Resume
History of positions
Postdoctoral researcher
IMT-Mines Alès, France
Jan. 2025 - Now
Postdoctoral position funded by the European network of excellence ENFIELD, of which the Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) is a member. Working with Sébastien Harispe (Professor in Computer Science at IMT Mines Alès) and Nicolas Soulié (Associate Professor in Economics at IMT Business School). Studying the impact of explainable AI (XAI) techniques on human-computer collaboration, including the design and implementation of a large-scale experimental protocol involving human participants.
C++ developer for operational research
GIRO, Montréal, Canada
June 2023 - Dec. 2024
GIRO is one of the world leaders and the European leader in software solutions for organizing public transportation (bus and rail networks). I worked as a developer in the Algorithms team, where my role was to develop and maintain combinatorial optimization algorithms for bus and train driver rosters. I worked on metaheuristic algorithms based on linear programming solvers.
PhD
LERIA – University of Angers, France
Sep. 2019 - Dec. 2022
Title: "Combinatorial search guided by machine learning for molecular chemistry". Computer Science specialty. Defended on December 9, 2022. Manuscript available on HAL.
Supervision:
- Béatrice Duval (director), Professor Emerita, LERIA, University of Angers.
- Benoit Da Mota, Associate Professor, LERIA, University of Angers.
- Thomas Cauchy, Associate Professor, MOLTECH-Anjou, University of Angers.
Reviewers:
- Laetitia Jourdan, Professor, CRIStAL, University of Lille.
- Jean-Claude Crivello, Research Scientist (HDR), ICMPE, CNRS.
Jury president:
- Gaël Varoquaux, Research Director, INRIA Saclay.
Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Angers, France
Sep. 2017 - Aug. 2019
Decisional Intelligence track (research-oriented Master's program). Includes courses in combinatorial optimization and machine learning. Graduated in August 2019 (with highest honors).
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Angers, France
Sep. 2014 - Aug. 2017
Bachelor's in Science, Technology, Health, Computer Science major. Graduated in August 2017 (with honors).
Teaching
Teaching activity as a postdoctoral researcher
IMT-Mines Alès, France
2025-Now
• Supervision of a group of 3rd-year engineering students working on the development of explainable predictive models for the prediction of acute myeloid leukemia mortality, in partnership with the University of Lille.
• Proposed and supervised a 3-month research internship for a 2nd-year engineering student, consisting in training predictive models and implementing explainability techniques for my research work.
• Co-led a scientific activity related to my research for 3rd-year engineering students, in collaboration with a faculty member.
Teaching activity as a PhD student
University of Angers, France
Sep. 2019 - June 2022
• 192h of teaching over three years (maximum allowed: 64h/year), mainly to BSc and MSc students.
• Subjects: algorithmics, digital literacy (BSc level), and design patterns (MSc level).
• Main responsibilities: leading lab sessions, contributing to the design and grading of assessments.
• Supervision of group research projects for final-year BSc students.
Tutoring activity as a Master's student
University of Angers, France
Sep. 2017 - June 2019
• 132h of tutoring over two years within the Computer Science department of the University of Angers.
• Open-access support sessions for BSc students in Computer Science (120h).
• Occasional assistance to Digital Literacy instructors for students across the Faculty of Sciences (12h).
Activity
2025
Presentations
Presentation at the first seminary of the SyCOIA UPR (≈research lab) at IMT Mines Alès.
« A protocol to study the impact of XAI on AI-assisted decision making »
slides
19 December 2025
Presentation at the workshop HCAI of the GDR IHM held at ISIR, Paris, France. (Hybrid event, remote participation).
« A protocol to study the impact of XAI on AI-assisted decision making »
25 November 2025
Presentation at the workshop XAI4U held at the IHM '25 conference in Toulouse, France.
« A protocol to study the impact of XAI on AI-assisted decision making »
slides
4 November 2025
Participation in the 4th general assembly of the European project ENFIELD in Bucharest, Romania, representing the Institut Mines-Télécom.
10-11 September 2025
Presentation at the workshop Human-centric AI organized by the ENFIELD project at UPB, Bucharest, Romania.
« A protocol to study the impact of XAI on the performance of AI-assisted decision making »
9 September 2025
Participation in a round table as a postdoctoral researcher, as part of a research information day for students at IMT Mines Alès.
18 March 2025
Participation in the 3rd general assembly of the European project ENFIELD in Budapest, Hungary, representing the Institut Mines-Télécom.
12-13 February 2025
Reviewing activity
A total of 5 reviews for the following journals and events.
• Scientific Reports (2)
• Journal of Cheminformatics
• SoftwareX
• Workshop STRAI@ARES2025
Events organization
Member of the program committee of the Workshop STRAI@ARES2025.
Awards
🏆 3rd place at the PINKCC Challenge (2025)
Participation in the PINKCC Challenge for image segmentation of ovarian cancer with an IMT Mines Alès team, where we obtained the 3rd prize.
🏆 Best applicative article at EGC2019
Best applicative article prize at the conference EGC2019, for our article "Des réseaux de neurones pour prédire des distances interatomiques extraites d'une base de données ouverte de calculs en chimie quantique".
Collective responsibilities
Representative of the Institut Mines-Télécom at the general assemblies of the European project ENFIELD
Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT), France
Jan. 2025 - July 2026
Representative of doctoral students
LERIA laboratory, University of Angers, France
Sep. 2020 - June 2022
Software
WebXAII – Open-source web interface for the study of human-XAI interaction [P1]. github.com/PAJEAN/WebXAII (2025)
EvoMol – Evolutionary algorithm for the optimization of molecular properties [J3]. github.com/jules-leguy/EvoMol (2020)