Testimonial by Margaux Schmied after one month of doctoral mobility at UCLouvain, Belgium

Margaux Schmied, a third-year PhD candidate at the i3S laboratory, spent one month at the INGI laboratory of UCLouvain with the support of the DocWalker international mobility program of the RISE Academy.

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What is your field of research?

I work in constraint programming, a field of artificial intelligence that involves modeling and solving complex decision problems using constraints. My research focuses in particular on global constraints with costs, and on the development of efficient bounds to improve the performance of solvers.

How did your international mobility project begin?

My mobility project grew out of an already existing scientific collaboration with a foreign research team specializing in optimization and constraint programming. As part of my doctoral research, it quickly became clear that a stay on site would make it possible to deepen this collaboration, compare my approaches with other methodologies, and broaden my scientific perspectives. The mobility opportunity therefore naturally became part of the continuation of my research work and reflected a desire for international openness.

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