He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Vision from Lille 1 University of Science and Technology in 2007 and his HDR degree (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) in 2014. After spending two years as a post-doc at UCL, he joined UCA as an Assistant Professor in 2009. His main research interests involve fitting curves on Riemannian manifolds, statistical shape analysis, medical imaging, computer vision, and their application to real-world problems. His international experiences include University of California Los Angles, Florida State University, Ohio State University, Catholic University of Louvain, Universidade Do Estado De Santa Catarina. He has been a reviewer for several referred scientific journals and conferences.