Research Team
Current Members:
PhD students
- Alexandre Dubray (PhD student), start in Sep 2019, Trajectory mining algorithms and Model Counting (co-supervision with Siegfried Nijssen)
- Harold Kiossou (PhD student), start in Nov 2019, Optimal Decision Trees (co-supervision with Siegfried Nijssen)
- Augustin Delecluse (PhD student), start in Sept 2021, Vehicle Routing and Scheduling with Constraint Programming
- Auguste Burlat (PhD student), start in Sept 2022, Optimization for the placement of monitors in computer networks (co-supervision Cristel Pelsser)
- Emma Legrand (PhD student), start in Sept 2023, Discrete Optimization with Decision Diagrams (co-supervision Daniele Catanzaro)
- Amaury Guichard (PhD student), start in Sept 2024, Decision Diagrams for CP (co-supervision Hélène Verhaeghe)
- Ioannis Kostis (PhD student), start in Sept 2025, Detection if defects in rails
Post-docs
- Roger Kameugne (PhD), MDD optimization
Completed PhD Thesis under my (co-)supervision:
- Cyrille Dejemeppe, Sept 2012 - Sept 2016, PhD Thesis Constraint Programming Algorithms and Models for Scheduling Applications (co-supervision with Yves Deville)
- Ratheil Houndji, Jan 2014 - June 2017, PhD Thesis Cost-based filtering algorithms for a capacitated lot sizing problem and the constrained arborescence problem (co-supervision with Laurence Wolsey)
- Quentin Cappart, Oct 2014 - Dec 2017, PhD Thesis Verification of railway interlocking systems and optimisation of railway traffic
- Sascha Van Cauwelaert, Sept 2013 - Jan 2018, PhD Thesis Engineering scalable propagation in constraint programming
- Renaud Hartert, Sept 2013 - Sept 2018, PhD Thesis Fast and scalable optimization for segment routing (co-supervision with Olivier Bonaventure)
- John Aoga, Oct 2015 - June 2019, PhD Thesis Global constraints for mining sets and sequences
- Vincent Branders, Sept 2016 - June 2021, PhD Thesis Finding submatrices of maximal sum : applications to the analysis of gene expression data (co-supervision with Pierre Dupont)
- Hélène Verhaeghe, Sep 2015 - Augut 2021, PhD Thesis The extensional constraint (co-supervision with Christophe Lecoutre) ( ACP Doctoral Research Award )
- Guillaume Derval, Oct 2016 - Dec 2021, PhD Thesis Finding maximum sum submatrices
- Gael Aglin, Jan 2018 - Oct 2022, PhD Thesis Optimal Decision Trees Under Constraints (co-supervision with Siegfried Nijssen)
- Xavier Gillard, Jan 2018 - Oct 2022, PhD Thesis Discrete Optimization with Decision Diagrams: Design of a
generic solver, Improved bounding techniques, and fast discovery of good feasible solutions with large neighborhood search
- Charles Thomas , Oct 2016- Jan 2023, Advanced modelling and search techniques for routing and scheduling problems
- Vianney Coppé, Jan 2019 - Jan 2024, Advances in Discrete Optimization with Decision Diagrams: Dominance, Caching and Aggregation-Based Heuristics