Research
My research interests lie on the elaboration of methods for machine learning and stochastic optimization and their applications.
Methods
- Deep Neural Networks
- Large Language Models and Foundation Models
- Out-of-Distribution Learning and Domain Generalization
- Adversarial Machine Learning
- Evolutionary Algorithms
- Genetic Programming
Applications
- Computer Vision
- Microscopy and Neurosciences
- Health
- Transportation and Sustainable Mobility
- Smart Grids
Project Pages
- TrackPGD: Efficient Adversarial Attack using Object Binary Masks against Robust Transformer Trackers 2024
- Reproducibility Study on Adversarial Attacks against Robust Transformer Trackers 2024
- Task-Assisted GAN for Resolution Enhancement and Modality Translation in Fluorescence Microscopy 2021
- Mixture-based Feature Space Learning for Few-shot Image Classification 2021
- Image-to-Image Translation with Low Resolution conditioning 2021
- Associative Alignment for Few-shot Image Classification 2020
- Deep Parametric Indoor Lighting Estimation 2019
- Toward intelligent microscopy 2018
- Learning to Predict Indoor Illumination from a Single Image 2017
Software Projects
- DEAP : Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms in Python
- SCHNAPS : Generic Population-based Simulator for Public Health
- Open BEAGLE : Generic C++ Framework for Evolutionary Computation
- BEAGLE Puppy
Current Appointments
- Area chair, NeurIPS 2026
- Track co-chair, Neuroevolution, GECCO 2026 and 2027
- Independent member of the board of directors, Musée national de l’histoire du Québec since 2026
- Scientific Committee, DIM AI4IDF since 2023
- Editorial Committee, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines since 2013
Previous Appointments
- Co-organizer, Rendez-vous IA Québec 2018–2023
- Executive Board, ACM SIGEVO 2017–2023
- Co-organizer, Interactive Labeling and Data Augmentation for Vision, ICCV workshop 2021
- Track co-chair, Evolutionary Machine Learning, GECCO 2021
- Transportation Electrification Working Group, Institut Technologies de l’information et société, Université Laval 2014
- Publicity chair, GECCO 2014
- National Resources Allocation Committee, Compute Canada, now the Digital Research Alliance of Canada 2009–2013 and 2017
- Guest editor, special section Evolutionary Art, International Journal of Arts and Technology 2015
- Responsible, Section 200 (Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering), Scientific Committee of the 80th Congress of the Acfas 2012
- Co-organizer, Evolutionary Art Competition, GECCO 2009–2012
- Organizer, Undergraduate Student Workshop, GECCO 2011
- Track co-chair, Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts, GECCO 2011
- Competitions chair, GECCO 2010
- Local chair, GECCO 2009
- Sponsors chair, High Performance Computing Symposium (HPCS), Quebec City 2008