Dear all,

We are offering a 6-month Master’s internship at Inria Paris (ALMAnaCH team), starting in early 2027, on the following topic:

“Training socially aware conversational agents to build rapport with users”

The intern will work on training and evaluating multimodal LLM-based conversational agents that build rapport with their users. We are looking for M2 or final-year engineering students in natural language processing, computer science, computational linguistics or a related field, with solid Python and machine learning skills and an interest in doing research on socially aware conversational agents.

Location: Inria Paris, 48 rue Barrault, 75013 Paris Research team: ALMAnaCH project-team, Inria Paris' NLP research team Topics: Natural Language Processing, linguistics, conversation analysis Languages: English/French Start: Early 2027 (flexible) Duration: 6 months Supervision: Oussama Silem, Eric Villemonte de La Clergerie and Justine Cassell Compensation: Legal minimum internship gratification (about €600/month full-time)

To apply, please send a full CV, a cover letter, and your M1 and M2 transcripts (if available) to oussama.silem@inria.fr

Full internship offer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ExcHlFRxx6Mg61ZFWhxkY1HDAAqpxh4G/view?usp=s...

Best regards,

*Oussama SILEM* *PhD Student** | Inria Paris | Team **Almanach https://almanach.inria.fr/index-en.html **-Articulab https://www.justinecassell.com/articulab/-* *Computer Science Engineer | ESI Algiers*