Experience
Sep 2025 --??: Associate professor
University of Lille
Sep 2018 --2025: Associate professor
Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes
2022-2023: Visiting researcher (délégation CNRS)
MINT research group at the CRIStAL center at the University of Lille
Jan-March 2017: Researcher invited
Visualization and Intelligent Multimodal Interfaces Group at INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal
2016-2018: Post-doc
University of Lille 1 and Inria Lille Nord Europe, France
2013-2015: Teaching Assistant (ATER)
University of Lille 1 at the computer Science department, France
2011- 2013 : Lecturer (doctorante assistante)
University of Lille 1 at the computer Science department, France
Fev 2009- Aug 2009: R&D Internship (Engineering Graduation Project)
Institut de Mines-Telecom / Telecom Sud Paris - France
Sep 2009- June 2010: R&D Internship (Master’s Thesis)
Institut de Mines-Telecom / Telecom Sud Paris - France
Education
2010-2014: PhD in Human Computer Interaction, Univerity of Lille, France
MINT Team, INRIA Lille Nord Europe, France
Title: Understanding, Modeling and designing Multi-touch Gestures Interaction. [Details]
2008-2010: Master in computer science
National School of Computer Science (ENSI), Tunisia
Master in Protocols, Networks, Photography and Multimedia Systems (PRISM )
Specialization: traitement du signal et des images
2006-2009: Engineer in computer science
National School of Computer Science (ENSI), Tunisia
2004-2006: Preparatory Class
Preparatory Institute for Engineers of Sfax, Tunisia
Intensive two-years course for preparation to entrance exams of engineering schools
Specialization: Mathematics and Physics (MP)
Research activities
2023-2026 : Martin Birlouez (co-supervised with Laurent Grisoni)
2021-2024 : Milad Jamalzadeh (co-supervised with Laurent Grisoni)
2019-2022: Adnane Guettaf (co-supervised with Laurent Grisoni and Kathia Oliveira)
2018-2021: Vincent Reynaert (co-supervised with Florent Berthaut and Laurent Grisoni)
I frequently serve as a reviewer for the main HCI conferences and journals:
CHI : ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
UIST : The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.
IUI : ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.
Interact : the IFIP TCI3 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.
ISS : ACM International ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces Conference.
DIS : ACM International Conference on Designing Interactive Systems.
MobileHCI : ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services.
ICMI : ACM International International Conference on Multimodal Interaction.
EICS : ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems.
NIME : ACM International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression
ISMAR : IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality.
IJHCS : International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Elsevier.
IEEE VR Journal Papers.
IEEE Transactions on Haptics Journal papers.
Eurohaptics conference.
IHM : ACM National Conference on Interaction. Homme-Machine.
I obtained 2 Outstanding Reviews at ACM CHI 2020 and ACM IHM 2019 and a highly useful review at ACM UIST 2020.
Membre de jury prix thèse AFIHM
Expert reviewer for the French funding agency for research (ANR) 2020
Senior Program Committee IUI since 2022 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.
Program Committee ICMI 2022 and 2024 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction.
Regular PC, IUI 2019, 2020 et 2021.
Poster & Demo PC Member, IUI 2016.
Student volunteer IHM 2014