Michel Vasquez

**Enseignant-Chercheur** **Euromov DHM, IMT Mines Alès** **Operations Research and Combinatorial Optimization** **Qualification and Career** 2005 Promoted to Ingénieur Divisionnaire de l’Industrie et des Mines. 2004 Habilitation (Professorship Diploma), University of Science of Avignon, France. 2000 PhD Thesis, University of Angers, prepared at Nîmes LGI2P, France. 1989 Appointed Ingénieur de l’Industrie et des Mines at école des Mines d’Alès, France. 1988 Master (Artificial Intelligence & Image Synthesis), University of Science of St-Etienne, France. **Main responsibilities** \- IT Manager for DRIRE at Ecole de Mines d’Alès site de Rochebelle (1992, ..., 1997) (12 permanent members). \- President of the organizing committee of JFPC' 2006 at site EERIE Nîmes France (100 participants). \- Director of the LGI2P Lab. (2008, 2009, 2010) (43 members including 28 permanent members). \- Supervisor of 4 defended PhD theses and external thesis reviewer of some 10 PhD in France. **Publications** \- 27 international journals and 40 peer-reviewed conference publications. \- 3 significant ones : o Consistent neighborhood search for one-dimensional **bin packing** and **two-dimensional vector packing**, Buljubašić, M., Vasquez, M. 2016 Computers and Operations Research 76, pp. 12-21. o On the **queen graphs coloring** problem, Vasquez, M. 2006 Comptes Rendus Mathematique 342(3), pp. 157-16. o A hybrid approach for the **0-1 multidimensional knapsack problem**, Vasquez, M., Hao, J.-K. 2001 IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 328-333. **Awards** \- **1st prize** of the ROADEF/EURO **2021** International Challenge on ***Grid operation-based outage maintenance Planning***, 31st European Conference on Operational Research, July 11-14, 2021, Athens, Greece. \- **1st prize** of the ROADEF/EURO **2014** International Challenge on ***Rolling stock unit management on railways sites***, IFORS 2014, Barcelona, Spain. \- **1st prize** of the ROADEF **2001** International Challenge on ***Frequency assignment with polarization***, FRANCORO III, Quebec, Canada*.*