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

• Habilitation (HDR) Univ Lille (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, since 2021)

• Elected member of the national council of universities CNU 27 (2020–23)

• Reproducibility chair for TELO (ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization, since 2023)

• 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

• Multi-objective combinatorial optimization, local search, algorithm design, benchmarking, landscape analysis

• Publications

• PhD students — G Pruvost (defended 2021) | N Berveglieri (2022) | A Jesus (2022) | R Cosson (2023)

• 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

• 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