CV (short)

Employment history

CNRS, CRAN (Nancy, France) - since 2011

CNRS researcher (DR since 2023)

The University of Melbourne  – Electrical and Electronic Dept  (Melbourne, Australia) - 2010 (7 months)

Research Assistant under the supervision of Dragan Nesic

Degrees

Université de Lorraine, (Nancy, France) - 2019

``Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR)''

Thesis entitled ``Commande sous contraintes de communication et estimation non-linéaire et ses applications''

Université Paris-Sud, LSS-CNRS, SUPELEC (Gif-sur-Yvette, France) - 2006-2009

PhD in Control Engineering

Thesis entitled ``Commande et construction d’observateurs pour les systèmes non linéaires incertains à données échantillonnées et en réseau''

Supervisors: F. Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, T. Ahmed-Ali, E. Panteley

Coventry University  – CTAC  (Coventry, U.K.) - 2005-2006

MSc by Research in Control Theory and its Applications

Thesis entitled ``Synthesis of robust feedback controls for stabilizing imperfectly known nonlinear dynamical systems,  with time-delay''

Supervisor: David P. Goodall

ENSEEIHT  (Toulouse, France) - 2002-2005

MSc in Electrical and Control Engineering (Ingénieur en Génie Electrique et Automatique)

Final project at LAAS-CNRS (Toulouse) in 2005, entitled ``Unknown input observers for biological water treatment processes''

Supervisor: I. Queinnec

Editorial activities and services to the community

• Associate Editor for:

  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2022-)

  • IEEE Control Systems Letters (2017-2022)

  • Automatica (2016-2022)

  • IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information (2015-2017) 

• Executive guest editor for the NAHS special issue on event-triggered and self-triggered control (2023-)

• "Responsable adjoint" of the GdR MACS (2024-2028)

• Editor for IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (ACNDC) (2024)

• Member of the experts committee for control engineering for ``Techniques de l'Ingénieur" (2022-)

• Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board (2014-2017)

• Registration chair of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2024

• Editor for the IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos 2024

• Chair of the IEEE CSS Video Clip Contest 2022

• Tutorial session chair for CCTA 2022

• Member of the Technical Program Committee of CDC 2019 and 2015

• Member of the 2016 CDC best student paper award committee

• Member of the International Program Committee of the: 

  • ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC) (2024, 2023)

  • IFAC Conference of Modelling, Identification and Control of nonlinear systems (MICNON) (2024)

  • IFAC World Congress (2020)

  • IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS) (2024, 2021, 2018)

  • International Conference on Event-Based Control, Communication and Signal Processing (EBCCSP) (2017, 2016, 2015)

  • International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS) (2024, 2020, 2016, 2014)

  • IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR) (2022, 2020, 2018, 2016)

  • IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (NecSys) (2019, 2018, 2013)

  • International Conference on Systems and Control (2021)

Grants

• ``Contrat d'accompagnement CIFRE'' with Alstom, 2024-2027

• ANR (national grant): OLYMPIA (Control by neuro-dynamic programming: stability, robustness and optimality), 2024-2028 - Coordinator

• Industrial collaboration projects with SAFT, 2024-2025, 2023-2024, 2022-2023, 2021-2022, 2019-2020 - Coordinator

• Australian Research Council Discovery (ARC): When stabilization and optimization meet: a codesign approach, 2021-2023 - Partner investigator

• Australian Research Council Discovery (ARC): Enabling the Internet of Things (IoT): structured networked control systems, 2020-2022 - Partner investigator

• International Research Project (IRP-CNRS): advanced Autonomy for Robotic Systems, 2020 - Partner Investigator

• ANR (national grant): HANDY (Hybrid And Networked Dynamical sYstems), 2019-2022 - Unit leader

• Australian Research Council Discovery (ARC): Modelling, analysis and design of secure networked control systems, 2016-2020 - Partner investigator

• ``Contrat d'accompagnement CIFRE'' with SAFT, 2015-2018

• ``Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie'': NETASSIS ``Méthodes d'intelligence artificielle pour le contrôle en réseau de drones d'assistance'' with TU Cluj (Romania) - Participant

• PICS-CNRS AICOHNS, Artificial-intelligence-based optimization for the control of networked and hybrid systems with TU Cluj (Romania), 2015-2016 - Participant

• Hubert Curien-Brancusi Program: Artificial-intelligence-based optimization for the stable and optimal control of networked systems with TU Cluj (Romania), 2014-2015 - Participant 

• ANR (national grant): COMPACS (COMPutation Aware Control Systems), 2013-2017 - Participant

• ANR JCJC (national grant): SEPICOT (Study of the EpileptIc network using COntrol Theory), 2012-2016 - Coordinator

• PEPS-CNRS (national grant): APSE, 2011-2012 - Coordinator

• Actions Incitatives CRAN (local grant), 2011

Postdoc, Ph.D. students & M.Sc. students

• Ph.D. 

  • Robert Moldenhauer (with D. Nesic and M. Granzotto), since 2024 - Stochastic dynamic programming and stability

  • Hernando Hernandez (with S. Raël and P. Blondel), since 2024 - "Estimation de la perte irréversible de capacité d’une batterie Lithium-ion à l’aide d’un modèle électrochimique"

  • Jonathan de Brusse (with D. Nesic), since 2023 - Stabilizing, optimal control of interconnected systems by dynamic programing

  • Mira Khalil (with S. Raël), since 2022 - Observer design for multi-cell lithium-ion batteries

  • Elena Petri (with D. Nesic and D. Astolfi), 2020-2023 - Hybrid techniques for state estimation: event-triggered sampling and improved performance, now postdoc at TU Eindhoven

  • Simone Mariano (with L. Zaccarian), 2019-2023 - Contributions to the modeling, the analysis and the control of networked hybrid dynamical systems, now postdoc at the University of Melbourne

  • Mathieu Granzotto (with J. Daafouz), 2016-2019 - Near-optimal control of discrete-time nonlinear systems with stability guarantees, now postdoc at the University of Melbourne

  • Stefan Heijmans (with M. Heemels and D. Nesic),  2016-2019 - Exploring the uncharted territories of networked control systems  - Best DISC PhD award 2019, now working at DEMCON

  • Pierre Blondel (with S. Raël),  2015-2019 - ``Estimation d'état de batteries Lithium-ion'' (``thèse CIFRE'' with SAFT batteries), now working at Alstom Tarbes. 

  • Niek Borgers (with M. Heemels), 2014-2017 - Event-triggered control with robust communication and guaranteed performance, now working at Heidenhain Numeric

  • Mahmoud Abdelrahim (with J. Daafouz), 2011-2014 - Output feedback event-triggered control, now senior researcher at Prince Sultan University (Saudi Arabia)

• Postdoc

  • Pietro Lorenzetti (with I.-C. Morarescu), since 2023 - Integral control of nonlinear systems

  • Mathieu Granzotto (with D. Nesic), since 2020 -  Stability and near-optimality analysis of systems controlled by dynamic programming

  • Alejandro I. Maass (with D. Nesic), 2021-2023 - Structured networked control systems, now Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile)

  • Daniele Astolfi, 2016-2018 - Uniting observers and output regulation of networked control systems, now CNRS researcher at LAGEPP (France)

  • Vineeth Varma (with I.-C. Morarescu) 2015-2016 - Networked control systems, now CNRS researcher at CRAN (France)

  • Ying Tang (with A. Franci), 2015-2017 - Qualitative parameter estimation, now Associate Professor at Université de Lille I, CRIStAL (France)

• M.Sc. projects

  • Letizia Licitra (with J. Kreiss), 2024 - Modeling and control of Urbanloop pods

  • Romain Poiré (with S. Raël, D. Monier-Reyes, P.O. Lamare), 2024 - Hybrid estimation of lithium-ion cells with "flat chemistry": combining machine learning and observers

  • Timo de Groot, 2023 - Neuromorphic control of a bicycle

  • Meriem Roumane (with S. Raël and P.O. Lamare), 2023 - Estimation of lithium-ion batteries with flat output current voltage

  • Théo Rutschke (with S. Raël and P.O. Lamare), 2023 - State of charge and parameters on-line estimation for lithium-ion batteries

  • Jonathan de Brusse, 2023 - Discounted policy iteration for deterministic discrete-time systems

  • Jihane Chergaoui (with S. Raël and P.O. Lamare), 2022 - Low order estimation schemes for multi-cell batteries

  • Meryem Benzine (with S. Raël and S. Benjamin), 2021 - State of charge estimation of Lithium-ion batteries based on advanced equivalent electrical models

  • Youssef Insaf (with S. Raël and S. Benjamin), 2021 - State of charge and total capacity estimation for Lithium-ion batteries 

  • Olivier Lindamulage De Silva (with M. Granzotto), 2020 - Stability guarantees for discrete-time systems controlled by policy iteration

  • Alexandre Plante (with S. Raël), 2020 - Multi-material electrochemical batteries: Modelling and estimation

  • Sarah Chouchene (with S. Raël), 2020 - Review of estimation techniques based on electrical equivalent models for electrochemical batteries

  • Koen Scheres (with M. Heemels), 2019-2020 - Event-triggered control in presence of measurement noise: A space-regularization approach

  • Jomphop Veetaseveera (with P. Blondel), 2017 - ``Estimation d'état de modèles de batteries Lithium-ion à température variable''

  • Julian Cornec, 2016 - ``Commande à échantillonnage événementiel à partir de capteurs librement sélectionnés''

  • Mohammed Hacene Hamid (with S. Le Cam), 2012 - ``Reproduction et étude de l'activité neuronale à l'aide de modèles autorégressifs'' 

  • Marcos César Bragagnolo (with E. Castelan), 2012 - Event-triggered control: application to mobile robots

Teaching

ENSEM (Nancy, France) - since 2011

Linear and nonlinear control, event-triggered control, and mathematics for engineers (between 60h and 90 h/year)

Polytech Nancy (Nancy, France) - 2021-2022

Event-triggered control (around 12h/year)

Dutch Institute of Systems and Control, DISC (Netherlands) - since 2020

Modelling and control of hybrid systems (4h)

ENSIETA now ENSTA Bretagne (Brest, France) - 2006-2009

Part-time lecturer for the course entitled `Stability analysis and control of nonlinear systems'