Guillaume Costeseque

• • • Intelligent Transportation Systems

    • Autonomous Vehicles

    • Data-driven traffic optimization

    • Road traffic flow modeling and simulation

Positions

2018 - present

• • • Project manager on traffic flow optimization and Intelligent Transportation Systems

    • Associate member of ITS research team (since June 2021)

    • Cerema Ouest, Mobility and Infrastructures Division 

2014 - 2018

• • • Postdoctoral Researcher at Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée,

    • OPALE and then ACUMES project-team

2011 - 2014

• • • Fellow of French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy (MEDDE)

    • Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and IFSTTAR, Marne la Vallée, 

    • CERMICS and GRETTIA labs 

Education

2021 - 2022

• Data Scientist - DataScientest & Mines Paris Executive Education (France)

• Project: RPC carsharing data analysis and modeling

2011 - 2014

• • • Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics - Université Paris-Est (France)

    • Thesis: Contribution to road traffic flow modeling on networks thanks to Hamilton-Jacobi equations

    • Advisors : Régis Monneau and Jean-Patrick Lebacque

2010 - 2011

• • • M.Sc. in Civil Engineering - Université de Lyon 1, INSA Lyon, Ecole Centrale Lyon, ENTPE (France)

    • Thesis: Modélisation du trafic routier : passage du microscopique au macroscopique 

    • Advisors : Régis Monneau and Jean-Patrick Lebacque

2008 - 2011

• • • Eng. Diploma in Transportation Engineering - Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'Etat (ENTPE) (France) 

    • Civil servant at Corps des Travaux Publics de l'Etat

    • Relevant courses and Internships

Distinctions

• • • SMAI "BOUM" grant for young researchers, 2016.

    • Secondment position at Inria Sophia-Antipolis (less than 10 recipients), 2014-2016 and 2016-2018.

    • First International Abertis Prize for Research in the dissertation category, awarded by the abertis-UPC Chair and the chaire abertis-École des Ponts ParisTech-IFSTTAR, 2012.

    • First abertis Award for Transport Infrastructure Management in the Masters category, awarded by the abertis chair in France (MSc. thesis), 2012.

    • PhD scholarship awarded by the French Ministry in charge of Transportation (less than 10 recipients), 2011-2014.

Teaching & mentoring

• • Teaching Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) to graduate students in engineering at ESTACA since 2022.

  • Teaching traffic flow theory & Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) to graduate students in urban engineering at Ecole Centrale de Nantes since 2019.

  • Mentoring:

    • • Evan LE HELLARD, MEng. Computer Science, ENSSAT, March-August 2022: automated traffic data analysis (subject).

      • Baldé MAHMOUD, MSc. Statistics and Data Sciences, Université de Grenoble Alpes, March-August 2021: automated traffic data analysis (subject).

  • Advisor for undergraduate students (from French Classes Préparatoires) since 2014: see "Outreach" section below.

Reviewing

• • International journals: Transportation Research part B: Methodological, Transportmetrica B, Physica A, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Numerische Mathematik, Journal of Engineering Mathematics, MDPI Applied Sciences, MDPI Artificial Intelligence, MDPI Sustainability, MDPI International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health...

  • International conferences: Meetings of the Euro Working Group on Transportation (EWGT), Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, Transport Research Arena (TRA), International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM), American Control Conference (ACC), IFAC symposium on Control in Transportation Systems (CTS)...

Organizing

• • Meeting "Journée Mobilité 3.0 : quels systèmes de transport intelligents dans les territoires du Grand Ouest ?", online, March 30, 2021.

  • Mini-symposium "HJtraffic2016: Homogenization of PDEs and application to road traffic", Institut Henry Poincaré (IHP), Paris, September 28, 2016.

  • ANR HJnet third meeting at Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP), Paris, January 28-29, 2014.

Media Coverage

• • • Radio interview (listen to the podcast on Soundcloud) for Euradio, August 2021.

    • Radio interview broadcast on France Inter, August 2015. 

    • Mais dis moi laitier, ton lait va tourner!, blog post on Mathématiques de la planète Terre, May 2013.

Material for traffic practitionners (in French)

• Ensemble des ressources du Cerema sur la gestion et la régulation intelligente des trafics

Material for students (in French)

• Travaux d'Initiative Personnelle Encadrés (TIPE) for Classes Préparatoires students :

  • • Complements on the macroscopic traffic modeling : TIPE : modélisation mathématique du trafic routier - Compléments sur l'approche macroscopique, February 2019. 

    • An introduction to traffic modeling : TIPE : modélisation mathématique du trafic routier, October 2018. 

• Interesting description of traffic (French TV show "C'est pas sorcier" and "Le monde de Jamy"):

  • • Quel trafic ! (1996!)

    • Autoroutes : les sorciers font sauter les bouchons (2006)

    • Comment se forment les bouchons ? (starring Aurélien Duret)

Interesting quote from pop culture

• "You hit the brakes for a second, just tap them on the freeway, you can literally track the ripple effect of that action across a two-hundred-mile stretch of road, because traffic has a memory. It's amazing. It's like a living organism." (Ethan Hunt, Impossible Mission III)