Gaspard Fougea
I'm now a PhD student at Laboratoire Methodes Formelles (Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris Saclay, CNRS) under the supervision of Alain Finkel and Stephane Le Roux since 2023. Click here to download my CV in French.
PhD topic: Formal models for consciousness : from subjective experience towards cognitive algorithms.
Publications:
- Finkel, A.; Fougea, G. and Le Roux, S. (2025). An Automata-Based Method to Formalize Psychological Theories: The Case Study of Lazarus and Folkman’s Stress Theory. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Model-Based Software and Systems Engineering, ISBN 978-989-758-729-0, ISSN 2184-4348, pages 204-215. Click here for the arXiv preprint.
- Fougea, G.; Haddad, S.; Ye, L.; Jain, S.; Finkel, A. (2025) Tightening the Frontier of Decidability for Decisiveness. In Proceedings of QEST+FORMATS 2025.Click here for the preprint.
- Finkel, A; Fougea, G; Le Roux, S. (2026). Modeling the global neuronal workspace with communicating timed automata. In Proceedings of Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation, UCNC 2026. Click here for the preprint.
Submitted manuscript
- Finkel, A; Fougea, G; Le Roux, S. (2025). A computational framework for theory building in psychology Click here for the HAL preprint
Research Interest
- Formal models for psychology
- Consciousness studies
- Stress
Seminars and talks:
- Seminar 3 : Mathematical Aspects of Integrated Information Theory (IIT) 2, 06-02-2024, Paris Mathematical Models of Cognition and Consciousness.
- Talk on "Models of consciousness and their implication on the possibility of artificial consciousness", 15-02-2024, AI-PHI club.
- 3rd student poster prize at the 27th annual meeting of the Association for the scientific study of consciousness (ASSC27) on formal models for psychology, 5fth of July 2024, Tokyo. Evaluated over 100 student posters)
- Talk on formal models for psychology at Models of Consciousness 5, 2nd of October 2024, University of Bamberg.
- Talk at Institut du cerveau et de la moelle épinière (ICM), November 19th, 2024. Click here to download the slides.
- Talk at Modelsward 2025, February 2025, Porto, Portugal.
- Talk at QEST+FORMATS 2025, August 2025, Aarhus, Denmark. Click here to download the slides
- Talk at Centre de recherche cerveau et cognition, Toulouse (online) on "A computational framework for the global neuronal workspace hypothesis", March 2026 Click here to download the slides.
- Talk at the 1st workshop on Computational Psychology, Paris-Saclay, France on "A computational framework for theory-building in psychology", June 2026. Click here to download the slides.
- Talk at Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation, Trieste, Italy on "A computational framework for the global neuronal workspace hypothesis", June 2026. Click here to download the slides.
- Part of the organising team for the 1st workshop on Computational Psychology, ENS Paris-Saclay, June 10th 2026.
Videos
A computational framework for theory building in psychology. Here are three video teasers:
Introduction to the framework (1 minute 20).
An overview of the tools we use (7 minutes 20).
Get a quick understanding of my PhD by watching my presentation at the Saclay finale of "Ma thèse en 180 secondes" ("My PhD in 180 seconds") where I won the price of the jury. View the video here.
Teaching experience
- Teaching assistant. Automata and lexical analysis, semester-long course to 2nd year at Université Paris-Cité, computer science bachelor. 24h TD, 10h TP on JFLEX. September 2024 - January 2025. Finite automata, rational languages, lexical analysis
- Teaching assistant. Calculability and Decidability, semester-long course to 3rd years at Université Paris-Sorbonne, computer science bachelor. 19.25h TD, 19h TP. January - May 2025. Finite automata, context-free languages, pushdown automata, turing machines
- Emotional and intuitive intelligence, public speaking and stress management, preparatory sessions for oral examinations at Université de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. (2h Course on May 2024, May 2025, May 2026)
Upcoming events
Training sessions: Building formal psychological theories with intuitive computational tools
- Online (zoom) - July 28th, 10h30-16h00 Paris time (CET)
Click here to know more about these events
Contact
For research or teaching purposes, please contact me at gaspard.fougea (at) lmf (dot) cnrs (dot) fr