CV
Current Position
Senior Researcher (Directeur de Recherche) at CNRS; member of the Laboratory of Signals and Systems; since November 2015.
Head of the Systems and Control group of the Laboratory of Signals and Systems; since July 2021.
Co-chair of the International Graduate School of Control of the European Embedded Control Institute (EECI-IGSC); since January 2020.
Previous Positions
Assistant/Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) at Université Joseph Fourier (now Université Grenoble-Alpes); member of the Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann; from September 2006 to October 2015.
Temporary assignment (Délégation) at CNRS; member of GIPSA-lab; from September 2013 to August 2014.
Postdoctoral Researcher at Université Joseph Fourier (now Université Grenoble-Alpes); member of Verimag; from January to August 2006.
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Pennsylvania; member of GRASP Lab; from October 2004 to December 2005.
Ph.D. Student at Grenoble INP; member of the Laboratoire de Modélisation et Calcul; from October 2001 to September 2004.
Teaching Assistant at Ensimag; from October 2001 to September 2004.
Education
"Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" from Université Joseph Fourier (now Université Grenoble-Alpes), 2013.
Thesis: Computational approaches to analysis and control of hybrid systems.Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Grenoble INP, 2004.
Thesis: Analyse algorithmique des systèmes hybrides (supervisor: Jean Della Dora).Engineering degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from Ensimag, 2001.
Master degree in Applied Mathematics from Université Joseph Fourier (now Université Grenoble-Alpes), 2001.
Thesis: Etude de systèmes dynamiques hybrides affines par morceaux (supervisor: Jean Della Dora).
Honors and Awards
IEEE Fellow, 2024.
Plenary Speaker, International Conference on Systems and Control, Marseille, France, 2022.
Keynote Speaker, Modélisation des Systèmes Réactifs, MSR 2019, Angers, France.
Plenary Speaker, 3èmes Journées d'Automatique du GDR MACS, JAMACS 2018, Nantes, France.
Keynote Speaker, 7th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, NECSYS 2018, Groningen, The Netherlands.
European Control Award, 2018; from the European Control Association for Contributions to verification, approximation, and control of hybrid systems.
Plenary Speaker, European Control Conference, ECC 2018, Limassol, Cyprus.
Finalist, Best Student Paper Award (as advisor), European Control Conference, ECC 2018.
For the paper: On the composition of discrete and continuous-time assume-guarantee contracts for invariance, Adnane Saoud, Antoine Girard and Laurent Fribourg.Test of Time Award, Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, HSCC 2018.
For the paper: Reachability of uncertain linear systems using zonotopes, Antoine Girard, HSCC 2005.Keynote Speaker, 21st ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, HSCC 2018, Porto, Portugal.
Finalist, Best Student Paper Award (as co-author), Indian Control Conference, 2018.
For the paper: From dissipativity theory to compositional synthesis of symbolic models, Abdalla Swikir, Majid Zamani and Antoine Girard.ERC Consolidator Grant, 2016.
Junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, 2015.
CNRS Bronze Medal, 2014.
Finalist, Best Student Paper Award (as co-author), 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA.
For the paper: Clustering-based H2-state aggregation of positive networks and its application to reduction of chemical master equations, Takayuki Ishizaki, Kenji Kashima, Antoine Girard, Jun-ichi Imura, Luonan Chen and Kazuyuki Aihara.George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society, 2009.
For the paper: Approximation metrics for discrete and continuous systems, Antoine Girard and George J. Pappas, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 52(5):782-798, 2007.