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Lilian Besson (@Naereen) on GitHub

Hello there 👋 ! I am a 🇫🇷 French passionate coder on GitHub (also Bitbucket & GitLab!), and I love teaching! I've been a big fan of 🐍 Python since 2011, and I love 🐫 OCaml and Bash as my favorite programming languages! Daily Bash user since 2011 too!

I am now a full-time professor of Computer Science in Classes Préparatoires (in MP2I) from September 2021, last year in Lycée Kléber in Strasbourg and now in Centre International de Valbonne in Valbonne near Cannes and Nice ☀️.

In 2019/20 and 2020/21, I was a junior professor in Computer Science (and Mathematics) at ENS de Rennes in France.

I enjoyed doing a PhD (2016-19)

Before that, I pursued a Ph.D (phd.pdf) in telecommunications, applied mathematics, machine learning and computer science (yes, all that), at the engineering school CentraleSupélec in Rennes and at Inria in Lille since 2016 to 2019, and I graduated in November 2019. I wrote research articles, with a dozen publications in various national and international conferences and two journals articles, and research software. I continued doing some research after my PhD defense, but I had to stop completely in 2021.

I'm not only a (proud) geek!

Outside of computer science and teaching, I love biking & hiking, traveling by hitch-hiking and cooking (I'm pro vegetarian!), fighting against the climate crisis and polluters, on a daily basis, on both personal associative and political levels, etc. 🛏️ I live in Le Cannet, and I'm a strong believer in the importance of 💚 ecology, and especially reducing waste at a personal level and local and national political actions. Bien sûr, I like video games, science fiction and fantasy! 🚀 I used to write a lot on my blog.

I'm a big fan of Magic: the Gathering, and long-time green/white Timmy player! Pauper, Modern, EDH and limited are my favorite formats! I play weekly at this awesome place! (some of my deck lists are here)

More name dropping

💻 I work on Dell and HP laptops, using XUbuntu 18.04+, VSCode, 🎵 listening to music with gmusicbrowser (and this). Since 2012, I write a lot of tiny CLI scripts, and build my website using sphinx. 📝 I (used to?) love mathematics, got the French national competitive exam for teaching ("agrégation") in 2014, and since then I've helped writing the best maths book ever (in 🇫🇷 French), and this other one. 🤣 I'm a big fan of memes, various TV shows, movies and video-games.