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Career

  • Since 2012: Professor in Computer Science, Sorbonne Université (Paris, France). Lab: Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique (ISIR, CNRS) and, since 2024, Laboratoire Jean Perrin (LJP, CNRS, one day a week).
  • 2003–2012: Assistant, then Associate Professor, Université Paris-Sud (now Paris-Saclay) (Orsay, France). Lab: Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI, joint Paris-Sud/CNRS/INRIA lab).
  • 2003: Postdoc, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China).
  • 1999–2002: PhD in Computer Science from the Université Paris-Sud, done at LIP6 (Computer Science lab., UPMC).

Selected Roles

  • PI of ANR project “Spectral Swarm Robotics” (2025-2029, partners: Gulliver lab at ESPCI, LIMMS at CNRS/U.Tokyo)
  • Co-PI of ANR project “Morphofunctional Swarm Robotics” (2019-2024, partners: Gulliver lab at ESPCI)
  • Member of the H2020 European Project “DREAM” (FET proactive, 2015-2018)
  • Co-responsible (2014–2023) for the Androide Master program (AI & decision, now AI2D)
  • Chair of the ANR evaluation committee for Robotics and Interaction (CE33, 2020 and 2021)
  • Co-leader of the Working Group on Environmental Issues at ISIR lab
  • Member of the Steering Committee of the inLife initiative (Sciences at the Interfaces of Life) at Sorbonne Université
  • Member of editorial boards and program committees (GECCO, IROS, ICRA, …), reviewer for Science Robotics, Royal Society, …
  • Organizer of tutorials and workshops (GECCO, ECAL, ICRA), editor of special issues and books, etc.

Software & Platforms

  • Pogobot — an open-source robot for swarm robotics (200 units built at ISIR)
  • Roborobo4 — an agent-based swarm robotics C/C++ simulator with Python API
  • SIMBAD — a Java-based simulator for mobile robotics

Publications