| September 2007 -- |
University professor, Université Bordeaux I, Bordeaux, France |
| September 2006 - September 2007 |
One year full time researcher position (Détachement INRIA Futurs - Bordeaux) |
| September 2005 - September 2006 |
One year full time researcher position (Accueil en délégation au CNRS - LIRMM) |
| September 2000 - September 2005 |
University professor, Université
Paul Valéry / LIRMM, Montpellier,
France |
| December 1999 |
Habilitation à diriger des
recherches, Université Bordeaux
I |
| May 1998 (officially Sept. 1998) |
Scientific researcher, CWI,
Amsterdam |
| September 1993 |
Maître de conférences, LaBRI,
Université Bordeaux I |
| September 1991 |
CRSNG Post-doctoral
fellow, LaBRI, Université
Bordeaux I |
| June 1991 |
Ph. D. in (Combinatorial) Mathematics, LaCIM,
UQAM (Montréal,
Canada) with Christophe
Reutenauer. |
Born on April 28, 1961
Citizenships: French and Canadian (I recently learned I could possibly become
Irish, thanks to my grand'ma)
Married, two (wonderful) kids.
Administrative duties
Research
- I work in close collaboration (head of the library committee) with the library staff in order to help our lab adopt the newest and most flexible technology for managing our scientific production and book/periodicals collection.
- I am part of the scientific committee of «Transferts-LR pôle TIC» a regional board funding collaborations between public research and industries.
- I was part of LIRMM's scientific council (until October 2006), providing guidance on research policies.
- I was part of LIRMM / Computer Science department board (from June 2003 until November 2004), together with Roland Ducournau (director), Thérèse Libourel and Mathieu Lafourcade.
- I was president (until being detached to INRIA) of the scientific and hiring committee (Commission de spécialistes)
at Université Paul Valéry (joint committee for Computer Science
/ Mathematics / Statistics).
- I also act as an external member on the scientific and hiring committee at
Université Sophia-Antipolis (Computer Science, Nice) and Université Bordeaux I (Computer science).
Expertise
- I have been asked to act as an external referee for the French funding agency ANR
- I have been asked to evaluate projects of French Universities for the education and research ministry (DPST
Mission Scientifique, Technique et Pédagogique)
- I have been asked to review technological projects for the Aquitaine EITICA scientific council
Conference committees
- I am part of IEEE Symposium
on Information Visualization Program Committee since 2001.
- I am part of the IEEE CGIV (Conference on Computer Grahics and Information Visualization) Program Committee since 2004.
- I co-chaired the program committee of IHM 2004 (16th edition), that took place in Namur, Belgium (with Laurence Nigay).
- I am part of the SYNASC (International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing) since 2005.
- I am part of the 2006 Graph Drawing Symposium program committee.
- I was part of RIC 2006 National Conference on Collective Intelligence program committee to take place in Nîmes next spring.
I review papers for various journals and conferences:
e-learning
I was director of METICE, a component of Université Paul Valéry (UPV), in charge of the UPV e-learning initiative, but also managing the more traditional form of distance learning, language lab and multimedia common ressources on the campus (June 2001 - July 2003). (15 persons working in the back-office, yearly budget of approximately 400 K€).
I participate in events on e-learning at a national level. I was invited to participate as panelist at several occasions:
- Mulhouse, April 2002. Conférence des présidents des Universités (CPU). Panel chaired by François Petit (président Université Pierre Mendez France, Grenoble II). (See the proceedings, page 23).
- I was part of a panel organized by Radio Aviva (Montpellier) around the newly created UOMLR.
- I was interviewed by the business magazine TBL Telecom Business Life (Fall 2002 issue).
- WEM 2003, May 2003, Lisbon, Portugal (I was invited to represent the UOMLR, Montpellier open-university initiative gathering universities and public research institutes).
- Paris, Juillet 2003. AMUE (Agence de Mutualisation des Universités). Panel chaired by Domitien Debouzie, président Université Claude Bernard, Lyon 1). (See the proceedings, page 35).
- Grenoble, December 2003. GreCO 2003.
I was an elected member of our "faculty" council (conseil de l'UFR IV) - until being detached at INRIA in September 2006.
I was part of a permanent committee supervising the needs for equipment (computers, furnitures, etc.) trying its best to rationalize things, helping in the writing of public calls for spending public money ...
I acted as our university representative for questions concerning the C2i (certificat internet informatique): a certification for undergraduate and graduate students coordinated at a national level between all participating universities.
I am actively involved in the development of administrative and learning e-tools in our department.
- I initiated the creation of our website which started serving in september 2000.
- Our university has chosen WebCT as its e-learning platform. I personnaly use it to animate newsgroups and chat sessions with my students. I have also experienced Claroline.
- I recently developed a local database and a set of php scripts to help teachers and staff organize course enrollments on the web (inscriptions aux TD). This will eventually migrate into the digital environment (ENT) the university plans to develop for our students and staff. The tool is slowly being adopted by other departments in our faculty.