Hocine Cherifi
University of Burgundy
Hocine Cherifi is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Burgundy, Dijon, France since 1999. Prior to moving to Dijon, he held faculty positions in France at Rouen University and Jean Monnet University, in the field of Signal Processing and Mathematics respectively. He has held visiting positions at Yonsei, Korea, University of Western Australia, Australia, National Pingtung University, Taiwan, and Galatasaray University, Turkey. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Grenoble, France, and held a postdoctoral position at the Department of Statistics of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He has been working on Signal processing, Image processing, and Computer Vision with an emphasis on mathematics and statistics. During the last decade, his research interests moved to network science with a focus on societal challenges. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings papers and has edited 15 books and conference proceedings. He held leading positions in more than 15 international conferences and served in more than 100 program committees. He is the founder of one of the main annual events in network science “The International Conference on Complex Networks their Applications. He is also the Founding Editor in-Chief of the Applied Network Science journal. Currently, he serves in the Editorial Board of leading scientific journals such as Computational Social Networks, PLOS One, IEEE Access, Journal of Imaging, Complex Systems, Quality and Quantity, and Scientific Reports.