Alain Tapp

Addresses

Affiliations

Biography

Work address (Home)

3485 boul. St-Elzéar Ouest

Laval, H7P 0G5

Work address (MILA)

Office: F2125-A (F05)

6666 St-Urbain, #200

Montreal, QC, H2S 3H1

Work address (DIRO)

Office: 3345

Pavillon André Aisenstadt

2920 Chemin de la Tour

Montréal (Québec), Canada H3T 1J4

Work address (Postal)

Alain Tapp

Université de Montréal, DIRO

C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-Ville

Montréal (QC), Canada, H3C 3J7

Phones

Main: (514)-250-9774

Fax: (514)-343-5834

Research interests

Alain Tapp on Google scholars

  • Artificial intelligence
    • Data science
    • Machine learning
    • Deep learning
    • Natural language processing
  • Philosophy
    • Linguistic
    • Scientific methodology, epistemology and philosophy of science
    • Moral and ethic of algorithms
  • Cryptography
    • Quantum cryptography
    • Multiparty computation
  • Theoretical computer science
    • Computational complexity
    • Communication complexity
  • Physics
    • Foundation of physics
    • Quantum computing

Short CV

Alain Tapp is a Canadian citizen born in Montreal in 1969. He is married to Sandra Quiroga since 2013. Alain is professor at Université de Montréal in the Département d’Informatique et de Recherche Opérationnelle. He was appointed in 2001 and he is full professor since 2012.

  • Ph. D. in Quantum Information Processing. Completed in 1999 at Université de Montréal under the supervision of Gilles Brassard and Pierre McKenzie.
  • M. Sc. in Computer Science (Cryptology). Completed at Université de Montréal in 1995 under the supervision of Claude Crépeau and Gilles Brassard.
  • B.Sc. Double major in Mathematics and Computer Science. Completed at Université de Montréal in 1993.

Short biographical presentation for announcement (french).

Affiliations

  • I am associate member of the laboratory Recherche Appliquée en Linguistique Informatique since 2018.
  • I am member of Laboratoire d’Informatique Théorique et Quantique since 1993 when I started my graduate studies.
  • I am member of Centre de recherches mathématiques since 2009 .
  • I have been director of Institut Transdisciplinaire d'Information Quantique from July 2010 to June 2012 and a regular member from 2006 to 2013.
  • I am in the process of becoming Analysis Consultant Experts (ACE) on the Altas project at CERN.
  • I am collaboration with Universitad de la Habana since 2014 a I travel there regularly to give intensive courses and conferences.
  • I am member of IVADO since its creation.
  • I am associate member of MILA since 2016.