A brief description of my life
Looking back, how much of the best things that happened to you were
premeditated?
By force of circumstance, I entered in April 2002 the pompous so-called
adulthood. Facing a choice that has been fixed several years before, I
decided to mislead the destiny and go see elsewhere if I were there. Leaving
Marseille, I went to Paris to attend a 5-year
engineering school in computer
science.
Yet, going to a computer school was a logical way mapped out by years of
programmation, I chose easiness at the other end of France.
The force of circumstance stroke again, when I entered the
research lab of the school: this was meant
more as a reward than as a choice; research at this time was alien to
me.
Then everything went quickly. Under the direction of
Akim
Demaille and Prof.
Jacques
Sakarovitch, I discovered a passion for the noble profession of both
researcher and teacher. My decision was made, and thinking back, this is
my most beautiful love.
Propelled, in particular, by the young
Sylvain Peyronnet, who knows how much
I owe him, I was turning against the sacrosanct engineering to do a very
beneficial Master in
mathematical logic
and theoretical computer science.
I still don't know how and why precisely I came to Montreal. I'd heard
things about it, something about opportunities, talent and beer. I jumped
in. Then the coincidences and the unexpected events came at a frantic pace,
until
Pierre McKenzie
signed up as my Ph.D. director.
Plus, I don't know where to put this side note, but I'd like to thank
Noémie, my sister, for the ambigram up in the banner.
