Welcome
Me - At a glance
We moved here in july, 2011
I am Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences - HDR), in the Artificial
Intelligence and Inference System group (IASI) of the LRI laboratory in
the University of Orsay Paris 11, France, since 2002. Our team is a joint-team with INRIA, thanks to our LEO project.
My main research interests are on propositional-based reasoning, on
efficient Prime Implicates generation, and SAT solvers. I'm also working on decentralized approaches to those topics (reasoning
on top of P2P and social networks) and how to push computer science to a real experimental science (especially search algorithms). I'm also trying to apply those decentralizd reasonning systems to diagnosis of (intrinsic) distributed systems.
Research around SAT
glues clauses
I started studying the SAT problem during my Master Thesis (already years ago!), mainly for fault-tree diagnosis, from an A.I. point of view. Then, I focused my research during my PhD on Knowledge Compilation techniques (based on BDD). I built the SATEX web site during the last year of my PhD and I was offered to organize the second cycle of SAT competitions (SAT02, SAT03, SAT04, SAT05, SAT07). In 2009, because we had made substantial progresses with our solver glucose, I asked to be just a "technical consultant" in the competition, in order to be able to participate to the contest. And, glucose won an trophy in 2009 (Applications, UNSAT) and a Gold Medal in 2011 (glucose v2, Applications, SAT+UNSAT). I'm really happy for this, especially for 2011: there was a lot of competitors, and most solvers embedded our ideas of 2009, so we had to keep our advance by new ideas! I really think that we'll see a new era of solvers in the very next few years. The last "SAT revolution" was in 2001, and nowadays solvers are more and more uncomplete, fast, robust... I'm thus working on a new generation of SAT solvers. That's an incredibly exciting challenge!
I'm also reponsible for a national (french) project ("ANR Blanc", a 3-years grants from the French National Agency for Research, started in january 2009) on Uncomplete search algorithms for Unsatisfiability, called UNLOC.
Responsabilities and teaching
Since 2011, September, I'm very happy to be in charge of the Computer Science teachings of our first year students, first semester (L1) at our university. Before that, I was in charge of the last year of the computer science engineering school (Polytech Paris Sud). This was very exciting, and really interesting, but I wanted to move to a broader "audience".
I'm teaching Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, mainly. But you can find more details in the "teaching" part of this site.
At last (but not at least!) I'm also in the Editorial Board of in The Journal on Satisfiability, Boolean Modeling and Computation. It's a peer reviewed Journal guaranteeing fast publication on SAT. I was also in a number of Program Commitees, that can be found in a small part of this site.
About this site
Home pages of researchers are strange: it's like a "live" CV opened worldwide. Don't misunterpret this point: It's just the usual way of introducing ourselves to colleagues and to make the research living (when we look for a paper, for a reviewer, for a program committee, for a project, we like to find everything we need on the web: so, we also make oure "scientific life" publicly available). I really hope you'll find something interesting in this web site, and forget about this "formal" basis for colleagues.
How to contact me
| By post mail: Laurent Simon, LRI / INRIA Futurs, Parc Club Université, Batiment G, 4, rue Jacques Monod 91893 Orsay cedex FRANCE |
By phone: +33 1 72 92 59 85 Fax : +33 1 69 15 65 86 By e-mail: |
On the spot: Office G005, (Enter the building, you'll see me). |
