OVERVIEW
ROLES AT IMM
2026
IMM International Faculty
Partial Differential Equations (M1)
Course
Algeria
Spring
2024
IMM International Faculty
Partial Differential Equations
Course
Algeria
Spring
ABOUT ME
Educational Background
Born in Algeria, I graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, France, in 1990 and obtained a PhD in mathematics from Rutgers University, USA, in 1996. I joined the mathematics department of Universite Paris Sud 11 in 1997 and became full professor in control theory in 2004 at the physics department of Universite Paris Sud 11 and then Universite Paris Saclay in 2020.
I was CIMPA scientific officer from 2017 to 2023. I also joined the AIMS South Africa Council in November 2024.
CURRICULUM
from 2021 to Present
Full Professor, University of Paris-Saclay
France
from 2019 to Present
IMM International Faculty, International Mathematics Master (IMM) Pakistan
International
from 2004 to 2021
Full Professor, The University of Paris 11
France
MORE INFORMATION
Interests
My work focuses on geometric and optimal control with an emphasis on sliding and switvhing systems, and also on stabilisation of hyperbolic systems.
My latest publications are available here.
Other activities
Administrative responsibilities
- Member of the LSS laboratory council from 09/2004 to 09/2009
- President of the CCSU section 61 of the Université de Paris Sud between 05/2007 and 05/2010
- Member of the LMFM Laboratoire de mathématiques franco-maghrébin council
- Member of the steering committee of the STIC department of the Université Paris-Saclay, which oversees all the new university's research activities in the field of STIC
- Member of the IFAC Technical Committee 2.1 Control Design
- Member of CIMPA (2017-)
Editor:
- Associate Editor: CPAA, 2001-2013, ESAIM COCV 2006-, Acta Applicandae Mathematicae 2011-, JALMAS 2000-, Series in Mathematics of AIMS 2006-2015, MCRF (2017-),
Awards
- CNRS delegation (6 months) in 2003 and CRCT (6 months) in 2004
- PEDR 2002-2005 then stopped because not cumulable with PCC position at Ecole Polytechnique, until 2011
- PES 2011-2015, 2015-2018
- IUF Senior 2018-2023
Organisation of interviews, worshops and seminars
- CIMPA School, Geometric, stochastic and partial differential equation control, Tlemcen, Algeria 12-23/04/2014
- Co-principal organiser (with SM Bouguima). This school brought together 60 participants with high-level lectures given by J. Jacod, N. El-Karoui, J.M. Coron and E., among others. Zuazua.
- Quarter Institut Henri Poincaré, Geometry, Analysis and Dynamics on sub-Riemannian varieties, 1/09. -12/12/2014, Paris. Co-organiser of this event, which welcomed a total of nearly 200 researchers and students. It was undoubtedly the most important meeting in the field in the last twenty years.
Projects
Director of iCODE, ‘Institut pour le Contrôle et la Décision,’ as part of the Paris-Saclay Initiative of Excellence (Idex) - www.icode-institute.fr (Lidex from 2014-2016 then IRS 2016-2019)