Axel Parmentier is a Lecturer and researcher at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, where he founded the AI for Air Transport industry research chair with Air France. His work focuses on the intersection of operations research and machine learning, particularly in data-driven combinatorial optimization and stochastic optimization, with industrial applications in air transportation, supply chain, and predictive maintenance. He holds a Ph.D. and has been recognized with awards including the AMIES Dissertation Award (2017) for applied mathematics with industrial impact and the Robert Faure Prize (under 35) from ROADEF. His research also includes contributions to structured reinforcement learning, optimization layers in machine learning, and explainable AI for operational decisions. Awards: AMIES Dissertation Award, Robert Faure Prize Labs/Teams: CERMICS laboratory, AI for Air Transport Chair (collaboration with Air France) Grants/Projects: Continent-scale inventory routing solutions, Renault’s logistics optimization His advising includes students like Victor Cohen, whose work on predictive maintenance was featured on France Culture.




