​Professor at INSA Lyon, teaching Computer Science and researching digital sciences, specializing in computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

After completing a PhD at IBM, academic positions in Greece, Germany, and Spain, and a scientific expert “Fellow” position at Orange Labs, he joined INSA Lyon in 2010, where he became Deputy Director of LIRIS (2015–2020) and Deputy to the Director of Research (since 2016) responsible for the societal challenge “Information and Digital Society.”

He was also head of the IMAGINE team within LIRIS, a research group dedicated to image analysis, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. He is currently co-leader of the Innovation for Humanity chair (INSA-Handicap International), developing digital solutions for humanitarian actions.

Involved in strategic bodies for digital technology and research, he is a board member of the Minalogic competitiveness cluster (since 2019), where he contributes to defining strategic directions for innovation and collaboration between research and industry. He also served on the Executive Board of the Carnot Institute Ingénierie@Lyon between 2018 and 2023.

Active at the European level, he has been Vice-Chair of the EIC-PathFinder program since 2016, overseeing the quality process of evaluations of innovative research projects. He has supervised more than 25 doctoral theses, participated in numerous academic juries, published over 160 scientific articles and communications, and filed 17 invention patents.