Les amis du CENA
Graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique (X83) and ENAC
(IAC 86-88), he does his PhD under the supervision of Luis Farinas at
Toulouse University on the extension of PROLOG to
modal logic. He worked at CENA on the ERATO system till 1993.
After his PhD, quite convinced that expert systems such as ERATO had
no real future, he leaves CENA to work at ENAC where he is head of
research.
From 1997 to 2005, he worked as head of the Global Optimization
Laboratory, a common lab between ENAC and CENA. He is one of those who
introduced evolutionary algorithms
to France. He organized (with others) in 1994 the first french
speaking conference on the subject (Evolution Artificielle, which is
now an international conference, Artificial Evolution).
He holds his Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches on evolutionary
algorithms, supervized, among others,
by David Goldberg.
With Nicolas
Durand he developed ERCOS,
a set of algorithms for conflict resolution that became, with the
support of Jacques Villiers, the
From 2005 to 2011, he was deputy head, then head of the
R&D department at DGAC.
Since 2011, he is head of the High Performance Computing department at
the Toulouse Computer Science Research Institute
(IRIT) and since 2014
he is deputy head of the LabEx (Excellency
Laboratory) CIMI .
He wrote many technical reports and scientific articles available
here.
Along with his career in the french civil aviation, he also pursued a career as mathematician and computer scientist in Toulouse University. He is the author of the book "Intelligence Artificielle et Informatique Théorique". Published in 1992, this book is still sold today and remains a standard textbook in many computer science master programs in France.
He is currently working in bio-informatics and games algorithms. His paper about the problem of ranking chess players received a wide coverage in the french and international press. an article by CNRS, l'Express, 20 minutes, la Dépêche, le Figaro, le site de Chessbase, and even the norwegian press, many times here, here here
The following articles are not available here as they are not in the public domain:
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