☰ Aymeric Blot

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Research interests§

In the present state, my research interests include:

• Search-based software engineering
• Genetic Improvement of software
• Automated algorithm design, configuration, tuning
• Combinatorial optimisation
• Multi-objective optimisation
• Landscape analysis
• Metaheuristics

Other fields in which I have a strong attraction toward:

• Algorithmic art
• Procedural content generation
• Data visualisation
• Artificial life

Surveys§

• Living survey on genetic improvement (GI) (thanks to Bill Langdon and GPBIB)
• Survey on empirical improvement of non-functional properties of software
• My personal BibTeX

PhD supervision§

Current§

• Maïwenn Le Goasteller (2025–), Augmenting architectural decision-making: A predictive approach for identifying Pareto-optimal configurations in cloud-native environments considering energy-performance constraints, with Olivier Barais (D) and Quentin Perez (A)
  
• Axel Allain (2025–), Continuous code co-evolution for mainstream languages and libraries, with Mathieu Acher (D) and Djamel Khelladi (A)
  
• Najwa Naamane (2026–), Iterative Synthesis of Verified and Validated Code, with with Djamel Khelladi (D), Mathieu Acher (A), David Mentré (A), and Denis Cousineau (A)
  

(D): thesis director, (A): co-adviser

Misc.§

Erdős number (online calculator)§

3

Aymeric Blot — Myra B. Cohen — Charles J. Colbourn — Paul Erdős