Me
I am currently University Professor at the recently created Université de Bordeaux (see also Université Bordeaux I's website).
I travelled a bit since I left my home country and came in France, at LaBRI, to work as a post-doc in 1991. Thanks to the NSERC (Canada) for funding this great experience. It then launched me on a journey that still continues.
– My up-to-present professionnal path in a glimpse / Details can be found in pages across this wiki –
Work
2011 – 2012 in
Montreal – I was on a
sabbatical leave from my university, enjoying a 'délégation' from
INRIA. Thanks to
Michael McGuffin for welcoming me in his team in Montreal, Canada. Special thanks to Christophe Viau for great discussions and work (to continue !). Christophe, who is now at
DataPad in the San Francisco Bay Area, visited LaBRI last summer.
Since 2007 in
Bordeaux – I came back to Bordeaux after 10 years to put up the
GRAVITE INRIA project together with colleagues.
GRAVITE focused on the visualization and interactive exploration of graphs (networks). At the same time, I also headed the
CNRS Viz & Bio-Info team at LaBRI.
2000 – 2007 in
Montpellier – I was appointed University Professor at
Université Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France. UM3 is a Arts, Literature and Social Sciences faculty in Montpellier. These 7 years working with colleagues at UM3 were wonderful. I also was member of
LIRMM, the Computer Science, Micro-Electronics and Robotics CNRS lab, part of the Science faculty (
Université Montpelier 2).
1998 – 2000 in
Amsterdam – I had quite a unique experience closely working with Ivan Herman and Scott Marshall at
CWI in Amsterdam (NL). Our small team focused on network visualization as part of InfoViz. The work with Ivan and Scott was intense and fun. We wrote a survey paper after reading simply everything that had been done in the field until then (
our paper still gets citations after all this time).
1993 – 1998 in Bordeaux – I began my career taking a Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) position at LaBRI, Université Bordeaux I. By then I was working in combinatorial mathematics, focusing on trees as basic algebraic structures, exploiting their geometrical and combinatorial properties to prove structural theorems in algebra or combinatorics on words. I still keep a taste for these mathematical theories.
Studies
1999 – I got the French HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) from Université Bordeaux I, on December 7, 1999 (under the guidance of Ivan Herman, CWI, Amsterdam and Maylis Delest, Université Bordeaux I).
1991 – I got my PhD in combinatorial mathematics from Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada in June 1991.
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