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Lakhdar SAIS

Professor of computer science
Leader of the "inference and decision process" group

Délégation CNRS - INS2I depuis septembre 2012

Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Lens
CNRS UMR 8188 & IRCICA
Université d'Artois, Faculté des sciences Jean Perrin
Rue Jean Souvraz SP-18
F-62307 Lens Cedex 3, France

office : P302
e-mail : sais[at]cril [dot] univ-artois [dot] fr
home page : http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr/~sais
phone : (+ 33) 3 21 79 17 77
fax: (+33) 3 21 79 17 70

Lakhdar Sais obtained an engineering degree in computer science in 1988 from the National Institute on Computer Science ("Université de Tizi-Ouzou", Algeria), a Ph.D ("Doctorat") in 1993 from the "Université de Provence" (Marseille) and an "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" from the "Université d'Artois" in 2000. In 1994, he joined the "IUT de Lens" as a lecturer ("Maitre de conférences") at the beginning of the creation of the CRIL research center ("Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Lens"). Before his current position as a professor at CRIL-CNRS "Université d'Artois", he spent one year as a professor at IRIT «Université Paul Sabatier » (Toulouse, France). Currently, he is leading the inference and decision process group at CRIL. His research focuses on search and representation problems in Artificial Intelligence. He is especially interested in proposional satisfiability, quantified boolean formula, constraint satisfaction problems, knowledge representation and reasoning, data mining.