[François Taïani] Background

I came to Lancaster University on convoluted path, that took me from France to Germany, to the US, and finally to the UK (where I now hope to stay for a while).

I hold a "Diplôme d'Ingénieur" from the Ecole Centrale Paris in France and a "Diplom der Informatik" from Stuttgart University in Germany (in Industrial Engineering and in Computer Science respectively). During my undergraduate studies I had the great opportunity to work for two major German companies: Bayer AG in Cologne (as a research assistant) and Daimler Chrysler in Stuttgart (where I did my Masters Thesis or "Diplomarbeit" as it's called in German).

Just after my undergraduate studies, and for a bit more that one year, I worked for a software company named ILOG in Frankfort as a marketing assistant, pre-sales engineer, and product consultant (sequentially and concurrently). This was great fun, and I learnt a lot there.

I then decided to have some more fun and embarked on a Ph.D. I went to LAAS in Toulouse, where I stayed 4 years (starting with the bankruptcy of my first employer as a nice kick-off of my Ph.D. research). Following this, I spent one year at AT&T Lab & Research as a post-doc visitor, before being hired as a Lecturer (roughly Assistant Professor) in the Computing Department of Lancaster University.

For more information you can look at my résumé here (English version) and here (French version).

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