About the Speaker:

 

Dr. Joe Tekli is an associate professor and interim assistant dean of the School of Engineering at LAU. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bourgogne (UB), LE2I CNRS, France (2009), awarded with Highest Honors. He has completed various post-docs and visiting scholar research missions in universities worldwide. 

 

Dr. Tekli has been awarded various prestigious fellowships: French Ministry of Education (France), Fondazione Cariplo (Italy), JSPS (Japan), FAPESP (Brazil), AUF (France), and Fulbright (USA). He has coordinated and participated in various international research projects including CEDRE (2012-13), STICAmSud (2013-14), NCSR-L (2016-17), LAU-NCSR-L (2018-20), and FAPESP (2016-20). 

 

His research covers XML and semi-structured data; multimedia data semantics, data-mining, and information retrieval. He has more than 50 publications in prestigious international journals and conferences. He is currently serving as the vice chair of the ACM SIGAPP French Chapter.