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I am a professor at the University of Lille (attached to the Polytech Lille). I teach Computer and Statistical Engineering, and I conduct my research in the CRIStAL laboratory, in the OPTIMA group, and particularly in the ORKAD team.

The main objective of the ORKAD team is to simultaneously exploit combinatorial optimisation and knowledge extraction to solve optimisation problems. Although the two scientific fields have developed more or less independently, the synergy between combinatorial optimisation and knowledge extraction offers an opportunity to improve the performance and autonomy of knowledge-based optimisation methods and, on the other hand, to solve knowledge extraction problems using operational search methods efficiently. Our approaches are mainly based on single and multi-objective combinatorial optimisation and result in the release of open-source software.