People

People

Ph.D. Students

• Margot Devillers : AI for control. 2025-
• Adrien Janssens : Symbolic control for stochastic systems. 2025-
• Léa Ninite : Patch-complete reinforcement learning. 2025-
• Vijayanand Digge (Cosuperv. with Gianluca Bianchin) : Reinforcement learning. 2025-
• Amir Bayat : Large Language Models for control. 2024-
• Alexis Vuille : Data-Driven symbolic control. 2023-
• Adrien Banse : Data-driven symbolic control. 2022-
• Sébastien Mattenet : Logic and smart abstractions. 2020-

Postdocs

• Andrew Wintenberg : Path-Complete Lyapunov functions. 2025-
• Riccardo Bertollo : Hybrid Systems and Symbolic control. 2026-
• Shuyuan Zhang : Nonlinear symbolic control. 2024-
• Guillaume Berger : PAC learning for Cyber-Physical Systems. 2023-
• Yuchen Zhang : Smart manufacturing. 2025-

Current Master Students

• tbd

Previous Members

Previous Ph.D. students

• Romain Hollanders : Stochastic optimization in large networks, 2010-2015. Now at Energis.
• Pierre-Yves Chevalier : Switching systems techniques for decentralized systems 2012-2018.
• Matthew Philippe : Control theoretical techniques for Multipath TCP optimization, 2012-2017. Now at UCLA.
• Costanza Catalano (with U. l'Aquila) : Synchronizing graphs and primitive matrices. 2016-2019. Now at Politecnico di Torino.
• François Gonze : Synchronizing Automata and Air Trafic Management. 2014-2019
• Benoît Legat : Algebraic optimization and Cyber-Physical control. 2016-2020
• Antoine Aspeel : Data driven optimal control. 2017-2022
• Guillaume Berger : Optimization and abstraction of Cyber-Physical Systems. 2017-2021
• Virginie Debauche : Cyber-Physical systems control. 2019-2024
• Julien Calbert : Machine learning, optimization, and smart abstractions. 2020-2024
• Brieuc Pinon : Fundamental computation models for Artificial Intelligence. 2019-2025

Others

• Andrea Simonetto : Control and Optimization in Air Traffic Management. 2016-2017  
• Nikos Athanasopoulos : Algebraic techniques for Cyber-Physical systems control. 2015-2017
• Sanand Dilip : Networked control and communications. 2015-2017
• Balazs Gerencser : Stochastic optimization. 2013-2016, Postdoc (Now at Rényi Institute)
• Matthew Philippe (Alcatel-Lucent MSc Thesis Award), Master Student
• Guillaume Vankeerberghen : Algorithms for smart and decentralized technologies 2012-2014, Master Student (Now at Real Impact) 
• Vladimir Gusev : Synchronizing automata.  2015-2018
• Mridul Seth : Algorithms for smart content marketing. 2018-2019
• Moctar Kande (with UCAD) : Viral Dynamics modeling.  2015-2018
• Mahsa Farjadnia : Data driven control. 2018-2020
• Thiago Alves Lima : Convex optimization and software design 2022-
• Matteo Della Rossa : Path-Complete Lyapunov Functions and Hybrid Systems control 2020-
• Lucas Egidio : Convex optimization and control 2021-
• Zheming Wang.  Data-driven control.
• Benoît Legat : Algebraic optimization and Cyber-Physical control. 2016-2020 2022-
• Wei Ren : Formal methods and smart abstractions. 2020-
• Somya Singh : Path-complete abstractions. 2023-2024.
• Yousef Farid : Control of bipedal robot and neural control. 2024-2025
• Wouter Jongeneel : Foundations of Control Theory. 2024-2025.