Quentin Cappart
Professor at Polytechnique Montréal
Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area Canada
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Top SchoolQuentin Cappart is a problem-driven professor and researcher with eight years of experience applying operational research, optimization, data science, and machine learning to real-world challenges. He has progressed through academia and industry—from research assistant and postdoc roles to faculty positions at Polytechnique Montréal and UCLouvain—bridging rigorous PhD-level methods with applied deployments. Known for favoring problem formulation over allegiance to any single paradigm, he combines engineering and management training to deliver practical, interdisciplinary solutions. Based in the Greater Montreal area, he brings experience collaborating with industry (e.g., Element AI and Mitacs) and a knack for turning theoretical tools into concrete operational impact.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Engineering Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Engineering Science at Université catholique de LouvainCollège Saint-Guibert de Gembloux
French, English, Dutch, Portuguese
Github Skills (21)
bounds10
logistics9
reinforcement-learning9
solver9
multi-objective-optimization9
constraint9
dynamic-programming9
constraint-programming9
julia8
optimization8
vehicle-routing-problem8
mixed-integer-programming8
combinatorial-optimization7
operations-research7
deep-reinforcement-learning6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
qcappart/learning-DD
Sep 2018 - Feb 2020
Implementation of the paper "Improving Optimization Bounds using Machine Learning: Decision Diagrams meet Deep Reinforcement Learning".
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 5 months
diagramsdecisionreinforcement-learningoptimizationbounds
qcappart/hybrid-cp-rl-solver
Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
Combining Reinforcement Learning and Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization
Contributions:74 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 months
reinforcement-learningoptimizationmultiobjective-optimizationconstraintmulti-objective-optimization
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