Year

Study abroad

Civil Service

1984

TUNISIA (2 yrs)
Centre Mondial Informatique et Ressources Humaines

1986

JAPAN (6 months)
Post-doctorate studies in Computer Science

1990

CANADA (6 months)
Guest Professor at Pf Jean-Guy Meunier's Lab LANCI -UQAM

1997

INDIA & PAKISTAN (2 months)
Mission IHEDN

2001

MAURITANIA (2 months)
CORUS program on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Coordinator of the european IST CUIDADO project - musical data mining (6 partners in Europe : Ircam, Arstpages, Creamware, Oracle, University of Pompeu Fabra, Ben Gourion University, total budget 1,8 ME)

2002

Member of DIGIARTS reseach group w/ UNESCO

Member of the managing Commitee for the electronic review :Musimédiane

2003

Coordinator of the european IST SemanticHIFI project - conception of a musical GOOGLE search engine
(7 partners en Europe : Ircam, Sony-CSL, Sony-EuTEC, Native-Instrument, Fraunhofer, University of Pompeu Fabra, Ben Gourion University, total budget 2 ME)

2004

CANADA (2 months)
Guest Professor invited by Prof. Ghislain Levesque at the Department of computer Science - Department of computer Science - UQAM

European Commission
Expert Engineer fot the 6th program (actions «Semantic based Knowledge and Content Systems» et «eContent»)

2005

President of the « Computer Society » chapter of the French Section de l’IEEE