Past news
(since 2020)
2026
December 7/11, 2026 – Program Committee Member for the 16th SESAR Innovation Days, in Cork, Ireland.
November 13, 2026 – I will serve on the PhD committee for Esther Roosenbrand, TU Delft, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. Contrail Mitigation in Air Traffic Operations: Feasibility, Detection, and Optimization with Open Data
October 29/30, 2026 – Program Committee Member for the 14th OpenSky Symposium, in Madrid, Spain.
September 15/17, 2026 – Track chair “Air Traffic Management” for the 45th DASC conference, in Orlando, Florida.
June 18, 2026 – I ran the tutorial Beyond ADS-B: exploring multi-modal aviation data with tangram at the ATRD symposium, in Delft, the Netherlands, moving beyond ADS-B trajectories to ACARS/VDL2 datalink and ADS-C surveillance data.
February 5/6, 2026 – I attended the Towards new Horizons of Scholarly Publishing event on Diamond Open Access at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, where I shared our experience with the Journal of Open Aviation Science (JOAS).
January 21, 2026 – Guest Editor for MDPI Aerospace Special Issue Application of Data Science to Aviation III with Michael Schultz. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026.
2025
December 1/4 2025 – Program Committee Member for the 15th SESAR Innovation Days, in Bled, Slovenia. I presented two papers about conditional variational autoencoders for aircraft trajectory generation, and about the tangram platform.
November 6/7 2025 – Program Committee Member for the 13th OpenSky Symposium, in Norrköping, Sweden. We presented three papers together with Richard Alligier, Timothé Krauth and Gabriel Jarry (all speakers).
September 14/18 2025 – Track chair “Air Traffic Management” for the 44th DASC conference, in Montreal, Canada. I also ran a tutorial on large-scale air traffic data analysis with machine learning techniques.
June 23/27, 2025 – We present two papers at the ATRD symposium, in Prague.
April 8/10 2025 – Track chair “Air Traffic Management”, for the 25th ICNS conference, in Brussels, Belgium.
April 3/4 2025 – General chair for the 2nd workshop on open science in aviation, in Delft, the Netherlands, with a specific focus on the tangram platform.
February 17/21, 2025 – I was on a research visit at the Center for Aviation at ZHAW in Winterthur, ZH, Switzerland.
January 15, 2025 – The second edition of my book Programmation Python avancée with Dunod Editions is now available.
2024
December 2, 2024 – I served as opponent to the licentiate thesis of Lucie Smetanová at the Department of Science and Technology of Linköping University in Norrköping, Sweden.
November 12/15, 2024 – Program Committee Member for the 14th SESAR Innovation Days, in Rome, Italy
November 7/8, 2024 – Program Committee Member for the 12th OpenSky Symposium, in Hamburg, Germany. I presented two papers about preprocessing methods in the traffic library.
September 29/October 3, 2024 – I gave a tutorial and present a paper at the 43rd DASC conference, in San Diego, California
September 11/13, 2024 – Technical Committee Member for the 2st International Conference for CBM in Aerospace, in Paris, France
September 9, 2024 – I served in the jury for Jan Krummen’s Master Thesis at the Center for Aviation at ZHAW. The thesis is entitled “Development of a 4D trajectory prediction model for aircraft departures and assessment of the impact of mass availability on its predictions”.
September 2024 – I was entitled the “Directeur de recherche” grade, which confers the equivalence to full professorship in PhD committees in France.
July 1/4, 2024 – We present two papers at the ICRAT conference, in Tampa, Florida, and a series of tutorial about ADS-B, the traffic and the OpenAP library.
June 7, 2024 – I will give two talks at the Open-Source tools for Air Traffic Management Modelling and Research workshop hosted by the University of Westminster, in London, United Kingdom. I will talk about open science, open software and the traffic library.
April 8/12, 2024 – I was on a research visit at the Center for Aviation at ZHAW in Winterthur, ZH, Switzerland.
February 2024 – I was entitled the French academic qualification for full professorship, in French, Qualification aux fonctions de professeurs des universités (section 27)
2023
December 2023 – Program Committee Member for the 13th SESAR Innovation Days, in Seville, Spain.
October 31, 2023 – I defended my Habilitation à diriger des recherches entitled Information extraction from large-scale aviation data.
October 30/31, 2023 – Program Committee Member, Local Chair for the 11th OpenSky Symposium hosted in Toulouse.
October 1/5, 2023 – Junzi Sun will present our paper OpenSky Report 2023: Low Altitude Traffic Awareness for Light Aircraft with FLARM at the DASC 2023 conference, in Barcelona, Spain
July 2023 – Together with Junzi Sun, we have been awarded a one year Open Science Fund 2023 grant for the development of tangram.
June 30, 2023 – I served on the PhD committee for Sharmistha Chakrabarti, University of Central Florida. Optimal sequencing and scheduling algorithm for traffic flows based on extracted control actions near the airport
June 5/9, 2023 – We presented two papers at the Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar, in Savannah, GA
April 25/28, 2023 – I was on a research visit at the Department of Science and Technology of Linköping University in Norrköping, Sweden.
February 20/24, 2023 – I was on a research visit at the Center for Aviation at ZHAW in Winterthur, ZH, Switzerland.
2022
November 10/11, 2022 – Program Committee Member for the 10th OpenSky Symposium, in Delft, the Netherlands.
November 8, 2022 – I served on the PhD committee for Manuel Mateos Villar, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Machine Learning for Aircraft Trajectory Prediction: a Solution for Pre-tactical Air Traffic Flow Management
September 19, 2022 – I will run a tutorial at DASC 2022 conference, in Portsmouth, Virginia, on data analysis with OpenSky and the traffic library. I will also present our paper OpenSky Report 2022: Evaluating Aviation Emissions Using Crowdsourced Open Flight Data.
September 12, 2022 – We officially started the Journal of Open Aviation Science
June 20, 2022 – Florent Vergnes presented our paper Environmental Impact Optimisation of Flight Plans in a Fixed and Free Route network during ICRAT conference, in Tampa, Florida.
June 20, 2022 – I ran a tutorial on data analysis with the traffic library during ICRAT conference.
May 24/25, 2022 – Technical Committee Member for the 1st International Conference for CBM in Aerospace, in Delft, the Netherlands. Luis Basora presented our work Health monitoring of aircraft systems: challenges and perspectives based on a real-life study case (SCU system)
May 13, 2022 – I served on the PhD committee for Antoine Chevrot, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté. Detection of contextual anomalies in multivariate time-series using Neural Network models aiming the application in the Air Traffic Control Domain
April 25/29, 2022 – I was on a research visit at the Center for Aviation at ZHAW in Winterthur, ZH, Switzerland.
February 15, 2022 – Guest Editor for MDPI Aerospace Special Issue Application of Data Science to Aviation II with Michael Schultz.
2021
November 24, 2021 – I served on the PhD committee for Samantha Corrado, Georgia Tech. A Data-Driven Methodology to Analyze Air Traffic Management System Operations within the Terminal Airspace.
November 18/19, 2021 – Program Committee Member for the 9th OpenSky Symposium. Timothé Krauth presented our work Synthetic Aircraft Trajectory Generation with Statistical Copula-based Models.
November 17, 2021 – I ran a hands-on tutorial “in real life” on data analysis with OpenSky and the traffic library.
November 2021 – I participated in the #30DayMapChallenge
October 5, 2021 – Junzi Sun will present our OpenSky Report 2021: Insights on ADS-B Mandate and Fleet Deployment in Times of Crisis during DASC 2021 conference (online).
October 4, 2021 – I will run a tutorial (online) at DASC 2021 conference
on data analysis with OpenSky and the traffic library.
September 21, 2021 – I will present our paper entitled A Framework to Evaluate Aircraft Trajectory Generation Methods (with Junzi Sun, Mayara Condé Rocha Murça and Timothé Krauth) during ATM Seminar (online)
September 3, 2021 – I have been invited to participate in a panel discussion about the impact, limitations, and practices of Machine Learning techniques applied to aviation during ENGAGE KTN workshop (online) on AI, ML and Automation.
July 12, 2021 – Sana Ikli defended her thesis around the Aircraft Landing Problem, entitled Méthodes exactes et heuristiques pour l’ordonnancement des atterissages d’avions
June 20, 2021 – Guest Editor for MDPI Aerospace Special Issue Application of Data Science to Aviation with Michael Schultz
June 7, 2021 – I will give a talk about the traffic Python library during the next MONDAIS webinar.
May 2021 – Editor for TU Delft OPEN Publishing
May 5, 2021 – My book Programmation Python avancée with Dunod Editions is now available.
March 1st, 2021 – The PDF for my (advanced) Python book is now in the hands of my editor at Dunod Editions.
2020
November 12/13, 2020 – Technical Program Chair for the 8th OpenSky Symposium (online)
