Youssef Diouane

Member, GERAD

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering , Polytechnique Montréal

youssef.diouane@polymtl.ca

Phone: 514 340-4711 x3865

Office 5487

Other titles and affiliations

Feb 2022 – May 2024

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal

Research Axes

Axis 2: Decision support made in complex systems
Axis 3: Decision support made under uncertainty

Research Applications

Energy, environment and natural resources
Engineering (engineering design, digital design)

Publications

Jul 2025

G-2025-50
Transfer learning in surrogate modeling with emphasis on aircraft design

Ali Tfaily, Nathalie Bartoli, Youssef Diouane, and Michael Kokkolaras

Surrogate modeling with insufficient data can lead to high prediction uncertainty and errors. A promising remedy to address this issue is the use of transfer...

BibTeX reference

Jun 2025

G-2025-42
CatMADS: Mesh Adaptive Direct Search for constrained blackbox optimization with categorical variables

Charles Audet, Youssef Diouane, Edward Hallé-Hannan, Sébastien Le Digabel, and Christophe Tribes

Solving optimization problems in which functions are blackboxes and variables involve different types poses significant theoretical and algorithmic challeng...

BibTeX reference

Jun 2025

G-2025-39
Cat-Suite: A collection of optimization problems with categorical and quantitative variables for benchmarking

Edward Hallé-Hannan, Charles Audet, Youssef Diouane, Sébastien Le Digabel, and Christophe Tribes

Benchmarking new optimization methods on test problems is essential for assessing their performance and tuning their parameters. Yet, few problems are avail...

BibTeX reference

25 publications

News

OR@AFRICA at the EURO 2025 conference in Leeds

Jul 14, 2025

GERAD is proud to announce the participation of its students at the EURO 2025 conference in Leeds (UK), one of the biggest international events in operations research.

Valentin Dijon received an award

May 15, 2025

On April 25, Valentin Dijon, a doctoral student at Polytechnique Montréal, was awarded the 1st award for the best oral presentation in the future industry and digital society section at PolyCongRÉ.

He was awarded the award for his work on his master's degree. He was co-supervised by professors Youssef Diouane and Dominique Orban.

Master's Thesis Defence of Valentin Sylvain Bernard Dijon - November 25, 15h00

Nov 18, 2024

Title: A Stochastic Levenberg-Marquardt Method for Nonsmooth Regularized Inverse Problems

7 news

Events

Apr 2, 202510:00 AM — 11:00 AM

Bayesian optimization applied to constrained black-box problems for different aeronautical applications

GERAD seminar
Nathalie Bartoli – ONERA

Hybrid activity at GERAD

Prizes and awards

2023

2023 AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Best Paper

Paper citation: P. Saves, N. Bartoli, Y. Diouane, T. Lefebvre, J. Morlier, Ch. David, E. Nguyen Van, and S. Defoort. (2022). Multidisciplinary design optimization with mixed categorical variables for aircraft design. AIAA SciTech 2022, https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-0082

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

Editorial Boards & Comittees

Associate Editor, Computational Optimization and Applications, 2023 - ...
Special Issue Editor, Mathematical Programming, special issue dedicated to ISMP 2024, 2023-2025

Supervision

Léon Biner Internship

Philippe Brillon Internship

Oihan Cordelier Master's degree

Elie Boulanger Internship

Noam Charette Internship

Noé Casteleyn Internship

Valentin Dijon Ph.D.

Maxence Gollier Ph.D.

Adrien Durand Ph.D.

All supervisions (31)