Research Scientist
Department for Information Processing and Systems
ONERA – Centre de Toulouse
2 avenue Édouard Belin
31055 Toulouse – France
Mail: first_name.last_name@onera.fr
PGP: A6B9B1CD
Research interests
Dr Xavier Olive is a Research Scientist at ONERA, The French Aerospace Lab. His main interests include Data Science, Machine Learning and Decision Science applied to aviation, with a particular focus on optimisation, anomaly and pattern detection. Applications range from air traffic management, operations, predictive maintenance, safety analyses and risk assessment.
He is also passionate about aircraft, data visualisation, geographic information systems and programming languages.
Recent news
- 2021 – Program Committee Member at the 9th OpenSky Symposium;
- 2021 – Editor for TU Delft OPEN Publishing
- 2021 – Guest Editor for MDPI Aerospace Special Issue: “Application of Data Science to Aviation”
- 2021 – Book! 🇫🇷 Programmation Python avancée with Dunod Editions
Teaching activities
- Optimisation for Artificial Intelligence
- Data Science, Machine Learning
- Algorithms and Programming
- Advanced Python for Scientists
Selected publications
2022
Michael Schultz, Judith Rosenow and Xavier Olive.
Data-driven airport management enabled by operational milestones derived from ADS-B messages.
Journal of Air Transport Management 99, 2022, 102164
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2021.102164
2021
Timothé Krauth, Jérôme Morio, Xavier Olive, Benoit Figuet and Raphael Monstein.
Synthetic Aircraft Trajectory Generation with Statistical Copula-based Models.
Proceedings of the 9th OpenSky Symposium, 2021
https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2021013007
Junzi Sun, Xavier Olive, Martin Strohmeier, Matthias Schäfer, Ivan Martinovic and Vincent Lenders.
OpenSky Report 2021: Insights on ADS-B Mandate and Fleet Deployment in Times of Crisis.
Proceedings of the 40th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 2021.
https://doi.org/10.1109/DASC52595.2021.9594361
Xavier Olive, Junzi Sun, Mayara Condé Rocha Murça and Timothé Krauth.
A Framework to Evaluate Aircraft Trajectory Generation Methods.
Proceedings of the 14th USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar, 2021
Sana Ikli, Catherine Mancel, Marcel Mongeau, Xavier Olive and Emmanuel Rachelson.
The aircraft runway scheduling problem: A survey.
Computers & Operations Research, 2021, 105336;
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2021.105336
Luis Basora, Paloma Bry, Xavier Olive and Floris Freeman.
Aircraft Fleet Health Monitoring with Anomaly Detection Techniques.
Aerospace, 8(4), 2021, 103;
https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace8040103
Martin Strohmeier, Xavier Olive, Jannis Lübbe, Matthias Schäfer and Vincent Lenders.
Crowdsourced Air Traffic Data from the OpenSky Network 2019–20
Earth System Science Data, 13, 357–366, 2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-357-2021
2020
Xavier Olive, Junzi Sun, Adrien Lafage and Luis Basora.
Detecting Events in Aircraft Trajectories: Rule-based and Data-driven Approaches.
Proceedings of the 8th OpenSky Symposium, 2020
https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2020059008
Junzi Sun, Huy Vû, Xavier Olive and Jacco Hoekstra.
Mode S Transponder Comm-B Capabilities in Current Operational Aircraft.
Proceedings of the 8th OpenSky Symposium, 2020
https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2020059005
Xavier Olive and Luis Basora.
Detection and identification of significant events in historical aircraft trajectory data.
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 119, 2020, 10237.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2020.102737
Xavier Olive, Axel Tanner, Martin Strohmeier, Matthias Schäfer, Metin Feridun, Allan Tart, Ivan Martinovic and Vincent Lenders.
OpenSky Report 2020: Analysing in-flight emergencies using big data.
Proceedings of the 39th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 2020
(Best of Track paper award)
https://doi.org/10.1109/DASC50938.2020.9256787
Xavier Olive and Junzi Sun.
Detecting and Measuring Turbulence from Mode S Surveillance Downlink Data.
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation, 2020
Xavier Olive, Luis Basora, Benoît Viry and Richard Alligier.
Deep Trajectory Clustering with Autoencoders.
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation, 2020
Sana Ikli, Catherine Mancel, Marcel Mongeau, Xavier Olive and Emmanuel Rachelson.
Coupling Mathematical Optimization and Machine Learning for the Aircraft Landing Problem.
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation, 2020
Michael Schultz, Xavier Olive, Judith Rosenow, Hartmut Fricke, Sameer Alam.
Analysis of airport ground operations based on ADS-B data.
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics in Air Transportation (AIDA-AT), Singapore, 2020
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9049212
2019
Michael Schultz, Judith Rosenow and Xavier Olive.
A-CDM Lite: situation awareness and decision making for small airports based on ADS-B data.
Proceedings of the 9th SESAR Innovation Days, 2019
Luis Basora, Xavier Olive and Thomas Dubot.
Recent Advances in Anomaly Detection Methods Applied to Aviation.
Aerospace, 6(11), 2019, 117;
https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace6110117
Xavier Olive and Luis Basora.
Air Traffic Data Processing using Python: Trajectory Clustering.
Proceedings of the 7th OpenSky Workshop, 2019.
https://doi.org/10.29007/sf1f
Matthias Schäfer, Xavier Olive, Martin Strohmeier, Matthew Smith, Ivan Martinovic, Vincent Lenders.
OpenSky Report 2019: Analysing TCAS in the Real World using Big Data.
Proceedings of the 38th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 2019
Sana Ikli, Catherine Mancel, Marcel Mongeau, Xavier Olive and Emmanuel Rachelson.
An Optimistic Planning Approach for the Aircraft Landing Problem.
Proceedings of ENRI International Workshop on ATM/CNS, 2019
Xavier Olive and Luis Basora.
Identifying Anomalies in past en-route Trajectories with Clustering and Anomaly Detection Methods.
Proceedings of the 13th USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar, 2019
Xavier Olive and Jérôme Morio.
Trajectory clustering of air traffic flows around airports.
Aerospace Science and Technology, 2019.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2018.11.031
2018
Xavier Olive, Jeremy Grignard, Thomas Dubot and Julie Saint-Lot.
Detecting Controllers' Actions in Past Mode S Data by Autoencoder-Based Anomaly Detection.
Proceedings of the 8th SESAR Innovation Days, 2018
Xavier Olive and Pierre Bieber.
Quantitative Assessments of Runway Excursion Precursors using Mode S Data.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation, 2018
(Best paper award)
2016
Nicolas Bérend and Xavier Olive.
Bi-objective optimization of a multiple-target active debris removal mission.
Acta Astronautica, 122:324–335, 2016.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2016.02.005
2011
Xavier Olive and Hiroshi Nakashima.
Efficient Representation of Constraints and Propagation of Variable–Value Symmetries in Distributed Constraint Reasoning.
Journal of Information Processing, 19, 2011.
https://doi.org/10.2197/ipsjjip.19.201
