Nicolas Guionnet
Independent researcher — PhD in Computer Science
Email:
n.guionnet.research@mathmana.com
Background
My initial academic training was in pure mathematics,
at graduate level (approximately equivalent to a current Master’s degree),
with work in areas including Riemannian geometry and
elliptic partial differential equations.
I subsequently moved to computer science and artificial intelligence,
completing a PhD at the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour
(UPPA) in 2004. My doctoral research concerned
multi-agent systems, situated agents,
self-organization and
emergent collective behaviour.
My doctoral thesis,
LOCUS : un modèle d’analyse locale de l’échec pour l’élaboration
de systèmes d’agents situés, was defended at the
Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour in 2004.
Thesis record on theses.fr.
After this period of academic research, most of my professional activity
shifted towards mathematics and science teaching.
In parallel, I pursued long-term independent study and reflection in
evolutionary biology, neuroscience
and learning sciences, with particular interest in
alternative approaches to science education and conceptual understanding.
Current research
In 2026 I returned to independent research in artificial intelligence.
My current work explores conceptual and dynamical models of the
evolution of advanced AI systems, with particular interest in
interactions between cognitive capability,
metacognition, motivational structure,
self-preservation, instrumental expansion
and reflective motivational detachment.
Selected publications and conference contributions
- Enlarging the Applicability of a Failure Cause Eradication Based Methodology
(2003), IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent
Agent Technology (IAT 2003), pp. 618–621 —
DBLP record. - Artificial Coagulation for Adaptive Query Distribution in a Grid Application
(2003), 1st Indian International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (IICAI 2003) —
publication record. - A Substrate Model for Global Guidance of Software Agents
(2003), 4th Workshop on Agent-Based Simulation (ABS 2003),
Montpellier, France —
conference programme.