I was born in Laxou, France in 1977
and grew up in Kasserine (Tunisia), Dakar (Senegal) and
Antananarivo (Madagascar), where I obtained my
baccalauréat in 1995, at
Lycée Français de Tananarive.
From Sep. 1995 to June 1997, I attended
classes préparatoires at
Lycée Henri Poincaré (Nancy, France).
In Sep. 1997, I entered French engineering school
École Centrale de
Nantes, from which I graduated in June 2000; I was an intern at
Maroc Telecom R&D
(Rabat, Morocco) during summer 1999. In Sep. 2000, I also obtained a DEA (MSc) in
Automatique et Informatique
Appliquée
jointly from École Centrale de Nantes and Université de
Nantes.
From Oct. 2000 to Oct. 2003, I was a PhD student with the signal
processing group
ADTS at
IRCCyN (Nantes,
France),
under the supervision of Prof.
C.
Doncarli.
From Nov. 2003 to Mar. 2006, I was a research associate with the
Signal Processing Laboratory at
University of Cambridge (UK).
From May 2006 to Feb. 2007, I was a research engineer with the start-up company
Mist-Technologies (Paris,
France).
In March 2007, I joined
Département
Signal-Image (TSI)
at
TELECOM
ParisTech, first as a research associate and then
as a
CNRS tenured research scientist
(
Chargé de Recherche) in Nov.
2007.
More precisely I am with UMR 5141
Laboratoire
Traitement et Communication de l'Information (LTCI) which is a
joint laboratory of TELECOM ParisTech (formerly known as
École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications,
ENST or
Télécom Paris)
and
Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), physically located in TELECOM ParisTech's
buildings in Paris. Note that TELECOM ParisTech
belongs to
Institut TELECOM (formely known as
Groupe des Écoles des Télécommunication or
GET) and is a
member of
ParisTech.
