Research Interest
Intelligent Systems and Applications
My research focuses on intelligent systems (encompassing machine learning, artificial intelligence, fuzzy techniques) and their applications to various domains, with an emphasis on decision making, be it decision under uncertainty, decision under risk, or multicriteria decision making as well as game theory.
Some of these techniques are natural extensions of statistical approaches for data analysis, whereas other approaches complement the more traditional Bayesian approaches for data analysis.
More specifically, I am interested in modeling and understanding complex phenomena in biology, environmental sciences, and finance. Although the fields are rather different, they remain data-driven and intelligent systems techniques offer an effective unifying framework to address the problems of those application domains.
Education
March 1999: Ph.D. in Computer Science.
Thomson-CSF Corporate Research Laboratories / University Toulouse III / ENSEEIHT, France. Dissertation: Towards a unification of the different paradigms of decision making: an approach based on measurement theory and non-additive measures. Advisors: Profs. M. Grabisch (Thomson-CSF) and H. Prade (IRIT).September 1994: Master of Science in Mathematics Applied to Engineering.
University of Paris IX Dauphine, France. Thesis: Optimal control problems: Mayer´s problem under constraints in finite dimension. Advisor: Prof. H. Frankowska (Paris IX).September 1993: Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science.
University of Paris IX Dauphine, France.- Appointments
January 2003 - Current: Assistant professor, Computer Science Department, The University of Texas at El Paso.
August 2001 - December 2002: Visiting professor, Computer Science Department, The University of Texas at El Paso.
July 1999 - July 2001: Research Fellow and Lecturer, School of Information Technology, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Queensland, Australia.
November 1995 - March 1999: Researcher, Thomson-CSF Corporate Research Laboratories.