From: Thomas Pietrzak Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:31:58 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Remerciements X-Git-Url: https://git.thomaspietrzak.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=67beefdf903486464b1f0f3fa2106db9335f7250;p=hdr.git Remerciements --- diff --git a/tex/00-remerciements.tex b/tex/00-remerciements.tex index 3fd8227..2557808 100644 --- a/tex/00-remerciements.tex +++ b/tex/00-remerciements.tex @@ -1,3 +1,48 @@ %!TEX root = ../hdrmain.tex -\chapter*{Remerciements} \ No newline at end of file +\chapter*{Acknowledgements} + +In this document, I discuss the results of a successful decade of work. +However, my main achievement in this period is my family. +I met my wife Milena, our son Jimmy was born, and we got married. +We are all here for the other when one needs help or attention, whether to get through difficult times or to celebrate the highlights. +I love you both more than anything else in this universe. +The true achievement of my career is certainly my ability to keep a good work-life balance. + +I am also grateful to my parents Paul and Chantal, as well as my brother Julien. +They always supported me and there was no chance I was there today without them. +I also thank the rest of my family and my step-family for providing a kind and warm environment. +It is always a pleasure to have a good time together. + +I also have the chance to have the most faithful and cheerful friends one hopes to have. +They are always ready to hang around, help, or do anything else one of us needs. +The frontier between friends and colleagues is sometimes difficult to draw. +I am so grateful to the Telecom team that welcomed me for my postdoc in Paris. +You helped me to take off my research, and we spent many good moments both in and outside the lab. +You all are one of the reasons why I achieved this step today, and I am proud to count you as a friend as well. + +Throughout my postdocs in Paris, Toronto, and my position at the Univerité de Lille I had the honor and pleasure to work with many talented people. +These stimulating environments pulled me to the heights I reached today. +I was delighted to share this part of my journey with you. +Notably, I owe a life debt to all my team leaders: Éric, Ravin, Laurent, Nicolas, and Stéphane. +Not only you all provided me with an outstanding environment that helped me to perform research at the highest levels and helped me to shape my vision of my research. +But thanks to you the day I will lead a team myself, I will have five different leadership examples to get inspiration from. +In particular, I truly thank Stéphane for being my HDR sponsor. +He was for me the best person to guide me through this exercise, and in particular, push me to go further in my thinking. + +%\clearpage + +All these welcoming and successful research environments are also combinations of very talented researchers. +The ideas and visions presented in this document are the consequences of discussions, teamwork, and inspiration from my direct and indirect collaborators. +Specifically, I thank my most frequent co-authors Géry, Nicolas, Sylvain, and Gilles, and most frequent co-advisors Audrey and Marcelo. +More generally, I express my deepest gratitude to all my co-authors and more generally all the other team members and members of the HCI research community. + + +Beyond the research teams, I have been working in stimulating and welcoming environments, whether in the Computer Science department of the Faculté des Sciences et Technologies, the Inria Lille research center, or the CRIStAL laboratory. +I thank them all. +I would also like to give a special thanks to all the support teams at Inria, and more than anybody else our team assistants Karine, Julie, and Anne. +Without talented, organized, and kind people like you, our job would not be possible. + +I would like also to thank all the committee members for accepting to review my work. +All of you inspired my research since I started research 17 years ago. +Therefore, it is an honor for me to be able to present to you what I have been working on during the last decade.