François Durand

I was a student at the École Normale Supérieure, rue d'Ulm from 2000 to 2005. My formation was in Physics, Computer Science and Political Science. From 2003 to 2010, I worked in the humanitarian field as a trainer, financial coordinator and manager. From 2011 to 2015, I worked at [LINCS](http://www.lincs.fr/), a joint lab between academics and industrials, as a research engineer in the [GANG](http://gang.inria.fr/) research team. In 2015-2017, I worked as a postdoctorate associate in a joint project involving the [LAMSADE](http://www.lamsade.dauphine.fr/) of Université Paris Dauphine and the [CREM](https://crem.univ-rennes1.fr/) team of Université Caen - Basse Normandie. Since 2018, I have been working in [Nokia Bell Labs France](https://www.bell-labs.com/) and back in the [LINCS](http://www.lincs.fr/). In my main research area, I work on voting systems and their manipulability (tactical voting), using computer simulations and tools from game theory. For an overview, watch my [PhD defense](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzBZBdV1B3Q). I developped several Python packages on this topic: - [SVVAMP](https://francois-durand.github.io/svvamp/) (Simulator of Various Voting Algorithms in Manipulating Populations): study voting systems and their manipulability. - [Whalrus](https://francois-durand.github.io/whalrus/) (Which Alternative Represents Us): exploit various voting systems for practical applications. - [Poisson Approval](https://francois-durand.github.io/poisson_approval/): study the voting rule called Approval Voting in the theoretical framework of Poisson games. I also work on using Artificial Intelligence for wireless networks, for example optimizing the choice between 4G and 5G in a dual connectivity scenario, or creating a simulator for evaluating the performances of beamtracking and user selection algorithms. I developed [Package Helper 2](https://package-helper-2.readthedocs.io/), a tool that helps developers to create and maintain a Python package. I coordinate two working groups of the [LINCS](http://www.lincs.fr/): the reading group [Network Theory](https://www.lincs.fr/research/working-groups/network-theory/) and the [Python Workshop](https://www.lincs.fr/research/working-groups/python-academy/).