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Birth : 11 Avril 1979, France
Affiliation : University College Cork
Cork Constraint Computation Centre
Cork, Ireland
Phone : +353 21 425 5411
Education
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•2000 : Licence d’informatique (3rd year degree).
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Université Montpellier II
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•2001 : Maîtrise d’informatique (Bachelor Degree).
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Université Montpellier II
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•2002 : Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (Master Degree). Thesis :
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Reformulation of Algorithms into Clauses under the supervision of Dr. Christian Bessiere.
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Université Montpellier II, Laboratoire d’Informatique de Robotique et de Microinformatique (LIRMM)
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•2003-2004 : PhD, under the supervision of Prof. Toby Walsh and Dr.
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Brahim Hnich.
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University College Cork, Cork Constraint Computation Centre (4C), Ireland
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•2005-2006 : PhD, under the supervision of Prof. Toby Walsh and Prof Michael Maher.
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University of New South Wales, National ICT Australia (NICTA), Australia
Professional Experience
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•Oct 2005 to Jan 2006 : Research Programmer. External consultancy for Wilcom Pty Ltd within National ICT Australia.
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•2006-2008 : Embark Fellowship. Post-Doctoral researcher : A Taxonomy of Global Constraints. University College Cork, Cork Constraint Computation Centre (4C), Ireland
Research Grant
Embark Fellowship. € 96 000 from IRCSET (Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology) over two years: “A Taxonomy of Global Constraints”.
Honours and Awards
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• August 2004 : Research article, Robust Solutions for Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization, co-written with B. Hnich and T. Walsh, for the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2004). Selected amongst the 11 best articles out of 652 submissions.
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• November 2005 : Research article, Filtering Algorithms for the NValue Constraint, co-written with C. Bessiere, B. Hnich, Z. Kiziltan and T. Walsh, for the second International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems. Selected for publication in a special issue of the Constraint Journal.
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• August 2008 : International Timetabling Competition. Avec H. Cambazard, B. O’Sullivan and A. Papadopoulos. First place in the second Track : ’Post Enrolment based Course Timetabling’.
Software
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• Robust Scheduler, a graphical demonstration tool on the search for robust solutions to scheduling problems. In Proceedings of the 11rmth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2005)
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• Hallog, an encoder of constraint satisfaction problems (CSP) into propositional satisfiability problems (SAT).
Publications
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Activities
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•Editor of the Special Issue of AI Communications on Constraint Programming for Planning and Scheduling in 2006.
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•Member of the program commitee of the Australian AI conference in 2007.
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•Member of the program commitee of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 2008.
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•Reviewing for a number of international conferences and journals. (JAIR, Constraint Journal, IJCAI, AAAI, CP, etc.)
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Proposed Referees
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• Prof. Toby Walsh. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Phone : +61 2 9385 6929
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• Dr. Christian Bessière. CNRS researcher at LIRMM, Universite Montpellier II, France.
Phone : +33 4 6755 1575
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• Dr. Barry O’Sullivan. Computer Science Department, University College Cork, Ireland.
Phone : +353 21 490 3085