Florent Domenach

Contact Information:
Dr. Florent Domenach
Associate Professor
Computer Science Department
University of Nicosia
46 Makedonitissas Avenue
P.O.Box 24005
1700 Nicosia, CYPRUS
Phone: +357 22841731
Fax: +357 22357481
email: domenach.f at unic.ac.cy

Office:
B218 (main building)

Office hours:
Th 16:00 – 18:00
Fr 15:00 – 18:00


Education:

  • 1999-2002: PhD Thesis in Computer Science obtained in September, 28, 2002, "Très Honorable" - highest mention
    • Title: "Structures latticielles, correspondances de Galois contraintes et classification symbolique"
    • Supervisors: B. Monjardet (Professor, Univ. Paris I) and B. Leclerc (Associate Professor, EHESS)
    • Referees: J.-P. Barthélemy (Professor, ENST Bretagne), J.-X. Rampon (Professor, University of Nantes) and P. Valtchev (Assistant Professor, University of Montréal)
    • Committee Members: C. De La Higuera (Professor, University of St Etienne, President), Y. Lechevallier (Directeur de Recherches, INRIA) and D. A. Zighed (Professor, University Lyon II)
  • 1998-1999: Master MIASH (Mathematics and Computer Science Applied to Human Sciences), option Discrete Mathematics, at University Paris I Panthéon - Sorbonne, Major of promotion.
  • 1993-1998: Bachelor in Mathematics at University Lyon I Claude Bernard, France.

Professional Experience:

  • 2014 - now: Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Nicosia
  • 2007 - 2014: Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Nicosia
  • 2005 - 2007: Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Intercollege
  • 04/2008 – 03/2010: Associate Head of the Computer Science Department, University of Nicosia
  • 2002-2004: Post Doctorate, at Tsukuba University, Ibaraki (Japan), in the laboratory Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences
    • 2003-2004: JSPS (Japan Society for Promotion of Science) Grant (PE03002)
    • 2002-2003: Recipient of the grant “Lavoisier” of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • 1999-2002: Research grant (Allocataire) for PhD Thesis at University Paris I Panthéon – Sorbonne
  • 1999-2002: Lecturer (Moniteur) at University Paris IV Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Supervision:

  • 2014- : Ali Tayari, PhD Thesis, University of Nicosia
  • 2011-2013: Ali Tayari, Research Assistant, University of Nicosia

Conference Organizing:

  • Program chair, together with Dr. D. Ignatov, of the 10th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis ICFCA 2012, May 6-10, 2012, Leven, Belgium
  • Conference Chair and Main Organizer of 9th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis ICFCA 2011, May 2-6, 2011, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

Administrative Experience:

  • Seminar Organization:
    • 07/03/2014: Main organizer of Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Microsoft Phone Development Tools workshop, University of Nicosia.
    • 29/11/2013: Co-organizer of the Microsoft Windows 8 UX Design and Development Tools workshop, University of Nicosia.
    • 12/12/2012: Main organizer of the seminar by V. Codocedo, "A contribution on semantic querying using Formal Concept Analysis", and I. Lykourentzou, "Crowdsourcing optimization through resource scheduling techniques: A study on high-quality structured data provision", University of Nicosia.
  • Since 2011: Member of the editorial board of the conference ICFCA.
  • 2011 – 2013: Member of the Committee for the creation of the BSc in Mathematics, University of Nicosia
  • 2010 – 2012: Member of the School of Science council, University of Nicosia
  • 04/2008 – 03/2010: Associate Head of the Computer Science Department, University of Nicosia, member of different committees:
    • Hiring committee
    • Program updating
    • ECTS committees
    • Student handbook
  • 2007 – 2011: Member of the Management Committee of the COST Action IC0602 Algorithmic Decision Theory.
    • Responsible for the financial report.
  • 2007 - : Course leader:
    • COMP 303 Data Mining
    • COMP 321 Theory of Computation
    • COMP 370 Algorithm
    • COMP 399 Special Topics in Computer Science
  • 2007 - : Courses designed:
    • MATH-186 Elementary Number Theory
    • MATH-375 Graph Theory
    • MATH-385 Introduction to Modern Algebra
    • MATH-485 Ordered Sets

Fundings and Awards:

  • 2011: Best paper award – Methods for the paper "Implications of Axiomatic Consensus Properties" given at the joint conference DAGM-GfKl2011/IFCS2011.
  • 2011 – 2013: “KD4CD: Knowledge Discovery for Complex Data in Formal and Relational Concept Analysis”, Bilateral cooperation between France and Cyprus funded by the RPF foundation and Egide association, in collaboration with the laboratory ORPAILLEUR Loria, France, with Pr. A. Napoli. Amount: 5000 euros per year. Primary investigator. Ranked: 8.51/10.
  • 2007 – 2011: Representative of Cyprus for the European project COST IC0602 Algorithmic Decision Theory, Workgroup 4: Knowledge Extraction and Learning. Amount: 100,000 euros per year. Primary participant.
  • 2007: Proposal Written: “Knowledge Discovery for Complex Data (Overhanging, Formal and Relational Concept Analysis)”, Bilateral cooperation between France and Cyprus funded by the RPF foundation and Egide association, 2007-2008, in collaboration with the laboratory ORPAILLEUR Loria, France, with Pr. A. Napoli. Amount: 3400 euros per year. Primary investigator. Rated: 8.05/10.
  • 2005 – 2006: Grant of the French Ministry of Education and Research “Programme Initiative Post-Doc 2005”. Amount: 5,000 euros. Primary investigator.
  • 2003 – 2004: Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant (PE03002), Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers, duration of 11 months, from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Monbukagakusho), Japan. Amount: 40,000 euros per year. Primary investigator.
  • 2002 – 2003: Lavoisier Grant, for Japan, duration of 12 months, from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Amount: 40,000 euros per year. Primary investigator.
  • 2002: Proposal Written: Project MathSTIC: Algorithmique des treillis (Algorithmic for lattices), CNRS 2002, in collaboration with the LIRMM (UMR5506, Montpellier University, France), LIMOS (FRE2239, Clermont Ferrand University, France), CERSEM (UMR8095, CNRS - Paris 1, France) and CAMS (UMR8557, CNRS - Paris 4, France). Amount: 37,000 euros per year. Primary participant.
  • 2002: Grant for International Scientific Congress, from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for IFCS 2002 (International Federation of Classification Societies), July, 16-19, 2002, Krakow, Poland. Amount: 200 euros. Primary investigator.

Expertise:

  • Reviewer for Discrete Applied Mathematics, Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, Mathematical Social Sciences
  • Member of the Program Comittee of CLA (Concept Lattices and their Applications), ICFCA (International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis), and ICCS (International Conference on Conceptual Structures)