Summary
Patrice Bellot is a seasoned computer science professor and research leader based in Marseille, specializing in text mining, information retrieval and NLP, with over a decade of senior academic and scientific-management experience. He serves as Directeur adjoint du LIS and professor at Aix-Marseille Université, while also acting as Délégué scientifique for CNRS in areas including open science and textual data mining. He founded and led influential research groups and labs (DIMAG, OpenEdition Lab) that bridge digital humanities, digital libraries and applied IR research, and he teaches courses from software testing to data mining at Polytech Marseille. His career combines deep academic credentials (PhD and HDR) with sustained industry partnerships (Sinequa, Syllabs, Advestigo), reflecting an applied focus on moving research into production. Colleagues know him for blending rigorous methodological work in NLP with institutional leadership that advances open scientific infrastructures.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur Informatique, Ingénieur Informatique at ESIL - Université de la Méditerranée (Aix-Marseille II)
Aix-Marseille University
HDR Computer Science (Natural Language Processing / Information Retrieval), HDR Computer Science (Natural Language Processing / Information Retrieval) at Avignon Université