Dr Narendra JUSSIEN
34, 2 children
École des Mines de Nantes - Département Informatique
La Chantrerie - 4 rue Alfred Kastler
F-44307 Nantes Cedex 3
Tel: +33 251 858 218 - Fax: +33 251 858 249
email: njussien@e-constraints.net
WWW: njussien.e-constraints.net

Professional activities

09/1998 - Assistant-professor
École des Mines de Nantes / Computer science department
  • Research: internationally recognised activities (publications in journals and international conferences) about using explanations within constraint programming (debugging, dynamic problems, distributed applications, cooperation); scientifique leader of the «constraints» groupfrom 2001 to 2003.
  • Contracts and grants: national projects (project OADYMPPAC - Réseau National des Technologies Logicielles - scientifique leader for EMN, project EOLE - Réseau National de Recherche en Télécommunications), research grants (ANVAR and CRITT Productique des Pays de la Loire), contracts (Délégation Générale pour l'Armement)
  • Teaching: about 140 annual hours in computer science (functional programming, algorithmics, data structures, logic programming)
  • 11/1997 - 08/1998 Engineer
    Délégation Générale pour l'Armement / Centre d'Analyse de Défense
  • Support and teaching in constraints programming (talks, technical supports), academic world interface (contacts, contracts), coding
  • 10/1994 - 10/1997 PhD student
    École des Mines de Nantes / Département Informatique
  • Research topics: study of over-constrained dynamic problems, automatic constraint relaxation
  • Main theoretical results: a generic framework for the design of new search algorithms
  • Main practical results: the DECorum system, new algorithms, a CRITT Pays de la Loire grant
  • Publications: 17 publications with reading committee including 4 international conferences (PMS98, ECAI98, ILPS97 et ICPTAT95)
  • Teaching: more than 270 hours of teaching computer sciences and applied maths
  • Technical skills

      Advanced Computer Science 
    • Constraint programming, functional programming, objected-oriented programming
    • Artificial Intelligence (logic programming, expert-systems, fuzzy logic, etc.)

    Logistics 

    • Transportation logistics (graph theory, flow, vehicule routing, etc.)
    • Production logistics (scheduling, planning, etc.)
    • Simulation (waiting queues, etc.)

    Statistics / Data analysis 

    • Parametric and non-parametric tests, regression, forecasting, fiability, quality
    • Datawarehouse ; factorial analysis, etc.
    Computer Science 
    • Languages : C++, C, Pascal, Claire, Prolog, Lisp, Scheme, Haskell, Fortran
    • Constraint programming systems: Ilog suite (Solver, Schedule, Planner, ...), Chip, PrologIV, Choco
    • OS: Unix, Windows95/98/NT/2000/XP, Linux
    • Networks, Internet, PHP/MySQL, etc. 

    Diplomas

    1994-1997 PhD in Computer Science  
    Université de Rennes I 
    1989-1994 Institut de Mathématiques Appliquées
    Université Catholique de l'Ouest, Angers 
    • Main topics: Logistics (transportation, production, etc.), Computer Science (imperative programming, object-oriented programming, constraint programming, artificial intelligence, ...), Statistics (tests, forecasting, fiability/quality, data analysis)

    Foreign languages

    English First certificate in English from Cambridge University, UK

    Spanish

    Hobbies

    Languages Learning russian and japanese

    Music Classical piano (since the age of 5, annual public performance)

    Photography Shooting, enhancing, montage, online publication

    As of Sept. 25, 2003