Benoit Huet

Biography:

Benoit Huet received his BSc degree in computer science and engineering from the Ecole Superieure de Technologie Electrique (Groupe ESIEE, France) in 1992. In 1993, he was awarded the MSc degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Westminster (UK) with distinction, where he then spent two years working as a research and teaching assistant. He received his DPhil degree in Computer Science from the University of York (UK) for his research on the topic of object recognition from large databases. He is currently working as a research and teaching assistant in the multimedia information processing group of the Institut Eurecom (France).His research interests include computer vision, content-based retrieval, multimedia data mining and indexing (still and/or moving images) and pattern recognition. He has published over 80 papers in journals, edited books and refereed conferences. He is a member of IEEE, ACM and ISIF. He has served in many international conference organisation and technical program committee. He is regularly invited to serves as reviewer for prestigous scientific journals as well as expert for project proposal at national, European and International level. He was the conference chair of the International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM'2009) which is to take place in Sophia-Antipolis (France) in january 2009. He co-organised 2 ACM Multimedia workshops: WSMC'09 and LS-MCMR'10.

Education

• Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches - HDR Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (2012 — 2013)
• PhD University of York (1995 — 1999)
• MSc University of Westminster (1992 — 1993)
• BSc ESIEE PARIS (1988 — 1992)

Companies

• Artificial Intelligence & Data Science Director – iBiopsy Median Technologies (2021)
• Head of Data Science Median Technologies (2019 — 2021)
• Assistant Professor Eurecom (1999 — 2019)
• Visiting Scientist - Cognitive Computing IBM (2016 — 2016)
• Visiting Professor National University of Singapore (2008 — 2008)
• Research Assistant University of York (1995 — 1999)
• Lecturer University of Westminster (1994 — 1995)