Remi Coletta is 32 years old. He obtained a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Montpellier in 2006. During his PhD-thesis, he worked at the intersection of two artificial intelligence fields, namely Constraint Programming and Machine Learning. More precisely, he developed a constraint acquision framework, namely ConAcq. His PhD work has been published in 4 main conferences in Constraint Programming (CP), Machine Learning (ECML) and Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
From 2006 to 2007, he heads the R&D department of the LRD company, where he developed constraint based optimisation solutions for industrial problems. In particular, he was leader of the DistriSuite project and conceived a dedicated solver for the vehicule routing problem with time-windows. During this industrial period, he continued his academic activities, by publishing two articles in the conference IJCAI 07.
In September 2007, he joins the LIRMM laboratory as associate professor. In 2008, he was Organising Chair of the CAISE'08 conference (over 300 participants). His research is currently focused on using CP and ML in the context distributed information systems.