I am currently Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with affiliations with the Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Department of Mathematics.
I obtained my PhD in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University working with R. Brockett, and undergraduate degrees from École Centrale Paris and Université Catholique de Louvain.
My research interests are in control theory and dynamical systems. I focus on geometric and stochastic control, with their applications to networked systems, formation control, sensor and actuator design, motion planning, robotics and learning. I am also interested in (random) graph theoretic methods in control, and particularly in graphon-based approaches.
News, presentations and seminars
- Tutorial on Graphons in Systems and Control at CDC25, Rio de Janeiro, December 2025
- Visiting RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany, August 2025
- Plenary talk at NECSYS’25, Hong-Kong, June 2025.
- Special-session at the Joint Mathematics Meeting on Control Theory and AI, organized with Tony Bloch, Seattle, January 2025
- Conference on Decision and Control, Milan, Italy, December 2024
- Asilomar Confrence on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, October 2024
- Symposium on Systems Theory in Data and Optimization, Stuttgart, Germany, September 2024
- Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Cambridge, UK, August 2024
- Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society Annual Meeting, Kingston, Canada, June 2024
- ESE Seminar at WashU, StLouis, MO, April 2024
- I was awarded the Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation.