Axel Parmentier

I am a researcher and professor at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, where I founded and currently hold the Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Air Transport in partnership with Air France.

My research operates at the intersection of Operations Research and Machine Learning. I develop theoretical frameworks and practically efficient algorithms for data-driven combinatorial optimization problems. I place a strong emphasis on industrial applications, particularly in the fields of air transportation, supply chain management, and predictive maintenance.

In 2017, I received the dissertation award from the French Agency for Mathematics in Interaction with Business and Society (AMIES). More recently, I was awarded the Robert Faure Prize, presented triennially by the French Society of Operations Research (ROADEF) to a researcher under 35 for outstanding contributions to the field. I also coordinate the Data, Machine Learning, and Optimization axis of the French Operations Research group.

Recently, my research has increasingly focused on Combinatorial Optimization Augmented Machine Learning. The following tutorial and survey or these slides provide a comprehensive introduction to this field.

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