Michel C. Desmarais
Short Bio
Michel Desmarais is associate professor at the Computer Engineering
Department of Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal since 2002. His field
of expertise is in the domains of Human-Computer Interactions,
e-learning, and Artificial Intelligence. He has 15 years of
experience in software project management. He was principal
researcher of the Human-Computer Interaction and Computerized Learning
Environments groups at the Computer Research Institute of Montreal
between 1990 and 1998, where he directed a research program in HCI and
computer assisted learning, and was involved in a number of research
projects in close collaboration with private corporations. From 1998
to 2002, he was director of the Web services department in a private
company (mvm.com) and leader of a number of R&D Web-based software
projects. He is the author of over 50 papers in scientific journal,
conferences, and book chapters.
Research interest
- Student and user modeling
- User-centered software engineering
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Artificial Intelligence
- Probabilistic modeling
- Recommender interfaces
Publications
Courses
Students
Current
- Alexandre Plouznikoff (Ph.D. - with Jean-Marc Robert)
- François Lemieux (Ph.D.)
- Mihaela Dulipovici (Ph.D. - with Yves Boudreault)
- Shunkai Fu (Ph.D.)
- Alejandro Villarreal (M.Sc.A. - with Michel Gagnon)
- Beatriz Revello (M.Sc.A. - with Michel Gagnon)
- André Jodoin (M.Sc.A. - with Louis Granger)
- Joël Mignault (M.Sc.A. - with Jean-Marc Robert)
Graduated
- Amir Masoud Oveissian, 2006 (M.Sc.A. - with Michel Gagnon)
- Lei Ma, 2006 (M.Sc.A.)
- Abdelilah Abouelfoutouh, 2006 (M.Sc.A.)
- François Lemieux, 2005 (M.Sc.A.)
- Peyman Meshkinfam, 2005 (M.Sc.A.)
- Tamer Rafla, 2005 (M.Sc.A. with Pierre-N. Robillard)
- Xiao Ming Pu, 2005 (M.Sc.A.)
- Artur Wiklik, 2004 (M.Sc.A.)
- Belkacem Derfoul, 2006 (M.Ing.)
- Rafiou Oketokoun, 2005 (M.Ing.)
- Dan Tao, 2004 (M.Ing.)
Work experience
Education
Professional activities
Administrative duties
- Member, advisory board of the CITE (Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Emerging Technologies)
- Member, board of directors of Système Cognitifs Inc. (1997-1998)
- Member, scientific committee of FDT Interface project (Quebec gov., Virtual Prototypes, Adga) (1995-1997)
- Manager, industry-university grant program (1M$/y), CRIM, (1993-1996)
Journal Editorial Board
- The IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin (associate editor, 2002 - )
- User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (special reviewer, 1996-1998)
Conferences
Program Committee Co-chair
- IHM-2006, 18ème journées sur l'ingénierie de l'interaction humain-machine, Montréal
(www.ihm2006.org)
Publicity Co-chair
- IEEE SMC'06, Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Montreal, Oct. 2007
Program Committee Member
- IASTED CI'2006, International Conference on Computational Intelligence, San Francisco, Nov. 2006
- IEEE IAT'06, Intelligent Agent Technology Hong-Kong, Dec. 2006
- Ergo-IA 2006, Oct., Biarritz, France
- Fifth International Conference on Human System Learning, Marrakech, Morroco, Nov. 2005 (scientific committee)
- Ergo-IA 2004, Oct., Biarritz, France
- Asia-Pacific Conf. on Intelligent Agent Technology, Dec. 1998
- Hong-Kong 2nd International Conf. on Multimodal Interfaces, Jan. 1998
- Graphics Interface'99, Kinston, Ont.
- Fourth International Conference on User Modeling, Hyannis, MA, 1994
- Canadian society for Computational Studies of Intelligence'92, Vancouver
Organizations
- IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
- AIED (International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society)
- AAAI (American Association for Artifical Intelligence)
- AFIHM (Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine)
