Lamine Sane holds a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence and Smart Technologies, jointly awarded by the University of Technology of Troyes and Iba Der Thiam University of Thiès (Senegal). He is currently a doctoral student at the CIMI (Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases) and is enrolled in the doctoral school “Complexity of Life”  (ED 515).

His PhD dissertation focuses on “Digital health applied to global health in parasitology and mycology: developing artificial intelligence approaches for the diagnosis and epidemiological monitoring of malaria and the fungal pathogens Cryptococcus spp. and Candida auris.” This PhD project forms part of a Digital Health initiative in the service of Global Health and aims to develop digital and artificial intelligence (AI) tools to improve the diagnosis and epidemiological surveillance of parasitic and fungal infections that have a significant impact on morbidity and mortality in resource-limited countries. It focuses on three priority infectious agents in Parasitology-Mycology: Plasmodium spp (malaria), Cryptococcus spp and Candida (Candidozyma) auris.