Amine Balafrej

Ph.D., Computer Science

I am currently an Associate Professor (ATER) at École Polytechnique Universitaire de Marseille (Polytech' Marseille), Aix-Marseille University, France.

On November 2014, I defended a PhD thesis on "Adaptive local consistencies in Constraint Networks" and I received two PhD degrees in Computer Science from both University of Montpellier, France and Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco. My research work was conducted under the supervision of Christian Bessiere director of research at CNRS, France and El Houssine Bouyakhf professor at Mohammed V University, Morocco.

During my PhD work, I was involved in an European project named FP7-FET project ICON (Inductive Constraint Programming). ICON is an innovative project which brings together Constraint programming, Data Mining and Machine Learning in order to build an unified intelligent framework. I also maintaned a position of Associate Professor (ATER) at Montpellier 2 University from Septembre 2013 to August 2014.

Afterwards, I had a postdoctoral position at IMT Atlantique (Ex-Ecole des Mines de Nantes), from December 2014 to October 2015 to join the research team TASC (Theory, Algorithms, and Systems for Constraints). Then, I had the position of an Associate Professor (Maître assistant Associé) at IMT Atlantique of Nantes for one year (2015/2016).