Projects and grants

I am (or was) envolved in the following projects:
  • GeoLMI -- ANR Project
    Topic: Geometry and Algebra of LMI with Systems Control Applications
    Period: 2011 - 2015
  • Contract with EDF
    Topic: optimization and stabilisation of daily electricity production
    Period: 2009 - 2011
  • Autoelemi -- "PEPS" of CNRS Institute of Engineering Sciences (INSIS)
    Topic: new LMI modeling and LMI solvers in automatic control
    Period: 2010 - 2011
  • SDP/LMI 2 -- "MSTIC" project funded by Grenoble University
    Topic: SDP tools for control and combinatorics
    Period: 2009 - 2010
  • SDPComb -- funded by CNRS via GdR RO
    Topic: SDP bounds for combinatorial problems
    Period: 2009, renewed in 2010, and renewed in 2011
  • ANR SalaDYN -- funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR)
    Topic: Numerical tools for simulating dynamics systems in mechanics
    Period: 2009 - 2012
  • CARESSE -- project funded by the university of Grenoble
    Topic: Evolutive networks
    Period: 2008 - 2009
  • GeoLMI -- PEPS project funded by the CNRS Information and Engineering Technology Sciences (ST2I) department
    Topic: Geometry and algebra for semidefinite optimization
    Period: 2008 - 2009
  • ANR GUIDAGE -- funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR)
    Topic: Control in mechanics and aerospace
    Period: 2006 - 2008

Collaborators

I have had the pleasure to work and write papers with these brillant people:

Students

I have been the tutor of several young scientists, among those:
  • Medhi Meghzifene -- Master 1 "TER", Spring 2011
    Subject: Block-coordinate methods for sparse coding
  • Sofia Zaourar -- Master 1 "TER", Spring 2010
    Subject: Graph bipartition problem
  • Lise-Marie Veillon and Quenti Monnet -- Master 1 summer internship, 2009
    Subject: branch-and-bound for k-cluster problem
  • Samuel Martin -- Master 2 internship in Australia, Summer 2009
    Subject: Parameters optimization for a lake-ecosystem model
  • Gabrielle Sabatier -- Master 1 "TER", Spring 2009
    Subject: Conic solver for contact mechanics simulation -- online report here
  • Nicolas Auget -- Master 1 "TER", Spring 2009
    Subject: Multi second-order cones sections projections -- online report here
  • Cedric Zanni -- Master 1 "TER", Spring 2009
    Subject: Frotting and impacts in pool -- online report here
  • Stefan Ronnan -- Master 2 internship in ST Microelectronics, Summer 2008
    Subject: Optimization of the color matrix in CMOS sensors