Undergraduate and Master's courses
- INFO-H-414: Swarm Intelligence with Prof. Marco Dorigo Faculté des sciences appliquées, Université libre de Bruxelles Belgium 2008-present
- PROJ-H-402: Projet d'informatique Faculté des sciences appliquées, Université libre de Bruxelles Belgium 2009-present
- TRAN-H-201: Projet Multidisciplinaire II Filière Informatique Faculté des sciences appliquées, Université libre de Bruxelles Belgium 2008-present
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Highlights
In the ERC Spotlight
Article on the DEMIURGE project published in
ERC=Science²,
the Europe-wide communications campaign
that spotlights breakthrough science funded by the European
Research Council (ERC):
What can robots learn from ants?
Jul 2018
Science Robotics
My article "Autonomous task sequencing in a robot swarm" has been published in Science Robotics
Jul 2018
ERC Consolidator Grant
I have been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant
for the project "DEMIURGE: automatic design of robot swarms"
project start date: Oct 1, 2016
Dec 2015
Maître de recherches
I have been promoted to maître de recherches (senior research associate) of the F.R.S.–FNRS
effective from October 1, 2015
Jul 2015
Highly cited papers
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M. Dorigo, M. Birattari, and T. Stützle (2006).
Ant colony optimization:
Artificial ants as a computational intelligence technique.
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IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 1(4):28-39 
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M. Brambilla, E. Ferrante, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo (2013).
Swarm robotics: A review from the swarm engineering perspective.
Swarm Intelligence, 7(1):1-41
as of Feb 2015
SIGEVO Impact Award
The article A racing algorithm for configuring metaheuristics won the 2012 SIGEVO Impact Award.
Established in 2010, the SIGEVO Impact award recognizes up to three papers a year that were published in the GECCO conference 10 years earlier and which are both highly cited and deemed to be seminal by the SIGEVO Executive Committee
Jul 2012
Best Video Award
The video Swarmanoid, the movie, written and directed by Mauro Birattari and Rehan O'Grady, won the Best Video Award at the AAAI-11 AI Video Competition!
Aug 2011
Books
Tweets
Quote of the month
The pencil is mightier than the pen
Robert M. Pirsig