Welcome to the professional Website of Remy Courdier
Dernière mise à jour le mardi 9 décembre 2025 à 16:06
Head of the Working Group on Collective Adaptive Systems in the LIM Lab
- Dec. 2025 – Research activity: Member of the PhD thesis jury of Frédéric Fabre as president of the jury. Thesis supervised by Jean Diatta (LIM) and Jean-Christophe Soulié (CIRAD). Thesis title: Small Datasets and Prediction in Artificial Intelligence: Toward Better Coexistence — Application to the Sustainable Management of Weed Cover in Agricultural Systems on Reunion Island. University of La Réunion. Defense date: December 11, 2025.
- Dec. 2025 – Research activity: Member of the PhD thesis jury of Arthur Brugière as reviewer (Rapporteur) of the jury. Thesis supervised by Alexis DROGOUL and Doanh Ngoc NGUYEN, “Unité de Modélisation Mathématique et Informatique des Systèmes Complexes” and the doctoral school “École Doctorale d’Informatique, Télécommunications et Électronique”, Thesis title: Dynamic coupling and scaling-up of complex socio-environmental models. Sorbonne Université. Defense date: December 9, 2025.
- Dec 2025, Research supervision, New PhD Supervision, Signing of the Doctoral Training Agreement for Mr. Alexandre Tam-Hui, Thesis Title: “Multiscale Multi-agent Modeling of Agricultural Ecosystems: Contribution to the MAELIA Platform for Exploring Agroecological Pathways”, Dec. 5, 2025.
- Nov. 2025, Research activity, review for ROIA Special Issue (JFSMA 2024-2025). Nov. 15, 2025.
- Sept. 2025, New academic position, Distinguished Full Professor (Classe Exceptionnelle), CNU national promotion (France’s highest academic rank). September 3, 2025.
Publications -- Theses Supervision -- Events -- Research Gate -- Canal U -- PEPR 
Synthesis:
Prof. Rémy Courdier received The Ph.D. degree in computer science from Nice Sophia-Antipolis University (France), he defended an accreditation to supervise researches projects and teams "Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches (HDR)" in 2003. He is university professor since 2008 and has been head of the Computer Science and Mathematics Research Laboratory of the University of Reunion Island. He has a strong Background in software engineering by working in R&D Teams of international IT Companies such as Digital Equipement Corporation and Schneider Electric. His research and extensive extracurricular activities combine interests in artificial intelligence and adaptive collective systems for socio-technical systems modeling and decision support. In 2023, Rémy Courdier was elected to the Conseil national des universités (CNU), a committee of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research that provides a pool of thematic experts with extensive experience of independent evaluation and a national vision of the world of higher education and research.
Interests:
adaptive collective systems, multi-agent systems, agent based modelling, multi-agent simulation, cognitive computing, spatial planning, sustainable development, urban system simulation
Biographical Information:
Academic Positions
- Sept. 2025 : Distinguished Full Professor (Classe Exceptionnelle), CNU national promotion.
- 2018 - 2025 : Founding Director of the SICS ("Services Informatiques Connectés et Sécurisés") Speciality of the Master of Advanced Studies in Computer Science, Video interview
- 2019 : Director of Graduate Studies (Directeur des Etudes) at Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Réunion Océan Indien
- 2014 - 2018 : Member of the "comité des sages" of the JFSMA research community
- 2013 - 2014 : Visiting Professor at Imperial College London (UK)
- 2011 - today : 1st Class Full Professor at University of Reunion Island
- 2009 - 2011 : Founding Director of the ICT Department of the ESIROI University engineering school
- 2008 - 2011 : Full Professor University of Reunion Island
- 1999 - 2015 : Head of the research team on Multi-Agents System and Networks (SMART), LIM Lab
- 2003 - 2007 : Head of the Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences Research Institute (IREMIA)
- 1997 - 2003 : Founding Director of Master of the Advanced Studies "DESS Réseau Multimédia Internet"
- 1996 - 2008 : Associate Professor at University of Reunion Island
Education
- 2003 - Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) - University of Réunion Island, France
- 1993 - Doctorate (PhD Thesis) University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France more...
National & Internat. Cooperations
- MU, University of Mascareignes, erasmus programme, Mauritius Master on IA & Robotics, fr
- CA, University of Sherbrooke, Canada These in international cotutelle, fr
- MD, University of Antananarivo, Magalasy MOU, fr
- UK, Imperial College London DCE Partners (2014), Digital City Exchange Programme
Experience in IT industry (9 years)
- 1988-1996, SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC, Programmable Logic Controller research department, Sophia Antipolis, France
- 1987-1988, DIGITAL EQUIPMENT COORPORATION, Distributed architecture R&D department, Ferney Voltaire/Genève, France
Contact information
Address : University of La Réunion - LIM / IIN - Parc Technologique Universitaire – Bâtiment 2 - 2 rue Joseph Wetzell – 97490 Sainte Clotilde, La Réunion (France)
E-mail: remy.courdier@univ-reunion.fr
Phone: +262 (0)262 48 33 27; Fax: +262 (0)262 52 89 05
Twitter id: @rcreunion; Skype: rcreunion