Education
- Engineering diploma in computer science from EERIE (Ecole pour les Etudes et la Recherche en Informatique et Electronique), Nîmes, France, July 1994.
- PhD in computer science  from Université Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, October 1998. Research led in the LGI2P computer science and production engineering lab of Alès School of Mines (EMA). Advised by Pr. Mourad C. Oussalah.

Current position
Assistant professor at Alès School of Mines (EMA), Nîmes, France, since 1999. Research led in its LGI2P computer science and production engineering lab.


Main responsibilities
- Responsible of the computer science major of EMA from 1999 to 2003.
- Research student advising : 2 PhDs defended, 5 to be; 5 master thesis defended, 1 to be.
- Organizing co-chair of the french-speaking LMO'2006 conference.
- PC member of several conferences and workshops : LMO, CAL, JMAC.
- Responsible of the organization of LGI2P's research seminars since 2008.

Publication shortlist                                                                                                                                                                                         [complete list & files]

- Search-based many-to-one component substitution. N. DESNOS, M. HUCHARD, G. TREMBLAY, C. URTADO, and S. VAUTTIER. Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice. Special issue on Search-Based Software Engineering, M. Di Penta, G. Antoniol and M. Harman Editors, 20(5):321-344, Wiley, September/October 2008. ISSN 532-060X. SCI impact factor 0.765.
- Formal concept analysis-based service classification to dynamically build efficient software component directories. G. AREVALO, N.
DESNOS, M. HUCHARD, C. URTADO, and S. VAUTTIER. International Journal of General Systems, J. Diatta, P. Eklund and M. Liquière Editors, 38(4):427-453, Taylor and Francis, May 2009. ISSN 0308-1079. SCI impact factor 0.551.
- Automated and unanticipated flexible component substitution. N. DESNOS, M. HUCHARD, C. URTADO, S. VAUTTIER and G. TREMBLAY. Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE 2007), LNCS 4608, Springer, pages 33-48, Medford, MA, USA, July 2007. ISSN 0302-9743. AR 18,6%.
- Exception handling and asynchronous active objects: Issues and proposal. C. DONY, C. URTADO and S. VAUTTIER.  In Advanced Topics in Exception Handling Techniques, C. Dony, J. Knudsen, A. Romanovsky, and A. Tripathi, editors, LNCS 4119, chapter 5, Springer, pages 81-100, 2006.
- Complex entity versioning at two granularity levels. C. URTADO and C. OUSSALAH. Information Systems, 23(2/3):197-216, Pergamon, Elsevier Science, 1998. ISSN 0306-4379. SCI impact factor 1.547.
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