Alexandre Dniestrowski

Currently doing research work at Sorbonne University (Paris) on digital technologies applied to humanities (DH) and more specifically to history. This research explores how to take advantage of innovative technologies (natural language processing, knowledge modelling & ontologies, graph databases and web data) to improve and extend the research and work capacities of the historian and thus transform him into an “augmented” historian.

My professional background is in digital transformation processes, market development and software engineering. The highlights of my education and professional activities are the following:

• Business development assignments for digital technology start-ups (French & Israeli) to open new markets internationally, including France, UK and Brazil.
• Following the "think global and act local" paradigm, in charge of a group to establish common processes with network platforms (intranet & extranet) to support communication, collaboration and coordination of units (project teams and business experts) spread around the world (Schlumberger)
• Commercial expansion of CIAD in software engineering for large industrial groups: Matra, Aerospatiale, Sfena, Schlumberger, Thompson, L'Oréal, etc.
• Coordinator of the "zero paper" digital transformation of the Avionics Division in charge of the tender for the Airbus civil autopilot (SFENA now Thales)
• Software engineering of military (Mirage 2000) and civil high reliability autopilots (Airbus 300 & 320 - SFENA)
• Software development of an automatic processing system for nuclear physics images (CDF - PhD)
• PhD in Computer Science (Collège de France, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire)
• Graduate in Chemical Engineering (ENSCP)