Biography

Brief biography

Dimitri was born in Leningrad, USSR, in March 2nd, 1974.
Due to translation from Russian (Дмитрий Посель), his first name is 'Dmitry' in (most) french administative documents. Sometimes one may also find the spellings 'Dimitry', 'Dmitri' or even 'Dimtry'. In Russian administrative domuments he is also known as Дмитрий Жанович Коновалов. Konovalov is his mother's family name.

He received the "Diplôme d'Ingénieur" (Engineers' degree) from Ecole Centrale de Lille, France, in September 1997 and the "Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies" (Masters' Degree) from University of Science and Technology of Lille, France, that same year.

From October 1997 to July 2000 he was a Ph.D. student at Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS) research center of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Toulouse, France. He received the "Diplôme de Doctorat" (Ph.D. degree) from the Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France, in July 2000 and the "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" (French Habilitation) degree from that same university in December 2014.

Since October 2001 he is CNRS Researcher and starting from October 2015 he is senior Researcher.

Research interests

His research interests are in robust control, and extend to convex optimization over linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), periodic systems, time-delay systems and direct adaptive control. He is also involved in computer-aided control design activities and leads a project for control-oriented software development. He is the main contributor to the Robust Multiobjective Control (RoMulOC) Toolbox. He has been involved in several industrial projects with aerospace partners for launcher, aircraft, and satellite robust control.

Models Linear Time Invariant (LTI) systems in state-space and polynomial representations; Affine and rational dependency of the models with respect to uncertainties; Linear Fractional Transform (LFT) modelling; Polytopic and dissipative (ellispoidal) uncertainty domains; Positive real / Norm bounded uncertainties; Time-delay systems; Periodic systems; Positive systems; Descriptor systems; Linear systems with saturations.

Performances Stability, Robust stability, Quadratic stability; Pole location, Robust D-stability; Hinfinity norm, L2 gain, robust Hinfinity performance; H2 norm, impusle to norm, robust H2 performance; Impulse to peak performance, regions of attraction.

Control laws State-feedback; Full order, fixed order dynamic output feedback; Static output feedback; Ellipsoidal sets of controllers; Multi-performance, simultaneous performance design; Fragility, Resilience; Passivity-based adaptive control, Simple adaptive control; Discrete-time periodic control.

Theoretical framework Lyapunov theory; Topological separation, Integral Quadratic Separation (IQS), Integral Qaudratic Constraints (IQCs); mu-analysis; KYP-lemma; S-procedure; Passivity.

Numerical methods Semi Definite Programming (SDP); Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs); Algorithms for bilinear (non linear) matrix inequalities.

Applications Control of civil launchers; Control of turbofan engines; Control of civil aircrafts; Orbit and attitude control of satellites.

Science administration

IFAC - International Federation of Automatic Control

• 2020-2026 - Vice President for Operations of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Council Member, Secretary and Editor of the IFAC Newsletter.
• Since 2020 - Member of the IFAC Technical Committee TC 1.2 on Adaptive and Learning Systems
• Since 2020 - SAGIP (IFAC NMO in France) IFAC Chapter Advisory board member
• 2017-2020 - Member of the Policy Committee of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).
• 2017 - General Chair of the 20th IFAC World Congress
  Co-author of the Post-Congress report.
• 2014-2017 - Member of the Administrative and Finance Committee of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).
• Since 2009 - Member of the IFAC Technical Committee TC 2.5 on Robust Control

Comité national de le recherche scientifique

• 2019-2021 - Spokesperson for the coordination of instances of the Comité national (Porte-parole de la coordination des instances du comité national (C3N))
  Co-coordinateur de "La recherche publique en France en 2019: Diagnostic et propositions du Comité national"
• 2017-2021 - Member of the bureau of the Conference of Presidents of the Comité national de le recherche scientifique (Membre du bureau de la CPCN)
  Contributeur au "CPCN - Bilan de mandature 2016–2021"
• 2017-2021 - Elected member and president of Comité national de la recherche scientifique - CID50 that is in charge of evaluating CNRS researchers in the field of "research management". (Membre élu et Président de la CID50)
  Coordinateur de Commission interdisciplinaire 50 « Gestion de la recherche » - Rapport de conjoncture 2019
• 2016-2021 - Elected member of Comité national de la recherche scientifique - section 07 that is in charge of evaluating CNRS researchers in the field of information sciences (treatment, cyber-physical systems, robots, controls, images, contents, interactions, signals and languages). (Membre élu de la Section 07)
• 2013-2015 - Elected member of the Scientific Council of CNRS and scientific secretary of the council.
• 2010-2014 - Elected member of the Scientific Council of "Institute for Engineering and Systems Sciences" (Institut des sciences de l'ingénierie et des systèmes) of CNRS and invited at the Scientific Council of "Institute for Information Sciences and Technologies" (Institut des sciences informatiques et leurs intéractions) of CNRS.
• 2006-2010 - Elected member and scientific secretary of the Scientific Council of CNRS "Information and Engineering Sciences" Department (Membre élu (CR) et Secrétaire Scientifique au Conseil Scientifique du Département "Sciences et Techniques de l'information et de l'Ingénierie")

Groupement de recherche Modélisation Analyse et Conduite des Systèmes

• Since 2021 - Principal Investigator of GdR MACS CNRS network in Modelling, Analysis and Conduct of Systems
  Coordinateur de "Groupement de Recherche MACS - Bilan 2019-2023 et Projet 2024-2028"
• Since 2022 - Representative of GdR-MACS at the GdR-Robotics Scientific Council.
• 2019-2021 - Direction Committee Member of GdR MACS CNRS network in Modelling, Analysis and Conduct of Systems
  Coordinateur de "Dossier d'évaluation à mi-parcours du Groupement de Recherche en “Modélisation, Analyse et Conduite des Systèmes dynamiques” MACS"
• 2008 - 2014 Co-chair with Edouard Laroche of the french working group on Methods and Tools for Robust Analysis and Control Design (groupe de travail MOSAR du GdR MACS)

LAAS-CNRS and Université de Toulouse

• Since 2019 - Head of the DO (Decision and Optimization) department at LAAS-CNRS
  Coordinateur de "Bilan et prospectives 2019 du département Décision & Optimisation"
• 2018-2019 - Head of the MAC (Methods and Algorithms in Control) research team at LAAS-CNRS
• 2011-2015 - Elected member of the Scientific Council of University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, for the Mathematics, Engineering and Information Sciences field (conseil du pôle de recherche MST2I de l'Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III)
• 2007-2011 - Member of the Scientific Council of LAAS "Modeling, Optimization and Driving of Systems" pole (Membre du conseil du pôle MOCOSY du LAAS-CNRS)
• 2007-2008 - Member of the recruiters commission of INSA Toulouse for Computer Sciences, Control Theory and Electronics (Commission des Spécialistes (sections 61-63) de l'INSA Toulouse)
• 2003-2008 - Elected member of the LAAS Laboratory Council (conseil de laboratoire du LAAS-CNRS)

SNCS-FSU

• 2023-2027 - Elected member of the permanent committee of the National Council for Higher Education and Research (Membre élu de la commission permamente du Conseil national de l'enseignemet supérieur et de la recherche CNESER, membre de la commission d'études spécialisées "Emploi scientifique et conditions d'exercice de la recherche)
• 2021-2024 - Treasurer of SNCS, National Union of Scientific Researchers (Trésorier du SNCS-FSU)
• 2009-2024 - Membre du bureau national du SNCS-FSU
• 2008-2024 - Secrétaire de la section locale Midi-Pyrénées du SNCS-FSU
• 2005-2024 - Membre de la Commission Administrative du SNCS-FSU
• 2023-2026 - Représentant suppélant SNCS-FSU à la Formation de site spécialisée pou la santé, la sécuruté et les conditions de travail (F4SCT) de la Délégation régionale Occitanie Ouest du CNRS DR14.
• 2014-2022 - Représentant SNCS-FSU à la Commission régionale pour la formation permamnente de la Délégation régionale Occitanie Ouest du CNRS DR14.
• 2012-2022 - Représentant SNCS-FSU à la Commission régionale d'action sociale de la Délégation régionale Occitanie Ouest du CNRS DR14.
• 2006-2009 - Elu SNCS-FSU à la "Commission Administrative Paritaire" (CAP 2) du CNRS

Other

• Since 2018 - Co-Chair of the COMET-SCA Community of Experts for Automatic Control Systems of CNES
• Since 2010 - Member of IEEE-CSS Technical Committees on Systems with Uncertainty (TC-SU) and Computational Aspects of Control System Design (TC-CACSD)

Editorial activities

IFAC

• IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design ROCOND 2022 Program Committee Chair
• IFAC Newsletter Editor-in-Chief since 2020
• IFAC Workshop on Adaptive & Learning Control Systems ALCOS 2022 International Program Committee member
• Advances in Control & Optimization of Dynamical Systems ACODS 2022 International Program Committee member
• IFAC-PapersOnLine deputy Editor-in-Chief 2015-2020
• IFAC World Congress 2020 IPC Advisor
• 20th IFAC World Congress Co-Editor with D. Dochain and D. Henrion of the Congress Proceedings (Volume 50, Issue 1, Pages 1-15968 of IFAC-PapersOnLine)
• IFAC symposium on Robust Control Design: Program committee member for 2006 and 2015 events.
• IFAC conference on Modelling, Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems: Program committee member for 2015 event.

IEEE

• IEEE Conference on Decision and Control CDC 2021 Vice Program Chair
• IEEE-CSS Conference Editorial Board: Associate Editor since 2015.
• IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control: Associate editor for 2010, 2013 and 2016 events.

EUCA

• IPC Chair for the 2020 event.
• Member of the ECC Conference Editorial Board since 2017 and Editor at large since 2021.
• European Control Conference: Associate Editor for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021 events.
• European Journal of Control (EJC): Guest co-Editor for special issue vol:12 no:1 2006.

Other

• 2nd International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems & Control CPS&C'2021 International Scientific Programme Committee member
• International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics: Program committee member for 2015 event, program committee co-chair for 2016 event. Co-Editor with K. Madani and O. Gusikhin of the "Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - 13th International Conference, ICINCO 2016 Lisbon, Portugal, 29-31 July, 2016" Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
• Journées doctorales du GdR MACS: Program committee member for 2013 event.
• European Journal of Automation (JESA): Guest co-Editor for special issues vol:46 no:4-5 2012 and vol:44 no:6 2010.

Expertise

HdR committees

• Semi-Definite Programming Methods for the Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Systems, by Giorgio Valmorbida. December 2021. Rapporteur.
• Discrete constraints in control: Discontinuous feedback under sampled-data and switching implementations, by Laurentiu Hetel. June 2017.

PhD committees

• Stability analysis of inear ODE-PDE interconnected systems, by Mathieu Bajodek 8 July 2022. President of the committee.
• Opponent for the PhD Thesis of Belyaev Mikhail at ITMO 2020.
• A piecewise-affine approach to nonlinear performance, by Sérgio Waitman July 2018. President of the committee.
• Contribution à la commande robuste des systèmes incertains : approche polynomiale, by Houda Meddeb October 2017. President of the committee.
• Synthèse et validation de lois de commande de vol robustes en présence d'incertitudes paramétriques et de non-linéarités, by Jérémy Lesprier. December 2015. President of the committee.
• Estimation robuste pour les systèmes incertains, by Benoît Bayon. December 2012.
• Trajectory control in curves, towards the perceptive-ESC: through a piecewise affine approach, by André Benine-Neto. November 2011.

Recuiting committees

• Member of the CNRS recuiting committee in the field of "research management" 2016-2021.
• Member of the CNRS recuiting committee in the field of information sciences (treatment, cyber-physical systems, robots, controls, images, contents, interactions, signals and languages) 2016-2021.
• Member of recruiting committeee of an Associate professor at Centrale Lille Institut 2021
• Member of recruiting committeee of a Professor at Centrale Lille Institut 2020 - Alexandre Kruszewski was recruited.
• Member of recruiting committeee of an Associate professor at Ecole Centrale de Lyon 2013 - Laurent Bako was recruited.
• Member of recruiting committeee of an Associate professor at INSA Toulouse 2008.
• Member of recruiting committeee of an Associate professor at INSA Toulouse 2007 - Nicolas Jozefowiez was recruited.

Visiting committees

• LS2N (Laboratoires des sciences du numérique de Nantes). Member of the HCERES visiting committee and Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique representative - May 2021.
• CRAN (Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy). Member of the HCERES visiting committee and Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique representative - November 2016.

Other

• Membre du Jury du Prix de Thèse 2016 du GDR Robotique
• Membre du comité de suivi de thèse de Anthony Bourdelle, Andrea Brugnoli, Eric Nguyen Van.

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