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Youssef
Diouane
Postdoctoral Researcher at CERFACS
42 Av. Gaspard Coriolis
31057 Toulouse Cedex 01, France
H +33 671 342 676
T +33 561 193 092
B [email protected]
Date of birth: January 25, 1988
Nationality: French-Moroccan
Education
2011- 2014 PhD in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Institut National Polythechnique, Toulouse, France.
Subject: globally convergent evolution strategies with application to an Earth imaging problem
in geophysics (PhD funded by TOTAL E&P – defense date 17 Oct. 2014).
Jury
Henri Calandra
TOTAL E&P
USA
President of the jury
Serge Gratton
INP Toulouse
France
PhD advisor
Luis Nunes Vicente Coimbra University
Portugal
PhD co-advisor
Thomas Baeck
Leiden University
Netherlands Referee
Stefano Lucidi
Roma University
Italy
Referee
Xavier Vasseur
CERFACS
France
Member of the jury
Doctoral thesis nominated for the “Léopold Escande” prize at INP Toulouse.
2010-2011 M.S. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Institut National Polytechnique, Toulouse, France.
Subject: solving a two-dimensional full-waveform inversion using global optimization methods.
Passed with distinction.
2008-2011 Engineering degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France.
Passed with distinction.
2009-2010 Licence - a degree in Fundamental Mathematics, University of Paul Sabatier,
Toulouse, France.
2006-2008 Two-year intensive undergraduate course in preparation for competitive
entry into french national engineering schools, Lycée Reda Slaoui, Agadir,
Morocco.
Option Mathematics, Physics and Engineering Science.
2005-2006 Baccalaureate SM (Science Mathematics), Lycée Hassan II, Dakhla, Morocco.
Passed with distinction.
Skills & Expertise
Skills
International collaborations; M.S. thesis co-advisor; small team lead; project- and
milestone-oriented team work; publishing research and development results.
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Expertise
Inverse problems; non-linear optimization; global optimization; derivative-free optimization;
linear algebra; full-waveform inversion; high-performance computing; supercomputing; cluster
computing; parallel and distributed computing; programming in MPI/OpenMP; Fortran; C;
MatLab-Simulink; Java; XML; shell; LATEX.
Tools
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Emacs, Vi, Eclipse, Netbeans, Git, SVN, Office
Suite, Photoshop, Inkscape, Gimp.
Experience
Professional
10/2014 - to Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CERFACS, Toulouse, France.
date Subject: Solution of inverse problems in geophysics using global optimization methods in a
massively parallel computing environment.
09/2011 - PhD Research Fellow, CERFACS, Toulouse, France.
09/2014 Subject: globally convergent evolution strategies with application to an Earth imaging problem
in geophysics.
04/2014 - Co-advisor of a M.S. thesis with Prof. Dr. Serge Gratton.
09/2014 Subject: simulation and inversion of petrophysical logs in the well border.
03/2013 - Co-advisor of a M.S. thesis with Dr. Henri Calandra.
09/2013 Subject: derivative-free optimization to solve inverse problems in seismic imaging.
03/2011 - M.S. Thesis, CERFACS, Toulouse, France.
09/2011 Subject: solving a two-dimensional full-waveform inversion problem using a global optimization
method.
06/2010 - Internship of 13 weeks, CNRS, Paris, France.
09/2011 Subject: coding a web interface for network troubleshooting.
Academic (Teaching Assistant)
2011-2014 Matrix Analysis and Optimization, ISAE-ENSICA, Toulouse, France.
2012-2014 Functional Analysis and Measure Theory, ISAE-ENSICA, Toulouse, France.
2011-2014 Matrix Analysis and Optimization, ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France.
Training Supervisor
{ Solution methods for optimization problems, 9th − 11th May, 2012 (21 hours).
{ Solution methods for optimization problems, 17th − 19th June, 2013 (10.5 hours).
Langues
{ Arabic - French: bilingual.
{ English: advanced.
{ German: basic.
Interests & Hobbies
I love any sport but I prefer football and swimming. I enjoy photography and chess. I like
fishing and hiking even if I do not practice often that activities unfortunately.
Extra
Supporting foreign students of Toulouse universities and collecting books for disadvantaged
students.
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List of Publications
Papers Submitted for Publication
A Parallel Evolution Strategy for an Earth Imaging Problem in Geophysics,
Y. Diouane, S. Gratton, X. Vasseur, L. N. Vicente and H. Calandra, TR-PA-14-94,
CERFACS Toulouse, 2015.
submitted to Optimization and Engineering Journal,
Articles in Refereed Journals
Globally Convergent Evolution Strategies for Constrained Optimization, Y.
Diouane, S. Gratton and L. N. Vicente, Computational Optimization and Applications,
2015.
Globally Convergent Evolution Strategies, Y. Diouane, S. Gratton and L. N.
Vicente, Mathematical Programming Series A, 2014.
Conference Talks with Proceedings
A Parallel Evolution Strategy for Acoustic Full Waveform Inversion,
Y. Diouane, H. Calandra, S. Gratton and X. Vasseur, EAGE Workshop on High
Performance Computing for Upstream. Crete, Greece, 2014.
Conference Talks
Globally Convergent Evolution Strategies for Constrained Optimization,
Y. Diouane, Guimaraes Optimization Conference 2014, Guimaraes, Portugal, 2014.
Parallel Globally Convergent Evolution Strategies with Application to an
Earth Imaging Problem in Geophysics, Y. Diouane, MATHIAS, TOTAL Workshop, Paris, France, 2014.
Globally Convergent Evolution Strategies and CMA-ES, Y. Diouane, International Conference on Continuous Optimization, Lisbon, Portugal, 2013.
Conference Posters
Globally Convergent Evolution Strategies and CMA-ES, Y. Diouane, S. Gratton and L. N. Vicente, Recent Advances in Optimization, Toulouse, France, 2013.
Theses
Globally Convergent Evolution Strategies with Application to an Earth
Imaging Problem in Geophysics, Y. Diouane, PhD Thesis, Institut National
Polythechnique, Toulouse, France.
2014
Solving a Two-Dimensional Full-Waveform Inversion Problem Using a
Global Optimization Method., Y. Diouane, M.S. Thesis, ENSEEIHT, Toulouse,
France.
2014
Reviewing
“Optimization and Engineering”, an international journal publishing research on
the analysis and development of computational algorithms and modeling technology
for optimization.
“Euro-Par”, an international conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed
processing.
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References
Prof. Dr. Serge Gratton
Team Leader of the Parallel Algorithms Group at CERFACS and Professor
at ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (33) 561 193 092
Prof. Dr. Luis Nunes Vicente
Professor at University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (35) 123 979 1171
Dr. Henri Calandra
Vice president of Advanced Computing Dept in TOTAL E&P and Expert
in Numerical Methods and High Performance Computing, TOTAL E&P,
Houston,, TX, USA.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (1) 713 818 3277
Dr. Xavier Vasseur
Senior Researcher at CERFACS and Expert in Numerical Methods and
High Performance Computing, Toulouse, France.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (33) 561 193 023
Last updated: March 19, 2015
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