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Nozha Ben Hajel - Boujemaa

Director of Research - Head of the IMEDIA Research Group

Office: 11-23

Phone: +33 1 39 63 51 54

Fax: +33 1 39 63 56 74

Email: Nozha.Boujemaa(a)inria.fr

Pr. Nozha Boujemaa is Director of Research at INRIA Paris - Rocquencourt. She obtained her PhD degree in Mathematics and Computer Science in 1993 (Paris V) and her "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" in Computer Science in 2000 (University of Versailles). She has been graduated previously with a Master degree with Honors from University of Tunis.

Her topics of interests include Multimedia Content Search, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. She develops methods for automatic visual content enrichment, organising and browsing together with interactive and personalized information retrieval mechanisms. Her research activities are leading to next generation of multimedia search engines. She's very keen to tackle fundamental and generic problems expressed from real use-cases and scenarios so that research results impact diverse application domains including audio-visual archives, security, biodiversity, satellite images …

Pr. Boujemaa is the author of over 130 international journals and conference proceedings publications. She has supervised over 30 PhD and master students. She has served on numerous scientific program committees in international conferences (WWW Multimedia Track, ACM Multimedia/MIR, IAPR ICPR, IEEE ICIP, IEEE Fuzzy systems, IEEE ICME, ACM CIVR, CBMI, RIAO...) in the area of visual information retrieval and pattern recognition. She acts as plenary speaker for 5 international conferences. She is member of the Steering Committee of The ACM International Conference of Multimedia Information Retrieval (2008-2012). She organizes and co-chairs several international events: "8th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval" in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2006 (MIR'06), "9th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval" in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2007 (MIR'07), International workshop on Visual and Multimedia Digital Libraries (VMDL 2007), CHORUS Event on National Initiatives on Audio-Visual Search Engines, CHORUS Workshop on "Use-cases and New Services", Muscle-Delos Summer School'06 on "Multimedia digital libraries Machine learning and cross-modal technologies for access and retrieval", NSF-INRIA-BERKLEY-IBM joint workshop on "MultiMedia Content Based Indexing and Retrieval" (MMCBIR'01), … (see more in "Events")

She is in charge of the Scientific Coordination of 3 European projects: MUSCLE Network of Excellence (Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning – see in ICT Results "Results that lead the way") gathering 42 Europeans research labs, VITALAS Integrated Project: "Video & image Indexing and Retrieval in the Large Scale" (see “Les Echos”), CHORUS CA: "Coordination Action over existing European and National Efforts on Multimedia Search Engines" (see "Search For Tomorrow: International Herald Tribune"). Chorus aims to deliver to the European commission multidisciplinary prospective studies on challenges and gaps in the field of multimedia search engines. She is involved in other EU projects: ACEMEDIA IP, TRENDS Strep, DELOS NoE, "STOP" (against child pornography together with DCPJ, Europol…) as well as national projects (ANR R2I, ACI QuerySat, ACI Biotim…).

Dr. Boujemaa supervises research and development of IKONA: IMEDIA Search Engine that wins ImagEval/TechnoVision Benchmark (all image retrieval tasks). She is member of the steering committee of the first international contest in the topic of "Video copy detection" planned within TrecVid'08.

Dr. Boujemaa has served as a scientific expert for numerous international governmental research programs such as the NSF (National Science Foundation - USA) and the European Commission, Nwo and Token programs (Netherlands), CNRSG (Canada), A*Star (Singapore). She acts as French Expert for COST ICT Domain and she is a member of "European Commission Task Force on Networked Media: long term research". She is appointed as expert for the European Science Foundation (ESF) for the period 2008-2009. She has been invited to several scientific expert panels to discuss the European commission FP7 Work Program objectives and priorities. She is elected in the Steering Board of NEM ETP (Networked and Electronic Media European Technology Platform) as INRIA representative. At the national level, she served as scientific expert for the French Parliament (Law on Digital Economy “LEN”) as well as for the French Ministry of Interior. She has served as elected member at the INRIA National Evaluation Committee (2004-2008).

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