Olivier Lézoray is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Caen in the Multimedia and Internet Department of the West Normandy Institute of Technology. He is also a researcher in the Image team of the GREYC UMR CNRS 6072 research laboratory.
He received a Master (1995, with honours), a Ph.D (2000, with highest honours), and an Habilitation thesis (2007) in Computer Science from the University of Caen, France. From 1999 to 2000, he was an Assistant Professor with the Computer Science Department of the University of Caen. In 2000, he joined the West Normandy Institute of Technology as an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Communication Networks and Services Department and was director of graduate studies (2000-2009). From 2008 to 2016, he was the Chair of the West Normandy Institute of Technology Research Committee. In 2010, he became a full professor at the West Normandy Institute of Technology in the Multimedia and Internet (MMI) Department. He is the head of the MMI Department since 2015.
His research interest are in graph-based signal processing, adaptive and multidimensional mathematical morphology, and machine learning. Applications of his work include digital pathology, computational photography, and computer vision.