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Abstract Deep learning has become an extremely important technology in numerous domains such as computer vision, natural language processing, and autonomous systems. As neural networks grow in size and complexity to meet the demands of these applications, the cost of designing and training efficient models continues to rise in computation and energy consumption. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as a promising solution to automate the design of performant neural networks. However, conventional NAS methods often require evaluating thousands of architectures, making them extremely resource-intensive and environmentally costly.This thesis introduces a novel, energy-aware NAS pipeline that operates at the intersection of Software Engineering and Machine Learning. We present CNNGen, a domain-specific generator for convolutional architectures, combined with performance and energy predictors to drastically reduce the number of architectures that need full training. These predictors are integrated into a multi-objective genetic algorithm (NSGA-II), enabling an efficient search for architectures that balance accuracy and energy consumption.Our approach explores a variety of prediction strategies, including sequence-based models, image-based representations, and deep metric learning, to estimate model quality from partial or symbolic representations. We validate our framework across three benchmark datasets, CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and Fashion-MNIST, demonstrating that it can produce results comparable to state-of-the-art architectures with significantly lower computational cost. By reducing the environmental footprint of NAS while maintaining high performance, this work contributes to the growing field of Green AI and highlights the value of predictive modelling in scalable and sustainable deep learning workflows. Jury Prof. Wim Vanhoof - University of Namur, BelgiumProf. Gilles Perrouin - University of Namur, BelgiumProf. Benoit Frénay - University of Namur, BelgiumProf. Pierre-Yves Schobbens - University of Namur, BelgiumProf. Clément Quinton - University of Lille, FranceProf. Paul Temple- University of Rennes, FranceProf. Schin'ichi Satoh - National Institute of Informatics, Japan

A flurry of awards for the NaDI-CeRCLe research center in recent weeks. The service management research of three young doctoral students from the EMCP Faculty has been recognized by their peers at leading international scientific events: Floriane Goosse, Victor Sluÿters and Florence Nizette. This summer, we invite you to discover their careers and their work.

New from 2025-2026 The MAGIS program is a unique and exclusive exchange program that will transform you into a global citizen, a global agent of change.

Global environmental citizenship Course The Global environmental citizenship course is an international course on global citizenship, focusing on environmental justice. It is taught online and coordinated by a professor from Loyola University Chicago. The course objectives are: Understand the local and global impacts of biodiversity loss, water scarcity and climate changeEvaluate these impacts from a moral and spiritual perspectiveAct as responsible citizens, locally and globally, in the face of these challengesStudents selected for the MAGIS program will take the first part of the course during the 2nd quadrennium of Block 2 and the second part during the first quadrennium of Block 3. Discover the projects created by our students Course" exchange stay The "course" exchange stay enables students selected for the MAGIS program to take courses (for +/- 30 ECTS credits) during one term (the 1st term of Boc 3) at one of the participating Jesuit universities in or outside Europe.The stay is supported by a "course" mobility grant for partner universities where a bilateral agreement has been concluded with UNamur. This information can be found in the list of MAGIS program partners on Webcampus. Scholarship information Service Learning During the exchange stay, the students selected for the MAGIS program will carry out a service learning mission (internship, volunteering, etc), organized and supervised by the host University. This will enable students to:Understand the local environmentGet involved in community supportLearn and take on responsibilities Organization of these 3 components These three components are organized as follows:

Japan is almost 10,000 kilometers from Belgium, a country that fascinates, not least for its rich culture full of contrasts. Researchers at UNamur maintain close ties with several Japanese institutions, particularly in the fields of computer science, mathematics and video games. Let's take a look at some of these collaborations..

Trust of traditional political institutions and elected representatives, rise of authoritarian logics, definition of public services... Democracy today seems to be going through a turbulent zone. What role does the university play in this context? To shed light on this question, we interviewed four researchers from different disciplines: educationalist Sephora Boucenna, philosopher Louis Carré, political scientist Vincent Jacquet and legal scholar Aline Nardi. Their contrasting views sketch out the contours of an issue that is more topical than ever: thinking about and defending the link between university and democracy.

On February 26, the Adam Smith amphitheater hosted the first major edition of Act'UNamur, a quiz on current events in 2025 organized by the Department of Social Sciences, Politics, and Communication at the EMCP Faculty. The goal? To spark students' interest in current events through a unique and fun format.