Education

• Phd thesis (2020-...)

  • Inria Lille Nord-Europe, CRIStAL, Univ. Lille 

  • Bonus research team.

  • Subject : Massively parallel and large scale gray-box optimization. 

  • Supervisor : Bilel Derbel

• MSc computer science (2020), Univ. Côte d'Opale.

• BSc computer science (2018), Univ. Côte d'Opale.

Research interests

My research mainly focus on large scale optimization especially in a gray-box paradigm.  

We use graph, problem decomposition, genetic algorithms (local search/recombination/mutation) in a parallel approach.

Publications

• Bilel Derbel, Lorenzo Canonne. A graph coloring based parallel hill climber for large-scale NK-landscapes. GECCO '21: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Lille, France. Best paper nomination.

• Lorenzo Canonne, Bilel Derbel. DRILS Revisited: On the Combination of Perturbation with Graybox Optimization Techniques. GECCO '22: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Boston USA.

• Giorgia Nadizar, Fraser Garrow, Berfin Sakallioglu, Lorenzo Canonne, Sara Silva, Leonardo Vanneschi. An Investigation of Geometric Semantic GP with Linear Scaling. GECCO '23: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Lisbon Portugal.

• Lorenzo Canonne, Bilel Derbel, Francisco Chicano, Gabriela Ochoa. To Combine or not to Combine Graybox Crossover and Local Search. GECCO '23: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Lisbon Portugal.

• Francisco Chicano, Gabriela Ochoa, Bilel Derbel, Lorenzo Canonne. Local Optima Markov Chain: A New Tool for Landscape-aware Analysis of Algorithm Dynamics. GECCO '23: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Lisbon Portugal.

• And a lot more to come :) 

Skills and experiences

• Parallel computing, (MPI/openMP)

• Working on super-computer (Fugaku, joint works with riken Japan)

• combinatorial optimization

• gray-box techniques

• genetic algorithms

• C / C++ / R

• Massively Parallel approaches to tackle large scale optimization problem

Teaching

• 2021-23.  doctoral student assistant, Univ. Lille :

  • Graph. Licence 3 

  • Linear model. Licence 3

  • Web technologies. Licence 1

• 2019-2020. Reinforced Accompanying Device in algorithm (in C for Licence 1 students), Univ. Côte d'Opale.

• 2016-2018 then 2019-2020. Computer Science Tutoring (Licence 1-2), Univ. Côte d'Opale.