Two PhD are in preparation and twenty two have already been defended under my direction

phd in preparation

  • Amine Baki, “From Documents to Decisions: Building an AI Assistant for the Automation of Business Processes in Organisations”, PhD start: 10/2024, expected date of defense: 10/2027, co-directed with Pr. Claude Duvallet (LITIS, Le Havre).
    Funding: Research Grant from ANR (from LabCom SmartLogiLab project) and Normandy Region.

  • Maxence Lambard, “Smart Legal Contract - Automation of contract fulfilment to support logistics transactions”, PhD start: 09/2023, expected date of defense: 10/09/2026, co-directed with Pr. Claude Duvallet (LITIS, Le Havre).
    Funding : Research Grant from Le Havre Urban Communauty (LHSM) and Normandie Region.

phd already defended

  • Mahutin Lucien Vidagbandji, “Extreme Quantile Regression based on Conditional GEV Models and Generalized Random Forests”, PhD start: 10/2022, defended on 20/03/2026, co-directed with Pr. Alexandre Berred (LMAH, Le Havre), co-supervision: Dr. Laurent Amanton (LITIS, Le Havre).
    Funding : Research Grant from Ministry of Higher Education (MESR).
    Current position of the docteur : Temporary Teaching and Research Grant Holder (ATER) at Le Havre Normandy University.

  • Mamadou KassĂ©, “System for Preventing Vulnerabilities and Detecting Anomalies in Computer Networks”, PhD start: 12/2021, defended on 29/11/2024, co-directed with Pr. Alexandre Berred (LMAH, Le Havre), co-supervision: Dr. Rodolphe Charrier (LITIS, Le Havre).
    Funding : CIFRE Agreement Risk’n TIC Company.
    Current position of the doctor : Temporary Teaching and Research Grant Holder (ATER) at Le Havre Normandy University.

  • Rim Abdallah, “Enhancing Maritime Logistics with Blockchain Technology : Application to Secure and Trace Dangerous Goods in Smart Ports”, PhD start: 03/2021, defended on 18/06/2024, co-supervision: Dr. Claude Duvallet (LITIS, Le Havre).
    Funding : CIFRE Agreement with HAROPA (Le Havre, Rouen and Paris Ports Consortium).
    Current position of the doctor : Cyber Security Specialist, Renault Group, France

  • Mongetro Goint, “Building Digital Trust in Smart Territories Through Secure Consent Mechanisms Based on Blockchain Technology”, PhD start: 11/2019, defended on 23/06/2023, co-supervision: Dr. Claude Duvallet (LITIS, Le Havre).
    Funding : Research Grant from Le Havre Urban Communauty (LHSM).
    Current position of the doctor : R&D Engineer on Blockchain and Cyber Security, Expleo Group, France.

  • Iris Lucas, “Dynamics and Control of an Intelligent Multi-Agent System with Application to an Equity Financial Market”, PhD start: 05/2015, defended on 17/07/2018, co-supervision: Michel Cotsaftis (ECE, Paris)
    Funding: Employee (permanent contract) at AVIVA Investors as an economic, financial and statistical researcher.
    Current position of the doctor: Head of Data Intelligence at the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), France.

  • Nesrine Masmoudi, “Bio-Inspired mMthods for Graph Clustering, Applications to Data Mining and Simulation Distribution”, PhD start: 02/2012, defended on 06/01/2017, co-directed with Pr. Mohamed Ben Jamaa (Tunisia), co-supervision: Dr. Hanene Azzag and Dr. Mustapha Lebbah (LIPN, Paris 13)
    Funding: Assistant at the Engineering School of Sfax.
    Current situation of the doctor: Assistant Professor and Head of Computer Sciences Department at College of Business Administration, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia.

  • Haifa Rabai, “Dynamic network of coupled chaotic applications for the study of urban mobility”, PhD start: 10/2012, defended on 06/12/2016, co-supervision: Dr. Rodolphe Charrier (LITIS, Le Havre)
    Funding: Research Grant from Ministry of Higher Education (MESR).
    Current position of the doctor: Global Quality Data Lead, Sanofi.

  • Suhad Faisal, “Adaptive Modeling of Urban Dynamics with Mobile Phone Database”, PhD start: 04/2012, defended on 26/11/2016.
    Funding: Research Grant from Iraq as part of a doctoral training programme.
    Current position of the doctor: Assistant Professor and Head of the department Big Data Science at College of AI, University of Baghdad, Iraq.

  • Thibaut DĂ©mare, “A systemic approach based on agents and dynamic graphs to model the port-metropolis logistic interface”, PhD start: 10/2012, defended on 26/09/2016, co-supervision: Dr. Laurent LĂ©vèque (IDEES, Le Havre), Dr. Antoine Dutot (LITIS, Le Havre)
    Funding: Research Grant from Le Havre Urban Community
    Current situation of the doctor: Lead Developer Ă  SEA-Invest, Honfleur, France.

  • ClĂ©ment Duhart, “Toward Organic Ambient Intelligences? EMMA”, PhD Start: 12/2012, defended on 21/06/2016.
    Funding: Employee as Teacher at ECE, Paris
    Current situation of the doctor : Director of Strategy and Innovation at IONIS Education Group.

  • Mahdi Abed Salman Meslmawy, “Efficient resources management in a distributed computer system, modeled as a dynamical complex system”, PhD start: 11/2011, defended on 12/10/2015, co-directed with Pr. Eric Sanlaville (LITIS, Le Havre)
    Funding: Research Grant from Iraq in the framework of a doctoral training programme.
    Current position of the doctor: Assistant Professor at the University of Baghdad, Iraq.

  • Abdelhamid Zouhair, “Multi-agent dynamic case-based reasoning; application to an intelligent tutor system”, PhD start: 10/2009, defended on 20/10/2014, co-supervision: Pr. Benaissa Amami (FST Tanger, Morocco, co-supervision), co-supervised with Dr. El Mokhtar En-Naimi (FST Tanger, Morocco), Dr. Hadhoum Boukachour and Dr. Patrick Person (LITIS, Le Havre)
    Funding: Civil Servant at the Ministry of the City in Morocco.
    Current position of the doctor: Assistant Professor at Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tétouan, Morocco.

  • Karim Mahboub, “Modelling emotional processes in decision making”, defended on 22/11/2011, co-supervision: Dr. Evelyne ClĂ©ment (ICONES, Rouen) and Dr. VĂ©ronique Jay (LITIS, Le Havre)
    Funding: Regional Doctoral Research Grant + ATER (Temporary Teaching and Research Grant Holder)
    Current position of the doctor: Senior Data and AI Lead Ă  Ooredov, Qatar.

  • Michel Nabaa, “Morphodynamics of road networks – Application to risk assessment”, defended on 12/04/2011, co-directed with Pr. Damien Olivier, co-supervision: Dr. Antoine Dutot (LITIS, Le Havre)
    Funding: CIFRE Agreement with the Le Havre Urban Community + ATER (Temporary Teaching and Research Grant Holder).
    Current situation of the doctor: Domain Manager at BGL BNP Paribas.

  • Beddine Ould Mohamed Lemine, “Modelling in game theory by genetic automata genetic automata”, defended on 08/06/2010, co-supervision: Dr. Mustapha Arfi (LITIS, Le Havre) and Dr. Carla Selmi (LITIS, Rouen)
    Funding: Research Grant from Mauritania and from Egide.
    Current situation of the doctor: Assistant Professor King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia.

  • Fahem Kebair, “Multi-agent modelling of command posts coordinating strategic strategic decision making. Application to the RoboCupRescue simulation system”, defended on 28/09/2009, co-supervision: Dr. FrĂ©dĂ©ric Serin (LITIS, Le Havre)
    Funding: Regional Doctoral Research Grant + ATER (Temporary Teaching and Research Grant Holder).
    Current situation of the doctor: Associate Professor at the Higher Institute of Informatics of Tunis, Tunisia.

  • Rawan Ghnemat, “Complex systems modeling for geographic information systems”, defended on 22/06/2009, co-directed with Pr. GĂ©rard H.E. Duchamp (LIPN, Paris 13),
    Funding: Research Grant from French Government proposed by the French Embassy in Jordan.
    Current position of the doctor: Associate Professor and Chairman of the Computer Science Department at PSUT University, Amman, Jordan.

  • LuaĂŻ Jaff, “Dynamic Data Structures for Complex Systems”, defended on 30/03/2007, co-directed with Pr. GĂ©rard H.E. Duchamp (LIPN, Paris 13),
    Funding: Research Grant from French Government proposed by the French Embassy in Irak.
    Current position of the doctor: Councillor at Sèvres Town Hall, France.

  • Guillaume PrĂ©vost, “ModĂ©lisation multi-niveaux d’écosystème aquatique par des approches mixtes”, defended on 02/12/2005, joint supervision under the guidance of Pr. Alain Cardon (LIH, Le Havre).
    Funding: Regional Doctoral Research Grant.
    Current position of the doctor: Technical Manager Big Data at Orange Applications for Business.

  • Khalaf Khatatneh, “Operators for complex modeling”, defended on 12/07/2005, joint supervision under the guidance of Pr. GĂ©rard H.E. Duchamp (LIPN, Paris 13).
    Funding: Research Grant from Al-Balqa Applied University, Al-Salt, Jordan.
    Current position of the doctor: Associate Professor and Dean of the faculty of Communication and Information Technology at Al-Balqa Applied University, Al-Salt, Jordan.

  • Pierrick Tranouez, “Contribution to the modelling and computational consideration of multiple levels of description - Application to aquatic ecosystems”, defended on 25/03/2005, joint supervision under the guidance of Pr. Alain Cardon (LIH, Le Havre).
    Funding: Regional Doctoral Research Grant.
    Current position of the doctor: Research Engineer at LITIS, Rouen, France.

  • Bernard Adouobo, “Numerical simulations of particle and particle-mesh methods on parallel machines”, defended on 30/09/1998, joint supervision under the guidance of Pr. Serge Huberson (LOMC, Le Havre).
    Funding: Côte d’Ivoire Doctoral Research Grant.
    Current position of the doctor: Manager of ABTOO, Design office and simulation (static and dynamic) of road traffic.

Participation in PhD and HDR juries (2018-2021)

In addition to the PhD I have supervised myself and which are listed above, I have participated in a large number of PhD or HDR juries in France or abroad. I mention below (1) all the participations in HDR juries, (2) the only participations in PhD juries when I was either rapporteur or president of the jury, over the period 2018-2021:

  • Rapporteur of the PhD of Maroi Agrebi defended on 12/04/2018 at the Polytechnic University of Haut de France and the University of Sfax ;

  • President of the jury of Ebtissem Sassi’s PhD defended on 05/04/2019 at the University of Le Havre Normandie;

  • Rapporteur of the PhD of Mouna Rifi defended on 03/05/2019 at the University Sorbonne Paris CitĂ©;

  • Examiner of Olivier Bonin’s HDR defended on 27/05/2019 at the University of Besançon;

  • Rapporteur of the HDR of Hichem Oumrani defended on 24/06/2019 at the University of Technology of Compiègne;

  • President of the jury of Youssa Sidqi’s PhD defended on 22/10/2019 at the University of Grenoble Alpes;

  • Examiner of the HDR of Damienne Provitolo defended on 06/12/2019 at Sophia Antipolis;

  • Rapporteur of the PhD of Cheikhou Oumar Ka defended on 11/12/2019 at the University of Dakar in Senegal

  • Rapporteur of the PhD of Igor Tchappi Haman defended on 13/05/2020 at the technological university of Belfort MonbĂ©liard;

  • Rapporteur of the PhD of Audren Bouadjio-Boulic defended on 18/03/2021 at the University of Toulouse 1 Capitole.