You want to come work with me?

I supervise graduate students at the Université de Québec à Montreal (UQAM) in the master in Information Technology, in the Computer Science Ph.D. and Cognitive Computer Science Ph.D. programs, and I co-supervise students at the University of New Brunswick.

Current post-doctoral fellows and graduate students

Current M.Sc./Master/D.E.S.S. students

• Eduardo Gutarra (with Owen Kaser);
• Grégory Hallé Petiot;
• Toufik Lazri;
• Djamel Garar;
• Sahbi Khtatfa;
• Julien Marais;
• Charbel Matni;
• Ikhtear Sharif (with Hazel Webb).

Current Ph.D. students

• Badis Merdaoui (with Richard Hotte);
• Ludovic Bocken (with Béatrice Pudelko).

Recent graduates

• Hamid Douzi is senior developer in business intelligence at IMBD;
• Minfang Tao (Master, 2011);
• Hazel Webb (Ph.D., 2005-2010) is Assistant Professor at the University of New Brunswick (Saint John, Canada);
• Idris Laabassi (Master, 2010) is Sales and IT manager at OTIS (Lybia);
• Kamel Aouiche (Post-doct., 2006-2008) is consultant at Objet direct (Lyon, France);
• Steve Keith (M.Sc., 2004-2006) is Data Architect at Innovatia (Saint John, Canada).

Funding

If you are not Canadian, please see Quebec's Merit Scholarship program for foreign students. There are specific scholarships for students from some countries like India or China. This competition is open every year. It includes scholarships for 4-month stays as well as post-doctoral fellowships.

If you are Canadian, there are numerous funding opportunities:

• Quebec financial assistance programs;
• FQRNT scholarship programs (including scholarship for foreigners, site is in French);
• NSERC scholarship programs;
• Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (scholarship program);
• StudentAwards – various scholarships;
• BusinessObjects' Academic Research Center (scholarships available).