Training
- 1999 : Master in Computer Science – Université Nancy 2
- Title : « Topic identification for statistical language modeling »
- 2003 : PhD in Computer Science (LORIA / Université Henri Poincaré – Nancy 1)
- Title : « Topic identification and statistical language models adaptation for automatic speech recognition »
- 2018 : HdR in Computer Science (LORIA / Université de Lorraine
- Title : «Walking on the tracks of the future: between understanding and predicting »
Professional Experience
- 1999–2002 Assistant professor, Computer Science department IUT Charlemagne, Université Nancy 2
- 2002–2003, Full time Assistant professor, UFR Mathématiques et Informatique, Université Nancy 2.
- Since 2003, Associate professor, UFR Mathématiques et Informatique, Université de Lorraine.
- 2009–2010, On sabbatical during one semester. Invited researcher at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark.
- 2011–2012, Associate professor at Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, during one semester.
Centres d’intérêt et compétences
Scientific advising
I am currently the co-adviser of the following PhD students:
- Patrick Asante Owusu « Causal mining for temporal data ». Defence planned in November 2023.
- Alexandre Bettinger « Recommandation multi-acteurs pour la consommation de livres numériques en éducation ». Defence planned in November 2022.
- Adrien Dufraux « Leveraging Noisy, Incomplete, or Implicit Labels for Automatic Speech Recognition ». Defence planned in November 2021.
- Zhao Zhang » Towards hybrid and explainable recommender systems mixing content analysis and collaborative filtering ». Defence planned in October 2021.
- Halima Ramdani « Approche sémantique pour l’optimisation du processus de e-recrutement ». Defence planned in October 2021.
- Julie Budaher » Educational barometer for students : from the increase of the learning process to system adoption ». Defence planned in December 2020.
Past Phd students:
- Yacine Abboud « Fouille de motifs : entre accessibilité et robustesse ». PhD defended on 28th November 2018.
- Benjamin Gras « Modeling atypical users in recommender systems ». PhD defended on 8th January 2018.
- Oleksandr Palchenko « Algorithms and information technology to search similar objects in Big Data ». PhD stopped after 1 year.
- Marharyta Aleksandrova « Matrix factorisation and contrats analysis for recommandation ». French-Ukraine PhD. PhD defended on 7th July 2017.
- Lina Fahed « Predicting and Influencing the occurrence of events in a complex sequence ». Defended in October 2016.
- Geoffray Bonnin « sequential approaches in recommender systems for Web navigation » Defended in November 2010.
- Ilham Esslimani « a behavioral approach of the recommendation and social networks as a representation tool » Defended in December 2010.
Master students
- Jeffrey Honion – Conception d’un système de recommandation dans le domaine du vin (Juin 2017) – Informatique
- Benjamin Gras -Détecter et gérer les utilisateurs atypiques dans les systèmes de recommandation (Juin 2014) – Sciences Cognitives
- Emilien Perrin -Médiation de modèles utilisateur (2011) – Sciences Cognitives
- Ahmad Hamad – Gérer des relations de préférence dans les systèmes de recommandation (Juin 2010) – Informatique
- Mounir Katet – Integrer la satisfaction utilisateurs dans les systèmes de recommandation (Juin 2007) – Sciences Cognitives
- Francois Campana- Construction automatique de classes de mots par analyse statistique (Juin 2005) – Informatique
Arnaud Villenave – Modèles à base de triggers pour la recommandation (Sept. 2006) – Informatique - Julien Lourdin – Routage utomatique d’e-mails (Sept. 2006) – Informatique
Projects
Projects in which I am and was involved.
Interlingua: INTERREG IVA – http://www.interlingua-project.eu/?page_id=221&lang=en
PIA Pericles: French project
PIA2 eFran METAL. French project
PIA2 DUNE EOLE. French project
Teaching
Information systems design
DBMS Administration
Artificial Intelligence
Algorithms
Programming : Python, Java, C
Administrative responsibilities
From 2018: I am the head of the 2nd year of the Master in Cognitive Science.
2012-2018: Head of Licence MIASHS (bachelor degree) at Université de Lorraine (http://mathinfo.univ-lorraine.fr/content/licence-miashs), Responsible of the Cognitive Science axis