Current PhD students
- Youssef Karouma, Univ. Toulouse since april 2025. Hybrid methods for production planning and scheduling (In French: Méthodes hybrides pour la planification et l’ordonnancement de la production). Coadvisor: Romain Guillaume (IRIT)
- Hugues Rauwell, UT2J since november 2024. Integrated proactive and reactive approach for radiotherapy appointment scheduling under uncertainty (In French: Approche proactive réactive intégrée pour l'ordonnancement sous incertitudedes rendez-vous de patients atteints de cancer traités par radiothérapie.). Coadvisors: Romain Guillaume (IRIT) and Laure Viellevigne (IUCT-Oncopôle)
- Matthieu Masson, Univ Toulouse since september 2022. Efficient numerical algorithms for optimal control problems under minimal consumption and collision avoidance constraints (In French: Algorithmes numériques efficaces pour les problèmes de commande optimale impulsionnelle en consommation minimale avec contraintes d'évitement de collision.). Co-advisors: Denis Arzelier and Mioara Joldes.
Former PhD students
- Camille Lescuyer, ISAE-Supaéro. 2025. Mathematical programming and heuristics for telecommunication satellites resources allocation. (co-advisor: Cédric Pralet, ONERA). Present position: Engineer at Airbus.
- Alexandre Heintzmann. Toulouse INP. 2024. Models and algorithms for the hydro unit commitment problem. (coadvisors Sandra U. Ngueveu). Present Position: Engineer, Groupe SII.
- Louis Rivière. Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier. 2023. Compact representation of solution set for scheduling under uncertainty (in French: Représentation compacte d'ensemble de solutions pour l'ordonnancement sous incertitude). (Coadvisor: Hélène Fargier).
- Tom Portoleau. Université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès. 2022. Discrete representations for robust scheduling and planning (in French: Représentations discrètes pour l'ordonnancement et la planification robustes). (Coadvisor Romain Guillaume). Present position: Postdoctoral position at Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, Centre de Microélectronique de Provence.
- Léa Blaise, INSA Toulouse. 2022. Modeling and solving scheduling problem in the mathematical optimization solver LocalSolver (in French: Modélisation et résolution de problèmes d’ordonnancement au sein du solveur d’optimisation mathématique LocalSolver). Present position: Optimization Engineer, LocalSolver, Paris, France.
- Oliver Polo, INSA Toulouse. 2019. Operational research approach for optimising the operations of a nuclear research laboratory. (coadvisor Pierre Lopez). Present position: Operations Research Engineer at Air France-KLM, Orly, France.
- Pierre-Antoine Morin, ISAE Toulouse, 2018. Project planning and scheduling under complex resource constraints (in French: Planification et ordonnancement de projets sous contraintes de ressources complexes) (coadvisor Alain Haït).
- Azzedine Cheref, Polytech'Tours, 2017. Operations research methods for integrated production scheduling and delivery (in French: Méthodes de recherche opérationnelle pour la résolution de problèmes intégrés d'ordonnancement de la production et de distribution (coadvisor Jean-Charles Billaut).
- Jean-Thomas Camino, Université Paul Sabatier, 2017. Co-optmisation of satellite payload and telecom system (in French: Co-optimisation charge utile satellite et système télécom) (co-advisor Laurent Houssin). CIFRE funding with Airbus Defense and Space (co-advisor Laurent Houssin). Present position: Space System Optimization Engineer, Airbus, Toulouse, France.
- Margaux Nattaf, Université Paul Sabatier, 2016. Scheduling under energy constraints (in French: Ordonnancement sous contraintes d’énergie) (coadvisor Pierre Lopez). Present position: Assistant Professor (Maître de Conférences), G-SCOP et INP Grenoble-Génie Industriel, France.
- Mohamed Siala, INSA Toulouse, 2015. Search, propagation, and learning in sequencing and scheduling problems (coadvisor Emmanuel Hébrard). Present position: Assistant Professor (Maître de Conférences), INSA Toulouse and LAAS-CNRS, France.
- Markus Frey, Technische Universität München, Germany, 2014. Models and Methods for Optimizing Baggage Handling at Airports (Main advisor Rainer Kolisch). Present position: Administrative Department for Advanced Business Analytics, Hilti Group, Munich and Academic Assistant at Technische Universität München, Germany.
- Boadu Mensah Sarpong, INSA Toulouse, 2013. Column Generation for Bi-Objective Integer Linear Programs : Application to Bi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problems. (coadvisor Nicolas Jozefowiez). Present Position: Software Developer at Allocadia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Kata Kiatmanaroj, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, 2012. Frequency allocation in SDMA satellite telecommunication systems (coadvisor Laurent Houssin). Present position: Project Manager at Nokia, Bangkok,Thailand.
- Maria Alejandra Ayala, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, 2011, Integer linear programming for resource-constrained cyclic scheduling (in French). Present position: CRM Strategy at BNP Paribas, Le Vésinet, France.
- Fallou Gueye, INSA Toulouse, 2010. Multimodal shortest path algorithm (in French: Algorithmes de recherche d'itinéraires en transport multimodal) (coadvisor Marie-José Huguet). CIFRE funding with MOBIGIS. Present position. Architecte Application Senior at SOGETI BU Midi-Pyrénées, Blagnac, France.
- Sébastien Lannez, INSA Toulouse, 2010. Railtrack inspection optimization (in French : Optimisation des tournées d'inspection des voies ferroviaires) (coadvisor Michel Gendreau). CIFRE funding with SNCF. Present position: Director at FICO, France.
- Boris Bontoux, Université d'Avignon, 2008, Hybrid techniques of exact and approximate search : application in transport problems (in French : Techniques hybrides de recherche exacte et approchée : application à des problèmes de transport) (co-advisor D. Feillet). Present position: Professeur at Collège Gérard Philipe, Avignon, France.
- Thierry Garaix, Université d'Avignon, 2007, Vehicle routing for on-demand transport system with quality-of-service requirements (in French: Étude et résolution exacte de problèmes de transport à la demande avec qualité de service) (co-advisors D. Feillet and D. Josselin). Present position : Assistant Professor at Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne, France.
- Mireille Palpant, Université d'Avignon, 2005, Integration scheme and applications of exact and heuristic search for combinatorial optimization (in French: Recherche exacte et approchée en optimisation combinatoire : schémas d'intégration et applications) (co-advisor Ph. Michelon). Present position : Professeur de hamac et Stretching, couturière, Antibes, France.
- Cristian Oliva, Université d'Avignon, 2004, Hybrid constraint propagation and mathematical programming techniques (in French: Techniques hybrides de propagation de contraintes et de programmation mathématique) (co-advisor Ph. Michelon). Present position: Professor at Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Chile.
- Sophie Demassey, Université d'Avignon, 2003, Hybrid constraint programming and linear programming methods for the RCPSP (in French: Méthodes hybrides de programmation par contraintes et programmation linéaire pour le problème d'ordonnancement de projet à contrainte de ressources) (co-advisor Ph. Michelon). Present position: associate professor at CMA - Mines ParisTech, Sophia Antipolis, France
