Before coming to SFU in 2007, he was a professor in the Computer Science Department of University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM). Besides his membership at the IRMACS Centre, Dr. Chauve is a member of the SFU Discrete Mathematics Group, Bioinformatics Training Program for Health Research, where he is an associate faculty, Comparative Genomics Laboratory (CGL, UQAM), and Laboratoire de Combinatoire et Informatique Mathematiques (LaCIM, UQAM). His current research deals primarily with mathematical and computational questions arising from comparative genomics. This includes problems on genome rearrangements, gene families evolution, and computational analysis of RNA. Part of Dr. Chauve's scientific work is in enumerative combinatorics and algorithms design.