CV

I was born in Marseilles, France, on June 25, 1959. I entered the "Ecole Normale Supérieure" de Cachan in 1979 and was awarded the "CAPES de Physique" and "Agrégation de Physique Appliquée" in Paris in 1982. In 1983, I obtained a "Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies" (DEA) in Automatic Control and Signal Processing, from Orsay-Paris XI University. I defended my Ph.D. at the same university in 1986, on the design of optimal experiments for nonlinear models. In 1996, I received the "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis.

I entered CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) in 1987, and worked at the "Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes" (Gif-sur-Yvette) until October 1992. I have been working at the "Laboratoire I3S" in Sophia Antipolis since then. I became Reseach Director at CNRS in 1999.

I coordinated the research activities in Signal Processing, Automatic Control and Intelligent Systems at I3S from 1994 to 1999.

In January 2004, I have been elected president of the "comités des projets", the assembly of team managers where the scientific policy of the laboratory was elaborated and discussed. I left this position in January 2006.

I have been member of section 7 of the "Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique" from 2004 to 2008.

I have been deputy-director of the "Laboratoire I3S" from 2000 to 2003 and director from 2008 to 2011.