Season 1

The first season of my research career was on developing  methods and tools for text analysis, topic detection and mapping using a mixture of symbolic (Natural Language Processing and Computational Terminology) and numeric approaches (statistical and mathematical models). Applications targeted were text mining, knowledge acquisition, terminology structuring, information Visualisation and Information Retrieval. The keywords of this research strand are:
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Topic detection
  • Text mining 
  • Knowledge acquisition & representation from texts

Season 2

​In this second season, I stepped back back from the heavily empirical and quantitative applied research to critically examine the theoretical and epistemological underpinnings of the data analysis methods and tools I had developed. This  led me to become interested in the epistemology of science and in the theoretical foundations of Information Science. In parallel, I also researched the impact of Big Data and Open Data on science and society. The keywords of this research strand are:​​​
  • History and Foundations of Library & Information Science 
  • Epistemology of science
  • Information & Communication theories
  • Usage of Information and Communication Technology

Season 3

This third season of my research career  has led me to focus my research interest on racism in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the western world, beginning with France where little or no research has been done in this terrain. Leveraging Critical studies and in particular Critical Race Theory, I will deploy ethnographic as well as data analysis methods. The keywords of this research strand are:
  • Critical Race Theory 
  • Racism in Higher Education Institutions 
  • Algorithmic governance  & bias
  • (Big) Data colonialism

Awards​


​​2019 - 2023
​Recipient of the Doctoral Supervision & Research Bonus
(Prime d'Encadrement Doctoral et de Recherche)
from the French Ministry of Higher Education

​2012 - 2014
​Recipient of the New Leader award ​from the
​American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST)

​​2013 - 2017
​Recipient of the Research Excellence Award (Prime d'Excellence Scientifique)
from the French Ministry of Higher Education

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