Yuri Lavinas
Associate Professor - Maître De Conférences
Toulouse, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolYuri Lavinas is an associate professor at Université Toulouse 1 Capitole with 12 years of experience researching Computational Intelligence, specializing in Genetic Programming, multi-objective optimization, fitness landscapes and Artificial Life. He completed his PhD at the University of Tsukuba after undergraduate studies in Brazil and recently held a postdoc at INSERM working on histopathology image analysis for cancer treatment, blending evolutionary methods with biomedical applications. His work spans black-box optimization, multi-agent systems and the speculative design of evolving virtual creatures and worlds, reflecting a curiosity for adaptive programs beyond traditional engineering problems. Yuri has research experience in industry labs (Sony CSL) and international collaborations (visiting fellow at Stirling), signaling an ability to translate theoretical advances into interdisciplinary projects. Notably, his early research applied genetic algorithms to earthquake risk modeling, evidencing a long-standing interest in real-world, high-impact applications of evolutionary computation.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Research Student, Computer Science, Research Student, Computer Science at University of TsukubaBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade de Brasília
English, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
reinforcement-learning-environments9
r-package9
monte-carlo-tree-search8
reinforcement-learning7
evolutionary-computation7
evolutionary-algorithms6
server6
r6
robocup4
simulation3
simulator3
artificial-intelligence2
algorithms2
multiagent-systems1
multi-objective-optimization1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yurilavinas/MOEADr
Oct 2018 - Mar 2023
R package MOEADr, a modular implementation of the Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm with Decomposition (MOEA/D) framework
Contributions:395 pushes, 16 branches in 4 years 6 months
evolutionary-algorithmsrr-package
yurilavinas/yurilavinas.github.io
Jun 2019 - May 2026
Contributions:158 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
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