Vitae

Associate Professor (2013-21), Professor (2021-24), Full Professor (2024), Department of Mathematics and Operational Research, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mons (UMONS), Belgium. 

ERC consolidator grant to go beyond low-rank factorizations - eLinoR project.  

 F.R.S.-FNRS Research Project (PDR); see here.

 Francqui Research Professor, Fondation Francqui.

EOS grant SeLMA (Structured Low-Rank Matrix/Tensor Approximation - Numerical Optimization-Based Algorithms and Applications).  

ERC starting grant on constrained low-rank matrix approximations - COLORAMAP project.  

Incentive Grant for Scientific Research from the F.R.S.-FNRS (funds for scientific research, in Belgium).  

F.R.S.-FNRS Postdoctoral Researcher at ICTEAM, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium.  

Visiting Haesun Park at Georgia Tech., Atlanta (USA). 

Visiting Robert Luce and Jörg Liesen at T.U. Berlin (Germany).  

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo (Canada), with Stephen Vavasis   and Henry Wolkowicz. 

F.R.S.-FNRS Research Fellow at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université catolique de Louvain (UCL),   Supervisor: François Glineur.

Thesis: 'Nonnegative Matrix Fatorization: Complexity, Algorithms and Applications'. [pdf] [slides]

ICTEAM Thesis Award 2012. 

Householder award 2014. [Slides] [picture] [Report Symposium] 

Visiting Robert Plemmons at Wake Forest University (USA).  

B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Eng. in Applied Mathematics at Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium. 

Thesis: 'Approximation et sous-approximation de matrices par factorisation positive: algorithmes, complexité et applications' [pdf],   Supervisor: François Glineur.

SOGESCI-B.V.W.B Thesis Award 2008.