☰ Aymeric Blot

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News§

• I gave a tutorial talk on Magpie at the GI@ICSE 2025 workshop (event page, slides)
• Our survey A Comprehensive Survey of Benchmarks for Improvement of Software's Non-Functional Properties has been published in ACM Computing Surveys!
• Our paper Reinforcement Learning for Mutation Operator Selection in Automated Program Repair has been published in Springer Automated Software Engineering!
• Our paper Empirical Comparison of Runtime Improvement Approaches: Genetic Improvement, Parameter Tuning, and Their Combination has been published in the GI@ICSE 2025 workshop!

About me§

I joined the University of Rennes in 2023 as a tenured lecturer in the ISTIC faculty, where I teach Software Engineering and Operational Research courses. I am also a member of the IRISA research centre within the joint Inria/IRISA DiverSE group.

My research focuses on genetic improvement, building on previous work at University College London on software specialisation and a doctorate from the University of Lille on automated algorithm design for multi-objective combinatorial optimisation. More broadly, I am interested in evolving and optimising software using techniques from automated machine learning, algorithm configuration, and evolutionary computation. To this end, I develop and maintain Magpie, an automated software improvement framework.

My name is typically pronounced [ɛm.(ə.)ʁik] [blo] in French. For English speakers, "Aymeric" sounds like the beginning of "emerald" followed by the name "Rick," whilst "Blot" rhymes with "go," with a silent "t." 日本語では「エムリック・ブロ」と発音されます。