Olivier Simonin

Olivier Simonin is a Professor in Computer Science at INSA de Lyon, leading the Inria team CHROMA (co-located at Inria Lyon & Grenoble) and affiliated with the CITI Laboratory. His research sits at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, focusing on decentralized decision-making, swarm robotics, and autonomous vehicle networks.

• Current projects include ANR "VORTEX" (2023-2028) on vision-based drone swarms and ANR/BPI "SOLARNav" (2024-2027) on social navigation for autonomous vehicles.
• He serves as Senior Editor for IROS 2023-2025 and is a member of the scientific committee for the national PEPR Organic Robotics (2023-2030).

His work spans multi-robot exploration, swarm intelligence, and networked systems, with applications in service robotics and UAV deployments. Recent publications emphasize distributed algorithms, cooperative navigation, and co-simulation frameworks.

Notable awards include the INSA Lyon Medal (2022) for RoboCup achievements and a Best Paper Award at JFSMA 2024. He has supervised 18 PhD students, including 3 ongoing, and contributes to European projects like BugWright2 and NINSAR.