Frédéric POURRAZ

Associate Professor

Email: frederic.pourraz -@- univ-smb.fr

Phone : +33(0) 4 50 09 65 39

Office : A115

Postal address : LISTIC - Polytech'Savoie, BP 80439, 74944 Annecy le Vieux Cedex, France

Functions / Responsibilities

  • 2025 – 2028: Head of the Interreg-ALCOTRA France – Italie project : RESIL-AV
  • Since 2022: LISTIC representative on the scientific, steering and strategic committees of the MIRE Chair
  • 2018 – 2022: Head of the Interreg France – Switzerland project : CIME

Research themes

Theme: ReGaRD - Representation, management and data processing for human

My research work focuses on the design of applications/systems with a strong software component for decision support in uncertain environments or contexts.
These software systems have the particularity:

  • To process heterogeneous, multi-source, distributed, uncertain and/or incomplete information;
  • To combine, aggregate this information to provide higher level information to the user to assist him in his decision making;
  • To take into account changing situations (dynamic systems).

This multidisciplinary work is based on approaches in different scientific fields:

  • Software engineering methods to describe the software system (distributed or not), its architecture (software entities and their interactions) in a dynamic context;
  • Process engineering methods to describe the important processes to be implemented (information acquisition processes, decision-making processes, planning processes, development processes, etc.);
  • Expert systems & Machine Learning;
  • Decision-making methods.

Field of application

For several years, I have been applying this work in the field of decision-making regarding avalanche danger, both for practitioners in snowy mountain areas and for the protection of civil and road infrastructures.

This work is carried out in close collaboration with the avalanche danger expertise company ALEA, the association data-avalanche.org, and the Natural Risks Department of the Savoie Department.

Recent Mentorships

2024 – 2025: Fengfeng ZHANG
Level: post-doc
Project: EraDA – Spatial extrapolation of snow test results for Avalanche Danger forecasting

2019 – 2023: Fanny PAGNIER
Level: PhD student
Title: Decision support method to characterize the vigilance required in avalanche terrain
Project: CIME

Recent Publications