Jean Dezert Biography

Jean Dezert was born in l'Hay les Roses, France , on August 25, 1962. He received the electrical engineering degree from the Ecole Française de Radioélectricité Electronique and Informatique (EFREI), Paris, in 1985, the D.E.A. degree in 1986 from the University Paris VII (Jussieu), and his Ph.D. from the University Paris XI, Orsay, in 1990, all in Automatic Control and Signal Processing. During 1986-1990 he was with the Systems Department at the Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), Châtillon , France , and did research in tracking. During 1991-1992, he visited the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Connecticut , Storrs , U.S.A. is an European Space Agency (ESA) Postdoctoral Research Fellow. During 1992-1993 he was teaching assistant in Electrical Engineering at the University of Orléans , France . Since 1993, he is senior research scientist in the Image Estimation and Decision (IED) Research Lab. with the Information and Modelling and Processing Department (DTIM) at ONERA. His current research interests include autonomous navigation, estimation theory, stochastic systems theory and its applications to multisensor-multitarget tracking (MS-MTT), information fusion, plausible reasoning and non-standard Logics. Dr. Jean Dezert is developing since 2001 with Professor Smarandache a new theory of plausible and paradoxical reasoning for information fusion (DSmT) and has edited the first textbook (collected works) devoted to this new emerging research field published by American Research Press, Rehoboth in 2004. The second volume is under preparation and will be in print in June 2006. He owns one international patent in the autonomous navigation field and has published several papers in international conferences and journals. He coauthored a chapter in Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking: Applications and Advances, Vol.2 (Y. Bar-Shalom Editor). He is member of IEEE and of Eta Kappa Nu, serves as reviewer for different International Journals, teaches a MS-MTT and Data Fusion course at the French ENSTA Engineering School, collaborates for the development of the International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF) since 1998, and has served as Local Arrangements Organizer for the Third International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2000, July 10- 13, in Paris. He has been involved in the Technical Program Committees of Fusion 2001-2004 International Conferences. Since 2001, he is a member of the board of the International Society of Information Fusion (http://www.isif.org) and served as secretary for ISIF since 2001. He served as executive vice-president of ISIF in 2004. In 2003, he organized with Professor Smarandache, the first special session devoted to plausible and paradoxical reasoning for information fusion at the International conference on Information Fusion, Fusion 2003, Cairns , Australia and also a panel discussion and a special session on DSmT at Fusion 2004, Stockholm in June 2004. Dr. Dezert gave several invited seminars and lectures on Data Fusion and Tracking during recent past years. He also participates as member to Conference Technical Committee of Fusion 2005, Fusion 2006 International Conference on Information Fusion and Fuzzy Sets and Technology Conference, Salt Lake City , USA in July 2005. He is also Associate Editor of Journal of Advances in Information Fusion (JAIF). Most recent advances on DSmT can be found at : http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/DSmT.htm.