Research and teach
A PhD alongside a job and a family is not justified by the title. It is justified by the question.
The thesis
ICube laboratory (UMR 7357), CSIP team, University of Strasbourg. Doctoral school 269 MSII. Defense planned for 2028.
“Toward an innovative contingency model of agile performance: identifying success and failure factors, and contradictions, in the context of Industry 5.0”
Official title, in French: « Vers un modèle innovant contingencé de performance agile : identification des facteurs de succès et d’échec ainsi que les contradictions dans le contexte de l’industrie 5.0 »
My thesis is about organizational agility in product lifecycle management (PLM) contexts. Agility is not a topic next to Lean: it is one interpretation of it, the one the software world made. Searching there is searching in the same place.
What I want is for an answer to be tested before it is spread. A peer-reviewed conference, supervisors who push back, reviewers who reject: it is the only mechanism I know that keeps a good idea from turning into a belief. It is exactly what part of what is taught today under the name of Lean has been missing.
- Supervisors
- Rémy Houssin, François Marmier, Ioana Filipas-Deniaud
- Discipline
- Industrial engineering
- Doctoral training
- Recherche reproductible (reproducible research, Inria, 24 hours, in French) and Reproducible Research II: Practices and tools for managing computations and data (Inria, 35 hours), 2026
Publications
Papers at peer-reviewed international conferences, open access on HAL.
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TRAI 2026, “Synergies of TRIZ, AI, and Optimization for Complex Systems Design” (ETRIA), Hammamet, Tunisia, October 21 to 23, 2026. IFIP AICT, vol. 806, Springer, to appear. HAL: hal-05745470
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PLM 2026, IFIP 23rd International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, Lecce, Italy, July 6 to 8, 2026. IFIP AICT, Springer, to appear. HAL: hal-05745458
Talks
TRAI 2026, Hammamet
October 22, 2026. Oral presentation of the paper on the MAPIM matrix, at the ETRIA conference “Synergies of TRIZ, AI, and Optimization for Complex Systems Design”.
PLM 2026, Lecce
July 6 to 8, 2026. Presentation of the paper on organizational agility in PLM, special session SS-8.
Teaching
Visiting lecturer at the University of Strasbourg, where I train and certify students in Lean Six Sigma, from Yellow to Green Belt.
I teach for the same reason I became an instructor at the dojo. It is the part of my work I protect the most: it pays almost nothing, and it forces me to understand what I think I know.
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Second-year master’s in Industrial Management and Innovation, Faculty of Economics and Management, since 2026/2027. 56 hours of courses across the 6 DMAIC phases, a case study defended before a jury and a 100-question exam, for a University of Strasbourg certificate.
Lean 5.0
Second-year master’s, University of Strasbourg
Product Management powered by AI
Second-year master’s, University of Strasbourg
Project management and tutored project
Professional bachelor’s (PPO), Faculty of Physics and Engineering, 2026/2027
Corporate social responsibility
Second-year master’s in QHSE, continuing education, Faculty of Economics and Management
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Second-year master’s in Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Physics and Engineering, since 2021 (lectures, tutorials and exam). Several hundred students certified.
People often ask me whether artificial intelligence will replace all this. It will make it more necessary: automating a wasteful process produces automated waste, faster and more opaque. The real question is not AI versus method. It is whether you will put AI in the service of thinking, or in place of thinking.