IRIDIA – CP 194/6
Université libre de Bruxelles
Av. F.D. Roosevelt 50
1050 Bruxelles - Belgium
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Highlights
PhD Fellowship
PhD fellowship in reinforcement learning & robot swarms: 4 years, €2400/month tax-exempt. Position open until filled! Learn more...
Feb 2025
Editors' Choice 2024: CommsEng
My article "Automatic design of stigmergy-based behaviours for robot swarms" has been selected as one of the Editors’ Choice 2024 by the journal Communications Engineering of the Nature Portfolio!
Jan 2025
Communications Engineering
My article "Automatic design of stigmergy-based behaviours for robot swarms" has been published in Nature's Communications Engineering.
Feb 2024
Scientific Data
My article "On using simulation to predict the performance of robot swarms" has been published in Nature's Scientific Data.
Dec 2022
Nature Communications
My article "Empirical assessment and comparison of neuro-evolutionary methods for the automatic off-line design of robot swarms" has been published in Nature Communications.
Jul 2021
Nature Machine Intelligence
My article "Disentangling automatic and semi-automatic approaches to the optimization-based design of control software for robot swarms" has been published in Nature Machine Intelligence.
Aug 2020
Directeur de recherches
I have been promoted to directeur de recherches (research director) of the F.R.S.–FNRS
effective since October 1, 2019
Jun 21, 2019
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
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