Machine Learning and Operations Research (combinatorial optimization, business analytics, machine learning, applications in air transportation...)
New digital technologies for business (including Virtual and Augmented Reality)
Duties
Full Professor at HEC, the Management School of the University of Liège: Teaching, Research and Services to Society
Head of the AR/VR Lab at HEC and of the TeachingWithVR unit
Member of the Management School board
Pilot of the field of specialisation "Digital Business" (Master in Business Engineering)
Leader of the research domain of excellence "Supply Chain Management and Business Analytics" at HEC
Board of the Belgian Operations Research Society (ORBEL)
SAP University Alliances Program: main coordinator for the University of Liège
Former member (2014-2022) of the Administration Board of the University of Liege
Former (2017-2018) President of the Belgian Operations Research Society (ORBEL)
Former (2016-2019) Director of Studies (Vice-Dean Education) at HEC, the Management School of the University of Liège
Former head of the Operations Department (UER) at HEC-ULiège
Former Secretary of the Doctoral Commission in Management Science and of the Research Council at the University of Liege
Education
Degrees:
2001, PhD in Management (Operation Research and Finance) : "Modelling Financial Data and Portfolio Optimization Problems",
University of Liège
1997, Master Degree in Management Science , Faculty of Business Administration, University of Liège
1993, Master Degree in Computer Science, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Liège
  Thesis: Data pre-treatment for pattern recognition by Artificial Neural Network
1993, Education Training Master Degree (AESS), Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Liège
Miscellaneous:
2019, SAS Enterprise Miner certification
2011, SAP AG, SAP Certified Business Associate with SAP ERP 6.0 (C_TERP10_65)
2011, University certificate on Integrated Business Processes with SAP ERP : TERP10 (6ECTS), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
2012, University certificate on Introduction to SAP Business Intelligence, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Professional background
2013-, Full Professor in Digital Business, University of Liege, HEC-Management School
2009-2012, Professor in Digital Business, University of Liege, HEC-Management School
2004-2008, Associate Professor in Digital Business, University of Liege, HEC-Management School
2002-2004, Assistant Professor, University of Namur (FUNDP), department of Business Administration
2002, Visiting Rechearch Fellow, Open-University, United Kingdom (March-September)
2001-2004, Lecturer (computer science), department of Business Administration, University of Liege.
1995-, Head of the multimedia laboratory (MediaLab), applied research and consultancy.
1995-2001, Teaching assistant for statistics and computer lectures, University of Liege.
1993-1995, Researcher, Faculty of applied science, University of Liege.