Doctoral and postdoctoral positions available. Please contact me if you are interested.
General information
for short-term visitors
(university history, travel, accommodation, etc.). Information
for long-term visitors.
Past
postdocs and long-term
visitors
Balázs Gerencsér (2013-2014), Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Christophe Cloquet (2013-2014), VUB, Belgium.
Samuel Martin (2012-2013), Université de Lorraine, France.
Luis Rocha (2011-2013), Umeå University, Sweden.
Markus
Esch (2011-2012), University of
Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Patrick
De Leenheer (2011-2012),
University of Florida, USA.
Manuel
López Martinez
(2009-2010 and 2011-2012), Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.
Sophie
Hautphenne (2009-2010),
Université Libre de Bruxelles,
Belgium.
Balázs
Csanád Csáji
(2008-2009), Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary.
Jari
Saramaki (2008), Helsinki
University of Technology, Finland.
Paul
Bell (2007-2008), University of
Liverpool, UK.
Renaud
Lambiotte
(2007-2008), Imperial College, London, UK.
Emmanuel
Hainry (2006-2007),
Université Henri
Poincaré, Nancy, France.
Jean-Loup
Guillaume (2006-2007),
University of Paris 7, France.
Fabien
Mathieu (2005),
Université de Montpellier, France.
Vladimir Protasov (2005), University of Moscow, Russia.
Fabian
Wirth (2004),
Universität Würzburg, Germany.
Petr
Kurka (2003), Charles
University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Pascal
Koiran (2001 and 2002), Ecole
Normale Supérieure
de Lyon, France.
Alexander Vladimirov (2001 and 2002), Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow, Russia.
Anahi
Gajardo (2001-2002), Universidad
de Concepción,
Chile.
Vincent Canterini (2000-2002), Université de Marseille,
Fance.
Eugene
Asarin (2000),
Université Paris 7, France.
Codrin
Nichitiu (1999-2000), Université de Saint Etienne,
France.
Leonid
Gurvits
(1999), Los Alamos National Laboratories, USA.
Julien
Cassaigne (1999 and 2008),
Institut de
Mathématiques de
Luminy, Marseille, France.
Natacha
Portier (1998-1999), Ecole
Nationale Supérieure de
Lyon, France.
Current
and past PhD
students
Emilie Renard (Research Assistant, 2013-). TBD
Corentin Vande Kerckhove (FRIA, 2013-2017). Data Science for Modeling Opinion Dynamics on Social Media
Pierre Deville (FNRS, 2011-2015). Understanding Social Dynamics through Big Data
Adeline Decuyper (FNRS, 2011-2015). Big Data for Modeling Human Behavior: Applications using mobile phone data
Nicolas
Boumal (FNRS, 2010-2014). Optimization and estimation on manifolds.
Chia-Tche
Chang (FNRS, 2008-). Algorithmic
approaches to joint spectral
radius computation.
Gautier
Krings
(Research assistant, 2007-2012), Extraction of information from large
networks.
Cristobald
de Kerchove (Research assistant,
2004-2009), Ranking large networks: Leadership, optimization and
distrust.
Raphaël
Jungers (FNRS, 2005-2008),
Applications of the
joint spectral radius.
IBM PhD thesis prize 2009.
Julien
Hendrickx (FNRS, 2004-2008),
Graphs and networks for the
analysis of autonomous agent systems
EECI european
PhD
thesis prize 2008, Alcatel-Bell
PhD
thesis prize 2009.
Laure
Ninove
(FNRS, 2003-2008), Dominant vectors of nonnegative
matrices. Applications to information extraction.
Ho Ngoc
Diep
(FRIA, 2003-2008), Nonnegative matrix factorization.
Algorithms and applications.
Jean-Charles
Delvenne (FNRS, 2002-2005),
Dynamics, Information and
computation
IBM
PhD
thesis prize 2005.
Jacques
Theys
(FNRS, 2001-2005), Joint spectral radius: Theory and
approximations
Benelux meeting prizes
2004 and 2005.
Interns
2011-2012 Connie Chan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
2009-2010 Anurag Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
2006-2007 Kushagra Nagaich, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur,
India
2002-2003 Xavier Lebreton, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon
2002-2003 Benjamin Orgogozo, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm), Paris
2000-2001 Pierre Senellart, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm), Paris
1997-1998 Sébastien Blondeel, Université de Paris VI
PhD thesis committee (outside UCL)
2012 Xavier Koegler (Supervisors: Pierre Fraigniaud and Olivier
Bournez), Université Paris Diderot, France
Population protocols, games, and
large populations
2012 Adrien Friggeri (Supervisor: Eric Fleury), Ecole Nationale
Supérieure de Lyon, France
A Quantitative Theory of Social
Cohesion
2012 Salvatore Scellato (Supervisor: Cecilia Mascolo), University of
Cambridge, UK
Spatial properties of online
social services: measurement, analysis and applications
2011 Amir Ali Ahmadi (Supervisor : Pablo Parrilo), MIT, USA
Algebraic Relaxations and
Hardness Results in Polynomial Optimization and Lyapunov analysis
2011 Thomas Aynaud (Supervisor : Jean-Loup Guillaume), Université
Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Détection de communautés dans les
réseaux dynamiques
2011 Alireza Khadivi (Supervisor : Martin Hasler), EPFL, Switzerland
Distributed Dynamics on Networks
and their Applications
2010 Alina Stoica (Supervisor : Michel Habib and Christophe Prieur),
University of Paris VII, France
Analyse de la structure locale
des grands réseaux sociaux
2009 Florence Bénézit (Supervisor : Patrick Thiran), EPFL, Switzerland
Distributed average consensus for
wireless sensor networks
2008 Alain Sarlette (Supervisor: Rodolphe Sepulchre), University of
Liège, Belgium
Contrôle distribué de mouvements
collectifs dans des systèmes dynamiques multi-agents
2008 Jussi Kumpala (Supervisor: Jari Saramaki), Helsinki University of
Technology, Finland
Community structures in complex
networks
2007 Ather Gattami (Supervisor: Anders Rantzer), Lund University,
Sweden
Optimal decisions with limited
information
2007 Pascal Pons (Supervisor : Mathieu Latapy), Université de Paris VI,
Paris, France
Détection de communautés dans les
grands graphes de terrain
2007 Bart Van Luyten (Supervisor: Bart De Moor), KULeuven, Belgium
Nonnegative matrix factorizations
2007 Mathieu Latapy, Université de Paris 6, France
HDR : Grands graphes de terrain.
Mesure et métrologie, analyse, modélisation, algorithmique
2006 Olivier Bournez, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine,
France
HDR : Modèles continues. Calculs.
Algorithmes distribués
2006 Emmanuel Hainry (Supervisor: O. Bournez), Institut National
Polytechnique de Lorraine, France
Modèles de calcul sur les réels,
résultats de comparaison
2006 Patrice Rondao Alface (Supervisor: Benoît Macq), UCL, Belgium
Perception and re-synchronization
issues for the watermarking of 3D shapes
2006 Dirk Janssens (Supervisor: Bart De Moor), KULeuven, Belgium
Context-driven mining of
literature
2005 Laurent Viennot, Ecole Polytechnique, France
HDR : Autour des graphes et du
routage
2004 Fabien Mathieu (Supervisor: Michel Habib), Université de
Montpellier II, France
Structure du web et moteurs de
recherche
2002 Gérard Schneider (Supervisor: Eugène Asarin), Université Grenoble,
France
Analyse algorithmique des
systèmes hybrides polygonaux
2001 Timoteo Cotroneo (Supervisor: Jan Willems), University of
Groningen, The Netherlands
Algorithms in behavioral systems
theory
1999 Olivier Bournez (Supervisor: Prof. Michel Cosnard), Ecole
Nationale Supérieure, Lyon, France
Complexité algorithmique des
systèmes continus et hybrides
1999 Inès Klimann (Supervisor: Prof. Jean-Eric Pin), Université de
Paris VII, France
Langages, séries et contrôle de
trajectoires
1998 Natacha Portier (Supervisor: Prof. Bruno Poizat), Université de
Lyon I, France
Complexité algébrique: stabilité
polynomiale des corps différentiels