Recognition

Awards and media coverage

My work has received recognition through paper awards, thesis distinctions, competition results, and international media coverage related to artificial intelligence and historical games research.

Selected awards

  1. Best paper award Runner-up Best Paper Award at IEEE Conference on Games 2019
    Learning Policies from Self-Play with Policy Gradients and MCTS Value Estimates
  2. Paper distinction One of the 3 finalists for the Distinguished Paper Award at IJCAI 2017
    Selected out of 2540 submitted papers for Constraint-Based Symmetry Detection in General Game Playing
  3. Thesis award Recipient of the AFIA AI Thesis Award, 2017
    A Stochastic Constraint-Based Approach to General Game Playing
  4. Competition result WoodStock — International Champion GGP 2016
  5. Best paper and presentation Awarded at JFPC 2016
    Programmation par contraintes stochastiques pour le General Game Playing avec informations incomplètes

Selected media coverage

  1. Media Featured on France 2 (Télématin) (national TV, France, 2026)
    Chronicle on artificial intelligence highlighting the Antiquity article on reconstructing the rules of an ancient Roman board game using AI.
  2. Media Featured article (Page 10-11) in Polytech Louvain Magazine (Issue 26, Spring 2026)
    “Le bac passe en version 2.0” – Interview and contributions on the reform of the Bachelor in Computer Science at UCLouvain, highlighting work on artificial intelligence and game-based teaching.
  3. Press coverage RTBF (2026)
    À quoi jouaient les Romains ? Une IA belge révèle les secrets d’un jeu antique
  4. Press coverage Le Soir (2026)
    L’intelligence artificielle perce le mystère d’un jeu antique
  5. Institutional coverage UCLouvain (2026)
    Quand l’intelligence artificielle fait parler les jeux de l’Antiquité
  6. Press coverage Nature (2026)
    AI helps decode the rules of an ancient Roman board game
  7. Press coverage Scientific American (2026)
    Rules of a mysterious ancient Roman board game decoded by AI
  8. Press coverage Science News (2026)
    AI cracks the mystery of a Roman-era board game
  9. Press coverage CBS News (2026)
    Scientists decode mysterious ancient board game using AI
  10. Press coverage Phys.org (2026)
    Unknown Roman-era board game decoded using AI
  11. Press coverage Miami Herald (2026)
    AI helps uncover the rules of an ancient board game
  12. Press coverage BBC Newsround (2026)
    AI helps scientists understand ancient Roman board games
  13. Press coverage VRT News (2026)
    Belgian scientist uses AI to unravel mysteries of an ancient board game
  14. Press coverage Denník N Article (2025)
    Scientists studying ancient board games: People today have advanced technology, but they still enjoy moving pieces around the board
  15. Press coverage New Scientist Article (2024)
    The ancient board games we finally know how to play – thanks to AI
  16. Press coverage Wired Article (2021)
    This AI Resurrects Ancient Board Games—and Lets You Play Them
  17. Press coverage Vice Article (2019)
    Scientists Are Discovering Long-Lost Rules for Ancient Board Games
  18. Press coverage Atlas Obscura Article (2019)
    Researchers Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Reconstruct Ancient Games
  19. Press coverage Actu IA (2018)
    Intelligence artificielle : la communauté scientifique des Hauts-de-France se structure pour renforcer son identité dans le domaine
  20. Institutional coverage INS2I paper (2016)
    Une intelligence artificielle dirigée par les contraintes championne de General Game Playing