Keynote Speakers
Pr. Farouk Kamoun
Farouk Kamoun (born October 20, 1946) is a Tunisian computer scientist and professor of computer science at the National School of Computer Sciences (ENSI) of Manouba University, Tunisia. He contributed in the late 1970s to significant research in the field of computer networking in relation with the first ARPANET network. He is also one of the pioneers of the development of the Internet in Tunisia in the early 1990s. He received a French engineering degree in 1970, a Master's and a PhD degree from the University of California at Los Angeles Computer Science Department. From 1993 till 1999, he served as Dean of the National School of Computer Science (ENSI). Since 1999, he continue teaching and serve as director of the CRISTAL Research Laboratory of the ENSI. He is also an advisor in IT fields to the Tunisian minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technology.
Pr. Faouzi Ghorbel
Faouzi Ghorbel received the degree in telecom engineering from IMT Atlantique, France, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree from Rennes I University in 1990. He was an Associate Professor with IMT Nord Europe from 1991 to 1998. He is currently a Full Professor with the National School of Computer Science (ENSI), Manouba University, Tunisia, and the Head of the CRISTAL Laboratory. From 2014 to 2018, he was the Dean of ENSI. His current research interests include geometric and statistical machine learning, computer vision, invariant theory, and Riemannian computation
Pr. Maledh Marrakchi
Doctor of Computer Engineering specialized in Artificial Intelligence. He is currently a freelance consultant. He taught Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for more than 30 years at the National School of Computer Sciences and the National Engineering School of Tunis. He was also for more than a decade General Director in charge of the National ICT Development Strategy within the Tunisian Ministry in charge of ICT.
Author of several articles related to AI and its issues, he is also a speaker on the issues and applications of Artificial Intelligence in several events and was the first to provide a course in AI at the Tunisian University in 1986 and the first to have called, since October 2017, for the need for Tunisia to adopt a national strategy for Artificial Intelligence. He is a member of Tunisian AI Society.
PR. Liming Chen
Prof. Liming Chen was awarded a joint BSc degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Nantes in 1984. He obtained a Master degree in 1986 and a PhD in computer science from the University of Paris 6 in 1989. From 2001 to 2003, he served as Chief Scientific Officer in a Paris-based company, Avivias, specialized in media asset management. In 2005, he served as Scientific multimedia expert in France Telecom R&D China. He has been Head of the department of Mathematics and Computer science from 2007. He has been a (co)-principal investigator on a number of research grants from EU FP programme, French research funding bodies and local government departments. His current research spans from 2D/3D face analysis and recognition, image and video analysis and categorization, to affect analysis both in image, audio and video.
Pr. Jacques Demongeot
Jacques Demongeot received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University Joseph Fourier (UJF) of Grenoble in 1976 and M.D. from UJF in 1978. He was appointed as Professor in UJF (Faculty of Medicine) in 1984 (Emeritus since 2015) and as Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France in 1994 (Honorary since 2005). He did a post-doc at the Mathematical Biology Laboratory of Oxford (J.D. Murray) and at IHES (R. Thom) in 1983-1984. He created the laboratory CNRS TIMC-IMAG in 1987 and was its director until 2011. He founded the Medical Informatics Service and Public Health Pole at University Hospital of Grenoble in 1985 and directed it until 2012. He has published over 300 scientific papers in medical informatics, biostatistics, bioinformatics and theoretical biology.
