Professor in Computer Science - Sorbonne Université, since 2003
Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, 2013-2018, 2023-2028

PhD in Mathematics from The Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1993. Postdocs at Université Paris 7 (1993-1995) and at Technische Universität Wien (1995-1996). Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Université Paris 12, 1996-2003. Visiting Professor (on leave) at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, 2000-2003.

Head of the Analytical Genomics lab, CQSB, CNRS-SU, since 2003
Former Head of the Computational, Quantitative and Synthetic Biology Unit, UMR 7238 CNRS-SU, 2009-2025. I created the unit in 2009.

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of "ReGAInS - Reducing the Gap between Artificial Intelligence and Society", in the framework of the "Department of Excellence" program, Italian Ministry of Research. Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication (DISCo), Università Milano-Bicocca (UniMIB), 2024-2027.

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of "AGORAi Innovation Hub", Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, including the Universities of Trieste and Udine, SISSA (International School of Advanced Studies), Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia, MIB Trieste School of Management, and ICTP (International Center for Theoretical Physics). Trieste, Italy, since 2025.

Co-director of the Master Program in "Bioinformatics and Modeling" (BIM) at the Computer Science Department, SU. I created this program, joint with its Life Science branch, in 2009.

Co-director of the European Network of Masters in Bioinformatics within the framework of the European Program 4EU+. Partnership with the universities of Heidelberg, Warsaw, Prague (Charles), Milano (Statale), since 2020.

MAIN RESEARCH AREAS (present and past)
Combinatorial and Statistical Methods in Molecular Biology
Deep Learning, Machine Learning and Algorithms in Computational Biology
DNA Nanotechnologies and DNA Tiling
Proof Theory and Complexity Theory
Graph Theory
Finite Automata and Symbolic Dynamics
Description of current projects

VIEWS
Prix Nobel de Chimie 2024: design des protéines et prédiction de leurs structures, deux facettes d'une même medaille - in The Conversation France - article addressed to the large public.

Réinventer la biologie - in "Binaire: la science au coeur du numérique", Le Monde blog - interview on the impact of computer science in science and society

Desktop power helps map protein dance - interview in ScienceNode on our protein-protein interactions project

on women in mathematics (sur les femmes en mathématiques)

Proof Theory on the eve of the year 2000 (answer to Sol Feferman's invitation)

VIDEOS FOR THE LARGE PUBLIC
A starchy diet for Sapiens: when archaeology, paleoanthropology and genetics meet - A view on our research relating gene copy number variation in ancient genomes and the diet for Neandertals, Denisovans and ancient Sapiens (ANR project STARCH4SAPIENS). To access the french version: Amidon pour Sapiens: quand l'archéologie, la paléoanthropologie et la génétique se rencontrent. To access the italian comic strip appeared in La Revue: Perché siamo Sapiens?

What can protein tell us? - A view on our computational approaches to predict protein interactions, model protein social behaviour and infer the effect of mutations on protein interaction networks. To access the french and italian versions: Que peuvent nous dire les proteines ? - Cosa possono dirci le proteine?

Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - live webcast with World Community Grid