I'm professor of computer science at UCLouvain in the ICTeam Institute. I'm also part of the Artificial Intelligence and AlgorithmsTwitter research group.

Bio

I obtained my Ph.D. from the UCLouvain University in 2009. I spent 5 months at Brown University. Then I joined the Dynadec startup to work on Comet during two years before working two more years at N-SIDE. I'm now at UCLouvain since September 2012.

Research

Interests
  • Constraint Programming and Discrete Optimization
  • Data-mining and Machine Learning
  • Algorithms and data-structures
  • Programming languages

Current Projects and collaboration
  • Dynamic Proggramming and MDD Solving, in collaboration with Emma Legrand, Xavier Gillard, Vianney Coppé and Cetic
  • MDD for CP, in collaboration with Amaury Guichard, Hélène Verhaeghe
  • TRAIL, working on VRP in collaboration with Augustin Declecluse and Cetic
  • Networking Optimization and Machine Learning , collaboration with Christel Pelsser and Auguste Burlat
  • LLM for construction, collaboration with Buildwise and Ioannis Kostis
  • AI-based Defect detection for rails, collaboration with PEPPS
  • CP MOOC and CP solvers (www.minicp.org, www.maxicp.org), in collaboration with Laurent Michel, Pascal Van Hentenryck and Guillaume Derval
Past projects
  • Traffic Engineering, in Software Defined Networks, in collaboration with Olivier Bonaventure (ARC project)
  • Scheduling Operations for Steel-Making, in collaboration with PSI Metal (Metal Urbain, Innoviris Bxl)
  • Interlocking Systems (verification and optimization), in collaboration with Alstom and Cetic (Inograms project, région Wallonne)
  • Energy aware scheduling and planning in Industry, in collaboration with N-SIDE (Industore project, région Wallonne)
  • CP-Solver Engineering tools, in collaboration with Michele Lombardi
  • Matrix Mining, in collaboration with Vincent Branders and Pierre Dupont
  • Bitwise algorithms for Table Constraints and MDD, in collaboration with Christophe Lecoutre
  • Vehicule Routing and supply chain optimization, in collaboration with N-SIDE (Presupply project, région Wallonne)
  • CP-Based Data-Mining, in collaboration with Tias Guns and Siegfried Nijssen
  • B-Post Chair in Data-Science, in collaboration with Siegfried Nijssen (sponsored by B-Post)
  • Migration analysis (GLOBMING ARC project), in collaboration with Frédéric Docquier and Siegfried Nijssen
  • Learning and Optimization Models in collaboration with PSI Metals, Siegfried Nijssen, Tias Guns, Gael Aglin (Reconcile Innoviris Project Bxl)
  • Intelligent Planning with Traxeo (Deep Construct Walloon Region project)
  • Scheduling the unmounting of plances , (Planum Project, région Walllonne)