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

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

Associate editor for ICSTCC Conference - since 2024

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

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

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.

• 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.