Past projects

Completed or archived projects. See the portfolio for what I am currently working on.

Professional/Technical Projects

  • NEXOROPT: NEXOR Optimization

    2025-2026: Consultant and Co-Founder (Past project)
    Description: Innovative solutions for smart routing and transportation logistics in Belgium and Europe.
    Tools: Odoo, AI, optimization, Python, OSRM; nexoropt.com

  • ACP Summer School 2025

    2025: Co-chair and organizer (Event)
    Description: Summer school of the Association for Constraint Programming held in Benin, the first on the African continent.
    Detail: school.a4cp.org/summer2025

  • GlobMig: Climate change vs Economy

    2019-2020: In collaboration with Prof. P. Schaus and Prof. S. Nijssen (Past project)
    Description: Analyze the role of the weather shocks towards an individual’s intention to migrate
    Implementation: User Interface(unmaintained!); Slides; Slides

  • Covidata.be: Belgium COVID19 Data

    2020: Contributing to the project of Prof. P. Schaus (Past project)
    Description: Visualizations of the epidemiological data for Belgium covidata.be (link not working anymore!)

  • ΩPs-DSL: Domain-Specific Language for pattern-set problems

    2019-2020: Supervized by Prof. P. Schaus and Prof. S. Nijssen (Past project)
    Description: 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.
    Implementation: Paper

  • CP4DM: Constraint Programming for Data Mining (Ph.D project)

    2015-2019: Supervized by Prof. P. Schaus and Prof. T. Dagba (UAC/Benin) in collaboration with Prof. T. Guns and Prof. S. Nijssen (Past project)
    Description: 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.
    Implementation: Several executables can be found here. Implementations are available in OscaR
      >  PPIC (several versions): CP-based approach for Sequential Pattern Mining (Code; Examples; Run)
      >  PPICt: CP-based approach for Sequential Pattern Mining with time constraints (Code; Examples; Run)
      >  CoverSize (several problems): CP-based approach for Frequent Itemset Mining (Code; Examples; Run)
      >  EpisodeSupport: CP-based approach for Episode Mining (Code; Examples)
      >  PRL: Probabilistic Rule Lists (MDL-based, DS 2018)

  • MIFY Sarl: Machine Intelligent For You

    2017-2023: Co-Founder with three other associates: Ratheil Houndji, Probus Kiki, and Christian Akponan
    Description: AI solutions in Africa for Africa.
    Detail: Many projects in the trail
      >  MAIC: MIFY AI contest
      >  MGAME: MIFY Entertainment
      >  XWEFA (2022): smart home assistant controlling home devices in Fongbé
      >  SIKA (2022): voice assistant controlling computer tasks in Fongbé

  • OscaR Solver

    2015-2020: Contributing to the Solver
    Description: Multiple-purpose Solver to solve real-life challenging research problems related to combinatorial problems.
    Detail: Code; Documentation

  • Yoruba TTS: Text-to-speech for the Yoruba language

    2013-2016: Master (DEA) thesis, UAC (Benin), supervised by Prof. T. Dagba (Past project)
    Description: Design of a Yoruba speech corpus and integration of the Yoruba language into MaryTTS.
    Detail: See the 2016 papers on the publication page

  • Internet Quality Measurement in West Africa

    2013-2014: Technical Coordinator, IMDEA Networks Institute (Past project)
    Description: Installing measurement equipment, developing measurement scripts and coordinating activities across West African countries.
    Tools: Networks, Linux, Python, RIPE; networks.imdea.org

  • TIS: Territorial Information System

    2012-2015: Technical Director at Power To Go Forward (PTGF) (Past project)
    Description: Territorial Information System for Benin municipalities/districts, for the Government and the Ministry of Decentralization.
    Tools: Java EE, Struts, Symfony 2, geoJSON, UML, Agile

Social Projects

  • NDE: "Noel des Enfants" of Bresillac Youth Group

    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...Learn more