Researcher at Inria
Mail Address
RandOpt Team - Inria Saclay - Ile-de-France
CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique
Route de Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau - France
Algorithms like CMA-ES have been coined in a community where practice has always been ahead to theory: it was more important to design an algorithm that works and can solve efficiently optimization problems than beeing able to prove the convergence of the algorithm. This strategy has proven effective, as evidenced by the success of CMA-ES. I am however interested in developping theory of those algorithms and prove the important theoretical properties that explain their preformance in practice.
We are working in collaborations with researchers, engeneers who are interested in solving applications that involve difficult numerical problems. If you would like to collaborate you can contact me.
If you have been using CMA-ES and the platform COCO and are just happy that it was helpful, you can also let us know by email.
I am a permanent researcher at Inria in the Saclay-Ile-de-France center located 30 kilometers south from Paris. Since December 2016, I am the head of the RandOpt team, joint team between Inria and the applied mathematics department of Ecole polytechnique (CMAP) and in 2019 I became Inria research director.
Before starting as a researcher at Inria in 2006, I was a postdoctoral researcher at ETH (in Zurich) in the Computational Laboratory (CoLab).
Prior to that, I studied Mathematics in Toulouse and then Paris. I received the diploma degree in Mathematics from the University of Paris 6 in 2001,
with a specialisation in Numerical Analysis for my Master. I also spent one year (1999-2000) preparing the high school teaching competition in
Mathematics (Agregation de Mathematiques) at the University Paris 11 (Orsay)-highest competitive exam for teachers in mathematics. I obtained the agregation of mathematics in 2000. I pursued a Ph.D. (2001-2004)
under the supervision of C.Le Bris and M.Schoenauer. I obtained the Dr. Mathematics degree from the University Paris 6 in 2004.