Thomas Couronné

I am Research Scientist at Orange Labs / France Telecom R&D, In the SENSe Lab [ Sociology and Economy of Networks and Services].

My research are focused on computational social sciences, from cognitive process modelling to social networks sciences. I would say that it deals mainly with the concept of collective intelligence : how to detect weak signals from collective behaviours.

After having worked at the individual scale (cognitive psychologie), at a microsociale scale (social networks), i am now interested in studying macroscale behaviours, i.e. the mobility patterns and the self-synchrony between groups of humans. All theses fields can be considered to be a part of the now famous and breaking sciences of complexity.

I have recently co authored papers with Jean-Samuel Beuscart (ENS Cachan & France Telecom) and Alina Stoica (Liafa & France Telecom).

Selected publications :

 2010

Couronné, T., Stoica, A., Beuscart, J.S. (2010) Online social networks and popularity evolution, an additive mixture model. IEEE Advances in social networks analysis and mining 2010 (to appear)

Stoica, A., Couronné, T., Beuscart,. (2010) To be a star is not only metaphoric : from popularity to social linkage. Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media 2010 (published)

 2009

 Couronné, T., Beuscart, C., Chamayou, C.. Self-Organizing Map and social networks : Unfolding online social popularity. IEEE 24th of the International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Canada, august 2009 (reviewed and accepted, unpublished)

 Beuscart, J., Couronné, T. (2009) The Distribution of Online Reputation : Audience and Influence of Musicians on MySpace. 3rd International AAAI Conference ICWSM : Weblogs and Social Media, California, may 2009 (published)

 Beuscart J., Couronne, T. (2009) La notoriété sur myspace music. Terrain et travaux, journal de sociologie, June 2009 (Published)

 Couronné, T., Guerin-Dugue, Dubois,M., Faye,P., Marendaz, M. (2009) “A computational mixture model to unfold the factors guiding visual attention” Journal of eye movements research (Published)

Education :
 Post-Doctoral position in Network sciences, Orange Labs, Paris, 2008
 Ph.D. in Cognitive sciences, Grenoble University, 2004- 2007
 Master Degree in Information and communication sciences, 2003
 Magister Sc. in Multimedia, Creative and Interactive Tech., Valenciennes University,France, 2002
 Licentiate in physics and computer sciences, Rennes I University, France, 2000

Collaborators

 Jean-Samuel Beuscart (ENS Cachan & France Telecom)
 Cedric Chamayou (France Telecom)
 Alina Stoica (Liafa & France Telecom)
 Zbignew Smoreda
 Dominique Cardon
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Please follow this link for more informations or contact me at :

 thomas(dot)couronne(at)francetelecom.com
 +33 1 45 29 43 55.