Group members

For open positions, please see this page

Faculty members and group founders

Quentin Cappart

Associate professor at Polytechnique Montréal (Dept. of Computer and Software Engineering)

Louis-Martin Rousseau

Full professor at Polytechnique Montréal (Dept. of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering)

  • Member of CIRRELT
  • Holder of Hanalog chair
  • Member of IVADO

Students

Hugo Barral

Ph.D. Student (started in 2024)

  • Project: learning in constraint programming
  • Supervised by Quentin Cappart, Marie-José Huguet and Sylvie Thiebaux

Léo Boisvert

Ph.D. Student (started in 2024)

  • Project: Reasoning with Large Language Models
  • Supervised by Quentin Cappart and Alexandre Drouin

Max Bourgeat

Ph.D. Student (started in 2024)

  • Project: machine learning for combinatorial optimization
  • Supervised by Quentin Cappart and Antoine Legrain

Gaël Reynal

Ph.D. Student (started in 2020)

  • Project: machine learning in columns generation
  • Supervised by Louis-Martin Rousseau, Quentin Cappart and Guy Desaulniers

Bérénice Dubois

M.Sc. Student (started in 2025)

  • Project: constraint programming for timetabling in secondary schools
  • Supervised by Quentin Cappart

Emile Jehaes

M.Sc. Student (started in 2025)

  • Project: learning cost-based filtering for constraint programming
  • Supervised by Quentin Cappart

Guillaume Hermoso

M.Sc. Student (started in 2025)

  • Project: learning Lagrangian decomposition
  • Supervised by Louis-Martin Rousseau and Quentin Cappart

Robin Gay

M.Sc. Student (started in 2025)

  • Project: Quantum computing for combinatorial optimization
  • Supervised by Tarek Ould-Bachir and Quentin Cappart

Thibault Le Sellier de Chezelles

M.Sc. Student (started in 2024)

  • Project: LLMs for open-ended web tasks
  • Supervised by Quentin Cappart and Maxime Gasse

Yoann Sabatier Montanaro

M.Sc. Student (started in 2024)

  • Project: speeding-up column generation with machine learning
  • Supervised by Quentin Cappart and Guy Desaulniers

Théau Lepouttre

M.Sc. Student (started in 2024)

  • Project: learning user preferences in routing problems
  • Supervised by Quentin Cappart

Alumni (with last known position)

Öykü Naz Attila (Postdoc in 2024)

Isaac Rudich (Ph.D. in 2024) - Independent consultant in optimization

Augustin Parjadis (Ph.D. in 2023) - Data scientist at Ivado Labs

Peyman Kafaei (Ph.D. in 2022) - Data scientist at Ivado Labs

Adrien Rimélé (Ph.D. in 2021) - Data scientist at Ivado Labs

Maryam Abazari (M.Sc. in 2024) - Engagement analyst at University Advancement, McGill

Amaury Guichard (M.Sc. in 2024) - Ph.D. student at UCLouvain

Hugo Barral (M.Sc. in 2024) - Ph.D. student at Polytechnique Montréal and INSA Toulouse

Léo Boisvert (M.Sc. in 2024) - Ph.D. student at Polytechnique Montréal

Loïc Grumiaux (M.Sc. in 2024) - Technology analyst at Morgan Stanley

Thomas Jacquet (M.Sc. in 2024) - Software engineer at Banque de Luxembourg

Paulo Correia (M.Sc. in 2024) - Invited researcher at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte

Tom Marty (M.Sc. in 2023) - Ph.D. student at MILA

Louis Popovic (M.Sc. in 2023) - Data engineer at Ivado Labs

Vincent Beiglig (M.Sc. in 2023) - Software engineer at GreenWITS

Juliette Gerbaux (M.Sc. in 2023) - Engineer at RTE - Best Master thesis in mathematics and industrial engineering department

Mina Parham (M.Sc. in 2023) - AI developer at Chubb

Gaël Reynal (M.Sc. in 2022) - Fast-tracked for a Ph.D. at Polytechnique Montréal

Rosanne Larocque (M.Sc. in 2022) - Software engineer at Google

Ghassen Cherni (M.Sc. in 2022) - Computer vision engineer at Luxolis

Bilel Omrani (M.Sc. in 2021) - Data scientist at Illuin Technology

Swann Bessa Research Intern (2024)

Darius Dabert Research Intern (2024) - Research internship award from Ecole Polytechnique

Heiko Hoppe Research Intern (2023)

Andoni Garmendia Research Intern (2023)

Francesco Morri Research Intern (2024, 2023)

Axel Navarro Research Intern (2023)

Tristan François Research Intern (2022)

Louis Gautier Research Intern (2022)

Malik Attalah Research Intern (2022)

Ziad El Assal Research Intern (2022)

Pierre Tessier Research Intern (2021)

Tom Sander Research Intern (2021)

Félix Chalumeau Research Intern (2020)

Ilan Coulon Research Intern (2020)

Marco Novaes Intern (2022)

Adam Bensouda Intern (2021)