Curriculum Vitæ

Dr. David Meignan
IT Consultant and Developer

Meignan Consulting
ICO – InnovationsCentrum Osnabrück – Coworking
Albert-Einstein-Str. 1
D49076 Osnabrück, Germany

E-mail: info (at) meignanconsulting.com

List of publications

Research Interest

  • Heuristics and metaheuristics
  • Combinatorial optimization
  • Interactive optimization
  • Distributed problem solving
  • Multiagent systems for simulation and optimization

Professional Activities

2015-Present
 Independent Developer and IT Consultant.
Software development and consulting in mathematical optimization, data analytics and machine learning
Meignan Consulting, Osnabruck, Germany
2013–2015
 Researcher, Project principal investigator.
Interactive metaheuristics for optimization-based decision support systems.
Project funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Research Grants Program
Computer Science Group, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
2011–2013
 Research Fellow.
Interactive heuristics for solving scheduling problems.
Project funded by the Google Research Awards program (Authors: Sigrid Knust and David Meignan)
Computer Science Group, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Sigrid Knust
2009-2011
 Postdoctoral Researcher.
Development of a decision support system and heuristic optimization methods for a network design problem in the field of forestry.
Project supported by a MITACS (MPrime) team grant and a FQRNT team Grant.
Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal.
Advisors: Dr., Ing. Jean-Marc Frayret and Prof. Dr. Gilles Pesant
2007-2009 Research and Education Assistant.
University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, Belfort, France.
2005 Research Engineer (Training period, 6 month), SeT-GIS Project.
Development of a decision support system for the design and the evaluation of urban bus networks.
Systems and Transports Laboratory, Belfort, France.

Research Grants and Awards

2013 DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Research Grant (as principal investigator)
Project: Interactive metaheuristics for optimization-based decision support systems. (Grant: ME 4045/2-1.)
Principal investigator: Dr. David Meignan.
Project period: June 2013 – May 2015
Awarded: 160 780€
2012 Google Research Grant (as co-author and beneficiary)
Google Focused Grant Program on Mathematical Optimization and Combinatorial Optimization, 2012.
Applicants: Prof. Dr. Sigrid Knust and Dr. David Meignan
Project: Interactive optimization
Awarded: 50 000€

Teaching Experience

  • Hyper-heuristics – Concepts and example (Seminar), (2012) Master Degree, University of Osnabrück, Germany.
  • Multiagent systems in combinatorial optimization (Seminar), (2010, 2011) Master Degree, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada.
  • Algorithms, High Performance and Modelling (Seminar), (2009) Master Degree, UTBM, France.
  • Computer communication networks, (2009) 3rd year students, UTBM, France.
  • Object-oriented programming (Java and C++), (2007-2009) 3rd year students, UTBM, France.
  • Algorithmics and C programming language, (2007-2009) 2nd and 3rd year students, UTBM, France.
  • Software engineering, (2007-2009) Engineering degree, UTBM, France.

Supervision

  • PhD co-supervision

    • Cedric Boittin (2013-2016)
      Calibration and validation of Transport – Land-Use models (funded by the ANR Cities Project).
      co-supervised with Pr. Dr. Vincent Hilaire and Dr. Nicolas Gaud

Research Responsibilities

 

Grant reviewer

2015 Grant reviewer for the Polish National Science Centre (NCN)

Reviewer for scientific journals and conferences

2015 Program Committee: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-20015), July 11-15, 2015, Madrid, Spain.
2015 Program Committee: European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (EvoCOP 2015), April 8-10, 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2014 Program Committee: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2014), July 12-16, 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2014 Reviewer: European Journal of Industrial Engineering, InderScience.
2013 Reviewer: INFORMS Journal on Computing (IJOC), INFORMS.
2013 Program Committee: 2013 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC’2013), October 13-16, 2013, Manchester, UK.
2013 Reviewer: International Journal of Metaheuristics, InderScience.
2013 Program Committee: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Track Self-* Search, (GECCO-2013, Self-* Search)
July 6-10, 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2012 Program Committee: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Track Self-* Search, (GECCO-2012, Self-* Search)
July 7-11, 2012, Philadelphia, USA.
2012 Reviewer: International Conference on Applied Mathematical Optimization and Modelling (APMOD 2012)
March 28-30, 2012, Paderborn, Germany.
2011 Program Committee: 5th International Conference on Complex Distributed Systems (CODS’2011)
December 5-7, 2011, Mannheim, Germany.
2011 Program Committee: 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC’2011)
October 9-12, 2011, Anchorage, Alaska.
2011 Reviewer: Knowledge-Based Systems (Journal), Elsevier
2011 Reviewer: Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (Journal), Elsevier
2010 Program Committee: 3rd International Conference on Industrial Informatics and Systems Engineering (IISE 2010)
Chongqing, China, July 12-14, 2010
2010 Reviewer: Knowledge-Based Systems (Journal), Elsevier
2009 Session Chair: JDIR’09.
Journées Doctorales en Informatique et Réseaux, optimization session, Belfort, France, February 2nd to 4th, 2009.
2009 Reviewer:
– Journal of Heuristics (Journal), Springer
– Transportation Research Part E (Journal), Elsevier

Services in Academic

2006-2008 PhD students representative, SET Laboratory
Animation of meeting between PhD students and permanent laboratory researchers. Mediation with professors and doctoral school. Position at laboratory council.

Education

2005-2008 PhD: Computer Science
University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard and University of Franche-Comté, France.
Systems and Transports Laboratory.
Title: An organizational and multi-agent approach to design metaheuristics,
Application to transport networks optimization problems.
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Abderrafiâa Koukam
Co-Advisor: Dr. Jean-Charles Créput
Thesis defense: December 8, 2008.
2004-2005 Master of Science: Mecatronics
University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, University of Franche-Comté, France.
Title of the master’s thesis: Multiagent-based modelling and simulation of public transportation networks.
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Abderrafiâa Koukam
Co-Advisor: Dr. Olivier Simonin
2002-2005 Engineering Degree in Computer Science
University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, France.
Specialization: Software and knowledge engineering.