Gauthier Picard

Gauthier Picard received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toulouse in 2004, and the Habilitation degree in Computer Science from the University of Saint-Etienne in 2014. He obtained full professorship in Computer Science at Mines Saint-Etienne and was researcher at Laboratoire Hubert Curien UMR CNRS 5516, until 2020. Now, he is Senior Research Scientist (Directeur de Recherche) at ONERA, The French Aerospace Lab, and is coordinating of its Artificial Intelligence Lab, on highly multi-disciplinary topics.

His research delves into coordination, cooperation, resource allocation, task allocation, adaptation and distributed optimization, with a keen focus on translating these theoretical concepts into real-world applications, such as Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks, smart grid management, Earth observation satellite constellation operations, multi-UAV airspace coordination, and multi-robot exploration missions.