Pr. Salem Benferhat (Biography)

Salem Benferhat is a full professor at University of Artois, France since february 2003. He is doing research at CRIL (Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Lens), CNRS UMR 8188. From october1994 to january 2003, he was a CNRS researcher at IRIT (Insitut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse), Toulouse, France. He received a PhD thesis degree (1994) and the "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" (2000) from University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. His current research interests are in knowledge representation, uncertainty handling, data fusion, possibilistic networks, causality, non-classical logics, plausible and nonmonotonic reasoning and applications. Salem Benferhat is the author or the co-author of a large number of research papers (more than 250 papers including 50 international journal papers) on uncertainty modelling, knowledge representations and applications. In particular, he published in all major conferences and journals in Artificial Intelligence such as IJCAI, AIJ, AAAI, UAI, ECAI, KR, etc.
Salem Benferhat was or is in program committee of all major international conferences on Artificial intelligence such that IJCAI, AAAI, ECAI, KR, ECSQARU, UAI, etc. He also coorganized several national and international conferences such as ECSQARU'01 (Sixth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty), NMR'02 (ninth Intl. Workshop on Non Monotonic Reasoning NMR'2002) or LFA'08 (Rencontres francophones sur la Logique Floue et ses Applications), SUM-2011 (Springer, Dayton). He is also a co editor in chief of the The Information - Interaction - Intelligence (I3) Journal, and was/is guess editors of 10 international journals special issues. He was and is also involved in different national (such as ANR projects) and international projects concerning causality, graphical models, intrusion detections, description logics etc. In particular, he collaborated, with colleagues from different countries: Italy, Spain, Ireland, Algeria, Tunisia, Australia, etc. Lastly, Salem Benferhat supervised or co-supervised 19 PhD thesis (most of his students are now associate professors) and he is supervising 4 PhD thesis.