Short Bio

I am a tenured Inria Researcher at Inria Lille, France. Previously, I was a Research Fellow and Assistant Professor at École des Mines de Paris, in Sophia Antipolis, France. I received the M.Sc.A. degree from the University of Rennes and ENS Rennes, the Dipl. Ing. degree in Information Science from Institut Mines-Télécom Atlantique, with a specialization in Automatic Control from ENSTA Bretagne, and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Rennes.

My research interests lie at the intersection of game theory, optimization, and learning in multi-agent systems, with a particular focus on equilibrium formation and selection under strategic interaction and imperfect information. My work has applications in security, digital markets, and other large-scale multi-agent systems.

Domains of interest and research

• Algorithmic Game Theory 

• Stackelberg Games and Reverse Stackelberg Games

• Multi-Agent Learning in Games

• Integrating Machine Learning in Game Theory to Tackle Societal-Scale System Problems

Contact

Email: helene[dot]le-cadre@inria[dot]fr

Office address: 40, avenue Halley, 59650 Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France

Current Research Projects and Grants

• Learning and equilibrium engineering in dynamic multi-agent games for frugal data markets (co-PI), PEPR NumEco, 2026-2029.

• Strategic coordination in multi-agent search under local and time-varying information (PI), Innovation Defense Agency, 2025-2028.

• COMET from complentarity to multi-agent learning in electricity markets (PI), PGMO grant, 2026-2027.

• JEDI game theory for the electricity system decarbonation (PI), PGMO grant, 2025-2027.

• Challenge Inria-EDF (contributor), 2024-2027.

 Past Research Projects and Grants

• SOGGA stochastic optimization, generalized games (contributor), and applications, 2023-2025.

• Game-theoretic and learning-based approaches in multi-agent systems (PI), THIA ANR program, grant ANR-20-THIA-0014, 2022-2025.

• SITAR Behavioral Game Theory and Bounded Rationality (PI), STaRS grant from région Hauts-de-France (PI), 2022-2025.

• GALANGAL Game Theoretic Learning and Optimization for Networked Electricity Markets, Inria International Associate Team with Polytechnique Montréal and Edinburgh U. (co-PI), 2022-2025.

• SAMOA Stackelberg Games for Flexibility (Dis)Aggregation (PI), PGMO grant, 2022-2024.

• SEC-OREA - Supporting Energy Communities -- Operational Research and Energy Analytics (contributor), 2021-2024.

• Eldest, Equilibrium modelling, FWO research project (task leader and contributor), 2020-2021.

• EUniversal, Market enabling interface to unlock flexibility solutions for cost-effective management of smarter distribution grid (contributor), 2020-2021.

• CoordiNet, TSO-DSO coordination (contributor), 2020-2021.

• Cosmic, Coordination schemes for local-global market interactions: game-theoretic approaches, PGMO grant, project funded by the Gaspard Monge program for Optimization and Operational Research (PI), 2017-2019.

• Magnitude, Integrating multi-energy carrier flexibility in the European electricity system, European H2020 project (contributor), 2018-2019.

• SmartNet, TSO-DSO coordination schemes, European H2020 project (contributor), 2016-2019.

• MiG, Smart Methods for the Grid, PGMO grant, project funded by the Gaspard Monge program for Optimization and Operational Research (PI) Participants: ENSTA ParisTech, UAI Chile, EDF R&D, 2016-2017.

• Smart Electricity Market Design, ANR/CARNOT M.I.N.E.S (PI), 2013-2016.

• ELVIRE, Electric vehicle communication to infrastructure, road services and electricity supply, European FP7 project (contributor), 2011-2013.

• ETICS, Economics and technologies for inter-carrier services, European FP7 project (contributor), 2010-2011.

Scientific Society Memberships

• Informs the Institute for Operations Research and Management sciences

• SMAI the society for applied mathematics and industrial applications