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Lakhdar Sais is a Professor of Computer Science at the Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Lens (CRIL), CNRS UMR 8188, at Université d'Artois, Faculty of Jean Perrin Sciences in Lens, France. His research focuses on search and representation problems in Artificial Intelligence, including propositional satisfiability, quantified boolean formulas, constraint programming, knowledge representation and reasoning, data mining, and AI applications in Social and Human Sciences.
He has supervised numerous PhD students throughout his career, with recent students including David ING (2021-present) working on migration data knowledge extraction, and previously Ikram NEKKACHE (2021), Sofiane TOUATI (2021), and Kahina BOUCHAMA (2020). His research has been recognized with multiple awards including best paper awards at SAT'11 and ICTAI'2009, and first place in the International SAT 2009 competition.
His current research projects include the ANR project HYCI (2023-2026) on Hyper-places, Crises, Migrations and Inequalities, Project ERA (2022-2025) on producing new knowledge in juvenile justice and mental health, and ANR project POSTCRYPTUM (2021-2023) on algebraic cryptanalysis for post-quantum cryptography. He has also edited the Handbook of Parallel Constraint Reasoning (Springer, 2018).
Scientific Awards:
- Best paper award at SAT'11 for 'On freezing and reactivating learnt clauses'
- Best paper award at ICTAI'2009 for 'Learning for Subsumption'
- ManySAT - First rank at International SAT 2009 competition (Parallel Track)
- LySAT - Two bronze medals at International SAT 2009 competition (Sequential Track)
- ManySAT - First rank at SAT Race 2008 competition
Professor Sais has taught numerous courses including Artificial Intelligence, Constraint Programming, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Expert Systems, Complexity Theory, Advanced Data Structures, Algorithmics, and Functional Programming. He has served as leader of the inference and decision process research group at CRIL (2002-2013) and as Delegate Director of the CRIL laboratory (2013-2018).
