Research
What I work on
Four lines of work, each with what has been published on it. The full list is under Publications, and citations are on Google Scholar.
2026
Agentic AI: autonomy earned on evidence
When software may act on its own, and what it must show first: calibrated decisions, causal evidence, off-policy evaluation, guardrails inside the action, verification, and governance treated as engineering.
- Foundations of Agentic AI Systems, Volume I
2026 · Models, Learning, and Decisions, from First Principles
- Foundations of Agentic AI Systems, Volume II
2026 · Agents, Operations, and Governance, in Production
2024–2026
Decision systems for retail
Agents for pricing, inventory, assortment and allocation, from the retail agent operating model to production. Much of it comes from the data and AI teams at ALDO Group, and it continues at OODARIS AI.
- Foundations of Agentic AI for Retail, Third Edition
2026 · Designing, Building, and Operating Retail AI Agents, from First Principles to Production
- The retail agent operating model (RAOM)
2025 · Writing
- Decision theory for retail agents
2025 · Writing
- How Aldo Uses AI to Optimize Inventory and Focus on Innovation
2024 · Footwear News
- Inside ALDO's in-house generative AI and machine learning strategy
2024 · Digiday
2015
Software measurement and effort estimation
Choosing a software effort estimation model by its accuracy and its uncertainty, from the doctoral work at École de technologie supérieure.
- Automated Selection of a Software Effort Estimation Model Based on Accuracy and Uncertainty
2015 · Artificial Intelligence Research
2012–2015
Mobile application usability
How to evaluate the usability of mobile apps and games, an expert-based framework for iOS apps, and predicting an app’s user rating from its usability evaluation.
- iOS Application User Rating Prediction Using Usability Evaluation and Machine Learning
2015 · PhD Dissertation, École de Technologie Supérieure
- An Expert-Based Framework for Evaluating iOS Application Usability
2013 · Joint Conference of the 23rd International Workshop on Software Measurement and the 8th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement
- The State of the Art of Mobile Application Usability Evaluation
2012 · 25th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering
- The State of the Art of Mobile Game Application Usability Evaluation
2012 · Technical Report, École de Technologie Supérieure