Cecilia Zanni-Merk

***Professional Preparation*** *Institution & Location* ESLAI (Lujan, Argentina) Université Paul Cézane (Marseilles, France) Université de Strasbourg (France) *Degree, Year* M.Sc. degree (Computer Science), 1988 Ph.D. degree (Computer Science), 2004 Accreditation to supervise research (Computer Science), 2014 ***Appointments*** Since 09/19 Deputy head of the MISS doctoral school (Mathematics, information science and technology, systems engineering science) for the Rouen site. 03/17-12/21 Head of the MIND team at the LITIS laboratory (EA 4108 / FR CNRS 3638) (Rouen, France) Since 09/16 Full Professor in Computer Science at INSA Rouen Normandie and at the LITIS laboratory with the MIND team 2012‐2016 Deputy head of the SDC team, ICube Laboratory (UMR CRNS 7357) (Strasbourg, France) 2007‐2016 Associate professor in Computer Science at INSA Strasbourg (Strasbourg, France) 2005‐2006 Temporary research and teaching fellow. Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg, France) 2002‐2005 Temporary research and teaching fellow. Université Paul Cézanne (Marseilles, France) 1996‐2002 Associate Professor. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (Argentina) 1989‐1996 Assistant Professor. Universidad del Salvador (Buenos Aires, Argentina) ***Synergistic Activities (past 5 years)*** 2021 Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Knowledge Engineering in Industry 4.0“ of the Information journal Since 01/20 Scientific Director of the "Big Data and Artificial Intelligence" Master degree of the UFAZ - French-Azerbaijani University (Baku, Azerbaijan) Since 09/19 International Relations Officer for Latin America of INSA Rouen Normandie 2019 Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Adding Smartness to Systems With Case Studies and Applications“of the Cybernetics and Systems journal. Since 10/18 Elected member of the Scientific Board of INSA Rouen Normandie. Since 10/18 Elected member of the Scientific Council of the Strategic Cluster for Education and Research in “Digital Sciences” of the Normandy region, coordinator of the 3rd Axis “Connected systems, services and objects”. Since 09/18 Visiting Professor at UFAZ - Azerbaijan-French University (Baku, Azerbaijan) 06/18–05/19 Head of the Mathematical Engineering department at INSA Rouen Normandie (Rouen, France) Since 01/18 National representative of France to the Technical Committee 5 "Information Technology Applications" of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) 2018 Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Advances in Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering and Information Systems“ of the Data Technologies and Applications journal. 2018 Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Tribute to the Contributions and Legacy of Norbert Giambiasi” of the Simulation journal. Since 09/17 In charge of the international relationships the INSA group with Argentina. ***Research Activities*** My main research interests are in *Knowledge Engineering*, and more particularly in conceptual representation and inference processes applied to problem-solving. *Keywords:* knowledge engineering, conceptualisation, ontologies and formal models, rule-based reasoning (crisp, fuzzy, probabilistic, spatio‐temporal), case‐based reasoning, knowledge and experience capitalisation. ***Publications*** The complete list of my publications can be found in this URL: http://pagesperso.litislab.fr/czannimerk/publications/ ***Teaching*** I currently teach at the Mathematical Engineering and Computer Science departments at INSA Rouen Normandie: Introduction to Explainable AI, Meta-heuristics; Advanced object-oriented programming; Distributed programming