Curriculum Vitae

Short bio

I was born in Lyon (France) in 1993. I received my electrical engineer degree from INSA Lyon and a MsC Degree from Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in a double degree program, both in 2016. In 2019, I received the Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control from INSA Lyon. From October 2019 to August 2020, I joined Ecole Centrale de Lyon as a teaching assistant and I became an assistant professor in September 2020 at Université de Lorraine.

Employment history

Associate professor (maître de conférences) at Université de Lorraine (Nancy, France) - since 2020

Teaching assistant at Ecole Centrale de Lyon (Lyon, France) - 2019-2020

Education

Ph.D. in Control and Power Electronics at INSA Lyon (Lyon, France) - 2016-2019

Ph.D thesis: Control allocation for electrotechnics and power electronics.  

Supervisors: Xuefang Lin-Shi, Romain Delpoux, Jean-Yves Gauthier, Jean-François Trégouët.

M.Sc. in Control Theory at Université de Lyon (Lyon, France) - Double Degree Program - 2015-2016

MsC thesis: Optimal control for discrete time switched systems.

Supervisors: Eric Blanco, Laurent Bako

Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering at INSA Lyon (Lyon, France) with honor - 2011-2016

Specialization: control for power electronics. 

Editorial activities

Tutorial session chair for the 64th IEEE CDC - Analysis and Design of Input Redundant Systems - 2025

Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board - since 2025

Associate editor for ICSTCC Conference - since 2024

I am frequently contacted for the review of international journal and conferences papers (IEEE TAC, Automatica, IEEE TCST, CEP,  IFAC NAHS, IFAC MTNS, CDC, ACC, ECC, IFAC WC).

Academic responsabilities

Scientific animator for the MODEL project - since 2026

Program coordinator of the digital system engineering track through apprentriceship (ISN FISA) of ENSEM - since 2024

Grants

ANR (french national grant): CASIMIR - Coordinator - 2026-2030

ADEME (french agency for ecological transition): SMARTFLUID - Participant - 2025-2029

ANR (french national grant): COMMITS - Unit leader - 2024-2028

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

Postdoc

• Gal Barkai: "Distributed control for autonomous railway pods", since 2025, with V. Varma

Ph.D.  students

• Weihao Wang: "Urbanloop control: from individual pods to network", since 2024, with R. Postoyan.

• Valessa Viana Valentim: "Input redundancy for switched systems", 2022-2025, with M. Jungers - Recipient of the IAEM Doctoral School Ph.D. Award.

• Aurélien Pierron: "Control of electric arc furnaces", 2021-2025, with M. Jungers and J. Dupont.

M.Sc.  students

• Letizia Licitra: "Modeling and control of Urbanloop pods", 2024, with R. Postoyan.

• Aurélien Pierron: "Improvement of the regulation system of an arc furnace", 2021, with M. Jungers and J. Dupont.