Nicolas Méger graduated from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon) in 2001 with an engineering degree in computer science, having completed the EURINSA European undergraduate program and an Erasmus mobility program in Spain. 2001 saw him join a project under the European Information Society Technologies program to develop research in artificial intelligence, focusing on the extraction of knowledge from data. He obtained a DEA in this field in 2002 and a doctorate in 2004 from INSA Lyon.
In 2005, he was recruited by theUniversité Savoie Mont Blanc as a lecturer in computer science, helping to set up the computer science department at the Annecy IUT and contributing to the work of the LISTIC (Computer Science, Systems, Information and Knowledge Processing Laboratory).
This led to the creation of the vocational degree in IT project management, which he directed from 2007 to 2016, while also being responsible for the department's international relations from 2005 to 2008 and further studies from 2008 to 2011. During this period, he also taught in Spain as part of an Erasmus program. From 2017 to 2023, he set up the Parcours Licence en IUT, an experimental program that foreshadowed the current Bachelor Universitaire de TechnologieBUT. In 2022, with the implementation of the latter, he takes over responsibility for the course focusing on data and artificial intelligence.
From the outset, his research focused on the definition, extraction and selection of spatiotemporal patterns, with the main applications being the unsupervised analysis of satellite image time series and predictive maintenance. He received his habilitation to direct research in 2013 from theUniversité Savoie Mont Blanc , and from 2019 to 2024 he will co-lead one of LISTIC's two research themes, namely Learning, Fusion and Remote Sensing (AFuTé). In 2019, he will be appointed University Professor in Computer Science at the same institution.
In September 2024, he will take over from Laurence Vignollet as Vice-President in charge of international relations.