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« What I see is the current ravages; it is the frightening disappearance of living species, whether vegetable or animal; and the fact that, by the very fact of its present density, the human species lives under a sort of regime of internal poisoning - if I may say so - and I think of the present and the world in which I am finishing my existence. It's not a world I love ».
CAMES Full Professor in Computer Science, Semantic Web (CAMES/LAFPT 2019), I hold a PhD (2010), a DEA in Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems (2004) and a Master's degree in Distributed Computer Systems Engineering (2005) from the Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale(ULCO) in France.
Recruited as a teacher-researcher at Université Iba Der THIAM (UIDT) from 2007 to 2021, then at Université Numérique Cheikh Hamidou KANE (UN-CHK) since 2022, I have held the positions of :
Member of the Board of Directors of the Université Numérique Cheikh Hamidou KANE du Sénégal (Ex. UvS) since 2023;
Director of the Pôle d'Innovation et d'Expertise pour le Développement(PIED) at UN-CHK since 2022;
Directeur par intérim de l'École Doctorale Développement Durable et Société (ED2DS) de l'Université de THIES (March 2018 to March 2019) ;
Scientific Secretary of the Doctoral School Sustainable Development and Society of the University of THIES(from 2015 to 2019);
Vice-Director of the UFR SET (2015-2018);
Head of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at UFR SET (2011-2015).
In addition, I am Scientific Leader of the Master in Artificial Intelligence(AI), the Master in Big Data Analytics(BDA) and the Master of Computer Science in Application Design and Development(MICDA), and Head of UN-CHK's Science, Technology and Digital doctoral program.
Within the University, I have been involved in a number of activities:
Member of the Academic Council of the UIDT, then of the UN-CHK since september 2023;
Member of the Institutional Commission for the evaluation of CAMES files within the framework of the CAMES CCI from 2022 to the present day;
Member of the Scientific and Pedagogical Council of the UIDT doctoral school, then of the UN-CHK;
Member of the Commission Études et Vie Universitaire (CEVU) of the UIDT, then of the Commission Pédagogique of the UN-CHK.
I have been a quality assurance expert on behalf of ANAQ-Sup since 2018, with more than a dozen assessments carried out to date. I am regularly consulted for the study of applications for funding, recruitment, studies for distinctions and awards, etc.
In terms of teaching and training, I have more seventeen (17) years' experience in various higher education institutions.
On the research front, my activities revolve around several themes: Data Integration, Knowledge Engineering, Ontologies, Fact-Checking(Check4Decision Project https://check4decision.uvs.sn/), Information Personalization, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning for Decision Support.
I have supervised and defended three (03) doctoral theses, supervised and defended more than fifty (50) Master 2 theses, and published nearly fifty (50) papers in internationally-indexed journals.