Christine Solnon reçoit le prix "IBM Faculty Award"

The IBM research and IBM University Relation committee has given the "IBM Faculty Award" to Christine Solnon, Professor at INSA de Lyon and researcher at LIRIS UMR 5205 (CNRS/Insa de Lyon/Université Lyon 1/Université Lyon 2/École centrale de Lyon). She has received this award on the 21st of October 2013 in Lyon.

Christine Solnon carries out research on NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems, which cannot be solved in polynomial-time (unless P=NP). In particular, she contributes on Constraint Programming and collaborates on this field with the IBM / Ilog optimization team since 10 years or so. This collaboration has started with a project on the integration of Ant Colony Optimization into the Constraint Programming library developed by IBM. Since 2012, she collaborates with IBM on the design of new optimization algorithms for smarter cities, in the context of the Optimod'Lyon project and the IMU LabEx.

The IBM Faculty Award is a competitive worldwide program, and Christine Solnon is the only one to receive this award in France in 2013.

For more information : http://liris.cnrs.fr/christine.solnon/