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I am an Assistant Professeur in the Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. I am also on the faculty of the Moving Image Archival Studies program, a Research Affiliate of the Center for Information as Evidence, a Fellow of the Center for Ethics and Complex Systems, and an Associate Researcher at the CECOJI. Ethnically, I am Montréalais by birth, Gaspésien by ancestry, Vancouverite by postdoc, with typical Québécois identity issues, and goody two-shoes Canadian attitude (Québec version here). I can also laugh about it.
Before joining UCLA in 2004, I was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the InterPARES 2 research project, led by Luciana Duranti, where I worked on the articulation of electronic signatures technologies to archival practice.
I obtained my Ph.D. in 2002 in Science and Technology Studies (also known as Social Studies of Science, or Science, Technology and Society) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where I had privilege to work with Kim Fortun. I spent 1999-2001 researching the reform of evidence law in France and the EU. My fieldwork included 9 months at the headquarters of the French notarial profession, the Conseil Supérieur du Notariat, and working with the Ministry of Justice on drafting a decree on electronic notarial acts.
Before that, I got a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Université de Montréal, where I trained in cryptography with Claude Crépeau in the Laboratoire d'Informatique Théorique et Quantique.I share my name with at least two other persons in Googlespace: one is a curator for the Musée Canadien des Civilisations, and wrote the book on Quebec Bread Ovens; the other one performs in Ottawa as DJ "Sinequanon". My most famous distant relative is not somebody you want to mess with. You can access my most famous close relative's weekly columns on Le Devoir's website, and her daily inspirations on the Châtelaine's website.
I've been waging a very limited scale campaign to get my name spelled with both hyphen and cedilla by as many databases as possible. The UCLA directory now does it right. I recently received what I believe to be my first ever correctly spelled mailing label. So it's actually possible!