About Me

I am a PhD candidate in Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence at Institut Polytechnique de Paris, in the SAMOVAR laboratory, within PEPR Future Networks’ HISEC project. My research focuses on the security of deep reinforcement learning for real-world autonomous cyber-physical systems. My current case study concerns reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) for physical-layer security in future 6G networks.

Alongside my PhD, I’m building expertise in meta-learning and adaptation methods. My double degree in mathematics and fundamental physics shapes how I connect learning algorithms with physical models and real-world constraints.

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  1. Conference

    Poster presentation at EWRL 2026

    I attended EWRL 2026 in Lille, France, on October 5–7, where I presented a poster on our paper “A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Air Combat: Current Progresses and Limitations”.

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  2. Publication

    Autonomous air combat survey published at AAMAS 2026

    Our survey of reinforcement learning for autonomous air combat, co-authored with Thibault Lahire, was published in the AAMAS 2026 proceedings !

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  3. Award

    Best Paper Award at FPS 2025

    Our work on fairness-aware B5G physical-layer security received the Best Paper Award at FPS 2025 !

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Research in practice

Selected work

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RL & Autonomous Systems

Conference paper Published AAMAS 2026

A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Air Combat: Current Progresses and Limitations

Alex Pierron, Thibault Lahire

A structured survey of reinforcement learning for autonomous air combat, comparing environments, control architectures and the challenges of reproducibility and real-world transfer.

RL & Wireless Security

Conference paper Published FPS 2025

A Fairness-Aware Strategy for B5G Physical-Layer Security Leveraging Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Alex Pierron, Michel Barbeau, Luca De Cicco, Jose Rubio-Hernan, Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro

A reinforcement learning reward strategy for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces that improves fairness among legitimate users while maintaining physical-layer security.

Best Paper Award

Scientific Interests

A selection of questions, methods and physical systems that shape my research interests.

Machine Learning & Reinforcement Learning Physics & Quantum Physical AI & Autonomy

Machine Learning & Reinforcement Learning

Physics & Quantum Systems

Physical AI & Autonomous Systems

Further reading interests

I enjoy reading about nuclear fusion and quantum algorithms to broaden my scientific understanding. These are personal reading interests and possible long-term directions, outside my current research.