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| Frédéric Gardi of Bouygues' e-lab wins the 2012 Robert Faure prize Frédéric Gardi, an optimisation research engineer working for e-lab, the R&D unit of Bouygues group's parent company, was awarded the Robert Faure prize on 12 April 2012 at the annual congress of the Société Française de Recherche Opérationnelle et d'Aide à la Décision (ROADEF) ‐ the French Society for Operational Research and Decision Support. This is the first time it has been awarded to an engineer working in industry and not to an academic. It rewards his ten years of fundamental and applied research in the domain of combinatorial optimisation, covering a wide variety of issues and lines of activity, ranging from heavy industry, to retail banking and to telecoms and media. The software solutions he has developed, particularly for Bouygues group subsidiaries such as TF1 (TV media planning) and Bouygues Telecom (scheduling of marketing campaigns), have generated considerable returns on investment. The ROADEF considered and rewarded all the scientific publications and software solutions to which he has made a contribution, the fundamental results he obtained from his thesis on task sequencing and the development of the LocalSolver software package, which is the first mathematical programming solver based on local research. Frédéric Gardi, aged 34, obtained his doctoral thesis in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Aix-Marseille II in 2005. Before joining Bouygues' e-lab in 2007, he worked for three years at Prologia SA (Air Liquide group) and then for two years at Experian-Prologia SAS (Experian group) as an optimisation engineer. He has already received a number of international awards for operational research (Challenges ROADEF, 2005, 2007 and 2011). The Robert Faure prize (named after Professor Robert Faure, one of the pioneers of Operational Research in France) aims to reward young researchers who have contributed, through their work, to the progress of operational research and decision support in France. The award has been handed out every three years since 1993 to researchers aged less than 35. The awardgiving ceremony took place on 12 April 2012 at the ROADEF annual congress in Angers, France. write your comments about the article :: © 2012 Construction News :: home page |