Career Synthesis

career

2011-Present

Director of Research

Center for Development of Advanced Technologies (CDTA)
October 2020 – Present
Head of the ASM Division
May 2018 – October 2020

Founder of the Design and Implementation of Intelligent Machines Group (DIIM)

September 2017-May 2018
Associate Director of CDTA
June 2014- November 2017
Head of the ASM Division

2010

2011

Université Paris 13, France

Invited Professor 

Summer 2010, Summer 2011
Université Paris 13, Paris, France

2007

2011

Grambling State University, Louisiana, USA

Associate Professor

Grambling State University, Louisiana,USA

2000

2007

Oakland University, Michigan, USA

Assistant Professor

Oakland University, Michigan,USA

1995-2000

CEDAR, State University of New York at Buffalo,USA

Senior Research Scientist

Center of Excellence for Document Analysis (CEDAR) at the State University of New York at Buffalo
Head of the FirmName Team for 5 Years
  • 1999-2000
Lead Researcher in the project “Characters and Zipcode Recognition”
  • 1997-1998:
Lead Researcher of the group “Firm Names” which is a subgroup of the “HandWritten Address Interpretation” (HWAI) group.
  • May 1996-Dec. 1996:
Technical Lead of the research group: “Human-Machine Multimodal Interaction
  • 1995-1996:
Technical Lead of project “Human Language Technology” (NSF)
Project Consultant “Video Annotation and Retrieval (KODAK)”

1994-1995

Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Post-Doctoral Position

University of Québec at Montréal, Canada
Principal Researcher in Machine Learning applied to Textual Document/Word Classification
Cooperation Québec-France (AUPELF-UREF) (Project 1)
Hydro-Québec (Project 2)

1992-1994

Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

Temporary Assistant Professor

Université des Sciences et Techniques de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

1988-1990

Université Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble, France

Lecturer

Université Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble, France

1987-1991

Université Stendhal, Grenoble, France

Lecturer

Université Stendhal, Grenoble, France

1984-1991

Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

Lecturer

Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France