Alaidine Ben Ayed defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled Méthodes hybrides pour le résumé automatique de texte par extraction et abstraction on March 31st 2022. Ben Ayed will receive his Ph.D. in cognitive computing from the University of Quebec. He was supervised by professor Ismail Biskri and co-supervised by professor Jean-Guy Meunier. The reviewers included professors Daniel Lemire and Juan-Manual Torres.