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topics

  • combinatorial optimization
  • constraint programming, integer linear programming and hybrid approaches 
  • global constraints [catalog website]
  • CP-based LP decomposition methods: column and cut generation, lagrangean, benders
  • Modeling: systematic composition of preferences and business rules
  • intelligent backtracking for LP, CP and SAT
  • resource constrained project scheduling (RCPSP)
  • employee timetabling, shift scheduling, nurse rostering
  • bin packing, repacking scheduling
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teaching activities

lecturer of Advanced Integer Linear Programming in Optimization in Operations Research, International MSc in Computer science at Université de Nantes and École des Mines de Nantes

lecturer of Combinatorial Optimization: Advanced Techniques and Applications in GIPAD, major in CS for decision support of the Master in Engineering at École des Mines de Nantes

lecturer of Discrete Mathematics: Formal Power Series in FIL, L3 in Software Engineering at École des Mines de Nantes

GOTO Enseignements (in french)

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research activities

member of the TASC research team of INRIA Rennes (project team) and of Laboratoire Informatique Nantes-Atlantique (CNRS UMR 6241)

member of the ligerian group of operations research LigéRO

PhD scientific advisor of Julien Menana, automata and constraints for personnel scheduling (2007-2011, director: Narendra Jussien)

PhD scientific advisor of Aurélien Merel, flexibility in railway optimization problems (2008-2011, director: Xavier Gandibleux)

PhD scientific co-advisor of Xavier Libeaut, dynamic multi-flows with resource synchronization constraints (2010-2013, with Jorge Mendoza and director: Éric Pinson)

maintainer of the global constraint catalog website authored by Nicolas Beldiceanu

member of the french associations of constraint programming (AFPC) and of operations research (Roadef)

program comitee member of CPAIOR'12 (may 28-june 1, 2012, Nantes): 9th International Conference on Integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research (OR) techniques in Constraint Programming

program comitee member of ICAPS'12 (june 24-28, 2012, Sao Paulo): 22nd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling

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past activities

organizer of CP&OR (2004-2010), the french working group on integrating constraint programming and operations research

head of GIPAD (2006-2011, Génie Informatique Pour l'Aide à la Décision, aka Computer Science for Decision Support) major of the Master in Engineering at École des Mines de Nantes

participant to the Gotha french working group on theoretic and applied scheduling, and to the RCPSP theme

program comitee member: CPAIOR'11 (Berlin), CP'11 Doctoral Program (Perugia), MELO'11 (Birmingham), JFPC'09 (Orléans), JDIR'09 (Belfort), JFPC'08 (Nantes), JFPC'07 (Rocquencourt), MLS+CP (Nantes)

organization comitee member: JFPC'08 (Nantes), CP'06 (Nantes), MLS+CP (2005, Nantes), ROADEF'03 (Avignon)

reviewer for Mathematical Programming, Discrete Optimization, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Journal of Scheduling, Constraints, Annals of Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Heuristics, Rairo-RO

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resume

2006-

associate professor - TASC/Constraints group, INRIA Rennes, LINA CNRS UMR 6241, École des Mines de Nantes

collaborations: Christian Artigues (LAAS), Nicolas Beldiceanu, Mats Carlsson (SICS), Gilles Chabert, Xavier Gandibleux (LINA), Fabien Hermenier (FLUX), Narendra Jussien, Xavier Lorca, Julien Menana, Aurélien Merel, Emmanuel Néron (LI), Thierry Petit, Emmanuel Poder

2005-2006

assistant professor - Constraints group, LINA CNRS UMR 6241, École des Mines de Nantes

collaborations: Nicolas Beldiceanu, Thierry Petit, Mats Carlsson (SICS)

2004-2005

post-doc - Quosseca group, CRT, École Polytechnique de Montréal and Omega Optimisation Inc., Montréal

collaborations: Louis-Martin Rousseau, Gilles Pesant

2003-2004

research and teaching assistant (ATER) - OR and Optimisation group, LIA, Université d'Avignon

collaborations: Christian Artigues, Philippe Michelon, Thierry Garray, Philippe Baptiste (LIX, CNRS)

2000-2003

PhD in Computer Science / Combinatorial Optimization - LIA, Université d'Avignon

hybrid CP-LP methods for the RCPSP [phd03] - supervisors: Christian Artigues, Philippe Michelon

1999-2000

MSc in Computer Science / Combinatorial Optimization - Université d'Aix-Marseille II

Lower bound for the RCPSP [msc00] - supervisors: Christian Artigues, Philippe Michelon (LIA, Avignon)

1997-1998

MSc in Pure Mathematics / Commutative Algebra - Université d'Aix-Marseille I

Elasticity in the Dedekind rings [msc98] - supervisor: Paul-Jean Cahen, (LATP, Marseille)

publications

GOTO thematic bibliography.

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