Grants & Projects

Grants (as Principal Investigator)

MOCO-SEARCH (2018—20) — Bridging the gap between exact methods and heuristics for multi-objective search

• International project for scientific cooperation (PICS), funded by CNRS and FCT

• Partners: 🇵🇹 Univ Coimbra, 🇫🇷 Bonus (Univ Lille)

• Principal Investigators: L Paquete (PT), A Liefooghe (FR)

MODŌ (2017—21) — Frontiers in massive optimization and computational intelligence

• International Associated Laboratory

• Partners: 🇯🇵 Shinshu Univ, 🇫🇷 Dolphin (Univ Lille)

• Co-directors: H Aguirre (JP), A Liefooghe (FR)

Project in support of internationalization (2016—18) — Massive optimization

• Bilateral Lille/Shinshu international project for preparing an international associate laboratory, funded by Univ Lille 1

• Partners: 🇯🇵 Shinshu Univ, 🇫🇷 Dolphin (Univ Lille)

• Principal Investigator: A Liefooghe

BQR (2016) — Analytics- and learning-driven multi-objective optimization

• Bilateral Lille/Shinshu international project (bonus qualité recherche - collaboration bilatérale), funded by Univ Lille 1

• Partners: 🇯🇵 Shinshu Univ (JP), 🇫🇷 Dolphin (Univ Lille, FR)

• Principal Investigator: A Liefooghe

Inria Explorer (2014) — Landscape analysis and algorithm configuration for cross-domain multi-objective optimization

• A 9-week visit to Shinshu Univ (JP) funded by Inria

• Principal Investigator: A Liefooghe

ADT VRP-solve (2012—14) — Metaheuristic-based solver for vehicle routing

• Local project, funded by Inria

• Principal Investigators: F Clautiaux, A Liefooghe

GdR-RO project (2011) — Set-based search for multi-objective combinatorial optimization

• Bilateral Lille/Angers national project, funded by CNRS (GdR-RO)

• Partners: MOA (Univ Angers, FR), Dolphin (Univ Lille 1, FR)

• Principal Investigator: A Liefooghe

ADT Paradiseo-MOEO (2008—10) — Metaheuristics for multi-objective optimization in Paradiseo

• Local project, funded by Inria

• Principal Investigators: L Jourdan, A Liefooghe, EG Talbi

• Involvement: co-supervisor of a research engineer (for 2 years)

Grants (as co-Investigator)

ANR EVARISTE (2025—27) — Evolution of search trees and order heuristics for constraint problems

• 🇫🇷 National project, funded by ANR (French national research agency)

• Principal Investigator: Adrien Goëffon (LERIA, Université d'Angers)

• Role: co-investigator

EUR MAIA (2023—32) — Mastering Artificial Intelligence Applications (ANR-22-EXES-0009)

• 🇫🇷 4ème Programme d'investissements d'avenir (PIA 4)

• Participants: Alliance A2U (Université d’Artois, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale)

• Chair: Christophe Lecoutre (CRIL, Université d’Artois)

COST action ROAR-NET (2023—27) — Randomised Optimisation Algorithms Research Network (CA22137)

• 🇪🇺 European cooperation in science and technologie

• Chair: Carlos Fonseca (Univ Coimbra, Portugal)

• Role: member of the working group WP5 on Algorithm selection and configuration, co-coordinator of the task force TF9 on Explainability

Associate team (2018—20) — Three-fold decomposition in multi-objective optimization (D3MO)

• Bilateral UK/France international project, funded Inria (associate team program, FR)

• Participants: 🇬🇧 Univ Exeter,  🇫🇷 Bonus (Inria Lille)

• Coordinators: K Li (UK), B Derbel (FR)

ANR BigMO (2017—21) — Big multi-objective optimization

• Bilateral Hong-Kong/France international project, funded by RGC (HK) and ANR (FR)

• Participants: 🇭🇰 CityU, 🇫🇷 Dolphin (Univ Lille / Inria)

• Principal Investigators: Q Zhang (HK), B Derbel (FR)

• Role: co-investigator, participant in all work packages, coordinator of the work package on "algorithm configuration, adaptation and landscape analysis"

COST action ImAppNIO (2016—20) — Improving applicability of nature-inspired optimization by joining theory and practice (CA15140)

• 🇪🇺 European cooperation in science and technologie

• Chair: Thomas Jansen (Aberystwyth Univ, UK)

• Role: management committee substitute, member of the working groups "practice-driven theory" and "benchmarks"

ECOS project (2016—20) — Evolutionary many-objective optimization: application to smart cities and engineering design

• Bilateral Mexico/France international project, co-funded by ANUIES (MX) and ECOS Nord (FR)

• Participants: 🇲🇽 Cinvestav, 🇫🇷 Dolphin (Univ Lille / Inria)

• Principal Investigators: O Schütze (MX), EG Talbi (FR)

PHC project (2016—18) — Decomposition-based multi-objective evolutionary optimization

• Bilateral Hong-Kong/France international project, co-funded by RGC (HK) and PHC Procore (FR) 

• Participants: 🇭🇰 CityU, 🇫🇷 Dolphin (Univ Lille / Inria)

• Principal Investigators: Q Zhang (HK), B Derbel (FR)

Ayame/Associate team project (2015—17) — Threefold scalability in any-objective black-box optimization (s3-bbo)

• Bilateral Japan/France international project, co-funded by JSPS (bilateral joint research project, JP) and Inria (associate team program, FR)

• Participants: 🇯🇵 Shinshu Univ, 🇫🇷 Tao (Inria Saclay), 🇫🇷 Dolphin (Univ Lille / Inria Lille) — External collaborator: 🇫🇷 ULCO (FR)

• Coordinators: H Aguirre (Shinshu Univ, JP), A Auger (Inria Saclay, FR)

• Role: co-investigator, participant in the work packages on "scalability in objective space" and "scalability in distributed and parallel resources"

JSPS-MEXT project (2013—16) — Global research on the framework of evolutionary solution search to accelerate innovation

• Bilateral France/Japan international project, funded by JSPS (Japanese government program, 2013)

• Participants: 🇯🇵 Shinshu Univ, 🇯🇵 UEC Tokyo, 🇫🇷 Tao (Inria Saclay), 🇫🇷 ULCO, 🇫🇷 Dolphin (Univ Lille 1 / Inria Lille)

• Coordinator: K Tanaka (Shinshu Univ, JP)

• Role: co-investigator, participant in the work packages on "evolutionary multi- and many-objective optimization" and "landscape analysis and search performance", and co-supervisor of a visiting PhD student (for 1 year), a Post-doc researcher (for 2 years) and another Post-doc researcher (for 1 year)

ANR NumBBO (2012—16) — Analysis, improvement and evaluation of numerical blackbox optimizers

• National project, funded by ANR (French national research agency)

• Participants: TAO (Inria Saclay), Dolphin (Inria Lille), École des Mines St Etienne (FR), TU Dortmund (DE)

• Coordinator: A Auger (Inria Saclay, FR)

• Role: Participant in the work package on "multi-objective optimization"

FCT MOSAL (2010—13) — Multi-objective sequence alignment

• 🇵🇹 International project, funded by FCT (Portuguese foundation for science and technology)

• Coordinator: L Paquete (Univ Coimbra, PT)

• Role: Participant in the work package on "biobjective pairwise sequence alignment"

Inria associate team MOMDI (2008—12) — Dynamic and multi-objective combinatorial optimization

• International project, funded by Inria

• Participants: 🇪🇸 Univ Malaga, 🇫🇷 Dolphin (Inria Lille)

• Coordinator: EG Talbi

• Role: Participant in the work package on "multi-objective combinatorial optimization"

Inria 3+3 Méditerranée project PERFORM (2006—09) — Cooperative metaheuristics for multi-objective optimization

• International project, funded by Inria

• Participants: 🇪🇸 Univ Malaga, 🇩🇿 Univ Constantine, 🇹🇳 Univ Tunis, 🇫🇷 Dolphin (Inria Lille)

• Role: Participant in the work package on "local search and evolutionary algorithms for multi-objective optimization"

ANR project DOCK (2006—09) — Conformational sampling and molecular docking on grids

• National project, funded by ANR (French national research agency)

• Participants: Dolphin (Univ Lille 1 / Inria Lille, FR), IBL (CNRS – INSERM), CEA (iRTSV, CMBA, BIM)

• Coordinator: EG Talbi

• Role: Participant in the work package on "optimization algorithms"

Institutional Partnerships

• Collaborative Professor (honorary position), 🇯🇵 Shinshu Univ, from 2021 to 2025

• Shinshu Univ's satellite office at Univ Lille, 🇯🇵 Shinshu Univ and 🇫🇷 Univ Lille, Dec 2018

• Univ Lille's satellite office at Shinshu Univ, 🇯🇵 Shinshu Univ and 🇫🇷 Univ Lille, Jul 2018

• International Associated Laboratory MODŌ, 🇯🇵 Shinshu Univ and 🇫🇷Univ Lille, Jul 2017

• Memorandum of understanding, 🇯🇵 Shinshu Univ and 🇫🇷 Inria, Mar 2014

• Memorandum of understanding, 🇯🇵 Shinshu Univ and 🇫🇷 Univ Lille, Feb 2014

Industrial Collaborations

• Normand-Info (2013) — Online and robust multicriteria scheduling in the medical field (biological sample analysis)