and work submitted to peer review.
The word AI is used to sell a great deal these days, and I read those claims with suspicion. I use these tools daily and I teach them; what I take issue with are figures quoted without a protocol, self-declared expertise, and promises nobody is bound to keep. Several pieces here take that on: What AI is Not and The tool is not for sale.
In addition to my teaching and research activities, I develop and maintain various personal and academic projects, including:
These projects serve both as experimental playgrounds and as teaching material. The full list is on profoutils.
I place particular importance on simple, accessible, and clear computing, with a fondness for sober, retro, and slow-tech approaches. What that amounts to here, what has been tested and what remains to be fixed: see the accessibility page.
roussille@3il.fr for 3iL Ingénieurs, Philippe.Roussille@irit.fr for IRIT. Addresses, phone numbers and personal email: Contact page.
Nota bene: no plastic duck is present on this page.