Roland Bouffanais

His research focuses on interdisciplinary applications at the intersections of complexity, network science, control theory, machine intelligence, and multi-agent robotics. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in top scientific journals and conference proceedings. He authored Design and Control of Swarm Dynamics (2016)—the only full-length book on the subject—in Springer’s Complexity Series.

He received his Ph.D. from EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) in computational science for which he was awarded the prestigious IBM Research Prize in Computational Sciences (2008), and the ERCOFTAC Da Vinci Award Silver Medal (2007). He was a postdoctoral fellow and associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and remains a research associate with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.

Research Description

Dr. Roland Bouffanais's research involves a synergistic combination of theoretical and computational developments, with real-life experimental validations.

Bouffanais aims to foster cross-disciplinary explorations to promote innovative engineering designs and to facilitate the advancement of scientific know-how towards applications.

Education

• PhD Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (2003 — 2007)
• MSc Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) (1998 — 1999)
• MSc Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon (1995 — 1999)

Companies

• Associate Professor University of Ottawa (2021)
• Research Affiliate MIT (2010)
• Associate Professor Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) (2018 — 2021)
• Director of Graduate Studies Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) (2018 — 2020)
• Assistant Professor Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) (2011 — 2018)
• Research Fellow University of Geneva (2010 — 2011)
• Lecturer and Visting Scholar EPFL (2010 — 2011)
• Postdoctoral Fellow & Associate MIT (2008 — 2010)
• Research Assistant EPFL (2003 — 2008)