Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Raymond BISDORFF |
Emeritus Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics |
University of Luxembourg |
Past Professional Functions
- Full professor at the University of Luxembourg (UL) (2003 - 2017)
- Founding Dean of the UL Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) (2003 - 2004)
- Founding Head of the Applied Mathematics Research Unit, FDEF, University of Luxembourg (2004 - 2007)
- Vice-president of the Scientific Advisory Commission of the UL (2005 - 2009)
- Active member of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Intelligent and Adaptive Systems (ILIAS), Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) (2007-2017)
- Founding chair of the APUL - The Association of Professors of the University of Luxembourg (2011 - 2014)
- Founding head of the UL Doctoral School of Computer Science and Computer Engineering (2011 - 2015)
- Elected FSTC's academic staff representative in the University Council -the Senate- of the UL (2011 - 2016)
- Elected representative of the academic staff in the Governing Board of the UL (2014 - 2017)
- Professor at the Luxembourg University Center (1995-2003)
- Member of the Administration Board of the Luxembourg University Center (LUC) (2002-2003)
- Head of the LUC Business and Computing Science Departement (2002-2003)
- Founding Head of Research Unit Statistics and Decision (STADE)
Public Research Center - Centre Universitaire/Gabriel-Lippmann (1993-2000)
Serving the International Scientific Community
- Vice-president of the Association of European Operational Research Societies EURO (1997 - 2000)
- Vice-president of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) representing EURO, the Association of European Operational Research Societies (2005 - 2007)
- President of the Belgian Operational Research Society, ORBEL a.k.a. Sogesci-B.V.W.B. (2008 - 2010)
- Member of the Administration Board of the Belgian Operational Research Society, ORBEL (2010 - 2017)
International Honors and Awards
- Collaborateur scientifique (2010-2017) de la Faculté Polytechnique de l'Université de Mons.
- Visiting Professor (2010-2011) at TELECOM Bretagne, département Lussi - Logique des usages, sciences sociales et de l'information.
- Visiting professor (academic years 2008-2009 and 2005-2006) at LAMSADE, Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Modélisation de Systèmes d'aide à la Décision, University Paris-Dauphine.
- Honor diploma (2005) from HELORS, the Hellenic Operational Research Society, for chairing the international Programme Committee of the XXth EURO'2004 Conference, Island of Rhodes, July 4-7, 2004.
- Honorable collaborator (1996 - 2005) of the University of Liège (Belgium) on behalf of the Institute of Mathematics of the Faculty of Sciences.
- NATO Graduate Degree Apprenticeship in Systems Science Grant (1975-1978).
Education
- Business Administration (LBA), Université de Liège 1975
- Methods and Models of Scientific Management (D.E.A./MScBA), Université Paris-Dauphine 1976
- Operations Research (Ph.D.), Université Paris-Dauphine, France 1981 (bibliographic reference)
- Management Sciences (Ph.D.), Université de Liège, Belgium 2002 (bibliographic reference)
Teaching
- Master level:
- Algorithmic Decision Theory
- Computational Statistics
- Bachelor level:
- Discrete Mathematics for Computer Scientists
- Mathematical Methods for Decision Aiding
- Descriptive Statistics
- Scientific simulation tools
Doctoral students (last)
- Alexandru-Liviu Olteanu, On clustering in multiple criteria decision aid: Theory and applications (2009 - 2013, co-directed with Ass.-Prof Patrick Meyer, Telecom Bretagne, Brest, France).
- Thomas Veneziano, On the stability of outranking relations: Theoretical and practical aspects (2008 - 2012, co-directed with Ass.-Prof Patrick Meyer, Telecom Bretagne, Brest, France).
- Claude Lamboray, Prudent ranking rules: Theoretical contributions and applications (2004-2007, co-directed with Prof Ph. Vincke, ULB)
- Patrick Meyer, Progressive methods in multiple criteria decision analysis
(2004-2007, co-directed with Prof M. Pirlot, FPMs).
Expertise
- Bipolar-valued computational epistemic logic
- Algorithmic decision theory for decision aiding
- Bipolar-valued outranking digraphs
- Computing valued digraph kernels
- Bipolar approval voting systems
- Best choice recommendations
- Ranking algorithms with multiple incommensurable criteria
- Absolute and relative quantiles rating algorithms
- Pre-ranked sparse outranking digraphs
- HPC algorithms for ranking big performance tableaux
Software development
- The Digraph3 collection of python3 modules for algorithmic decision theory
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