Nicolas Durand

Ingénieur en Chef des Ponts, des Eaux et des Forêts

To contact me:

Email : durand@tls.cena.fr
Phone : +33 562 25 95 65

Curriculum Vitae

2012: Professor at ENAC
Since 2008: APO Team Member at IRIT
2010-2011: Head Deputy of DSNA/DTI/RD Department.
2007-2010: Head of the Planning, Optimization, and Modeling (POM) team .
2004 : Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (French post-doctoral degree allowing its holder to supervise PhD Students) at the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (INPT).
1996-2007 : Member of the Global Optimization Laboratory (LOG).
1992-1996 : Phd in Computer Science (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electrotechnique, d'Electronique, d'Informatique et d'Hydraulique de Toulouse (ENSEEIHT), member of the Laboratoire d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées (LIMA).
1990-1992 : Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile ( ENAC).
1987-1990 : Ecole Polytechnique de Paris.

Professional activities

I mainly work on the application of Metaheuristics (such as Evolutionary Computation, Ant Colony Optimization) and Global Optimization approaches such as Interval Branch and Bound Algorithm to Air Traffic Management (ATM) Problems. My favorite problem is the Conflict Resolution Problem with differents approaches (autonomous or centralized, two dimension toy problems or large scale realistic environments). There is still a lot to be done in this area. I am also interested in many other applications including airport taxiing, optimized take off slot allocation. More recently, I worked on Cooperative Hybridization methods using Interval Analysis and Metaheuristics.

I teach Optimization methods to ENAC and ENSEEIHT engineers. I also teach an "Introduction to Research" class to Air Traffic Controller.

I am a member for the program committees for three conferences: (1) Artificial Evolution (2) Air Traffic Management (ATM) USA/EUROPE R&D seminar and (3) International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT). I am also reviewer for several other conferences.

Publications

My publications are here and those of the other former team members are there.

Last Update: Monday, 25-Jan-2016 11:47:52 CET