Current research associates

  • Llorenç Balada Gaggioli (Univ. Manchester - TENORS European Network PhD student since Oct 24) - Tensors and quantum optimal control. Co-supervised with Jakub Marecek (Czech Tech Univ Prague) and Milan Korda (LAAS-CNRS Univ. Toulouse and Czech Tech. Univ. Prague).
  • Charlie Lebarbé (ISAE Supaéro Toulouse - PhD student since Oct 24) - Moment-SOS hierarchy for nonlinear PDE control. Co-supervised with Michel Fournié (ISAE Supaéro Toulouse), Emilien Flayac (ISAE Supaéro Toulouse) and Milan Korda (LAAS-CNRS Univ. Toulouse and Czech Tech. Univ. Prague).
  • Karolína Sehnalová (Czech Tech. Univ. Prague - Roboprox PhD student since Sep 24) - Moment-SOS hierarchy for calculus of variations and optimal control. Co-supervised with Martin Kruzik (UTIA Czech Acad. Sci Prague) and Milan Korda (LAAS-CNRS Univ. Toulouse and Czech Tech. Univ. Prague).
  • Stephan Weis (Roboprox fellow from Jun 24 at Czech Tech. Univ. Prague) - Convex analysis and calculus of variations.
  • Saroj Chhatoi (Inst. Math. Sci. Chennai - PhD Jan 23 - Dec 25) - Optimal control for constrained dynamical systems using Liouville equation and semidefinite optimization. Co-supervised with Annel Tanwani (LAAS-CNRS Toulouse).

    Past research associates

  • Arnaud Robert (Kath. Univ. Leuven - PhD Jan - Jun 24) - Polynomial optimization for Nash equilibria.
  • Tomas Votroubek (Czech Tech. Univ. Prague - PhD Mar - Apr 24) - Quadratic optimization for inverse kinematics. Barrande Fellowship of fhe French Institute in Prague and Czech Ministry of Education.
  • Roberto Rubinacci (Politecnico di Milano - PhD Sep - Dec 23) - Polynomial optimization for trajectory planning of drones (supervised by Marco Lovera at Politecnico di Milano).
  • Antonio Bellon (Univ Padova - PhD Sep 19 - Aug 23) - Time-varying semidefinite programming. Co-supervised with Jakub Marecek (Czech Tech Univ Prague) and Vyacheslav Kungurtsev (Czech Tech Univ Prague). PhD thesis manuscript. From 23 post-doctoral fellow with Andre Uschmajew at Augsburg Univ, Germany.
  • Nicolas Augier (ENS Cachan - Post-doc Sep 21 - Oct 22) - Quantum optimal control. Co-supervised with Milan Korda, Jean Bernard Lasserre and Victor Magron. From 23 CNRS researcher at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse.
  • Jared Miller (Northeastern Univ Boston - PhD Jan - Jun 22) - Nonlinear and Time-Delay Systems Analysis using Occupation Measures (supervised by Mario Sznaier at Northeastern Univ Boston). Chateaubriand fellowship of the Embassy of France in the United States. From 23 post-doctoral fellow with Roy Smith, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Cédric Le Texier (Univ Oslo - Post-doc Feb 22 - Jun 22) - Tropicalizing hyperbolic programming. Co-supervised with Mateusz Skomra (LAAS-CNRS).
  • Marianne Souaiby (Univ Paris Sud Orsay - PhD Nov 18 - Oct 21) - Lyapunov Functions and Ensemble Approximations for Constrained Systems using Semidefinite Programming. Co-supervised with Aneel Tanwani (LAAS-CNRS Toulouse). PhD thesis manuscript. From Nov 21 with Capgemini, Blagnac.
  • Matteo Tacchi (ENS Lyon and Ecole des Ponts Paris - PhD Oct 17 - Jun 21) - Moment-SOS hierarchy for large scale set approximation. Application to power systems transient stability analysis. Co-supervised with Jean Bernard Lasserre (LAAS-CNRS Toulouse), Carmen Cardozo (RTE Paris) and Patrick Pantiatici (RTE Paris). PhD thesis manuscript. From Sep 21 post-doctoral fellow with Colin Jones (EPFL Lausanne). From Feb 23 CNRS researcher at GIPSA Univ. Grenoble.
  • Daniel Wagner (Missouri Univ Sci tech - PhD Oct 16 - Mar 21) - Measures and LMIs for V&V of Adaptive Control. Co-supervised with Martin Hromcik (Czech Tech Univ Prague). PhD thesis manuscript. From Apr 21 with Ball Aerospace, Boulder, Colorado. From Oct 22 with Lockheed Martin, California.
  • Quentin Vila (ENS Lyon Msc Oct 18 - Mar 19 and PhD Sep 19 - Dec 20) - Moments, positive polynomials and applications for nonlinear PDEs. Co-supervised with Jean Bernard Lasserre (LAAS-CNRS Toulouse). From Jan 21 PhD student supervised by Thierry Gallay at Institut Joseph Fourier, Grenoble.
  • Paul Rousse (Centrale-Supélec Paris and KTH Stockholm - PhD Oct 17 - Oct 20) - Semidefinite programming for embedded control systems validation. Co-supervised with Pierre-Loïc Garoche (ONERA Toulouse). PhD thesis mansucript. From Apr 21 with Airbus UpNext.
  • Swann Marx (ENS Cachan and Univ Grenoble - Post-doc Oct 17 - Sep 19) - Occupation measures for nonlinear partial differential equations. Co-supervised with Jean Bernard Lasserre (LAAS-CNRS Toulouse). From Oct 19 CNRS researcher at LS2N Univ. Nantes.
  • Guillaume Davy (ENS Cachan - PhD Oct 15 - Sep 18) - Generation of codes and provable annotations of interior-point algorithms for critical embedded systems. Co-supervised with Pierre-Loïc Garoche (ONERA Toulouse). PhD thesis manuscript (in French). From Jan 19 to May 19 post-doctoral fellow at ISAE Toulouse. From May 19 with Alstom, Saint-Ouen, Paris.
  • Tillmann Weisser (Univ. Konstanz - PhD Oct 15 - Oct 18) - Computing approximations and generalized solutions using moments and positive polynomials. Co-supervised with Jean Bernard Lasserre (LAAS-CNRS Toulouse). PhD thesis manuscript. From Nov 18 post-doctoral fellow at the Los Alamos National Lab, USA. Since Sep 20 mathematics teacher in Germany.
  • Roxana Hess (Univ. Konstanz - PhD Oct 14 - Sep 17) - Some approximation schemes in polynomial optimization. Co-supervised with Jean-Bernard Lasserre (LAAS-CNRS Toulouse). PhD thesis manuscript. Since Nov 17 with INIT Innovation in Traffic Systems SE Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • Jérémy Rouot (ENSIMAG Grenoble and INRIA Nice - Post-doc Dec 16 - Aug 17) - Nonconvex optimal control and calculus of variations. Co-supervised with Jean Bernard Lasserre. Now with Univ. Brest.
  • Joe Kileel (Univ. California Berkeley - PhD Jul - Oct 16) - Polynomial optimization and computer vision. Supervised by Bernd Sturmfels (Univ. California Berkeley). Chateaubriand fellowship of the Embassy of France in the United States. Since Sep 17 post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University. Since 2020 Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
  • Simon Duverger (INSA Toulouse - PhD Oct 15 - Sep 16) - Semidefinite programming for embedded control systems validation. Co-supervised with Pierre-Loïc Garoche (ONERA Toulouse).
  • Pavel Trutman (Czech Tech. Univ. Prague - BSc Jul - Aug 15) - Semidefinite programming for polynomial optimization in computer vision. Co-supervised with Tomas Pajdla (Czech Tech. Univ. Prague). Since Sep 16 Master and PhD Student at the Czech Tech. Univ. Prague, supervised by Tomas Pajdla.
  • Simone Naldi (Univ. Florence - PhD Oct 12 - Sep 15) - Exact algorithms for determinantal varieties and semidefinite programming - Co-supervised with Mohab Safey El Din (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris). PhD thesis manuscript. From Oct 15 to Feb 16, post-doctoral fellow at the Fields Institute in Toronto, Canada. From Mar 16, post-doctoral fellow with Prof. Daniel Plaumann at Dortmund Univ., Germany. Since Sep 17 Associate Professor at the University of Limoges.
  • Edouard Pauwels (Ecole des Mines de Paris - Post-doc Jan - Sep 14) - Polynomial optimization. Co-supervised with Jean-Bernard Lasserre (LAAS-CNRS Toulouse). From Oct 14 to Sep 15, post-doctoral fellow with Prof. Shoham Sabach at Technion Haifa, Israel. Since Oct 15 Associate Professor at IRIT and Univ. Paul Sabatier, Toulouse.
  • Victor Magron (Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau - Post-doc Jan - Sep 14) - Polynomial optimization. Co-supervised with Jean-Bernard Lasserre (LAAS-CNRS Toulouse). From Oct 14 to Sep 15, post-doctoral fellow with Prof. George A. Constantinides at Imperial College London, UK. Since Oct 15 CNRS Researcher at VERIMAG Grenoble. Since Jan 19 CNRS Researcher at LAAS-CNRS Toulouse.
  • Seyhan Sahin (Gebze Inst. Tech. - Post-doc Sep 12-Oct 13) - Linear algebra and geometry of LMIs.
  • Mathieu Claeys (Univ. Cath. Louvain and Supaero Toulouse - PhD Sep 10-Oct 13) - Occupation measures and semidefinite relaxations for optimal control. PhD thesis manuscript (in French). Co-supervised with Jean-Bernard Lasserre (LAAS-CNRS Toulouse). Selected among the 5 finalists for the student paper award of the 2012 American Control Conference. From Oct 13 to Aug 14, post-doctoral fellow with Rodolphe Sepulchre at the University of Cambridge, UK. Since Sep 15 with SABCA Brussels.
  • Florian Bugarin (Univ. Paul Sabatier and ENSEEIHT Toulouse - PhD Jan 09-Oct 12) - Polynomial optimization for computer vision. PhD thesis manuscript (in French). Co-supervised with Jean-José Orteu (Ecole des Mines d'Albi). His PhD thesis was awarded the 2012 Léopold Escande prize. Since Oct 14 Associate Professor with Institut Clément Ader, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse.
  • Mohamed Rasheed Hilmy Abdalmoaty (Czech Tech. Univ. Prague - MSc Jan 12-Jun 12) - Moments and LMI for piecewise affine controller design. Since 2019, post-doctoral fellow at KTH Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Martin Mevissen (Tokyo Univ. Tech. - Post-doc Nov 10-Jul 11) - Moments and semidefinite programming for differential equations. Since Sep 11 with IBM Dublin Research Labs.
  • Georgia Deaconu (ESISAR INP Grenoble and Polytech. Univ. Bucarest - Eng5 Feb-Jul 10) - Supervised with Denis Arzelier. H2 optimisation with aerospace applications. PhD student under Christophe Louembet and Alain Theron at LAAS-CNRS (Sep 10 - Oct 13). Since 2013 with Renault Sport, Paris.
  • Akin Delibasi (Yildiz Technical University Istanbul - Post-doc Mar 09-Aug 10) - Polynomial matrix inequalities in robust control. Since Sep 10, associate professor at Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Damien Bily (Ecole Centrale Lille - PhD Sep 09-Apr 10) - Supervised with Jean-Bernard Lasserre. Polynomial optimization with control applications.
  • Wilfried Gilbert (INSA Toulouse - Eng5 MSc+PhD Feb 05-Nov 08) - Supervised with Jacques Bernussou. Gain-scheduled control of aircraft turbofan engines. Classified PhD thesis manuscript. Now with Liebherr Aerospace, Toulouse.
  • Carlo Savorgnan (University of Udine - Post-doc Sep 07-Jun 08) - Supervised with Jean-Bernard Lasserre. Optimal control and generalized problems of moments. Research associate with Moritz Diehl at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (2008-2011).
  • Abdel Rashid Husain (Malaysian University of Technology - PhD Oct-Nov 07) - Robust control and LMIs.
  • Dalibor Puna (Slovak Technical University in Bratislava - PhD Aug-Sep 07) - Robust control and LMIs.
  • Laurie Butaud (ENSPS Strasbourg - Eng5 Mar-Aug 07) - Supervised with Jacques Bernussou. Gain-scheduled control of aircraft turbofan engines. Now with Sogeti High Tech, Paris.
  • Luc Reberga (Ecole Centrale Lille - PhD Oct 02-Sep 05) - Supervised with Jacques Bernussou. Robust multivariable control of aircraft turbofan engines - Classified PhD thesis manuscript. Now with Turbomeca, Bordes (near Pau).
  • Antoine Arej-Saade (ESTACA Paris - Eng5 and Supaero Toulouse MSc Mar-Aug 04) - Supervised with Jacques Bernussou. Gain-scheduled control of aircraft turbofan engines.
  • Christophe Louembet (ESTACA Paris - Eng4 May-Sep 03) - Supervised with Jacques Bernussou. Identification of aircraft turbofan engines. PhD at the University of Bordeaux (2004-2006), post-doc at the University of Bordeaux (2006-2007), Associate Professor at the University of Toulouse (since 2007).
  • Prashant Ghildiyal (Banaras Hindu University - BSc3 May-Jul 03) - LMI and polynomial matrices for H-infinity control.
  • Damien Le Bel (ENSEEIHT Toulouse - Eng5 Feb-Jun 03) - Supervised with Jacques Bernussou. Identification of aircraft turbofan engines.
  • Emmanuelle Dupuy (ESTACA Paris - Eng4 from Jun-Oct 02) - Supervised with Jacques Bernussou. Gain scheduled control of aircraft turbofan engines.
  • Thomas Gauchet (INSA Rennes - Eng4 from Jun-Sep 02) - Robust control routines for the Polynomial Toolbox for Matlab.
  • Geoffroy Meriaux (ENSEEIHT Toulouse - Eng5 Feb-Jun 02) - Supervised with Jacques Bernussou. Multivariable control of aircraft turbofan engines.
  • Juan Carlos Zuniga Anaya (CINVESTAV Guadalajara - MSc+PhD Oct 01-Sep 05) - Numerical linear algebra algorithms for polynomial matrices in control - PhD thesis manuscript. Department of Mathematics of the University of Guadalajara, Mexico (2005-2007 and 2010-2014), post-doctoral fellow with Peter Lancaster at the University of Calgary, Canada (2007-2009), research engineer (2014-2019) with the Research Computing Group of the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, and since 2019 research engineer with AMD, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.