Scientific Activities and Supervision

Scientific activities, PhD and postdoctoral supervision

This page includes:

the journals for which I serve on editorial boards;
links to selected research projects;
current and past PhD and postdoctoral supervision.

Editorial boards

Research projects

ANR STOIQUES project (Shape and Topology Optimization: Impactful QUestions and Emerging Subjects)
Inria exploratory action (Hybrid methods combining reinforcement learning and optimal control of PDEs for quantum computing)
PEPR AI-PDE project (Partial Differential Equations for Artificial Intelligence)
PEPR Exa-MA project (Methods and algorithms for exascale computing)
Inria Sphinx project team
Inria STELLACAGE exploratory action (Designing better stellarators)
ANR MOSICOF project (Modeling and Simulation of Complex Ferromagnetic Systems)
ANR TRECOS project (New Trends in Control and Stabilization)

PhD students

Louis Ducongé (2025–present, 33% co-supervision with Stéphane Cotin and Michel Duprez). Modelling and shape optimization of surgical stents.
Mabrouk Ben Jaba (2023–present, 50% co-supervision with Jean-François Scheid). Modelling oxygen transport in the human lung using an optimal control approach.
Amaury Bélières-Frendo (2023–present, 33% co-supervision with Victor Michel-Dansac and Charles Dapogny). Learning-based shape optimization.
Killian Lutz (2023–2026, 50% co-supervision with Emmanuel Franck). Contrôle en temps minimal : applications à l’informatique quantique et à la résonance paramétrique.
Ivan Hasenohr (2022–2025, 33% co-supervision with Camille Pouchol and Christophe Zhang). Computer-assisted Proofs of Reachability Analysis for Linear Control Systems under Bounded Constraints. Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria).
Tom Sprunck (2021–2024, 40% co-supervision with Antoine Deleforge and Cédric Foy). Can one hear the shape of a room ? Room geometry reconstruction from acoustic measurements using super-resolution and shape optimization. Currently a permanent researcher at Cerema (French public agency for environmental, mobility and urban planning expertise).
Mickael Bestard (2020–2023, 33% co-supervision with Emmanuel Franck and Laurent Navoret). Optimal Control of Nonlinear Hyperbolic systems on Networks: Gradient-based and Deep Learning approaches. Currently an R&D engineer in computer science and artificial intelligence at Double Crème (SaaS start-up).
Guillaume Mestdagh (2019–2022, 50% co-supervision with Stéphane Cotin). An optimal control formulation for organ registration in augmented surgery. Currently a postdoctoral researcher at Inria (Grenoble).
Jesús Bellver Arnau (2019–2022, 50% co-supervision with Luis Almeida). Optimal mosquito release strategies for vector-borne disease control. Currently a researcher at the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes (Spain).
Alexis Courtais (2017–2021, 20% co-supervision with François Lesage and Abderrazak Latifi). Optimal design de contacteurs a lit fixe par fabrication additive. Currently a control and process engineer at INEOS Polymers Engineering & Technology Support (Lavéra).
Alexandre Delyon (2016–2020, 50% co-supervision with Antoine Henrot). Shape optimization problems around the geometry of Branchiopods eggs. Currently a research engineer at Odit-e (Grenoble).
Idriss Mazari (2017–2020, 50% co-supervision with Grégoire Nadin). Shape optimization and spatial heterogeneity in reaction-diffusion equations. Currently an associate professor at Université Paris-Dauphine.
Florian Omnès (2015–2018, 50% co-supervision with Pascal Frey). Optimisation géométrique appliquée à la mécanique des fluides incompressibles. Currently a research engineer at RTE (Paris).
Thibault Liard (2013–2016, 90% co-supervision with Alain Haraux). Observation et contrôle de quelques systèmes conservatifs. Currently an associate professor at the University of Limoges.
Pierre Jounieaux (2012–2015, 50% co-supervision with Emmanuel Trélat). Optimisation de la forme des zones d'observation pour l'équation des ondes. Applications à la tomographie photoacoustique. Currently a teacher in French preparatory classes for the grandes écoles.

Postdoctoral researchers

Ludovic Godard-Cadillac (September 2022–September 2023, co-supervised with Raphaël Côte and Clémentine Courtès). Modelling and control of notched ferromagnetic wires. Currently an associate professor at Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux.
Guillaume Ferrière (September 2021–September 2023, co-supervised with Raphaël Côte and Clémentine Courtès). Modelling and control of ferromagnetic systems. Currently an Inria research scientist.
Michel Duprez (September 2018–September 2019, co-supervised with Luis Almeida and Nicolas Vauchelet). Strategies for epidemic control. Currently an Inria research scientist.
Yacouba Simporé (September–November 2016). Insensitizing the heat equation with respect to domain variations. Currently an associate professor at Université Ouaga 1 Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Mauricio Cardoso (2015). Analysis of a shape optimization problem for the observation and control of a thermoelastic system. Currently an associate professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil.
Gilles Marck (March 2013–September 2014). Optimal design problems in heat transfer. Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southampton, England.