2024: Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches from Université de Lorraine "Contribution à la maintenance prédictive et au bilan de santée de systèmes : De la proposition de modèles génériques de référence à l’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle pour garantir la proactivité et la durabilité".
2016: Certification Black Belt 6-sigma from BCF Management Consultants. Conduct a BB lean 6-sigma project in BACCARAT crystal factory.
1999: PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at the Université de Lorraine, PhD thesis: “Contribution to subjective evaluation and its automation: from concept to application”
1994: Master of Science in Control and Digital Signal Processing, Université de Lorraine, Master thesis: “ Fuzzy rule base synthesis”
1992: Graduated from EFREI, French public graduate school of engineering in computer science and electronic
1992: 1 semester in Master of Engineering at the Electrical Engineering Department of the Bristol University
2024-…: Full Professor at Université de Lorraine, Teaching department: IUT Nancy-Brabois, Research department: CRAN
1999-2024: Associate Professor at Université de Lorraine, Teaching department: IUT Nancy-Brabois, Research department: CRAN
1994-1998: Doctoral researcher at Université de Lorraine, department: CRAN
1992-1993: Military service as a scientific for DCNS (i.e. NAVAL Group) in an optronic research center.
Scientific Activities
2018-2023: leader of the lab project SdF-PHM2 (Sûreté de Fonctionnement, Prognostics and Health Management et Maintenance/ Dependability, Prognostics and Health Management and Maintenance) with a dozen of permanent members of the laboratory.
Since 2018, Associate editor of frontiers in Artificial intelligence section Fuzzy Systems.
2020: 1 month Visiting professor at University of Salerno (Italy) with a grant from University of Salerno (Postpone in 2021) .
2025 (2 months): Simone Arena, Department of Mechanical, Chemical and Materials Engineering; University of Cagliari, Italy.
2023 (6 months): Raffaele Abbate, Department of Engineering, Università degli Studi della Campania « Luigi Vanvitelli », Italy
2022 (4 months): Pablo Calvo-Bascones, PhD student from Department of Intelligent Systems, Comillas Pontifical University – Institute for Research in Technology, Madrid, Spain
2024: IPC Co-Chair and organizing committee member of AMEST 2024, Cagliari, Italy, 12-14 June 2024.
2021: TPC and Organization committee of PHME 21, virtual event, 28 June-2 July 2021.
2017: Organization committee member of the STP CDR MACS days, Nancy, France, 9-10 November 2017.
2016: Organization committee member of AMEST 2016, Biarritz, France, 19-21 October 2016.
2015: Organization committee member of QUALITA 2015, Nancy, France, 5-7 November 2015.
2014: Organization committee member of MOSIM 2014, Nancy, France, 25-27 March 2014.
2021, APMS: invited special track "Human-centered Artificial Intelligence in Smart Manufacturing for the Operator 4.0", co-organization with Gregoris Mentzas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Stefan Wellsandtn (Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik, Germany), David Romero (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico), Karl A. Hribernik (Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik, Germany), John Soldatos (University of Glasgow / Intrasoft International, United Kingdom), Ricardo Raberlo, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, Johan Stahre (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
2021, APMS: invited session "Product and Asset Lifecycle Management for Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems", co-organization with Chiara Franciosi (University of Salerno, Italy), Maria Holgado (University of Sussex, UK), Malgorzata Jasiulewicz-Kaczmarek (Poznan University of Technology, Poland), Irene Roda (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
2020, FCH Forum: invited session "From Sensor to Decision: Data in the Factory of the Future", in cooperation with MATERALIA Competitiveness Cluster.
2016, IFAC MIM: invited session “Modeling and optimization in design of assembly/disassembly lines under uncertainty” co-organization with M. Lounes Bentaha, Olga Battaïa, Alexandre Dolgui & Pascale Marangé.
2016, SOHOMA:: invited session “Should Intelligent Manufacturing Systems be dependable and safe?” co-organization with André THOMAS & William DERIGENT
QUALITA 2015: session « in action », presentation of “industrial” products in connection with applications that have been published.
2023: International conference on Fuzzy Computation Theory and applications (FCTA 2023), Rome, Italy, November 13-15, 2023
2022: European Conference of the PHM Society (PHME22), Turin, Italy, July 6-8, 2022
2022: IFAC Workshop on Advanced Maintenance Engineering, Services and Technology (AMEST’22), Bogota, Colombia, July 26-29, 2022
2022: International Conference on SYSTEM RELIABILITY AND SAFETY, Venice, Italy, November 23-25, 2022
2021: International Conference on SYSTEM RELIABILITY AND SAFETY, Palermo, Italy, November 24-26, 2021
HCERES committee membre for ONERA-DTIS (2025)
ANR CE-10 committee membre (2024, 2025)
National Science Center, Poland
Association Nationale Recherche Technologie (ANRT), France
Private organisations
2019: "Industrial PHM: a case study at Renault factory", NRWT 2019 (Normandy Reliability Technology Workshop), Rouen, France, 10 October 2019.
Reliability Engineering and System Safety, IEEE Transaction on Fuzzy Systems, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Modern Transportation, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, European Journal of Operational Research, Computers in Industry, Procedia CIRP, International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, Journal of Industrial Information Integration, Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology
Since 2015: collaboration with RENAULT group on predictive maintenance with 2 PhD grants (2015-09 & 2020-01, 1 project on stamping presses (2 masters & 2 student’s projects): the objective of this collaboration is to help Renault to deploy predictive maintenance on its means of production through 2 privileged targets: Machine tools (PhDs) and stamping presses.
Since 2008: collaboration with PREDICT on national projects (ANR LabCOM PHM Factory, IMdR HUMS, BMCI), internship and project supervision (Ecole des Mines, Telecom Nancy). The objective of this collaboration is to transfer algorithms for prognosis and health check aggregation and the exploration of new perspectives such as the use of ontologies for aspects related to knowledge capitalization in a park (or fleet) of systems.
Teaching Activities
2023-...: Head of the QLIO Department (Quality, Industrial Logistics and Organization), IUT Nancy-Brabois, Université de Lorraine.
2018-2023: Referent for “Lean 6 sigma” Green-Belt certification for professional undergraduate students in the QLIO department.
2007-2017: Head lecturer of technological diploma in Quality, Industrial logistic and Organization (DUT QLIO).
Present teaching courses
“Lean 6 sigma” project management (L3)
“Lean 6 sigma” tools for performance improvement (L3)
“Lean 6 sigma” (L2)
Quality tools in design (L2)
Prognostic for predictive maintenance (M2)
Past teaching courses
Dependability (M2 & L2)
Maintenance (L3 & M2)
Statistics (M1)
Data aquisition from Sensors to digitazlization (L2 & L3)
Algorithmic & programming (L1 & L2)
Data Bases (L2)
Computer tools for office (word processing, spreadsheet…) (L1)
Grafcet & Programmable Logic Controllers (L1 & L2)
Fuzzy Logic (Industry)