Supervision of PhD Students

I am the supervisor of one PhD thesis currently in progress: Gianpiero Francesca, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

I am co-supervisor or advisor of 10 PhD theses currently in progress: Manuele Brambilla, Arne Brutschy, Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste, Stefan Eppe, Eliseo Ferrante, Sabrina Moreira de Oliveira, Mohamed Saifullah bin Hussin, Carlo Pinciroli, Giovanni Pini, Zhi "Eric" Yuan, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Past PhD Students

as co-supervisor

Prasanna Balaprakash (2010). Estimation-based Metaheuristics for Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization: Case studies in stochastic routing problems. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Paola Pellegrini (2007). ACO: Parameters, Exploration and Quality of Solutions. Università Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy.

as advisor

Marco Montes de Oca, (2011). Incremental Social Learning in Swarm Intelligence Systems. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Alexandre Campo (2011). On the Design of Self-Organized Decision Making in Robot Swarms. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Rehan O'Grady (2010). Morphologically Responsive Self-Assembling Robots. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Anders Christensen (2008). Fault Detection in Autonomous Robots: Endogenous Fault Detection Through Fault Injection and Learning -- Exogenous Fault Detection Based on Firefly-inspired Synchronization. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Jodelson A. Sabino (2008). Otimização com Colônia de Formigas Aplicada à Programação de Operações de Locomotivas de Manobras. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

PhD Examination Committees

as president of the examination committee

Marco Montes de Oca, (2011). Incremental Social Learning in Swarm Intelligence Systems. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Alexandre Campo (2011). On the Design of Self-Organized Decision Making in Robot Swarms. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Shervin Nouyan (2008). Teamwork in a Swarm of Robots - An Experiment in Search and Retrieval. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

as member of the examination committee

Rehan O'Grady (2010). Morphologically Responsive Self-Assembling Robots. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Matteo Gagliolo (2010). Online Dynamic Algorithm Portfolios for Solving Decision Problems. Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland.

Emmanuelle Vin (2010). Genetic Algorithm Applied to Generalized Cell Formation Problems. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Prasanna Balaprakash (2010). Estimation-based Metaheuristics for Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization: Case studies in stochastic routing problems. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Olivier Caelen (2009). Sélection Séquentielle en Environnement Aléatoire Appliquée è l'Apprentissage Supervisé. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Christophe Philemotte (2009). The Gestalt Heuristic: Dynamic and online meta-modeling as improvement method to the metaheuristic process. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Christos Ampatzis (2008). On the Evolution of Autonomous Time-based Decision-making and Communication in Collective Robotics. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Anders Christensen (2008). Fault Detection in Autonomous Robots: Endogenous Fault Detection Through Fault Injection and Learning - Exogenous Fault Detection Based on Firefly-inspired Synchronization. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Krzysztof Socha (2008). Ant Colony Optimization for Continuous and Mixed-variable Domains. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Roderich Groß (2007). Self-assembling Robots. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Leonora Bianchi (2006). Ant Colony Optimization and Local Search for the Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem: A Case Study in Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Supervision and co-supervision of MAS Students*

Arne Brutschy (2009). Task Allocation in Swarm Robotics: Towards a Method for Self-Organized Allocation to Complex Tasks. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Giovanni Pini (2009). Towards Collective Robotics in a 3D Space: Simulation with Hand-bot Robots. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Eliseo Ferrante (2009). A Control Architecture for a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots: The Design of a Modular Behavior-based Architecture. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Javier Martinez Gonzales (2008). Simulation of Intelligent Handbot Controllers: The Implementation of a Novel 3D Simulation Platform. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Carlo Pinciroli (2007). Object Retrieval by a Swarm of Ground Based Robots Driven by Aerial Robots: The Design of a Multi-engine and Multi-robot Three-dimensional Physics Simulator. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Prasanna Balaprakash (2005). Ant Colony Optimization Under Uncertainty: Sampling and Racing Techniques for the Probabilistic Salesman Problems. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Max Manfrin (2004). Ant Colony Optimization for the Vehicle Routing Problem. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

*MAS = Master of Advanced Studies (former DEA)