He holds a Ph.D. in computer science, awarded in 2013 by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) - University Montpellier 2 (UM2). His topics of interest primarily focus on data science, machine learning, deep learning, and privacy and security, especially for health informatics, social network analysis, and spatio-temporal data mining. His contributions have been published in at least 25 publications at leading and top-tier venues, such as AAAI, ACM Multimedia, ACM CIKM, ACM TIST, IEEE Intelligent Systems, KAIS, SDM, ECML-PKDD, ACM GIS, etc. Several of them had been selected as best papers and two contributions had been presented as invited talks.