Nikolaus Hansen
Research Director at Inria
France
Summary
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RockstarNikolaus Hansen is a research director based in France with 17 years of experience leading and conducting advanced computer science research. He has been with Inria since 2014 and also holds a researcher position at LRI, blending leadership with hands-on scientific investigation. His background includes a senior research role at ETH Zurich, reflecting strong ties to top-tier European research institutions. Nikolaus combines long-term academic rigor with current leadership in national research labs, often working at the intersection of theory and applied systems. Colleagues would describe him as a steady research strategist who translates complex problems into sustained research agendas and collaborative projects.
17 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (62)
qt10
python10
data-science10
matplotlib10
benchmarking10
gtk10
python-bindings10
data-visualization10
ansi-c10
electron9
visual-studio-code9
covariance-matrix9
typescript9
coco9
inverse-problems9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
numbbo/coco-postprocess
Aug 2024 - Jun 2026
Postprocessing code of the COCO framework
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 54 pushes in 1 year 10 months
post-processing
CMA-ES/c-cmaes
Oct 2014 - May 2020
CMA-ES written in ANSI C (yet fairly object-oriented)
Contributions:54 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 5 years 8 months
ansi-c
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