POSTGRADUATE CERT. IN HIGHER EDUCATION LEARNING AND TEACHING (2021-2023)
This 2-year program at the University of Aberdeen is composed of three courses: Approaches to Teaching, Learning, and Assessment in Higher Education; Activities, Knowledge, and Values; and Research Project in Higher Education Learning and Teaching. The first two courses are composed of a suite of development sessions underpinning the research course by introducing the approaches and methods used commonly in pedagogical research. The last course provided me the opportunity to plan and conduct a piece of research that is aligned with my own higher education teaching practice. The title of my dissertation was “Enhancing Teaching and Learning in the Applied Artificial Intelligence Postgraduate Course: Factors and Impacts”.
For completing this programme, I obtained Fellowship of Advance HE.
PH.D. IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (2016-2019)
The title of my thesis is “Argumentation Techniques for Existential Rules“. It is original research in the field of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, one of the main sub-domains in AI.
I was supervised by Madalina Croitoru, Srdjan Vesic, and Rallou Thomopoulos. I was also supported by my friend and co-worker, Pierre Bisquert. During the whole duration of my Ph.D., I was part of the INRIA GraphIK team at the LIRMM laboratory. I defended my thesis on the 11th of July 2019.
I studied reasoning techniques with argumentation graphs generated from inconsistent knowledge bases expressed in the existential rules language. The three main results are the following. First, we give a structural study of argumentation graphs obtained from knowledge bases expressed in existential rules. Second, we propose and analyze an argumentation framework with sets of attacking arguments for existential rules. Third, we studied argumentation techniques based on ranking-based approaches in both the context of query answering and argumentation reasoning.
Ph.D. viva. From left to right: Stefan Woltran, Sanjay Modgil, Leon Van Der Torre, Madalina Croitoru, Bruno Yun, Rallou Thomopoulos, Marie-Christine Rousset, and Srdjan Vesic
Link to PDF of my thesis.
MSC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (2014-2016)
I followed a Master’s program called “MIT” at the University of Montpelier. This program offered courses in Theoretical Computer Science. A non-exhaustive list of the topics covered is: Graphs and structures, Advanced computability and complexity, Constraint reasoning, Combinatorial optimization, and Knowledge base theory among others.
BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN MATHEMATICS (2011-2014)
As a first-year undergraduate, I studied Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of French Polynesia. In 2012, I moved to Montpelier and entered a course of study focused on Mathematics as a second-year undergraduate. A non-exhaustive list of the topics covered is: Linear algebra, Algorithms and structure of linear data, Advanced imperative programming, Combinatorial optimization, and Arithmetic among others.