Biography
Bio and CV
Laurent Najman is currently a professor in the Mathematics Department, College of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, at Khalifa University. He is on leave from ESIEE Paris and Université Gustave Eiffel, where he was professor in the A3SI team at LIGM.
Current Status
Professor at Khalifa University
His research lies in discrete mathematics and mathematical morphology, with applications to image processing, computer vision, biomedical imaging, and data science. His work connects graph-based methods, hierarchies, topology of discrete structures, and optimization.
- Discrete mathematics with applications to data science, biomedical imaging, computer vision, and image processing.
- Supervisor of 2 HDRs, 33 PhD students in France, 4 PhD students abroad, and 2 current PhD projects.
- President of AFRIF, the French branch of IAPR, since 2025.
- Editor for the Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision and the International Journal of Computer Vision.
- Organisation chair for ICCV 2023 in Paris and program chair for ISMM 2005 and ISMM 2015.
Profiles
Research identifiers
Supervision
Thesis supervision
The supervision page records HDRs, former PhD students, current and recent doctoral projects, co-supervisors, links to theses, and prizes where relevant.
Personal note
Aikido story
Beyond the academic CV, Aikido has been a long personal practice. The Aikido page gathers my practice note and the Terry Dobson story about conflict resolution that I have kept close for many years.
Mathematical genealogy
Academic lineage
A small pleasure of the Mathematics Genealogy Project is the academic lineage it reveals. Following the supervision chain backward, my genealogy passes through:
- Jean-Pierre Aubin
- Jacques-Louis Lions
- Laurent Schwartz
- Georges Valiron
- Émile Borel
- Gaston Darboux
- Michel Chasles
- Siméon Denis Poisson
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange
- Leonhard Euler
- Johann Bernoulli
- Jacob Bernoulli
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Erhard Weigel
Career
Positions
- Since 2025
Professor, Mathematics Department, College of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Khalifa University
- 2002-2025
Professor, ESIEE Paris, Université Gustave Eiffel, Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard Monge - UMR 8049
- 1998-2002
Senior Scientist, Océ PLT, Créteil, France
- 1995-1998
VP Research and Development, Animation Science, Paris, Boston, and San Francisco
- 1991-1995
Research engineer, THALES, Laboratoire Central de Recherches
Education
Degrees
- 2006
Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches, Computer Science, Université de Marne-la-Vallée
- 1994
PhD in Applied Mathematics, Université Paris-Dauphine, with unanimous jury congratulations
- 1991
Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence and Shape Recognition, Université Paris-Dauphine, ranked first
- 1991
Engineering degree, Control Theory, École des Mines de Paris
Service
Editorial service
- Since 2023
Editor, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
- Since 2019
Editor, International Journal of Computer Vision
- 2016-2022
Senior Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters
- 2015-2023
Area Editor, Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Books
Selected books
Systèmes d'exploitation - Synthèse de cours & exercices corrigéswith Bart Lamiroy and Hugues Talbot, Pearson Education France, 2006