Eric SanJuan Curriculum Vitae

Eric SanJuan

Associate professor in computer science
Avignon University (IUT STID)
France

Address:

LIA

339, chemin des Meinajaries
Agroparc BP 1228
84911 AVIGNON Cedex 9
FRANCE

E-mail : eric.sanjuan(at)univ-avignon.fr

Who am I?

Coming from the world of discrete mathematics and algebraic logic, I like working on original applications of discrete probabilistic models to Knowledge Representation, Natural Language Processing and related areas in Information Science like Text Mining and Information Retrieval. The goal is to find efficient algorithms to handle discrete aspects of texts like syntax, linguistic rules and underlying conceptual structure.

Bilingual:French/Spanish
Foreign language: English.

University Degrees

2018

Habilitation in Computer Science, Avignon Université, France (December 6 2018)
Thesis: Turing tests in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval Contributions to the theory, development and evaluation of textual information processing systems for decision support
Director: Patrice Bellot (Aix Marseille Université)
Reviewers: Jian Yun Nie (Université de Montréal, CA), Jacques Savoy (Université de Neuchâtel, CH), Fionn Murtagh (University of Huddersfield, UK)
Academic committee: Jean François Bonastre (LIA, Avignon, President), Josiane Mothe (IRIT, Toulouse), Marie Sylvie Poli (CNE, Avignon), Philippe Mulhem (LIG, Grenoble), Juan Manuel Torres Moreno (LIA, Avignon), Olivier Hamon (Invitee; Syllabs, Paris)
Academic Supervisor: Tania Jimenez (LIA)

2000

Ph.D in Mathematics and Computer Science, Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1, France.
Title: Algèbres de Heyting avec opérateurs booléens et applications aux systèmes d'information.
Directors: Professors Luisa Iturrioz and Maurice Pouzet

1995

M. Phil. in Mathematics (formal Logic option), Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1, France.

1994

M.A in Discrete Mathematics, Université Claude Bernar - Lyon 1, France.

1993

B.A. in Mathematics (Computer Science and Statistics Option), Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1, France.

Keywords

Teaching

Computer science: language programming: C, C++, PERL 5, php, python, R Information systems : relational databases, SQL, UML; networks: TCP/IP, security based on Open SSL; Operating Systems: LINUX, Windows;

Mathematics: Statistic: descriptive, parametric and non parametric tests; Data Mining: clustering, classification, principal component analysis; graph theory; linear algebra.

Research

Text mining: Graph clustering, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Information Visualization, Information Retrieval, Automatic summarization.

Discrete Mathematics : association rules, Lattice Theory, Formal concept analysis, Horn functions, Rough Sets, algebraic logic.

Teaching history

I am currently a permanent lecturer at the Institute of Technology of Avignon in the department of Statistics and Decision Support Systems (StID). Before coming to Avignon in 2006, I was appointed as an assistant lecturer first in 2000 at the Institute of Technology 2 in Grenoble, then in 2001 at the University Claude Bernard - Lyon 1, and in 2002 I was nominated as lecturer at the Institute of Technology of Metz.

I'm teaching Computer Science, Information Systems and Data Mining to both under- and postgraduated students in Avignon (StID and masters of computer science and Digital Governement) and in Lyon (Masters of Applied Mathematics). These lectures address the following topics:

Extended summaries in French and students notes are available at http://idapa.termwatch.es/

Research activities

My research interests revolve around Discrete Mathematics, Knowledge Discovery, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information retrieval and Cultural Heritage.

The phd's I supervised over these topics are listed in theses.fr

Before these projects, I have been working on the theoretical side using algebraic logic formalism:

Organisation of scientific activities