Benjamin Courchesne

PhD student of the GRIF of Université de Sherbrooke. My interests center on automata, logics and distributed systems, especially population protocols. In my free time, I write computer science problems for university competitions.

Publications

• Michael Blondin, Michaël Cadilhac, Benjamin Courchesne, Lucie Guillou, Corto Mascle and Isa Vialard. Population Protocols over Ordered Agents
  ICALP 2026

Talks

• Population protocols over ordered agents
  ICALP, July 10, 2026, London, United Kingdom.
• Protocoles de population: robustesse et composabilité
  GRIF CS club, Université de Srbrooke, March 23, 2025, Canada.

Teaching and TA work

Course Instructor

• IFT630: Processus concurrents et parallélisme
  2 sessions (S25, W25)
• IFT592: Projet d'informatique
  5 sessions(S26, W26, F25, W25, F24), 11 supervisions
• IFT199: Initiation à la programmation
  3 sessions (F26, F25, F24)
• IGL201: Techniques et outils de développement
  1 session (W26)

Teaching Assistant (TA)

• IGL601: Techniques et outils de développement
  2 sessions (S24, W24)
• IFT436: Algorithmes et structures de données
  1 session (F25)
  Retour sur la force brute
• IFT320: Système d'exploitation
  6 sessions (F25, S25, F24, S24, F23, S23)
• IFT287: Exploitation de BD relationnelles et OO
  1 session (F23)
• IFT232: Méthodes de conception orientée objet
  6 sessions (W25, F24, W24, F23, W23, F22)
• IFT209: Programmation système
  5 sessions (W25, F24, W24, F23, F22)
• IFT159: Analyse et programmation
  2 sessions (F22, W22)

Societies

• Responsable aux affaires externes RECSUS (2024 - today)
• Coach to the OC President CS Games (2024 - today)
• OC President CS Games (2023 - 2024)
• President JDIS (2022 - 2024)
• VP Sponsorships JDIS (2021 - 2022)

Scholarships & Awards

• MITACS Globalink Research Award, MITACS, 2026
• Cybertalent trophy in the commitment category, CyberCap, 2023
• Sur le chemin pour les initiatives scolaires Award, Desjardins, 2022

Competitive Programming author & CTF Contributions

• Programming challenge
  Canadien engineering competition (CCI - CEC), Université de Sherbrooke
• Agents programming challenge
  CS Games 2026, Polytechnique montréal, Canada.
• Capture The Flag
  UnitedCTF 2025, Online event
• Assembly challenge
  CS Games 2025, Université Laval, Canada.
• Capture The Flag
  UnitedCTF 2024, Online event
• Magellan: A programming agents competition
  JDIS Games 2024, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada.
• Front-End forgery: A CSS Image Recreation Challenge
  CS Games 2024, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada.
• Capture The Flag
  UnitedCTF 2023, Online event
• Space: A programming agents competition
  JDIS Games 2023, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada.
• Capture The Flag
  UnitedCTF 2022, Online event