Laurence LIKFORMAN-SULEM is graduated in engineering from ENST-Bretagne (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications) in 1984, and received her PhD from ENST-Paris in 1989 and her HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) from Pierre & Marie Curie University in 2008. She is Associate Professor at ENST in the Department of Signal and Image Processing since 1991 where she serves as a senior instructor in Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing and Document Analysis.

Her research areas concern document analysis dedicated to handwritten and historical documents, document image understanding and character recognition.

Laurence Likforman-Sulem is a founding member of the francophone GRCE (Groupe de Recherche en Communication Ecrite) association for the development of research activities in the field of document analysis and writing communication. She chaired the program committee of CIFED (Conference Internationale Francophone sur l'Ecrit et le Document) held in Fribourg (Switzerland) in 2006 and the Document Recognition and Retrieval Conference XVI held in San Jose (USA) in 2009 . She is an IEEE Senior Member.
 

She has  participated in the following projects :

-  NARCISSE (1990): Network of Computer Art Image Systems

-  PHILECTRE  (1995-1998) : project of the French program for Cognitive Science (GIS) which is devoted to the edition of electronic books from manuscripts.

-  MAJORDOME (2000-2003): this project  has obtained the Eureka label and  is devoted to the development of an intelligent unified messaging system.

- BIOSECURE (from 2004) : Network of Excellence for Secure Biometrics

- RIMES (from 2005): TechnoVision project for the Recognition and Understanding of Handwritten incoming mails.