Arnaud Liefooghe
アルノー リエフォグArnaud Liefooghe
Professor – Univ Littoral
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15.06.26 — Happy to welcome Sarah Thomson from 🏴 Edinburgh Napier University for a 10-day research stay in our lab03.06.26 — In 🇫🇷 Arras, attending the MAIA forum of the A2U alliance27.04.26 — New paper on Local optima networks for continuous optimization accepted at PPSN 202603.04.26 — New report on the Inventory of low-dimensional invariant pseudo-Boolean landscapes30.03.26 — Welcome to Kevin Taccoen for a 5-month master’s internship between our group in France and Shinshu University University in Japan20.03.26 — New paper on Local optima networks for multi-objective optimization23.02.26 — Gabriela Ochoa, Katherine Malan, Sébastien Verel and I will give a tutorial on Landscape analysis at PPSN 202623.02.26 — In 🇭🇷 Zagreb, attending ROAR-NET's third general meeting02.02.26 — New paper on Autonomous local search accepted at ECJ24.12.25 — New paper on Benchmarking in multi-objective optimization and PAES-25 accepted at TELO20.10.25 — Happy to welcome Kiyoshi Tanaka from 🇯🇵 Shinshu University for a short visit in our lab13.10.25 — In 🇩🇪 Germany, visiting the computational social science and systems analysis research group at the University of Münster01.10.25 — Happy to welcome Bastian Schäfer as a new PhD student, co-supervised with Anton Sokolov from LPCA25.09.25 — I stepped down from my role as reproducibility chair at ACM TELO02.09.25 — Happy to welcome Yudai Tagawa, PhD student from 🇯🇵 Shinshu University, for a two-month research stay in our lab29.08.25 — Happy to welcome Francisco Chicano from the 🇪🇸 University of Málaga for a 10-day research stay in our lab18.07.25 — New paper on Pareto local optimal solutions networks accepted at ECTA 202515.07.25 — Workshop on Landscape-aware heuristic search (LAHS) at GECCO 202514.07.25 — Attending GECCO 2025 (online)03.07.25 — In 🇯🇵 Nagano for a two-month research stay at 🇯🇵 Shinshu University supported by NICT27.06.25 — Annual seminar and AI workshop at EILCO 23.06.25 — In 🇫🇷 Angers, for progressing on the ANR project EVARISTE03.06.25 — In 🇫🇷 Amiens, attending the MAIA forum and the AI and Optimization workshop of the A2U alliance12.05.25 — Happy to welcome Roberto Santana from the 🇪🇸 University of the Basque Country for a three-week research stay in our lab05.05.25 — We are seeking a PhD student to join us for an exciting project on Feature selection starting this autumn! Learn more here (in english) or here (in french)23.04.25 — Attending EvoCOP 2025 (online)18.04.25 — New paper on Landscape analysis with stochastic operators accepted at Evolutionary Computation01.04.25 — Happy to welcome Luis Fernando Villagomez Canela for a three-month MSc internship in our lab31.03.25 — In 🇫🇷 Angers, for the habilitation defense of Nicolas Gutowski19.03.25 — Our paper on Multi-objective landscapes under decomposition is 🥉 nominated for the best paper award at EvoCOP 202519.03.25 — New paper on Local optima networks for constrained search spaces accepted at GECCO 202517.03.25 — Happy to welcome Rui Ferreira Neves from 🇵🇹 University of Lisbon (Portugal) for a week-long research stay in our lab26.02.25 — One month left to submit your paper to the Landscape-Aware Heuristic Search (LAHS) workshop at GECCO 202510.01.25 — New paper on Multi-objective landscapes under decomposition accepted at EvoCOP 202501.01.25 — We are seeking a final-year Master's student for an exciting research internship in our lab starting this spring! Learn more here or contact us for details
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Positions
Positions
Since 2024 Full Professor of Computer Science 🇫🇷 Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (ULCO)
Member of the OSMOSE research group, LISIC (UR 4491)
Lecturer at EILCO (École d'Ingénieurs du Littoral Côte d'Opale)2010 – 2023 Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) 🇫🇷 University of Lille
CRIStAL (UMR CNRS 9189) – Inria / Computer Science department (FST)2014 + 2017 + 2025 Invited Professor 🇯🇵 Shinshu University (2 months in 2014, 1 month in 2017, 2 months in 2025)
2021 – 2025 Collaborative Professor 🇯🇵 Shinshu University (honorary position, renewed in 2023)
2020 CNRS sabbatical 🇫🇷/🇯🇵 JFLI (IRL 3527) | Invited Professor 🇯🇵 University of Tokyo (6 months)
2010 Post-doctoral Researcher 🇵🇹 University of Coimbra
2006 – 2009 PhD Student 🇫🇷 University of Lille
Recent and Ongoing Activities
Recent and Ongoing Activities
Habilitation (HDR, June 2022)
Co-director of the 🇫🇷/🇯🇵 MODŌ associated international laboratory with 🇯🇵 Shinshu Univ (since 2017)
Member of the scientific council of GDR RO and co-animator of the MH2PPC research axis (CNRS, 2021–25)
Elected member of the national council of universities CNU 27 (2020–23)
Reproducibility chair for TELO (ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization, 2023–25)
GECCO (ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference) — co-Track chair (EMO in 2019, BBSR in 2024, EMO in 2025), Proceedings chair (2018), Virtualization chair (2021), co-Hybrid scheduling chair (2023)
Director of studies of the the 2nd year computer engineering cycle at EILCO (since 2024)
Research
Research
Multi-objective combinatorial optimization, local search, algorithm design, benchmarking, landscape analysis
PhD students — G Pruvost (defended 2021) | N Berveglieri (2022) | A Jesus (2022) | R Cosson (2023) | B Schäfer (since 2025)
Post-docs — F Daolio (2014–16) | S Zapotecas (2014–15)
International collaborations — 🇵🇹 Univ Coimbra | 🇬🇧 Univ Manchester | 🇭🇰 CityU | 🇯🇵 Shinshu Univ
Projects — MODŌ (since 2017) | BigMO (2017–21) | MOCO-Search (2018–20)
Chairing — EvoCOP 2018 | GECCO 2018 | EvoCOP 2019 | GECCO 2019 | GECCO 2021 | GECCO 2023 | GECCO 2024 | GECCO 2025
Awards — EMO 2007 | EvoCOP 2011 | GECCO 2015 | GECCO 2023 | WCCI/CEC 2024
Resources
Resources
ParadisEO — a software framework for the design of metaheuristics
MoCObench — benchmark instances for multi-objective combinatorial optimization
MOEA/D — repository of the state-of-the-art developments on decomposition-based EMO
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