Academic Qualifications

  • 08-13: French Qualification: University Full Professor Qualification by the Conseil National des Universités (CNU)
  • 98-08: French Qualification: Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR)
  • 03-07: French Qualification: Senior Lecturer/Principal Lecturer (Maître de Conférences) Qualification by the Conseil National des Universités (CNU)
  • 93-97: PhD in Computer Science from the University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France and IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland The Recursive Deterministic Perceptron and some Strategies for Topology Reduction on Neural Networks
  • 92-93: DEA in Computer Science from the University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France, Application of Neural Networks to a control process in a dynamic environment
  • 90-92: Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA, Neural Network Models to Predict Solar Radiation and Plant Phenology
  • 83-86: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, USA