Jean-Marc Ogier
University of La Rochelle, France
Biography
Jean-Marc Ogier received his PhD degree in computer science from the University of Rouen, France, in 1994. During this period (1991-1994), he worked on graphic recognition for Matra Ms&I Company. From 1994 to 2000, he was an associate professor at the University of Rennes 1 during a first period (1994-1998) and at the University of Rouen from 1998 to 2001. Now full professor at the university of la Rochelle, Pr Ogier was the head of L3I laboratory (research lab in computer sciences of the university of la Rochelle) which gathers more than 120 members and works mainly of Document Analysis and Content Management. Author of more than 200 publications / communications, he managed several French and European projects dealing with document analysis, either with public institutions, or with private companies. Pr Ogier was Deputy Director of the GDR I3 of the French National Research Centre (CNRS) between 2005 and 2013. He was also Chair of the Technical Committee 10 (Graphic Recognition) of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) from 2010 to 2015, and is the representative member of France at the governing board of the IAPR. He is now the general chair of the TC6, dealing with computational forensics of the International Association for Pattern Recognition. Jean-Marc Ogier has been the general chair or the program chair of several international scientific events dealing with document analysis (DAS, ICDAR, GREC, …) He was also Vice rector of the university of La Rochelle from 2005 to 2016, and president of VALCONUM association, which is an association aiming at forstering relations between industries and research organizations. He is now the president of the university of La Rochelle