Current position

Former positions

  • Deputy head of the MISS doctoral school (ED 590) for the Rouen site
  • Member of the 23rd Scientific Committee (Artificial Intelligence) of the ANR (French National Research Agency), in line with its practices.
  • Head of the MIND team at the LITIS laboratory
  • Senior Associate Professor in Computer Science at INSA de Strasbourg
  • Deputy Head of the SDC team of ICube

News

  • March 2025: PhD defenses of Marion SCHAEFFER and of Gabriel ALENCAR MEDEIROS
  • February 2025: Arrival of a new PhD candidate, Marie GRIFFON, who is working on “MULC-DRL – Classification multi-labels grâce à l’apprentissage par renforcement profond”, with an industrial funding.
  • January 2025: Arrival of a new PhD candidate, Louis HERNANDEZ, who is working on “Synergetic Robustness: Enhancing Causal Representation Learning and Large Language Models” with industrial funding.
  • October 2024: Arrival of a new PhD candidate, Kamran ISMAYILZADA, who is working on “RETENTION – ReliablE inTEractions iN The Internet Of mobile Things”, under the framework of a “cotutelle” agreement between INSA Rouen Normandie and ASOIU (Baku, Azerbaidjan), with a funding of the French Embassy in Azerbaidjan, and co-supervised with Professor Nigar ISMAYILOVA (ASOIU)
  • September 2024: Member of the pool of experts on the scientific committees of the bilateral cooperation programmes with the Maghreb countries, Lebanon and the countries of Spanish-speaking America (MESR, MEAE)
  • September 2024: PhD defense of Matthias SESBOUE
  • July 2024:  Coordinator of the “Complex System” axis of the Normastic Federation of CNRS.
  • December 2023: Viva PhD defense of Mathieu BELLUCCI
  • October 2023: Arrival of a new PhD candidate, Léa CHARBONNIER, who is working on “Semantic-based Explainable Quality Assurance and Diagnosis in Manufacturing Processes”, funded by the XQuality international project (France / Germany)
  • January 2023:  Director of the Computer Science Research Department at UFAZ – French-Azerbaijani University (Baku, Azerbaijan)
  • November 2022: Notification of funding for the Funcap / INSA Rouen Normandie  ECC, Blockchain, IoMT and Multi-Agent Trust Decision Processes Applied in Firmware Update Versioning and Reliable Communications For Nanosatellite Constellations project, proposed with UFC (Céara, Brazil).
  • October 2022: Notification from ANR of the PRCI FR/DE XQuality project funding, submitted with ICube / INSA Strasbourg, Cetim Grand Est and the Hochshule Furtwangen (Germany).
  • June 2022: I am the Guest Editor for the Special Issue of Advances in Knowledge Engineering for a More Explainable Artificial Intelligence of the Information Journal. Check the website.
  • December 2021: Arrival of a new PhD student, co-supervised by colleagues from Université de Rouen Normandie, with their funding. He will work on developing novel knowledge-graph approaches to predict the dissemination of viral disease contagion in a pandemic framework.
  • November 2021: Arrival of a new PhD student, in the framework of an industrial research collaboration, who will work on the proposal of approaches for automating the training of chatbots with a hybrid approach.
  • September 2021 – September 2024: Member of the 23rd Scientific Committee (Artificial Intelligence) of the ANR (French National Research Agency), in line with its practices (members of a Scientific Committee cannot sit for more than three years).
  • June 17th, 2021: Chair of the CNRS Normastic workshop on the Web of Connected Objects. Check the program here.
  • June 2021: Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Knowledge Engineering in Industry 4.0 of the Information Journal. Check the website.
  • March 2021: Arrival of a new PhD student, in the framework of an industrial research collaboration, who will work on the proposal of approaches for semantic information retrieval of CAD models
  • December 14th 2020: My PhD student Franco GIUSTOZZI had his viva
  • October 2020: Arrival of a new PhD student, who will work on Symbolic Approaches for Explainable Artificial Intelligence, funded by INSA Rouen Normandie.
  • June 26th, 2020:  My PhD student Qiushi CAO had his viva.
  • January 2020 – November 2021:  Elected member of the Direction Board of LITIS
  • Since January 2020: Scientific Director of the « Big Data and Artificial Intelligence » Master degree of the UFAZ – French-Azerbaijani University (Baku, Azerbaijan)
  • Since October 2019: Elected Deputy Head of MISS doctoral school (Mathematics, information science and technology, systems engineering science) for the Rouen site.
  • September 2019: Two keynote speeches about Explainability of AI, in KES 2019 (Budapest, Hugary) and ISAT 2019 (Wroclaw, Polland).
  • Since September 2019:  International Relations Officer for Latin America of INSA Rouen Normandie
  • July 2019: Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Adding Smartness to Systems With Case Studies and Applications“ of the Cybernetics and Systems journal.
  • March 15th, 2019:  My PhD student Bruno ALBERT had his viva.
  • February 18th, 2019: My PhD student Pei ZHANG passed her viva.
  • November 6th, 2018: I have been elected a member of the Scientific Council of INSA Rouen Normandie.
  • October 2nd, 2018: I have been elected a member of the Scientific Council of the Strategic Cluster for Education and Research in “Digital Sciences” of the Normandy region, coordinator of the 3rd Axis “Connected systems, services and objects”.
  • September 28th, 2018: My PhD student, Ali AYADI had his viva.
  • May 24th, 2018 to May 30th, 2019: Head of the Mathematical Engineering department of INSA Rouen Normandie
  • Since January 2018: National representative of France to the Technical Committee 5 « Information Technology Applications » of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing)
  • October 1st, 2017: Arrival of a new PhD student, Mr Franco GIUSTOZZI, who is working on “Semantic Time Evolving Models for Industry 4.0”, funded by the Normandy region.
  • Since September 1st, 2017, I am in charge of the international relations of the INSA group with Argentina
  • ay 1st, 2017: Arrival of a new PhD student, Mr Qiushi CAO, who is working on the “Semantic Technologies for the Modeling of Distributed Preventive Maintenance for an SME Network in the Framework of Industry 4.0”, co-supervised by Christoph REICH from the Hochschule Furtwangen in Germany, funded by the Interreg HALFBACK project.
  • Since March 2017 until December 2021, Head of the MIND team at the LITIS laboratory
  • On January 31st, 2017, we received confirmation of the grant asked in the framework of an Offensive Sciences Interreg project called HALFBACK, which is in collaboration with my former school (INSA Strasbourg), the University of Strasbourg, and the Hochschule Furtwangen.