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Michel Bierlaire Transportation and Mobility Laboratory Associate Professor birth date: 09.02.1967 nationality: Belgium office(s): GCB3454 phone(s): [+41 21 69] 32537,32921,32408 Affiliations Associate Professor, Transport and Mobility Laboratory, Institute of Urban and Regional Planning & Design, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland. Director, Transportation Center, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland. Director, Doctoral Program in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland. Research Affiliate, Dpt of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Ma., USA Links List of publications and activities of Michel Bierlaire List of publications of the Transport and Mobility Laboratory BIOGRAPHY Belgian, born in 1967, Michel Bierlaire holds a PhD in Mathematical Sciences from the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium (University of Namur). Between 1995 and 1998, he was research associate and project manager at the Intelligent Transportation Systems Program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Ma, USA). Between 1998 and 2006, he was a junior faculty in the Operations Research group ROSO within the Institute of Mathematics at EPFL. In 2006, he was appointed associate professor in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering at EPFL, where he became the director of the Transport and Mobility laboratory. Since 2009, he is the director of TraCE, the Transportation Center, and the director of Doctoral Program in Civil and Environmental Engineering at EPFL. His main expertise is in the design, development and applications of models and algorithms for the design, analysis and management of transportation systems. Namely, he has been active in demand modeling (discrete choice models, estimation of origin-destination matrices) and Dynamic Traffic Management Systems. As of August 2011, he has published 52 papers in international journals (including Transportation Research Part B, the transportation journal with the highest impact factor), 1 book, 26 book chapters, 106 articles in conference proceedings, 99 technical reports, and has given 150 scientific seminars. His article "An efficient algorithm for real-time estimation and prediction of dynamic OD table", co-authored with Frank Crittin, has received the Best Paper Award of the Transportation Science & Logistics Society of INFORMS in 2006. His Scopus h-index is 12. He is the founder, organizer and lecturer of the EPFL Advanced Continuing Education Course "Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Demand and Market Shares". He is the Editor-in-Chief of the EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Choice Modelling. He is the editor of two special issues for the journal Transportation Research Part C. He has been member of the Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) of Transportation Research Part B since 1995, of Transportation Research Part C since January 1, 2006, and of the journal "European Transport" since 2005. He was the chairman of the 6th Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis, Pukhet Island (Thailand), 2007. He is involved in the organization of the Swiss Transportation Research Conference since its first venue in 2001 and member of the programme committee "Innovative Methods in Transport Analysis, Planning and Appraisal" for the European Transport Conference since 2004. He was also a member of the organizing committee and of the scientific committee of ITS2008. Education Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences, Mathematical models for transportation demand analysis, Prof. Philippe Toint, Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium, 1996 Professional course Maître d'enseignement et de recherche, Operations Research Group ROSO, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1998-2006 Research Associate - Project Manager, Intelligent Transportation Systems Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995-1998 Research Assistant, Transportation Research Group, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (University of Namur), Belgium, 1988-1995 MAIN PUBLICATIONS Journal Paper Pending J. Cruz Mota, I. Bogdanova Vandergheynst, B. Paquier, M. Bierlaire and J.-P. Thiran, Scale Invariant Feature Transform on the Sphere: Theory and Applications, accepted to International Journal of Computer Vision, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] C. Osorio, G. Flötteröd and M. Bierlaire, Dynamic network loading: a differentiable model that derives link state distributions, accepted to Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] T. Robin, M. Bierlaire and J. Cruz, Dynamic facial expression recognition with a discrete choice model, accepted to Journal of Choice Modelling, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] C. Osorio and M. Bierlaire, A tractable analytical model for large-scale congested protein synthesis networks, accepted to European Journal of Operational Research, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] G. Flötteröd, M. Bierlaire and K. Nagel, Bayesian demand calibration for dynamic traffic simulations, accepted to Transportation Science, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] 2011 N. Eggenberg, M. Salani and M. Bierlaire, Uncertainty Feature Optimization: an implicit paradigm for problems with noisy data, Networks, Vol. 57, Nr. 3, pp. 270-284, 2011. [detailed record] [bibtex] 2010 M. Bierlaire, R. Hurtubia and G. Flötteröd, An analysis of the implicit choice set generation using the Constrained Multinomial Logit model, Transportation Research Record, Vol. 2175, pp. 92-97, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Sorci, G. Antonini, J. Cruz, T. Robin, M. Bierlaire and J.-P. Thiran, Modelling human perception of static facial expressions, Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 28, Nr. 5, pp. 790-806, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] Z. Patterson, M. Kryvobokov, F. Marchal and M. Bierlaire, Disaggregate Models with Aggregate Data: Two UrbanSim Applications, Journal of Transport and Land Use, Vol. 3, Nr. 2, pp. 5-37, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] N. Eggenberg, M. Salani and M. Bierlaire, Constraint-specific recovery networks for solving airline recovery problems, Computers & Operations Research, Vol. 37, Nr. 6, pp. 1014-1026, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] Z. Patterson and M. Bierlaire, Development of Prototype UrbanSim Models, Environment and Planning B, Vol. 37, Nr. 2, pp. 344-366, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Bierlaire, M. Thémans and N. Zufferey, A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization, INFORMS Journal of Computing, Vol. 22, Nr. 1, pp. 59-70, 2010. [detailed record] [bibtex] 2009 E. Frejinger, M. Bierlaire and M. Ben-Akiva, Sampling of Alternatives for Route Choice Modeling, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Vol. 43, Nr. 10, pp. 984-994, 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] T. Robin, G. Antonini, M. Bierlaire and J. Cruz, Specification, estimation and validation of a pedestrian walking behavior model, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Vol. 43, Nr. 1, pp. 36-56, 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Fosgerau and M. Bierlaire, Discrete choice models with multiplicative error terms, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Vol. 43, Nr. 5, pp. 494-505, 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Bierlaire and M. Salani, Selected papers from the Triennial symposium on transportation analysis (TRISTAN), Phuket, Thailand, June 11–15, 2007, Special Issue of Transportation Research Part C , Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Vol. 17, Nr. 2, pp. 105, 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] C. Osorio and M. Bierlaire, An analytic finite capacity queueing network model capturing the propagation of congestion and blocking, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 196, Nr. 3, pp. 996-1007, 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Bierlaire and M. Thémans, Dealing with singularities in nonlinear unconstrained optimization, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 196, Nr. 1, pp. 33-42, 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] R. Oeuvray and M. Bierlaire, BOOSTERS: a derivative-free algorithm based on radial basis functions, International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 29, Nr. 1, pp. 26-36, 2009. [detailed record] [bibtex] 2008 P. Thévenaz, M. Bierlaire and M. Unser, Halton Sampling for Image Registration Based on Mutual Information, Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing, Vol. 7, Nr. 2, pp. 141–171, 2008. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Bierlaire, D. Bolduc and D. McFadden, The estimation of Generalized Extreme Value models from choice-based samples, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Vol. 42, Nr. 4, pp. 381-394, 2008. [detailed record] [bibtex] K. Axhausen, S. Hess, A. Koenig, G. Abay, J. Bates and M. Bierlaire, Income and distance elasticities of values of travel time savings: new Swiss results, Transport Policy, Vol. 15, Nr. 3, pp. 173-185, 2008. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Bierlaire and E. Frejinger, Route choice modeling with network-free data, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Vol. 16, Nr. 2, pp. 187-198, 2008. [detailed record] [bibtex] R. Oeuvray and M. Bierlaire, A doped derivative-free algorithm, International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 28, Nr. 4, pp. 387-393, 2008. [detailed record] [bibtex] 2007 S. Hess, M. Bierlaire and J. Polak, A systematic comparison of continuous and discrete mixture models, European Transport, Vol. 37, pp. 35-61, 2007. [detailed record] [bibtex] E. Bogers, M. Bierlaire and S. Hoogendoorn, Modeling Learning in Route Choice, Transportation Research Record, Vol. 2014, pp. 1-8, 2007. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Bierlaire, F. Crittin and M. Thémans, A multi-iterate method to solve systems of nonlinear equations, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 183, Nr. 1, pp. 20-41, 2007. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Fosgerau and M. Bierlaire, A practical test for the choice of mixing distribution in discrete choice models, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Vol. 41, Nr. 7, pp. 784-794, 2007. [detailed record] [bibtex] E. Abbe, M. Bierlaire and T. Toledo, Normalization and correlation of cross-nested logit models, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Vol. 41, Nr. 7, pp. 795-808, 2007. [detailed record] [bibtex] E. Frejinger and M. Bierlaire, Capturing correlation with subnetworks in route choice models, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Vol. 41, Nr. 3, pp. 363-378, 2007. [detailed record] [bibtex] R. Oeuvray and M. Bierlaire, A new derivative-free algorithm for the medical image registration problem, International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 27, Nr. 2, pp. 115-124, 2007. [detailed record] [bibtex] 2006 C. Osorio, C. Weibel, P. Perez, M. Bierlaire and P. Garnerin, Patient flow simulation as a tool for estimating policy impact, Swiss Medical Informatics, Vol. 58, pp. 33-36, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] G. Antonini, S. Venegas, M. Bierlaire and J.-P. Thiran, Behavioral priors for detection and tracking of pedestrians in video sequences, International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 69, Nr. 2, pp. 159-180, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Bierlaire, M. Thémans and K. Axhausen, Analysis of driver's response to real-time information in Switzerland, European Transport, Vol. 34, pp. 21-41, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Bierlaire and F. Crittin, Solving noisy large scale fixed point problems and systems of nonlinear equations, Transportation Science, Vol. 40, Nr. 1, pp. 44-63, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] A. Daly and M. Bierlaire, A General and Operational Representation of Generalised Extreme Value Models, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Vol. 40, Nr. 4, pp. 285-305, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] G. Antonini, M. Bierlaire and M. Weber, Discrete choice models of pedestrian walking behavior, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Vol. 40, Nr. 8, pp. 667-687, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex] M. Bierlaire, A theoretical analysis of the cross-nested logit model, Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 144, Nr. 1, pp. 287-300, 2006. [detailed record] [bibtex]

Skills Transportation analysis Operations Research Discrete choice models Nonlinear optimization Teaching Civil Engineering Decision-aid methodologies in transportation [en] (SGC) Intelligent Transportation Systems [en] (SGC) Introduction to differentiable optimization [fr] (SSC SMTE SEL SGM SIN SCGC) Mathematical modelling of behavior [en] (SPH SMTE SMA SIF SSIE) Operations research [fr] (SSIE SGC) Optimization and simulation [en] Phd programs Mathematics (edoc) Management of technology Architecture and Sciences of the City Electrical Engineering Environment Structures Civil and Environmental Engineering IST-EPFL Phd Students Atasoy Bilge Chen Jingmin Danalet Antonin Glerum Aurélie Hurtubia Gonzalez Ricardo Daniel Hänseler Flurin Silvan Umang Nitish Past Phd students: Antonini Gianluca Crittin Frank Cruz Mota Javier Eggenberg Niklaus Frejinger Emma Oeuvray Rodrigue Osorio Pizano Carolina Robin Thomas Spassov Ivan Thémans Michaël Vacca Ilaria