Roland Bouffanais' research focuses on interdisciplinary applications at the intersection of complexity science, network science, computational social sciences, artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems. Roland Bouffanais studied at the École normale supérieure in Lyon and holds an agrégation in physical sciences. He obtained a doctorate in computational sciences at EPFL, earning him the prestigious IBM "Research Prize in Computational Sciences" (2008) and the silver medal of ERCOFTAC's Da Vinci Prize (2007). He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Before joining the Singapore University of Technology and Design as Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor, Roland Bouffanais worked as a scientific associate in the Computer Science Department at UNIGE. His last position was as Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa.
Roland Bouffanais has published over 110 articles in leading scientific journals and conferences. He is the author of "Design and Control of Swarm Dynamics" published by Springer-Nature in the "Complexity" collection (2016). He has also published numerous opinion articles in various international journals. In addition, he is a member of several editorial boards of leading interdisciplinary journals: Scientific Reports, PLoS one, Royal Society Open Science, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, and Frontiers in Big Data. Roland Bouffanais will be appointed Associate Professor in the Faculty of Science on August 1, 2023.