Christine Solnon

Christine Solnon is a Professor of Computer Science at INSA Lyon, affiliated with the CITI lab and Inria EMERAUDE team. Her research bridges Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and Constraint Programming (CP) to solve complex combinatorial problems in vehicle routing, scheduling, and graph algorithms.

• Deputy head of science at Inria Lyon Centre
• Co-investigator in projects like ANR MAMUT (2022-2026) and ANR DeCrypt (2019-2022)

Her work focuses on hybridizing ACO with CP for optimization, addressing time-dependent problems (e.g., Time-Dependent TSP with Time Windows), multi-robot coordination, and differential cryptanalysis. Google Scholar lists 15 recent articles (2025-2023) exploring topics like non-crossing path planning for tethered robots, spatio-temporal traffic modeling, and algorithmic ethics.

She mentors PhD students in areas such as Time-Dependent Vehicle Routing Problems and Mathheuristics, often co-supervising with institutions like Lab-STICC and LIRIS. Her software tools (e.g., AntSolver, Castor) demonstrate practical applications of her research.