Michel Bierlaire

Michel Bierlaire, born in 1967 in Namur, Belgium, is a Belgian-Swiss applied mathematician and Full Professor at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he directs the Transport and Mobility Laboratory since 2006. After earning his Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Namur in 1996, he worked at MIT's Intelligent Transportation Systems Program (1995-1998) developing real-time traffic simulation tools. He joined EPFL in 1998 as a senior scientist, progressing to Associate Professor in 2006 and Full Professor in 2012. His research focuses on transportation modeling, discrete choice models, and operations research, with significant contributions to demand modeling and traffic management systems. He founded the European Association for Research in Transportation and developed Biogeme, an open-source project for discrete choice model estimation. His scholarly output includes over 150 papers in international journals, 4 books, and numerous book chapters and conference proceedings. He has served as director of TraCE Transportation Center (2009-2022) and head of the Civil Engineering Institute (2017-2021), while maintaining leadership roles in various international research organizations