The board of directors can be composed of four until 10 members. Currently the board of directors is composed by:
- President: Arnaud Martin, ENSIETA, Brest, France
- Treasurer: Christophe Osswald, ENSIETA, Brest, France
- Secretary: Grégoire Mercier, Telecom Bretagne, Brest, France
- Member: Basel Solaiman, Telecom Bretagne, Brest, France
You can vote until June 15, 2010 for one or more candidates on http://www.doodle.com/g8yq8ewpsy2czgvy
This is the list of candidates for the board of directors:
- Fabio Cuzzolin: website
Dr Fabio Cuzzolin graduated in 1997 from the University of Padua
(Universitas Studii Paduani, 1222) with a laurea "magna cum laude" in
Computer Engineering. He received the Ph.D. degree from the same
institution in 2001, for a thesis entitled "Visions of a generalized probability
theory". He was first Visiting Scholar at the Washington University in St.
Louis. He was later appointed fixed-term Assistant Professor with the
Politecnico di Milano, Italy (consistently awarded as the best Italian
university), then moved as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of
California at Los Angeles. Later he received a Marie Curie Fellowship in
partnership with INRIA Rhone-Alpes, Grenoble, France. Since September
2008, he is Lecturer and an Early Career Fellow with the Department of
Computing of Oxford Brookes University.
Dr Cuzzolin’s research interests span both machine learning applications
of computer vision (including gesture and action recognition and identity
recognition from gait) and uncertainty modeling. His major contribution to
the field of imprecise probabilities is his geometric approach to the
theory of belief functions and a systematic analysis of the geometry of
random sets and other uncertainty measures.
Dr Cuzzolin is first or single author of some 44 peer reviewed scientific
publications, including ten book chapters and journal papers, and 9
chapters in collective volumes. His work has recently won a best paper
award at the recent Pacific Rim Conference on AI symposium.
Dr Cuzzolin collaborates with numerous international journals in both
computer vision and probability, such as the IEEE Tr. on Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics, the Int. J. on Approximate Reasoning, Computer Vision and
Image Understanding, the IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems, and is guest editor for
Information Fusion. He has served in the program committee of some 15
international conferences.
- Thierry Denoeux: website
Thierry Denoeux graduated in 1985 as an engineer from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, and received a doctorate from the same institution in 1989. Currently, he is Full Professor with the Department of Information Processing Engineering at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France. His research is essentially focused on the theory of belief functions, with applications to data analysis, pattern recognition and information fusion. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, and a member of the editorial board of Fuzzy Sets and Systems.
- Allain Hillion:
Alain Hillion is graduated from the "Ecole Normale Supérieure" (Ulm, Paris) in 1971. He received the "agrégation" in Mathematics in 1970, MSc in mathematics in 1971 from the University of Paris VI and his PhD (Thèse d'Etat es Science) in Mathematic Statistics in 1980 from the University of Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI. He served as Assistant in the University of Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) from 1971 to 1973, and Assistant Professor at the University of Bretagne Occidentale (Brest) from 1974 to 1982. From 1982 to 2008 he has been Professor at Telecom Bretagne where he served as head of department Mathematics and Communication Systems (1982--1993), Scientific deputy manager (1994--1996) and Scientific Manager (1997--2008). Prof. Alain Hillion is now the Scientific Manager of the Lab-STICC, CNRS UMR 3192.
Prof. Alain Hillion conducted researches on Statistics dedicated to signal processing and pattern recognition. He authors or co-authors more than 60 papers and evaluated more than 50 Phd thesis and "Habilitation à diriger des recherches" defenses.
- Arnaud Martin: website
He was born in Bastia, France in 1974. He obtained the "Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches (HDR)", from the "Université de Bretagne Occidentale" in 2009, and received a PhD degree in Signal Processing (2001), and Master in Probability (1998) from the university of Rennes, France. Dr. Arnaud Martin worked on speech recognition during three years (1998-2001) at France Telecom R&D, Lannion, France. In 2008, he visited the section Decision Support Systems of Defence R&D Canada – Valcartier. His research interests are mainly related to the belief functions for
the classification of real data and include data fusion, data mining, signal processing especially for sonar and radar data. He gave several invited seminars and lectures on data fusion and belief functions, e.g. at the conference EGC in 2006 and 2007 at Lille and Namur, Belgium. In 2010, Arnaud proposes to organize the workshop on the belief functions held at Brest and creates the belief functions and applications society for this manifestation.
- Christophe Osswald:
Christophe Osswald was born in Orléans, France, in 1975. He
received a PhD degree in Mathematics and Computer Science (2003) from
the EHESS -- Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales -- after
three years of research on classification, similarity analysis and
hypergraphs at the laboratory IASC of the ENST Bretagne. He is an
engineer graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique (1997) and the ENST
Bretagne (1999), and received a master in Mathematics and Computer
Science applied to Social Sciences. He is a teacher and researcher at
the ENSIETA in the laboratory E3I2: EA3876, Brest, France. His
research interests are related to data fusion, mostly through belief
functions, and also to classification, graphs and hypergraphs theory,
algorithmic complexity and decision support. He organizes the workshop on the belief functions held at Brest and is the first treasurer of the belief functions and applications society.
- Gavin Powell:
Gavin started his career in the belief community while studying an MSc in Artificial Intelligence at Cardiff University in the UK. This gave him the opportunity to take on a BAe Systems and Matra Dynamics sponsored PhD at Cardiff University fusing data for target tracking and recognition. This led on to a Post Doctoral position in a Data and Information Fusion, Defence Technology Centre at Cardiff University. Gavin has focused his attentions on belief functions application, and more specifically the TBM, including work with Philippe Smets, Simon Maskell, Branko Ristic et al. After this another post doctoral position in Medical Imaging at Cardiff University was taken. Gavin also lectured on the Masters Degree at Cardiff in Data Fusion. Gavin went onto run his own Company dealing with stereo medical imaging, designing and engineering solutions for a variety of commercial and academic institutions.
He is now working within the Information and Intelligence Fusion Group, Innovation Works, EADS where he is within the Fusion Team, working on a variety of projects which all fall under the umbrella of Information Fusion. Gavin is still releasing academic papers on his work, where possible, as well as filing for patents on belief function related work.
- Johan Schubert:
Johan Schubert, PhD, is Deputy Research Director with the Division of Information Systems at the Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI. He received an MSc in Engineering Physics in 1986 and a PhD in Computing Science in 1994, both from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He has conducted research on belief functions and information fusion for 23 years and published 12 journal articles, 4 book chapters and 33 conference papers. He was the technical program chair of the 7th International Conference on Information Fusion and guest co-editor of a double special issue of the journal Information Fusion. He is an editorial board member of the Elsevier journal Information Fusion. URL: http://www.foi.se/fusion/
If you have any question, ask to Grégoire Mercier.