Gauthier Picard (Senior Research Scientist / Directeur de Recherche, PhD, HDR)

Research

Multi-agents systems, and more specifically adaptive multi-agent systems (AMAS)
Distributed optimization by cooperation between agents
Resource allocation
Self-organisation, as a mechanism to design artificial systems
Software engineering, to build such systems
Application to collective robotics, space systems, UAVs

ONERA, Information Processing and Systems Department, Smart and decision-making systems Unit
- 2022 – present, Directeur de Recherche / Senior Research Scientist
- 2020 – 2022, Research Scientist
Laboratoire Hubert Curien CNRS UMR 5516, Connected Intelligence Team, Multi-Agent Systems and Services project
- 2015 – 2020, Researcher
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, Henri Fayol Institute, Computer Science and Intelligent Systems Department, France
- 2018 – 2020, Full Professor
- 2007 – 2018, Associate Professor
Institute of Research in Computer Science, University of Toulouse III, Toulouse, France
- 2006 - 2007, Researcher and Research and European Relations Engineer
- 2004 - 2006, Assistant Lecturer
- 2001 - 2004, Researcher (PhD)

2014, Habilitation à diridger des recherches (HDR) in Computer Science (Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France)
2004, Doctorate in Computer Science (IRIT, Toulouse III, France)
2001, DEA in Artificial Intelligence (equivalent to MS) (IRIT, Toulouse III, France)
2000, Maîtrise et Licence in Computer Science (equivalent to BS) (Toulouse III, France)
1998, DEUG in Mathematics and Computer Science (2-year university degree) (Pau, France)
1995, Baccalauréat in Mathematics & Physics (secondary school diploma) (Clermont-Fd, France)