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I visited Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin and Tongji University, Shanghai in China and gave several invited lectures (June-July 2025).

Thomas officially joins my team as a Master intern. Welcome Thomas! (June 2025).

One paper about Finite and Fixed-time Feedback-Based Continuous-time Optimization has been accepted to the most prestigious control journal Automatica (June 2025).

I serve as an Associate Editor for ICSC'25 (June 2025).

One review paper about Offline and Online Use of Interval and Set-Based Approaches for Control and State Estimation: A Selection of Methodological Approaches and Their Application has been accepted to LMCS (June 2025).

One paper about Distributed Hybrid Dynamic Event-Triggered Bipartite Consensus Control for Multi-Agent Systems Against DoS Attacks has been accepted to TCAS-I (June 2025).

One paper about Systematic interval observer design for linear systems has been accepted to the most prestigious control journal Automatica (June 2025).

One abstract about Polytope-Based Interval State Estimation for an Electrochemical Model of a Lithium-Ion Battery has been accepted for oral presentation at SWIM2025 (June 2025).

I serve as Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Observer Design, Observer-Based Control, and Their Implementation in Practical Settings" for the journal Measurement and Control. Plese check the website and submit your papers before November 29, 2025. I can offer free processing charges. Please contact me should you require further information (May 2025). 

I have been selected to receive the Springer Nature Editorial Contribution Award for my contributions to Nonlinear Dynamics (May 2025).

My two-month extension of my HWK fellowship has been approved (May 2025).

Two articles about Data-driven design of feedback control for linear systems and $L_1$-Gain-Based Interval Observers for Continuous-Time LPV Systems are accepted to ICCAD'25 (April 2025).

I have been appointed as one of the first 16 Adjunct Professors at VNUHCM under its prestigious Adjunct Professor Program (April 2025).

Milestone: 1500+ citations according to Google Scholar (April 2025).

I start my three-month fellowship at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg – Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst (March 2025).

I visited Quy Nhon University, Binh Dinh, Vietnam (February 2025).

One paper about Distributed Prescribed-Time Unknown Input Observers has been accepted to the most prestigious control journal IEEE TAC (January 2025).

Two articles about quantitative interval estimation design of time-delay systems and adaptive observer design of quantum systems are accepted to the flagship control conference ACC 2025 (January 2025).

One paper about Robust interval estimation of state and unknown inputs for linear continuous-time systems: An L1−gain Characterization has been accepted to EJC (December 2024).

Milestone: 1400+ citations according to Google Scholar (December 2024).

We organize the Spring School on Time-Delay Control Systems and Advanced Computer Networks. Visit the website for details. Deadlines: Participation grant - January 17, 2025, Registration (free but mandatory) - February 2, 2025 (December 2024). 

Wissam officially joins my team as a Ph.D. student. Welcome Wissam! (December 2024).

I will chair the session Modeling, Control and Optimisation of Nonlinear Systems with Applications in the frame of ARCAI 2024 (November 2024).

One paper about Quantitative Interval State Estimation for Time-delay Systems has been accepted to L-CSS (November 2024).

I am in the IPC of the IFAC COSY 2025 (Gif-sur-Yvettes, France) which will be held jointly with IFAC SSSC and IFAC TDS. Please consider to submit your papers! (October 2024).

One article about Robust Stability Analysis of Interval Observer for Linear Continuous-time Systems: An $L_1$-gain Characterization is accepted to ICSC'2024 (September 2024).

One article about Interval Estimation for Uncertain Discrete-Time Switched Linear Systems using $H_\infty$ Observer and Zonotopic Techniques is accepted to SSGP'24 (September 2024).

Milestone: 1300+ citations according to Google Scholar (Septembre 2024).

One paper about Lyapunov-Based Prescribed-Time Stabilization Control of Quantum Systems has been accepted to IJC (August 2024).

One article about Interval Observer for Battery and Motor Circuit Model of Electric Vehicles is accepted to ARCAI 2024 (July 2024).

Two papers about interval observer for two families of discrete-time nonlinear and multi-agent systems, respectively, are accepted to the flagship control conference IEEE CDC (July 2024).

Milestone: 1200+ citations according to Google Scholar (June 2024).

I am in the Scientific Committee of SSGP'24. Please submit your papers before July 31, 2024! (June 2024).

I am in the International Advisory Board and serve as an Editor for NODYCON'25 which is a biennial conference in various aspects of nonlinear dynamics. Please submit your papers before November 8, 2024! (May 2024).

One paper about A Unified KKL-based Interval Observer for Nonlinear Discrete-time Systems has been accepted to L-CSS (April 2024).

One paper about Interval Analysis for Neural Networks with Application to Fault Detection has been accepted to SCIS (April 2024).

One paper about Active fault control based on interval observer for discrete-time linear switched systems has been accepted to EJC (March 2024).

Wissam officially joins my team as a Master intern. Welcome Wissam! (March 2024).

I serve as an Associate Editor for JFI (March2024).

Milestone: 1100+ citations according to Google Scholar (March 2024).

I am invited to give a 90-minute lecture for the Winter Shool Set4MOST at Ecole Centrale Lille, France on Tuesday, February 13, 2024 (February 2024).

One paper about A Minimum Operator Based Discrete Variable Structure Control  has been accepted to EJC (January 2024)

I serve as an Associate Editor for L-CSS and a Subject Editor for Nonlinear Dynamics (January 2024).

One paper about Prescribed-Time Optimal Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems with Application to a Coupled Tank System has been accepted to IEEE T-ASE (December 2023).

One paper about Observer-Based Output Consensus Control Scheme for Strict-Feedback Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems with Disturbances has been accepted to IEEE TNSE (December 2023).

Milestone: 1000+ citations according to Google Scholar (November 2023).

Achivement: I got the prestigious HWK Regular Fellowship. I will be joining the Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst, Germany for a period of research from March 01, 2025 to May 31, 2025 (November 2023).

Achievement: I have received the Individual RIPEC Bonus for three years, from October 01, 2023 to September 30, 2026, in recognition of my excellence in research (November 2023).

I have been elected to the Cedric-lab council for a 4-year term from 2023 to 2027 (November 2023).

Dumitru officially joins my team as a Ph.D. student. Welcome Dumitru! (November 2023).

We are editing a peer-reviewed book which will be published by Springer. Please check the call for papers and submit abstracts before October 15, 2023 October 30, 2023 (September 2023).

One paper about Neuroadaptive Prescribed-Time Consensus of Uncertain Nonlinear Multi-agent Systems is accepted to IEEE TCSII (July 2023).

Two articles about interval observer for discrete-time nonlinear systems and discrete-time linear switched systems are accepted to the flagship control conference IEEE CDC (July 2023).

Milestone: 900+ citations according to Google Scholar (June 2023).

I am in the organizing committee of ICPEC'23 which is a biennial conference. Please check the CFP and submit your papers before August 31st 2023! (June 2023).

I am in the organizing committee of ICCAIS 2023 as a technical co-chair. Please check the CFP and submit your papers before July 15th, 2023! (June 2023).

I will chair the session Set-Valued Approaches to Control and Estimation of Uncertain Systems I in the frame of IFAC WC 2023 (May 2023).

One paper about Distributed Interval Observers for Multiple Euler–Lagrange Systems has been accepted to Mathematics (April 2023).

One paper about Predefined Time Synchronization of Multi-agent Systems: A Passivity Based Analysis has been accepted to Sensors (April 2023).

One paper about Real-time reachable set estimation for linear time-delay systems based on zonotopes has been accepted to International Journal of Systems Science (March 2023).

Two articles about functional interval observer design and zonotope-based fault estimation  are accepted to the conference IFAC WC (March 2023).

Our edited book about Fractional-Order System: Control Theory and Applications has been published online. Please check (March 2023).

One paper about Functional Interval Observer Design for Multivariable Linear Parameter Varying Systems has been accepted to EJC (February 2023).

Khai officially joins my team as a Ph.D. student. He got the France Exellence scholarship (January 2023).

One paper about Fixed-Time Event-Triggered Control Under Denial-of-Service Attacks  has been accepted to EJC (December 2022).

I join the  Youth Editorial Board of the journal Complex Engineering Systems (November 2022).

I will chair the session Complex Systems: Recent Advances in Robust Observation and Control in the frame of COSY 2022 (October 2022).

One paper about Vector Control Lyapunov Function based Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems in Predefined Time  has been accepted to the most prestigious control journal IEEE TAC (October 2022).

One paper about Asymptotic Convergence Unknown Input Observer Design via Interval Observer has been accepted to the most prestigious control journal Automatica (September 2022).

One paper about Event-triggered Interval Estimation Method for Cyber-physical Systems with Unknown Inputs has been accepted to ISA Transactions. The share link provides free access until November 16, 2022 (September 2022).

One paper about Global Exponential Synchronization of Discrete-Time High-Order Switched Neural Networks has been accepted to Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems. The share link provides free access until November 15, 2022 (September 2022).

One open invited track  on "Set-Valued Approaches to Control and Estimation of Uncertain Systems" has been accepted to IFAC WC 2023. Please submit your paper in this track with the track code td76r (September 2022).

One chapter about Interval Observers Design for Discrete-Time Linear Switched Systems has been published online in SSDC book series of Springer (August 2022).

One paper about Global exponential stability for a class of two-coupled-hub nonlinear genetic regulatory networks with time-varying delays has been accepted to Neurocomputing. The share link provides free access until October 19, 2022 (August 2022).

One paper about Analysis Method for Global Exponential Stability of Discrete-Time High-Order Neural Networks with Time-Varying Delays has been accepted to IEEE ICUS 2022 (August 2022).

One paper about Finite-Time Observers design for a Discrete-Time Switched Linear System is accepted to COSY 2022 (July 2022).

One paper about A Passivity based Approach to Synchronize Multi-agent Systems in Predefined Time is accepted to IECON 2022 (July 2022).

One paper about Finite Difference-Collocation Method for Generalized Fractional Diffusion Equation is accepted to Fractal Fract (July 2022).

Milestone: 700+ citations according to Google Scholar (June 2022).

Give oral presentation in ACC2022 [program] (June 2022).

One article about Robust Iterative Learning Observers Based on a Combination of Stochastic Estimation Schemes and Ellipsoidal Calculus is accepted to the FUSION 2022 (May 2022).

We organize the invited session: 'Complex Systems: Recent advances in Robust Observation and Control' (identification code: p69n7) in the frame of COSY2022. Please see the proposal and submit your papers before May 31, 2022 (April 2022).

I am the chair of the hybrid workshop VNCR2022, please submit your talks before May 22, 2022 (April 2022).

One article about Interval observer-based supervision of Nonlinear Networked Control Systems is accepted to the Turk J Elec Eng & Comp Sci (March 2022).

One article about Stochastic Design Approach for Iterative Learning Observers is accepted to the flagship control conference ECC 2022 (February 2022).

I join the Editorial Board of the journal Frontiers in Control Engineering as an Associate Editor (February 2022).

One article about Robust Interval Observer for Systems Described by the Fornasini-Marchesini Second Model is accepted for presentation at the flagship control conference ACC 2022 (February 2022).

I am in the IPC of two IFAC Conferences: SSSC 2022 (Montreal, Canada) and COSY 2022 (Bologna, Italy). Please consider to submit your papers! (January 2022).

One article about Robust Interval Observer for Systems Described by the Fornasini-Marchesini Second Model is accepted to IEEE L-CSS (December 2021).

One article about Interval Observer Design for Nonlinear Systems using Simplified Contraction Theory is accepted to IET CTA (December 2021).

One article about Outlier-robust set-membership estimation for discrete-time linear systems is accepted to IJRNC (December 2021).

I am invited to chair two sessions ThBA and FrBA for the conference ICSC 2021 (November 2021).

I am invited to serve as a guess editor of the Special Issue "Estimation and Control-Based Set-Valued Methods of Uncertain Systems " for the journal Frontiers in Control Engineering. Please check the website and submit your abstracts before 15/12/2021 (October 2021).

One article about $L_{\infty}$ interval observers design for actuator fault detection of discrete-time linear switched systems is accepted to ICSC 2021 (October 2021)

Milestone: 600+ citations according to Google Scholar (October 2021).

One article about a [K,KL] sector based Hands-off control with quantization parameter mismatch is accepted to IEEE TCSII (October 2021).

I am a Technical Program Chair of The Workshop on Power, Energy, and Cybernetics which will be held online on 18-19 December 2021. Please consider to submit a presentation abstract! (September 2021).

It is an honour and a privilege to be invited to give a two-hour lecture at Xidian Universiy, China on  Friday 03/09/2021 via Tencent. Please check the poster for more information (August 2021).

One article about fast interval estimation for discrete-time linear systems is accepted to the most prestigious control journal Automatica (August 2021).

One article about $H_{\infty}$ interval observer for discrete-time linear switched systems with unknown inputs is accepted to ICCAD 2021 (August 2021).

Two articles about interval estimation for discrete-time systems with unknown inputs are accepted to the flagship control conference IEEE CDC (July 2021).

Andreas Rauh, Tarek Raïssi and myself, we organize the invited session: 'Estimation and Control-Based Interval Methods of Uncertain Systems' in the frame of ICSC'21. Please check the CfP and submit your papers with the identification code 8bei6 before September 5, 2021. Thanks! (July 2021).

One article about interval observer based on reduced-order observer is accepted to IJC. Please check 50 free online copies (June 2021).

One article about zonotopic Kalman filter-based interval estimation is accepted to LCSS (May 2021).

One article about robust sensor fault detection for LPV systems using interval observer is accepted to ESREL 2021 (May 2021).

I am invited to serve as a guess editor of the Special Issue "Fractional-Order Systems: Control Theory and Applications" for the journal Fractal and Fractional. Plese check the website and submit your papers before 08/02/2022. I can offer free processing charges to 5 high quality articles. Please contact me should you require further information (May 2021). 

I am in the organizing committee of MSR 2021 which is a biennial colloquium in French. Please check the CFP and submit your papers before 31/05/2021! (February 2021).

Milestone: 500+ citations according to Google Scholar (October 2020).

One article about unknown input interval observers for discrete-time linear switched systems is accepted to EJC (September 2020).

Achievement: Our team won GdR SEEDS grant for a master internship recruitment (September 2020).

I am in the organizing committee of ISPEC 2020 which is a fully virtual and free international conference. Please submit your papers before 01/10/2020! (September 2020).

One article about two-step interval estimation method for discrete-time switched systems is accepted to the flagship control conference IEEE CDC (July 2020).

One article about two-step interval estimation method for discrete-time switched systems is accepted to L-CSS (May 2020).

One article about optimal interval observer for switched Takagi-Sugeno systems is accepted to IEEE TFS (May 2020).

Four articles about interval observer / interval estimation for various famillies of dynamical systems are accepted to IFAC WC 2020 (February 2020).

One article about fixed-time interval estimation is accepted to ACC 2020 (January 2020).

A brand new website of the Cédric Lab has been launched here. Please take a look and check regularly our offers. My entry can be seen here (January 2020).

Milestone: 400+ citations according to Google Scholar (January 2020).

IPC member of IC_ASET'2020 (December 2019).

Give two oral presentations and chair one session in SysTol 2019 [program] (September 2019).

Give oral presentation in ICONS19 [program] (August 2019).

Achievement: As the holder and lead researcher ("porteur"), I won a RFSI grant for a postdoc recruitment (July 2019).

Two articles about Finite-time guaranteed state estimation and Supervision of Nonlinear NCS are accepted to SysToL 2019 (June 2019).

One article about sliding mode control of uncertain fractional order systems is accepted to AJC (June 2019).

I give tutorial Ecole MACS in Bordeaux, France: Guaranteed state estimation where time is essential (June 2019).

One article about an approach to interval observers for T-S systems with attractiveness guarantees is accepted to SICE 2019 (May 2019).

One article about Interval estimation of switched T-S systems with unmeasurable premise variables is accepted to ICONS 2019 (May 2019).

We are looking for a PhD candidate for a project joint with the French Aerospace Lab (ONERA), see here (April 2019).

I visited and gave a seminar at Ito Laboratory, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Fukuoka, Japan (February - March 2019).

I am nominated by the Cedric-Lab direction as a member of the Laboratory council (February 2019).

One article about optimal interval observer for discrete-time linear switched systems is accepted to IJC (January 2019).

Milestone: 300+ citations according to Google Scholar (January 2019).

One article about fixed-time observer for switched nonlinear time-varying systems is accepted to AJC (January 2019).

I join the IPC of IC_ASET'19 (December 2018).

Publons Peer Review Awards 2018: Top 1% in Engineering (September 2018).

Give oral presentation in ECC18 [program] (June 2018).

I join the Editorial Board of the journal Complexity (May 2018).

One paper about interval observers for discrete-time linear switched systems is accepted to ECC18 (Febuary 2018).

My article (with H. Ito) entitled "Interval Observers for global feedback control of nonlinear systems with robustness w.r.t. disturbances" is now available online here providing 50 days' free access (17 January 2018).

One article about interval observers for global feedback control of nonlinear systems with robustness w.r.t. disturbances is accepted to EJCON (Octobre 2017).

I join Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers as tenure-track Associate Professor, i.e. Maître de Conférence in France (September 2017).

Achievement: rank 1 in the 2017 competitive examination for Associate Professor position 4160 (concours MCF) at CNAM, Paris (June 2017).

One book chapter about feedback transformation and iISS in designing robust interval observers is published by Springer (April 2017).

Milestone: 200+ citations according to Google Scholar (March 2017).

Give invited talk in the Working Group on Hybrid Systems of GDR MACS at ISIR lab (March 2017).

One article about decentralization of interval observers for robust controlling is accepted to SICE JCMSI (January 2017).

Give a seminar at LAMIH Lab (November 2016).

I join Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis as Temporary Assistant Professor (September 2016).

Give oral presentation in ECC16 [program] (June 2016).

One paper about feedback transformation and iISS in designing robust interval observers is accepted to POSTA2016 (June 2016).

One paper about decentralized interval observer-based control is accepted to SICE16 (June 2016).

Give invited talk at Shizuoka University hosted by Prof. Hitoshi Katayama (May 2016).

Milestone: 100+ citations according to Google Scholar (March 2016).

Give oral presentation in SICE ISCS 2016 [program] (March 2016).

One paper about continuous-discrete interval observer is accepted to ECC16 (March 2016).

One paper about robust interval observer for nonlinear systems is accepted to SICE ISCS 2016 (December 2015).

I join Kyushu Institute of Technology as a JSPS visiting foreign researcher (August 2015).

Achievement: I am awarded JSPS Fellowship which is the most prestigious postdoctoral program in Japan (March 2015).