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  • July.2012: ALIFE Track chair at GECCO 2012 (with G. Squillero - July 7-11th 2012, Philadelphia, USA). ALIFE track is about Artificial Life, Evolutionary Robotics and Evolvable Hardware. Check GECCO 2012 web site for information, submission and venue.
  • Oct.2011: Co-organizing the first Workshop on Development and Learning in Artificial Neural Networks, at ISC (Paris), October 27-28th DevLeaNN workshop web page.
  • Jan.2011: New book on New Horizons in Evolutionary Robotics. Springer Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 341. Doncieux, Stéphane; Bredeche, Nicolas; Mouret, Jean-Baptiste (Eds.), 1st Edition., 2011, 250 p. Springer link.
  • Jan.2011: The JET 21, one-day EA workshop on evolutionary computation will take place on january 14th 2011 in Paris (talks in english). more information.
  • Oct.2010: New video on Youtube - Environment-driven evolutionary adaptation with 20 e-puck autonomous robots (cf. Publications for details)

Hello, my name is Nicolas Bredeche, I am Maitre de Conférences HDR (with Habilitation) -- this roughly corresponds to Associate Professor in the US -- at the Université Paris-Sud XI (France, 21km from Paris with a bicycle). I am a researcher within the Machine Learning and Evolutionary Computation team (IAO/TAO, joint University-INRIA team) at the Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI/CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud). Following is a quick summary of my (recent) activities:

Research:

  • My main research theme is focused on evolutionary computation and complex system, in particular (a) evolutionary design and/or adaptation of swarm of embodied agents (e.g. this paper on environment-driven evolutionary adaptation in a swarm of robotic agents) and (b) artificial ontogeny such as multi-cellular developmental systems and self-regulated networks (e.g. this paper on robustness issues with multi-cellular artificial ontogeny). You can refer to the publications section for further information on papers, co-authors and other subjects of interests (including Machine Learning and Evolutionary Computation for Embodied Agents, mostly).
  • Environment: since mid-2008, i am mostly working within the Symbrion project (EU IP project), alongside with biologists, roboticists and computer scientists from various locations in Europe. And of course, i am closely working with other members from the Tao team (INRIA, CNRS, UPSud) at LRI, the Computer Science Lab at Université Paris-Sud. This includes Jean-Marc Montanier (current phd student) as well as previous phd students (now hopefully doctors!) (link).

Teaching:

  • Aside from the basic computer science courses, i also teach Artificial Life, Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (check my teaching page for some slides (in french)).
  • Most of my teaching is given at University Paris-Sud and at Polytech Paris-Sud (computer science engineering school).

Administrative:

:SHORT BIO:

Late 2003 to present : Maitre de Conférences HDR / Associate Professor from University Paris-Sud 11.

  • Keywords: Complex Systems, Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning, Embodied Agents.
  • Research location: Optimization and Machine Learning team (TAO) ; LRI/CNRS, INRIA, University Paris-Sud.
  • Teaching location: Université Paris-Sud XI, Polytech Paris-Sud engineering school.
  • Miscellaneous:
    • Habilitation Thesis defense ("HDR") : "Contributions to Evolutionary Design of Embodied Agents" (Univ. Paris-Sud, defended in december 2009).
      • Jury: Una-May O'Reilly (MIT) reviewer ; Francois Charpillet (INRIA LORIA) reviewer ; Dario Floreano (EPFL) reviewer ; A.E. Eiben (VU Amsterdam) ; Wolfgang Banzhaf (Univ. of Newfoundland) ; Philippe Bidaud (Univ. Paris 6) ; Marc Schoenauer (INRIA)
      • Manuscript in PDF (english, 91 pages).
    • Full-time delegation as INRIA researcher from 2008 to 2010.
    • Visiting positions:
      • Computational Intelligence Group at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, for three months (Jan.-April 2009) in the scope of the Symbrion project.
      • EVO-DesignOpt group at CSAIL, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for two weeks in Nov. 2007 and one week in July 2009.
      • MICA/CNRS (Hanoi, Vietnam) for one month in Aug./Sept. 2007.

2003 : Post-doctoral study at ICT/CAS (China)

  • Keywords: Machine Learning, Perceptual Learning.
  • Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China)
  • Supported by a French Lavoisier Research Grant.

1999-2002 : Phd in Computer Science from University Paris-Sud XI (Doctorat).

  • Keywords: Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Autonomous Robotics.
  • Advisors: Jean-Daniel Zucker (now senior researcher at IRD) and Gerard Sabah (senior researcher at CNRS).
  • Location: LIP6/CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France. (but i was actually administratively considered as a student from Université Paris-Sud).
  • Defended on december 12th, 2002. Jury: Jean-Daniel Zucker (advisor), Gérard Sabah (co-advisor), Lorenza Saitta (reviewer), Luc Steels (reviewer), Alexis Drogoul (examiner), Jean-Sylvain Liénard (examiner and president of jury).

1998-1999 : Master's degree in Cognitive Science (DEA / Master 2 recherche)

  • Courses location: LIMSI/CNRS, Université Paris-Sud XI, France.
  • Internship: LIP6/CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France.

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http://www.sauvonsluniversite.com/