Biography

Prof. El-ghazali Talbi received the Master and Ph.D degrees in Computer Science, both from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in France. Then he became an Associate Professor in Computer Sciences at the University of Lille (France). Since 2001, he is a full Professor at the University of Lille and the head of the optimization group of the Computer Science laboratory (LIFL). His current research interests are in the field of multi-objective optimization, parallel algorithms, metaheuristics, combinatorial optimization, cluster and grid computing, hybrid and cooperative optimization, and application to logistics/transportation, bioinformatics and networking.

Professor Talbi has to his credit more than 100 publications in journals, chapters in books, and conferences. He is the co-editor of three books. He was a guest editor of more than 10 special issues in different journals (Journal of Heuristics, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, European Journal of Operational Research, Theoretical Computer Science, Journal of Global Optimization). He is the head of the INRIA Dolphin project and the bioinformatics platform of the Genopole of Lille. He has many collaborative national, European and international projects.

He is the co-founder and the coordinator of the research group dedicated to Metaheuristics: Theory and Applications (META). He is the founding co-chair of the NIDISC workshop on nature inspired computing (IEEE/ACM IPDPS). He served in different capacities on the programs of more than 100 national and international conferences. He is also the organizer of many conferences (e.g. EA'2005, ROADEF'2006, META'2008, IEEE AICCSA'2010).

Responsabilities

• Head of the research team OPAC (Parallel Cooperative Optimization)
• Scientific leader of the INRIA Lille Nord Europe project DOLPHIN (Discrete Multi-objective Optimization with Hybrid Distributed Techniques)
• Head of the CIB (Bioinformatics Center) of the Genopole of Lille
• Head of the SCOPE (PArallel Simulation, Computing, Optimisation Parallèles and Distributed Environments) of the LIFL Laboratory
• Co-fondator et co-animator of the group META ( Metaheuristiques : Theory and Applications) of the association ROADEF (Recherche Opérationnelle et Aide à la Décision), GDR ALP and GDR MACS.