Professor · Khalifa University · on leave from ESIEE Paris
Laurent Najman
I am currently a professor in the Mathematics Department at Khalifa University, on leave from ESIEE Paris and Université Gustave Eiffel. My work focuses on the topology of discrete structures, mathematical morphology, graph-based image analysis, and deep learning.
- Current position
- Khalifa University
- Department
- Mathematics
- On leave from
- ESIEE Paris / UGE
Latest HAL record: 2026, Léo Hein, Giovanni de Nunzio, Aurélie Pirayre, Laurent Najman
Supervision
HDR and PhD thesis supervision
Supervision is one of the visible threads of the site: HDRs, PhD theses, co-supervised projects in France and abroad, and current doctoral work in imaging, morphology, topology, graphs, deep learning, and ethical AI.
Research
Discrete structures for visual data
The research page gathers the main spine of the work: graph representations, hierarchies, simplicial complexes, segmentation, shape analysis, deep learning, and explainable AI.
- Discrete mathematical morphology
- Graph-based image analysis
- Hierarchies and trees
- Topology of discrete structures
- Discrete optimization
- Deep learning and interpretable AI
Software
Research software
Software makes part of the research reusable: public code for hierarchical graph analysis, Morse-based topology, and persistent methods.
Publications
Generated from HAL
Publications are fetched from HAL, merged with a small manual duplicate override file, then rendered statically for reliability.
Recent work
Latest publications
Capacity-Aware Deep Learning for Generalizable Traffic Volume Estimation Across Links and Cities
29th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
FLIM-based Salient Object Detection Networks with Adaptive Decoders
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society
A Novel Lightweight Multi-Scale Branching Encoder for Few-Shot Image Classification
Coarse-to-fine crack cue for robust crack detection
Pattern Recognition
Evolutionary Retrofitting
ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization
Counting rhythms using combinatorics on words
Mathematics and Computation in Musics 2026 (MCM 2026) · Springer
Data Science: a Natural Ecosystem
Information Fusion
HAL data generated 18 Jun 2026, 20:30 Paris time.
Teaching
Courses and tutorials
- Artificial intelligence and deep learning
- Mathematical morphology
- Graph algorithms for image analysis
- Project supervision and research tutorials