Laurent Michel

Laurent Michel serves as Professor of Computer Science at the University of Connecticut and co-Director of the Connecticut Advanced Computing Center. After completing his education at Notre-Dame de la Paix (Belgium) and Brown University, where he earned his PhD in 1999, he has established himself as a leading researcher in constraint programming and optimization. His research focuses on developing domain-specific languages for combinatorial optimization, with significant contributions to constraint-based local search and optimization modeling. His work includes pioneering publications in constraint programming, including "Constraint-based Local Search" and "Numerica: A Modeling Language for Global Optimization" published by MIT Press. As an educator and researcher since joining UConn in 2002, he has contributed to various fields including power systems optimization, warehouse location problems, and transparent parallelization of constraint programming. His research has garnered over 5,000 citations, demonstrating his significant impact on the field of computer science and optimization