Prof. Antoine Bossard,
Kanagawa University, Japan

Biography: Antoine Bossard is a Professor of the Graduate School of Science, Kanagawa University in Japan. He received the BS and MS degrees from Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France in 2005 and 2007, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan in 2011. Amongst others, he is in charge of the computer architecture and functional programming lectures for undergraduate students, and of a graph theory lecture for master students. He also is responsible for the functional and logic programming lecture at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.
Regarding research activities, Antoine mostly focuses on the following two subjects: interconnection networks (network topologies, routing problems, fault tolerance) and information representation and processing of Chinese characters (e.g. fingerprinting). He is the author of multiple papers in these fields, papers published in international journals and conference proceedings. He has also written several books, for instance for his students of computer architecture and functional programming, and on Chinese characters, with notably a commented translation of the first part of the Dictionarium anamitico-latinum of Jean-Louis Taberd.