Research Interests:
I am working on Analysis of Algorithms and
on Analytic Combinatorics and, in particular, on Words
and Motif Statistics, Automata, Random Trees and Random Walks.
Administrative and scientific position
I am a former CNRS researcher,
presently (since Feb. 2013) associated researcher at
the Computer Science Laboratory LIPN of University Paris 13
(Paris-North).
I did my PhD (1994-1997) at the
LIX of
the Ecole polytechnique
and at the Algorithms Project of INRIA.
I have been a postdoc (1998-1999) visiting the TBI
group (Theoretical Bioinformatics)
at the DKFZ (German Cancer
Research Center), Heidelberg (Germany).
I have been hired by CNRS in 1999 at
the Laboratory Statistics and
Genomes of the Genopole of Evry, where I stayed until 2002.
I worked next (2002-2011) at
the LIX
of Ecole polytechnique and (2011-2013) at
the LIPN of University
Paris13
Collaboration with Palestinian Universities