Alexandre Disdier

Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Systems Engineering

ESTIA Institute of Technology, Technopole Izarbel, 90 Allée Fauste d’Elhuyar, 64210 Bidart, France

e-mail: firstname [dot] lastname [at] estia [dot] fr

I am currently a post-doctoral researcher within the FlexTech chair and study contextual approaches and Human-Systems Integration (HSI) techniques in the development of complex sociotechnical systems. I obtained my Ph.D. from the Industrial Engineering Laboratory (LGI) at CentraleSupélec and the ESTIA-Recherche laboratory. My PhD program was funded by the CS Research Lab from CS GROUP (A Sopra Steria Company) and was concerned with contextual modeling of military air traffic control operations.

I hold an engineering degree from ENSEIRB-MATMECA (Ecole nationale supérieure d’électronique, informatique, télécommunications, mathématique et mécanique de Bordeaux) in computer science with a specialization in High Performance Computing and Data Science.


Teaching

I teach mainly Computer Science to students from the engineering cycle at ESTIA, with some involvement in the Human Systems Integration course at ESTIA and CentraleSupélec.

(Lec = Lecturer, TA = Teaching Assistant, J = Jury)

Human Systems Integration Algorithms and Data Structures C Programming Projects Version Control Systems Static Website Technologies Internship Project Defence
2022 Spring Lec-TA
ESTIA 1A
28h
TA
ESTIA 1A
20h
Fall Lec-TA
ESTIA 1A
24h
Lec-TA
ESTIA 1A
6h
J
ESTIA Bach. 2A
2023 Spring Lec-TA
ESTIA 3A
4h
TA
ESTIA 1A
16h
Fall Lec-TA
ESTIA 1A
24h
TA
ESTIA 1A
12h
TA
ESTIA 1A
10h
2024 Spring Lec
ESTIA 3A & CentraleSupélec 3A
2h & 2h
Fall
2025 Spring Lec-TA
ESTIA 3A & CentraleSupélec 3A
4h & 2h
Fall

Research and publications

The domains of my research include supporting early design stages throughout Systems Engineering and Systems Architecture processes. In particular, I am interested in Human Systems Integration (HSI) approaches to the design of complex sociotechnical systems. Such approaches include simulation, virtual protoypes, Scenario-Based Design (SBD), cognitive engineering and complex systems modeling. In this regard, I am a member of the FlexTech chair which is a long-term collaboration between both industrial and academic partners.

The list of all my academic contributions are listed below in descending chronological order (the PDF files posted here may differ from the final published versions).

2025       Proposition of an ontology supporting scenario elicitation in system modeling
Alexandre Disdier, Dimitri Masson, Marija Jankovic, Guy André Boy
AIAA Journal of Air Transportation, soon to be published.
  
2025       The operational context of remote air traffic control centers
Alexandre Disdier
Chapter 4 of the Handbook of Socio-Technical Systems: A Human Systems Integration Approach, soon to be published.
  
2024       A Context Acquisition Methodology for the Design of Complex Sociotechnical Systems (Highly Commended Paper Award 🏆)
Alexandre Disdier, Dimitri Masson, Marija Jankovic, Guy André Boy
Proceedings of the INCOSE/IEA International Conference on Human Systems Integration (HSI2024).
  
2024       Defining and characterizing the operational context for human systems integration (Editor's Choice Paper 🏆)
Alexandre Disdier, Dimitri Masson, Marija Jankovic, Guy André Boy
Systems Engineering (2024). 27:1103-1115
    
2023       Toward a Human Systems Integration approach to the design and operation of a remote and virtual air traffic control center
Alexandre Disdier, Dimitri Masson, Thomas Brethomé, Marija Jankovic, Guy André Boy
Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED2023), The Design Society (2023). 3:3561-3570
    

Administrative services


Education

2025       Doctorat (Ph.D.), Systems Engineering, CentraleSupélec, Paris Saclay University, Gif-sur-Yvette
  Thesis subject: Contribution to the integration of contextual information in the design models of complex sociotechnical systems
  (Advisors: Pr. Marija Jankovic and Pr. Guy André Boy; Assistant advisor: Dr. Dimitri Masson; Industrial advisors: Thomas Brethomé and Dr. Anne-Laure Jousselme)
2021 Diplôme d'ingénieur (equiv. M.Sc), Computer Science and High Performance Computing, ENSEIRB-MATMECA, Talence
2019 Bachelor (equiv. B.Sc), Computer Science, ENSEIRB-MATMECA, Talence
2018 Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie (French two-year university degree in technology), Computer Science, IUT de Bayonne et du Pays Basque, Anglet
2016 Baccalauréat (High school degree), Science, Lycée de Borda, Dax