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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
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Invited Professor
Summer 2010, Summer 2011
Université Paris 13, Paris, France
2007
2011
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Associate Professor
Grambling State University, Louisiana,USA
2000
2007
![CampusScene118 Oakland University, Michigan, USA](http://djamelbouchaffra.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CampusScene118.png)
Assistant Professor
Oakland University, Michigan,USA
1995-2000
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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
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1999-2000
Lead Researcher in the project “Characters and Zipcode Recognition”
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1997-1998:
Lead Researcher of the group “Firm Names” which is a subgroup of the “HandWritten Address Interpretation” (HWAI) group.
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May 1996-Dec. 1996:
Technical Lead of the research group: “Human-Machine Multimodal Interaction ”
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1995-1996:
Technical Lead of project “Human Language Technology” (NSF)
Project Consultant “Video Annotation and Retrieval (KODAK)”
1994-1995
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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
![Mirande_photo Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France](http://djamelbouchaffra.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Mirande_photo.jpg)
Temporary Assistant Professor
Université des Sciences et Techniques de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
1988-1990
Lecturer
Université Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble, France
1987-1991
Lecturer
Université Stendhal, Grenoble, France
1984-1991