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					<h2>Past projects</h2>
					<p>Completed or archived projects. See the <a href="portfolio.html">portfolio</a> for what I am
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				<h3>Professional/Technical Projects</h3>
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						<h4><b>NEXOROPT:</b> NEXOR Optimization</h4>
						<span class="image left projlogo"><img src="images/avatar-proj.png" alt="" /></span>
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							<b>2025-2026</b>: Consultant and Co-Founder <i>(Past project)</i><br />
							<b>Description:</b> Innovative solutions for smart routing and transportation logistics in Belgium and Europe.<br />
							<b>Tools:</b> Odoo, AI, optimization, Python, OSRM; <a href="https://www.nexoropt.com/" target="_blank">nexoropt.com</a><br />
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						<h4><b>ACP Summer School 2025</b></h4>
						<span class="image left projlogo"><img src="images/avatar-proj.png" alt="" /></span>
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							<b>2025</b>: Co-chair and organizer <i>(Event)</i><br />
							<b>Description:</b> Summer school of the Association for Constraint Programming held in Benin, the first on the African continent.<br />
							<b>Detail:</b> <a href="https://school.a4cp.org/summer2025/index.html" target="_blank">school.a4cp.org/summer2025</a><br />
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								<h4><b>GlobMig: Climate change vs Economy</b></h4>
								<span class="image left projlogo"><img src="./images/avatar-proj.png" alt="" /></span>
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									<b>2019-2020</b>: In collaboration with <a
										href="https://info.ucl.ac.be/~pschaus/index.html" target="_blank">Prof. P.
										Schaus</a> and <a href="https://info.ucl.ac.be/~snijssen/" target="_blank">Prof.
										S. Nijssen</a> <i>(Past project)</i><br />
									<b>Description:</b> Analyze the role of the weather shocks towards an individual’s
									intention to migrate<br />
									<b>Implementation:</b> <a href="https://gallupviz.shinyapps.io/gallupviz/"
										target="_blank">User Interface</a>(<span
										class="warningclass">unmaintained!</span>); <a
										href="./assets/docs/gallup_2019.pdf" target="_blank">Slides</a>; <a
										href="./assets/docs/aoga_2020_lux.pdf" target="_blank">Slides</a><br />

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								<h4><b>Covidata.be: Belgium COVID19 Data</b></h4>
								<span class="image left projlogo"><img src="./images/avatar-proj.png" alt="" /></span>
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									<b>2020</b>: Contributing to the project of <a
										href="https://info.ucl.ac.be/~pschaus/index.html">Prof. P. Schaus</a> <i>(Past
										project)</i><br />
									<b>Description:</b> Visualizations of the epidemiological data for Belgium <a
										href="https://covidata.be" target="_blank">covidata.be</a> (<span
										class="warningclass">link not working anymore!</span>)<br />
									<!--b>Implementation:</b> <a href="https://gallupviz.shinyapps.io/gallupviz/">User Interface</a>(<span class="warningclass">unmaintained!</span>); <a href="./assets/docs/gallup_2019.pdf">Slides</a>; <a href="./assets/docs/aoga_2020_lux.pdf">Slides</a><br/-->

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								<h4><b>&Omega;Ps-DSL:</b> Domain-Specific Language for pattern-set problems </h4>
								<span class="image left projlogo"><img src="./images/avatar-proj.png" alt="" /></span>
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									<b>2019-2020</b>: Supervized by <a
										href="https://info.ucl.ac.be/~pschaus/index.html">Prof. P. Schaus</a> and <a
										href="https://info.ucl.ac.be/~snijssen/">Prof. S. Nijssen</a> <i>(Past
										project)</i><br />
									<b>Description:</b> Framework for modeling pattern set mining problems introducing a
									DSL to ease the description of the network, its parameters, and the loss function to
									be computed on the data.<br />
									<b>Implementation:</b> <a
										href="https://dial.uclouvain.be/pr/boreal/object/boreal%3A218163/datastream/PDF_01/view"
										target="_blank">Paper</a><br />

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								<h4><b><a href="http://sites.uclouvain.be/cp4dm/" target="_blank">CP4DM</a>: Constraint
										Programming for Data Mining (Ph.D project) </b></h4>
								<span class="image left projlogo cp4dm"><a href="http://sites.uclouvain.be/cp4dm/"
										target="_blank"><img
											src="https://sites.uclouvain.be/cp4dm/spm/images/logo.png" /></a></span>
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									<b>2015-2019</b>: Supervized by <a
										href="https://info.ucl.ac.be/~pschaus/index.html">Prof. P. Schaus</a> and Prof.
									T. Dagba (UAC/Benin) in collaboration with <a
										href="https://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~tias.guns/">Prof. T. Guns</a> and <a
										href="https://info.ucl.ac.be/~snijssen/">Prof. S. Nijssen</a> <i>(Past
										project)</i><br />
									<b>Description:</b> Propose new algorithms/constraints for Pattern Mining (PM) using
									Constraint Programming (CP). The Ultimate goal is to connect PM and CP in order to
									maximize both efficiency and flexibility.<br />
									<b>Implementation:</b> Several executables can be found <a
										href="http://sites.uclouvain.be/cp4dm/">here</a>. Implementations are available
									in <a href="https://bitbucket.org/oscarlib/oscar/src/dev/">OscaR</a>
									<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>PPIC (several versions):</b> CP-based approach
									for Sequential Pattern Mining (<a
										href="https://bitbucket.org/oscarlib/oscar/src/dev/oscar-ml/src/main/scala/oscar/ml/pm/Constraints/spm/">Code</a>;
									<a
										href="https://bitbucket.org/oscarlib/oscar/src/dev/oscar-ml/src/main/scala/oscar/ml/pm/examples/spm/SPMRunner.scala">Examples</a>;
									<a href="https://sites.uclouvain.be/cp4dm/spm/">Run</a>)
									<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>PPICt:</b> CP-based approach for Sequential
									Pattern Mining with time constraints (<a
										href="https://bitbucket.org/oscarlib/oscar/src/dev/oscar-ml/src/main/scala/oscar/ml/pm/Constraints/spm/">Code</a>;
									<a
										href="https://bitbucket.org/oscarlib/oscar/src/dev/oscar-ml/src/main/scala/oscar/ml/pm/examples/spm/SPMtimeRunner.scala">Examples</a>;
									<a href="https://sites.uclouvain.be/cp4dm/spm/ppict/">Run</a>)
									<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>CoverSize (several problems):</b> CP-based
									approach for Frequent Itemset Mining (<a
										href="https://bitbucket.org/oscarlib/oscar/src/dev/oscar-ml/src/main/scala/oscar/ml/pm/Constraints/fim/">Code</a>;
									<a
										href="https://bitbucket.org/oscarlib/oscar/src/dev/oscar-ml/src/main/scala/oscar/ml/pm/examples/fim/">Examples</a>;
									<a href="https://sites.uclouvain.be/cp4dm/fim/">Run</a>)
									<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>EpisodeSupport:</b> CP-based approach for
									Episode Mining (<a
										href="https://bitbucket.org/oscarlib/oscar/src/dev/oscar-ml/src/main/scala/oscar/ml/pm/Constraints/fem/">Code</a>;
									<a
										href="https://bitbucket.org/oscarlib/oscar/src/dev/oscar-ml/src/main/scala/oscar/ml/pm/examples/fem/">Examples</a>)
									<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>PRL:</b> Probabilistic Rule Lists (MDL-based, DS 2018)
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								<h4><b>MIFY Sarl:</b> Machine Intelligent For You</h4>
								<span class="image left projlogo"><a href="http://www.mify-ai.com/" target="_blank"><img
											src="./images/mify.jpeg" /></a></span>
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									<b>2017-2023</b>: Co-Founder with three other associates: <a
										href="https://ratheil.info/" target="_blank">Ratheil Houndji</a>, Probus Kiki, and Christian Akponan<br />
									<b>Description:</b> AI solutions in Africa for Africa.<br />
									<b>Detail:</b> Many projects in the trail
									<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>MAIC:</b> MIFY AI contest
									<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>MGAME:</b> MIFY Entertainment
									<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>XWEFA (2022):</b> smart home assistant controlling home devices in Fongb&eacute;
									<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>SIKA (2022):</b> voice assistant controlling computer tasks in Fongb&eacute;
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								<h4><b>OscaR Solver </b></h4>
								<span class="image left projlogo"><a href="https://oscarlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"
										target="_blank"><img src="./images/oscar.png" /></a></span>
								<p>
									<b>2015-2020</b>: Contributing to the Solver<br />
									<b>Description:</b> Multiple-purpose Solver to solve real-life challenging research
									problems related to combinatorial problems.<br />
									<b>Detail:</b> <a href="https://bitbucket.org/oscarlib/oscar/src/dev/"
										target="_blank">Code</a>; <a href="https://oscarlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"
										target="_blank">Documentation</a><br />
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						<h4><b>Yoruba TTS:</b> Text-to-speech for the Yoruba language</h4>
						<span class="image left projlogo"><img src="images/avatar-proj.png" alt="" /></span>
						<p>
							<b>2013-2016</b>: Master (DEA) thesis, UAC (Benin), supervised by Prof. T. Dagba <i>(Past project)</i><br />
							<b>Description:</b> Design of a Yoruba speech corpus and integration of the Yoruba language into MaryTTS.<br />
							<b>Detail:</b> See the 2016 papers on the <a href="pub.html">publication page</a><br />
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						<h4><b>Internet Quality Measurement in West Africa</b></h4>
						<span class="image left projlogo"><img src="images/avatar-proj.png" alt="" /></span>
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							<b>2013-2014</b>: Technical Coordinator, IMDEA Networks Institute <i>(Past project)</i><br />
							<b>Description:</b> Installing measurement equipment, developing measurement scripts and coordinating activities across West African countries.<br />
							<b>Tools:</b> Networks, Linux, Python, RIPE; <a href="https://networks.imdea.org/" target="_blank">networks.imdea.org</a><br />
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						<h4><b>TIS:</b> Territorial Information System</h4>
						<span class="image left projlogo"><img src="images/avatar-proj.png" alt="" /></span>
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							<b>2012-2015</b>: Technical Director at Power To Go Forward (PTGF) <i>(Past project)</i><br />
							<b>Description:</b> Territorial Information System for Benin municipalities/districts, for the Government and the Ministry of Decentralization.<br />
							<b>Tools:</b> Java EE, Struts, Symfony 2, geoJSON, UML, Agile<br />
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										<h4><b>NDE:</b> "Noel des Enfants" of Bresillac Youth Group</h4>
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										Bring the magic of Christmas to the hearts of children, especially the most
										disadvantaged, by bringing them help and joy through the sharing of food, gifts
										and lots of love...<a
											href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VdW0wClT6Z3S_fYUy1VqAXJmdeSf3mPD/view?usp=drive_link"
											target="_blank">Learn more</a>
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