Brief curriculum

Diplomas and titles

• graduated from École Polytechnique in 1969
• currently "Ingénieur en Chef des Ponts et Chaussées" (graduated from ENPC in 1971)
• "Docteur-Ingénieur" thesis, University of Paris XI-Orsay (1975)
• "Docteur ès-Sciences Mathématiques" thesis, University of Paris IX-Dauphine (1984)
• "Chevalier des Palmes Académiques" (1991)

Successive positions

• With École des Mines de Paris, at "Centre d'Automatique", from 1971 to 1999
  • Last position : "Directeur de Recherche"
  • Served several times as head of this Centre (ultimately named) "Automatique et Systèmes" (in Fontainebleau)
  • Head of the project "Optimization of large-scale systems and network" and of the project "Discrete event systems"
• Professor at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées since September 1, 1999
• Member of CERMICS since July 1, 2000, head of the team "Optimization and Systems"
• Scientific advisor at INRIA since 1977 in the METALAU (ex-META2) project

Scientific activities and interests

• Optimization of large-scale systems, decomposition-coordination algorithms, aggregation, stochastic optimal control, theory and industrial applications to networks (water supply, district heating, geothermal networks, electric power supply, other energy production and supply systems...). More details.
• Discrete event systems, algebraic theory, performance evaluation, application to manufacturing and networks (computer nets, transportation nets...). More details.

Teaching activities