Professor in Computer Science at Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Studies collective adaptive systems: how groups of simple agents—robotic or biological—can learn, evolve, and self-organize in open environments
Interested in both natural systems (using simulations to understand social learning dynamics) and artificial systems (designing distributed online reinforcement and evolutionary learning algorithms for swarm robotics)
Primarily builds individual-based models and conducts numerical simulations; also uses custom experimental platforms such as the Pogobot swarm (200 open-source robots developed at ISIR)
Research topics: collective adaptive systems, swarm robotics, social learning, smart active matter