[MFCS 2025] Lexicographic transductions of finite words, joint work with Nathan Lhote and Pierre-Alain Reynier
[MFCS 2025] Register automata with permutations, joint work with Mrudula Balachander, Raffaella Gentilini, and Nikos Tzevelekos
[ICALP 2025] Approximate Problems for Finite Transducers, joint work with Ismaël Jecker, Khushraj Madnani, and Saina Sunny
[TheoretiCS, 2025 (Volume 4)] Finite-valued Streaming String Transducers, joint work with Ismaël Jecker, Christof Löding, Anca Muscholl, Gabriele Puppis, and Sarah Winter
Supervised multiple PhD students, many of whom now hold academic positions, e.g., Ismaël Jecker (Assistant Professor at Université de Franche-Comté), Nathan Lhote (MCF at Aix-Marseille University), Léo Exibard (MCF at Université Gustave Eiffel)
Research Experience
Senior Research Associate (Maître de recherche) at the Department of Computer Science, Université libre de Bruxelles, member of the Formal Methods and Verification Research Group
2024–present: co-Principal Investigator of the FNRS/FWO Weave Project on reactive synthesis and learning with Guillermo Perez (UAntwerpen)
2019–2023: Principal Investigator of the FNRS MIS Project SYNAPSE: Synthesis of Data-Processing Systems
2016–2018: Principal Investigator of the FNRS CDR Project Flare: A Shift from Languages to Relations
2015–2018: Principal Investigator of the ARC Project TRANSFORM: Theoretical Foundations of Transformations
2014–2018: Partner in the ANR Project ExStream: Extensions of Stream Processing
Background
Research interests include: automata models and their connection to logics
Automata-theoretic methods for program synthesis
Game theory and reactive synthesis
Theory of automata with outputs (transducers, weighted automata)
Synthesis of infinite-state systems (data automata, counter systems, etc.)