I joined the Inria Institute in Grenoble in January 2024 as a Tenured Associate Researcher (Chargé de Recherche) working with the Ghost (formerly Polaris) group joint between the Grenoble Computer Science Lab and Inria. Broadly speaking, we work on decision and learning in uncertain, unknown, dynamic contexts, potentially with multiple agents. If what the group and/or what I do sounds like fun, feel free to contact me or check some example topics.
My research interests span the theory, methods, and algorithms for several flavours of mathematical optimization. More specifically, I have been interested in exact solution methods for constrained optimization, from their theoretical understanding to having them actually run in efficient software. I worked in particular around the SCIP framework and the FrankWolfe.jl library. I have been exploring applications in power systems, transportation, quantum information, systems biology, networks and infrastructure, and data science & machine learning. In optimization for machine learning, I am the co-head of the Structured Optimization for Learning research chair of the Grenoble MIAI Cluster for AI. I am involved in the PEPR MOBIDEC ACME to build collaborative transportation systems for a lower carbon footprint, and in the PEPR IA FOUNDRY for activities in learning and optimization.
I graduated with a double PhD (cotutelle) from Polytechnique Montréal, at the GERAD lab and Centrale Lille, at Inria Lille & the Cristal lab, in mathematical optimization. My thesis focused on bilevel optimization, an extension coined near-optimality robustness, and pricing for demand response in smart grids. It was co-supervised by Luce Brotcorne (Inria Lille) & Miguel F. Anjos (now University of Edinburgh). I spent some time in Berlin as a researcher at the Zuse Institute.
I am involved in several open-source projects around optimization and scientific computing in the Julia programming language and around JuMP. Prior to academia, I worked with and in various industries, from a hardware startup to steel manufacturing. I did my joint Bachelor-Master (French Engineering Degree) in Process Engineering at the University of Technology of Compiègne, with exchanges in Braunschweig, Germany, and Montreal, Canada.
On a personal note, I read both fiction (mostly history, detective, thrillers and fantasy) and non-fiction books (on economic policy, education, transportation systems, the energy transition); a more detailed reading list can be found on my goodread. I also enjoy games in various formats (tabletop, video, board, card) and cooking (from fermentation attempts to coffee brewing). I also run up and down hills and climb on colorful plastic.