Current PhD students

  • Hugo Miccinilli (since 04/2026). Representation learning on dynamic graphs. CIFRE PhD (Datadog). Co-supervision with Paolo Ballarini (MICS, CentraleSupélec).


  • Reda Arab (since 04/2025). Explicit modelling of reliable and clinically acceptable reasoning in multidisciplinary tumour boards using an LLM grounded in knowledge graphs. Co-supervision with Hakim Benkirane (MLICS, CentraleSupélec) and Julien Vibert (MD, PhD, medical oncologist, Gustave Roussy & Heidelberg).


  • Armand Gaudillier (since 11/2024). Role of uncertainty and explanation in human–machine dialogue for preference modelling. Funded by the junior professorship chair (CPJ) "Explainable AI for the Industry of the Future". Co-supervision (35%) with Khaled Belahcène (CPJ, MICS, CentraleSupélec) and Sébastien Destercke (Heudiasyc, UTC).


  • Francesco Sabatino (since 10/2023). Explaining fairness in preference-based assignment problems. Funded by the ANR JCJC project APPLEPIE (coordinator: Anaëlle Wilczynski). Co-supervision with Anaëlle Wilczynski (MICS, CentraleSupélec).


    • Former PhD students

  • Charlotte Claye (02/06/2026). Explainable AI (XAI) for multimodal medical research: application to autoimmune diseases. CIFRE PhD (ScientaLab). Co-supervision (75%) with Céline Hudelot (MICS, CentraleSupélec) and Julien Duqueene (ScientaLab).


  • Géraud Faye (08/04/2026). Hybridizing symbolic AI and deep learning methods for disinformation detection in dynamic knowledge bases. CIFRE PhD (Airbus Defence and Space). Co-supervision (75%) with Céline Hudelot (MICS, CentraleSupélec) and Sylvain Gatepaille (Airbus Defence and Space).


  • Dao Thauvin (16/12/2025). Explanatory dialogue for the interpretation of visual scenes. Funded by AID–ONERA. Co-supervision (25%) with Stéphane Herbin (ONERA) and Céline Hudelot (MICS, CentraleSupélec).


  • Angélique Yameogo (10/12/2025). An XAI approach for the characterization and conceptualization of fake news. Funded by the MathSTIC Doctoral School, Université Bretagne-Sud. Co-supervision (15%) with Régis Fleurquin (IRISA, Université Bretagne-Sud) and Nicolas Belloir (IRISA, Université Bretagne-Sud).


  • Mathieu Lerouge (27/11/2023). Designing explanation schemes for recommendations stemming from optimization systems: application to scheduling problems for facility management (MICS, CentraleSupélec – DecisionBrain). Funded by the PSPC project AIDA. Co-supervision with Vincent Mousseau (MICS, CentraleSupélec) and Céline Gicquel (LISN, Université Paris-Saclay).


  • Manuel Amoussou (11/12/2023). Interactive explanations in multi-criteria decision aiding: handling inconsistencies and levels of explanation (MICS, CentraleSupélec). Funded by the PSPC project AIDA. Co-supervision with Vincent Mousseau (MICS, CentraleSupélec).


  • Ali Tlili (15/06/2022). Multicriteria portfolio management optimization. CIFRE PhD (Dassault Systèmes). Co-supervision with Vincent Mousseau (MICS, CentraleSupélec) and Khaled Oumeima (Dassault Systèmes).


  • Pegdwendé Stéphane Minoungou (13/05/2022). Learning an MR-Sort model from non-monotone data. CIFRE PhD (IBM). Co-supervision with Vincent Mousseau (MICS, CentraleSupélec) and Paolo Scoton (IBM Zurich).


  • Ismaïl Baaj (27/01/2022). Generation of textual justifications in a fuzzy expert system. CEA PhD. Co-supervision with Nicolas Maudet (LIP6, Sorbonne Université) and Jean-Philippe Poli (CEA).


  • Khaled Belahcène (05/12/2018). A contribution to accountable decision aiding: explanations for the aggregation of preferences. CentraleSupélec. Co-supervision (25%) with Vincent Mousseau (LGI, CentraleSupélec), Nicolas Maudet (LIP6, Sorbonne Université) and Christophe Labreuche (Thales Research and Technology).


  • Karim El Mernissi (13/12/2017). Generation of explanations in rule-based systems. CIFRE PhD (IBM – Université Pierre et Marie Curie). Co-supervision (50%) with Nicolas Maudet (LIP6, UPMC).


  • Massinissa Mammeri (28/11/2017). Decision aiding methodology for developing the contractual strategy of complex oil and gas projects. CIFRE PhD (Total – CentraleSupélec). Co-supervision (50%) with Franck Marle (LGI, CentraleSupélec).


  • Jinyan Liu (09/03/2016). Preference elicitation for a reference-point-based model. CSC scholarship, CentraleSupélec. Co-supervision (40%) with Vincent Mousseau (LGI, CentraleSupélec).


  • Manel Maamar (07/12/2015). Multicriteria modelling and optimization with anticipation of a leads marketplace. CIFRE PhD (Place des Leads – École Centrale Paris). Co-supervision (50%) with Vincent Mousseau (LGI, CentraleSupélec).

    • Program Committee Membership and Reviewing

  • Guest editor: EURO Journal on Decision Processes (EJDP), special issue "Supporting and explaining decision processes by means of argumentation", 2018.

  • Journals: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (JMCDA), Annals of Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), Argument & Computation, ORIJ, Omega, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.

  • International conferences and workshops: ICML (2026), AAAI (2026, 2021, 2020, 2019), AAMAS (2022, 2019), IJCAI (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018), KR (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2018), ECAI (2025, 2024, 2023, 2020), Workshop on Explainable and Ethical AI at ICPR (2026, 2024), DA2PL (2026, 2022, 2020, 2018, 2016, 2012), IPMU (2012), COSI (2014, 2013).

  • National conferences and workshops: JFSMA (2020), RJCIA (2018, 2017, 2016), MFI (2013).

    • Scientific Responsibilities

  • Scientific coordinator of Work Package F (generation and representation of explanations by the AIDA system) of the PSPC project AIDA (AI for Digital Automation), led by IBM. Started 15/12/2019.

  • Lead author and coordinator of a proposal in response to the "Call for expressions of interest – IBM Research collaborations" through DATAIA (https://dataia.eu). This proposal led to the funding of a CIFRE PhD, started in March 2019, co-supervised with Vincent Mousseau (MICS, CentraleSupélec) and Paolo Scoton (IBM Zurich).

    • Participation in Seminars and Events

  • Philosophy of Science and Artificial Intelligence day (PS&IA 2020). Wassila Ouerdane. The challenges of "intelligent" decision aiding: from modelling human judgements to explaining recommendations. ISC-PIF, TOTEM auditorium, 6 February 2020.

  • MICS seminar. Wassila Ouerdane. A Dialogue Game for Recommendation with Adaptive Preference Models. 24 June 2019.

  • IRT SystemX seminar. Vincent Mousseau and Wassila Ouerdane. Interactive Recommendation and Explanation for Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis. 11 April 2018.

  • 26th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2013). Wassila Ouerdane, Christophe Labreuche, Nicolas Maudet and Vincent Mousseau. Justified decisions are better than simple ones: explaining preferences using even swap sequences. Rome, Italy, 1–4 July 2013.

  • 22nd International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM 2013). Manel Maamar, Vincent Mousseau and Wassila Ouerdane. Multicriteria Modeling and Optimization of a Market Place of Leads. Malaga, Spain, 17–21 June 2013.

  • 22nd International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM 2013). Jinyan Liu, Vincent Mousseau and Wassila Ouerdane. Robust Elicitation of a Qualitative Ranking Model using Inconsistent Data. Malaga, Spain, 17–21 June 2013.

  • 77th meeting of the EURO Working Group on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA 77). Manel Maamar, Vincent Mousseau and Wassila Ouerdane. Multicriteria modelling and optimization of a leads marketplace (supply/demand matching). Rouen, France, 2013.

  • 77th meeting of the EURO Working Group on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA 77). Jinyan Liu, Vincent Mousseau and Wassila Ouerdane. Preference Elicitation for Multi-Criteria Ranking with Multiple Reference Points. Rouen, France, 2013.

    • Organization of Seminars and Events

  • 72nd meeting of the EURO Working Group on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA 72), 2010.

  • Workshop From Decision Aiding to Preference Learning (DA2PL 2012, 2014).

    • PhD Thesis Juries

  • Fabien de Lacroix (Université Lille 1, 2015).
  • Olivier Sobrie (Université de Mons, 2016).
  • Tasneem Bani-Mustafa (CentraleSupélec, 2019).

    • Working Groups and Collaborations

  • Member of the GDR IA (https://www.gdria.fr).
  • Member of the "Explainability" working group of the GDR IA (https://gt-explication.gitlab.io/).

    • Awards

  • PEDR – Doctoral Supervision and Research Bonus (2015–2019).
  • PEDR – Doctoral Supervision and Research Bonus (2020–2024).

    • Administrative Duties

  • Since Sept. 2019: Member of the restricted Board of Directors of CentraleSupélec.
  • Since Sept. 2019: Elected member of the Scientific Council of CentraleSupélec.
  • Sept. 2010 – Feb. 2019: Elected member of the LGI laboratory council (representative of associate professors and equivalent).

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