Abdoulaye is fascinated by the usability and efficiency of bioinformatics services to solve biological questions and transform biologist main needs into accessible services. As director of the bioinfo lab at UQAM, he leads the development of more than 10 applications in bioinformatics including workflows, machine learning methods, ontologies and. knowledge management of biological data. Abdoulaye has a Ph.D. in computer science (option bioinformatics) from the McGill University. He is a former research associate at the BroadInstitute of MIT and Harvard and postdoctoral scholar at the Computer Science and artificial intelligence Laboratory of MIT.