Other Activities
🎓 Supervision
- PhDs
- 2026–Present: Simon Renard, enhancing solver’s branching strategy through machine learning.
- 2026–Present: Muhammad Arslan Tariq, streaming through multi-cloud multi-path connections: path optimization using MILP formulation.
- 2023–Present: Alisa Vorokhta, machine learning for improving lower bound computation.
- Interns
- 2025, 5 months: Baka Junior Cedric Ble, clustering the mixed integer linear programming space.
- 2025, 5 months: Mathis Da Cunha, cutting planes selections in branch and bound.
- 2022, 5 months: Issam Belhorma, kriging techniques for sensor position estimation.
- 2021, 3 months: Carlos Delgado, sensor deployment in green walls.
- Student Jobs
- 2025, 3 months, 5 h per week: Diptaraj Sen, evaluating benchmark of instances with distance between instances.
- 2024, 5 months, 5 h per week: Daniele Ferrario, understanding a reinforcement lerning framework for cutting plans.
📝 Reviewing & Committees
- Shadow PC Chair: Algotel-Cores 2025. Led shadow reviewing process (reviewer recruitment, methodology, and paper discussions)
- Reviewer: IEEE TNSM, IEEE Sensors Journal, IPDPS Workshop, shadow reviewer for Algotel/Cores.
🤝 Positions in Associations
- President of the association of PhD students and young researchers: one-year term 2022–2023, IMT Atlantique Rennes.
- PhD students’ representative at doctoral school “SPIN”: 2023, IMT Atlantique Rennes.
Hobbies
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🌱 Gardening & permaculture — From seed to fruit, including edible and inedible plants, flowering plants, and anything else that happens to grow.
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🫙 Fermentation & experimental cooking — Kombucha, lacto-fermented vegetables, homemade vinegar from questionably old alcohol.
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🧗 Sports — Indoor and outdoor bouldering, rope climbing, trail running and hiking, cyclotourism, and a black belt in judo.
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🎵 Music — Post-punk, rap, indie rock, and French variété.