Professor Sébastien Thomassey

Sébastien Thomassey (PhD) is currently Full Professor at the “Ecole Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textiles” (ENSAIT) and the GEMTEX laboratory. Currently, he is the leader of the research group "Human Centered Design" at the GEMTEX Laboratory.

He gained an MSc(Eng.) in textile and clothing production from the ENSAIT in 1999, an MSc in advanced data analysis from the Lille I University in 1999 and a PhD in automation and information technology from the Lille I University in 2002. He was an engineer in R&D at the French technical center for the textile/clothing, IFTH, from 1999 to 2002 and a researcher at the Mathematic and Operational Research Laboratory of the Polytechnic Institute of Mons in Belgium in 2003.

His work has been published in refereed journals, such as Applied Soft Computing, Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Operational Research, and the International Journal of Production Economics,. In 2018, he co-edited a book entitled "Artificial Intelligence for Fashion Industry in the Big Data Era. He is actively involved in research projects in production and supply chain management, sales forecasting and clustering/classification of fashion products. He has also participated in various European and national research projects related to sustainable textile design and management, simulation and optimization of manufacturing units, clustering and classification of 3D morphologies for intelligent sizing systems, and sales-forecast-based simulation in pricing strategy. 

Research interests:

• Supply chain
• Production management
• Sales forecasting​

Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sebastien-Thomassey-2

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=kyL91-gAAAAJ

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastien-thomassey-1a2ab92/