Curriculum Vitae

QUALIFICATIONS AND RANKS

• • Full Professor in Computer Science (CAMES), july 2023

  • Equivalent Professor at Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, october 2018

  • CAMES Associate Professor, july 2018, (CAMES, Conseil africain et malgache pour l'enseignement supérieur, https://www.lecames.org/)

  • Associate Professor at Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, may 2016  

  • CAMES Graduate teaching assistant, july 2014

  • PhD in Computer science at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC - Sorbonne Universités, Paris). Defended on february 8th, 2012. Topic : “Optimized management of model-products of MDE software processes”.

  • Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies in Computer science (with honours, top of the class) at the Sciences and techniques faculty, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, 2004/2005

  • Attestation d’Etudes Approfondies in Computer science (with honours, top of the class) at the Sciences and techniques faculty, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, 2003/2004

  • Dipôme d'Etudes Supérieures Spécialisées in Computer science engineering and Information and Communication Technologies (with honours, top of the class), at Université Gaston Berger, St-Louis, Senegal, 2002/2003

  • Master's degree in Computer science (with honours, top of the class) at Université Gaston Berger, St-Louis, Senegal, 2001/2002

  • Bachelor's degree in  Computer science (with honours) at Université Gaston Berger, St-Louis, Senegal, 2000/2001

  • Diplôme d'Etudes Universitaires Générales in Applied Mathematics and Computer science (with honours) at Université Gaston Berger, St-Louis, Senegal, 1999/2000

  • Sciences  and techniques (S1) Baccalaureate at Lycée Technique Ahmadou Bamba, Diourbel, Senegal, 1997/1998  

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

University lecturer and researcher in Computer science at the Computer science Department, Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique, Dakar,  since 2006

• • Heah of the Computer Science Department at ESP, since august 2020

  • ANAQ SUP (http://anaqsup.sn/ ) Expert-Assessor, since 2019

  • Educational coordinator of the ESP Computer science Department, october 2016 - july 2020

  • Head of the Engineering degree in Computer science program, ESP, october 2016 - july 2020

  • In charge of end year internships in the  ESP Computer science Department, october 2018 - july 2020

  • Head of the University diploma in technology (DUT) in Computer science  program, ESP,  october 2015 - october 2016

  • Head of the Engineering degree in Computer science program, ESP,  july 2012 - october 2015

  • Head of the Master in Software engineering and information system program, ESP,  july 2013 - october 2015

  • Head of the  DIT (Diplôme d’ingénieur Technologue) in Computer science program , octobre 2009 - july 2012. The DIT is an evening classes continuing education program designed to recieve senior officers mainly from the civil service corps.

  • Responsible for the following subjects at the Computer science Department, ESP : 

    1. Engineering degree and Master levels: Software engineering, Object-oriented programing, Java, Advanced Java, JEE, Advanced JEE, XML technologies, C programing, Web Services, Mobile applications development.

    2.  Bachelor degree levels: Web technologies, Introduction to mobile applications development.

  • Dissertations supervision activities 

    1. Three doctoral thesis including an already defended one

    2. Over fifty master's degree ones 

    3. Over one hundred bachelor's degree ones

Software engineering Expert (at the FineTech, AllDist and LibreTic companies) since march 2012 

• • XML Technologies, Web Services and JEE training session for the Malian Custums officers [Bamako, 11/01/2015 - 11/12/2015]

  • Software engineering and databases expert in the drawing up of the specifications for the automation of all the procedures of the Senegalese General Accounting Office project [Dakar, Senegal, september 2013 - may 2014].

  • UML training session for officers of the Senegalese General Accounting Office [november 2013].

  • Java and JEE training session for officers of the DTAI (Senegalese Ministry of Economy and Finances) [Dakar, Senegal, january 2014].

  • Web applications development (PHP/MySQL), Java/JEE training session for officers of the DGID (Senegalese Ministry of Economy and Finances) [october 2010 - july 2011].

  • Web applications development (PHP/MySQL), Java/JEE training session for officers of the Senegalese Ministry of Justice  [october 2010 - july 2011].

  •  Manager of the reworking of the Senegalese National Assembly Web portal project [april-july 2014].

  • Manager of the Quartier.Net project : development of SENMED (An automated information system for Senegalese level 1, 2 and 3 public health centres) 

    1. Recruitment of the developers and upgrading of their JEE level [july 2014]. 

    2. Modeling, enacting and monitoring the development process of the project [july 2014 - january  2015].

PhD student  at Université Pierre et Marie-Curie (UPMC - Sorbonne Universités, Paris) from 2008 to early 2012 

• • My PhD thesis is presented here.

IT manager of the  Senegalese Ministry of Trade

• • From august 2004 to may 2006

Substitute teacher at the Applied Sciences and Technologies UFR,  Université Gaston Berger, St-Louis, Senegal,  from october 2004 to january 2007

• • Tutorial and practical work on Software engineering and Object-oriented programming in Java (Master's degree on Computer science).

  • Tutorial and practical work on Algorithms and data structures with the C language (Bachelor's degree in Computer science).

  • Lecture, tutorial and practical work  on Information system and databases (Master's degree on Computer science).

  • Tutorial and practical work on Algorithms and programming in the Pascal language (1srt year of the MAI and MPI Bachelor programs).

Junior consultant at the SEMIS (Service de l’Energie en MIlieu Sahélien) company, Dakar, Senegal, from april to august 2004 

• • Development of a Web application for the management of Senegalese rural motor-driven water towers as part of the «Regefor» project.

Software Development Engineer at JOUVE-SENEGAL company, from january to april 2004 

• • Development of the Sainte Genéviève library's Web portal with the  Cocoon Java and XML based platform.

Master's degree final year internship at MainSoft, after-sales service of Alliance Technologies-Informatique (ATI), Dakar,  july 8th 2003 -  january 28th 2004  

• • Systems and networks maintenance for the company's customers. 

  • Development of a Web application for the management of the whole maintenance activities.

Teacher at the ESSEG school, Saint-Louis,  2002-2003

• • Computer architecture courses 

Bachelor degree end year internship at Direction de l’Automatisation des Fichiers (DAF), Ministry of the Interior, Senegal, from august 15th to september 30th, 2001 

• • Design of an application for the management of the company's equipment.

RESEARCH

My research activities are presented in this page.

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES 

• • Representative of ESP teachers at UCAD Assembly of University, January 2018 - april 2020

  • Representative of teachers at ESP’s board of directors, 2014 - 2020

  • Representative of teachers at ESP’s Educational board, 2014 - 2020

  • Member of ESP's quality assurance body, from 2015 august 13th  to 2016 august 12th  

  • President of the Pedagogy and Teaching committee of the ASCII (Association Sénégalaise des Chercheurs en Informatique, http://www.ascii.org.sn) association since 2013.

  • Cofounder of the ASCII association, on 2013.

  • Member of the scientific committee of the CNRIA (Conférence nationale sur la recherche en informatique et ses Applications, formely Colloque nationale sur la Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications, http://ascii.org.sn/index.php/cnria-2019), since 2013.

  • Cofounder and President of the SODEN (Solidarité pour le développement de Ndindy) association. Receipt number 17150/MINT.SP/DGAT/DLP/DLA-PA obtained on 2014 december 31st

OTHER MISSIONS

Involvement in projects drafting works

• • The Centre d’Excellence Africain en Mathématiques, Informatique et TIC (CEA-MITIC, http://www.ceamitic.sn/) African Center of Excellence (ACE) IMPACT project,  2018 july 15-19, Mbour, Senegal

  • An ERASMUS+ project related to the creation of a Master between ESP (http://www.esp.sn/, Dakar) and ENSIIE (https://www.ensiie.fr/, Evry), from 2017 november 5th to  2017 november 18th, Evry, France

  • New Master programs for the CEA-MITIC consortium, from 2015 july 10th to 2015 july 12th, Saint-Louis, Senegal

  • The initial CEA-MITIC application project, from january to september 2013, Saint-Louis, Thies, Mbour, Dakar, Senegal

Scientific conference organisation 

• • Member of the local organisation committee of the Intersol’CNRIA’2017 (Interdisciplinary Solutions/Conférence internatioNale sur la Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications, ex Colloque National sur la Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications) held from april 10th to april 12th 2017 in Dakar, Senegal 

Research journeys and scientific conferences attendance  

• • 25th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), from june 10th to june 18th 2016, Paris, France 

  • 19th IEEE International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC’2015), from october 11 to october 16th 2015, Cheile Gradistei, Romania 

  • 22nd IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE) from june 17th to june 24th 2013, Hammamet, Tunisia 

  • Visit to Professor Xavier BLANC (http://www.labri.fr/perso/xblanc/), from 2015 october 17th to october 24th, Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI), Bordeaux (France)

  • African conference on Computer science research (CARI),  2014 october 16-23, Saint-Louis, Sénégal

  • Research journey at the Paris 6 Computer science lab, from 2014 september 2nd to october 2nd, Paris, France 

  • Research journey at the Paris 6 Computer science lab, from 2012 september 15th to october 15th, Paris, France 

  • 4th MDE days, 2008 june 5-6, Mulhouse, France

  • All the CNRIAs (Conférence iNternationale sur la Recherche en informatique et ses Applications, anciennement Colloque National sur la Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications): Saint-Louis (2005), Dakar (2010), Bambey-Thies (2012), Thies (2015), Dakar (2017), Ziguinchor (2018)

Presidency of Baccalaureat examinations boards 

• • Exam board number 770, General Baccalauréat, from 07/05/2014 to 07/20/2014, Lycée Technique Ahmadou Bamba, Diourbel, Senegal

  • Exam board number 532, Technical Baccalauréat, from 07/21/2012 to 08/04/2012, Lycée Technique Ahmadou Bamba, Diourbel, Senegal

Involvement in other ESP work 

• • Work sessions for the research restructuring at ESP, july 2018 (Mbour) and october 2018 (Dakar), Senegal 

  • Work sessions for the certification of the programs of the ESP Computer science Department , 2016-2018, Dakar and Mbour, Senegal

  • Work sessions for the assessment and validation of the curricula of the ESP Computer science Department's programs, from 08/18/2015 to 08/21/2015, Mbour, Senegal

  • Work sessions for the adaptation of the ESP Computer science Department's programs according to the LMD standards, from 03/05/2015 to 03/08/2015, Mbour, Senegal

  • Work sessions for the revision of the ESP Computer science Department's programs, from 02/19/2015 to 02/21/2015, Mbour, Senegal

OTHER TRAINING SESSIONS OR INTERNSHIPS

Work capabilities reinforcement

• • English Low Advanced Level training session, 2019 march 11th - mai 11th, English Language Institute (ELI), Dakar, Sénégal

  • English High Intermediate Level training session, 2019 january 7th - march 1st, English Language Institute (ELI), Dakar, Sénégal

  • Workshop for lecturers and researchers work capabilities reinforcement on the skills-based approach, from 07/30/2018 au 08/03/2018, Saly, Mbour, Senegal 

  • Workshop for lecturers and researchers work capabilities reinforcement on research projects drafting, from 02/15/2018 to 02/18/2018, Mbour, Senegal 

  • Workshop for lecturers and researchers work capabilities reinforcement on the skills-based approach, from 08/04/2016 au 08/07/2016, Mbour, Senegal 

  • Training session on programs self-assessment reports drafting in preparation for their ANAQ-SUP (http://anaqsup.sn/) certification, 02/27/2016, Ngor Diarama, Dakar, Senegal  

  • Workshop for lecturers and researchers work capabilities reinforcement on courses description, from 12/08/2015 to 12/10/2015, Ngor Diarama, Dakar, Senegal

Youth ITU TELECOM AFRICA 2001 fellow

• • Senegalese representative at ITU TELECOM AFRICA 2001 youth forum (The theme was : «Bridging the digital divide»), Johannesburg, 12-16 november 2001 

  • Design of an Internet project to promote an universal access to ICTs, with the patronage of the ITU (https://www.itu.int/) and the ALCATEL company.

Java virtual developer 

• • Qualification of the African Virtual University (AVU) site of St-Louis, Senegal, 2001 

LANGUAGES  

• • French and English (working languages)

  • Wolof (native language)   

I have shared the PDF version of my Curriculum Vitae hereunder.