Curriculum vitae
Professional appointments
Data Scientist · Octave.energy
November 2026–present
FNRS Postdoctoral Researcher · UCLouvain
October 2023–2026
Data-driven verification and control of cyber-physical systems.
Advisor: Raphaël Jungers.
Postdoctoral Researcher · University of Colorado Boulder
2021–2023
Verification and control of cyber-physical systems.
Advisor: Sriram Sankaranarayanan.
Education
Ph.D. in Mathematical Engineering · UCLouvain
2017–2021
Thesis: Dominated splitting and quantization of hybrid systems.
Supervisor: Raphaël Jungers.
Master’s degree in Mathematical Engineering · UCLouvain
2015–2017
Ranked 1st out of 248; summa cum laude, with the congratulations of the jury.
Study exchange at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2016–2017.
Publications
- Citations
- 236
- h-index
- 10
- i10-index
- 10
All-time metrics from Google Scholar. Retrieved 2026-11-08.
See my publication list for papers, preprints, and available downloads.
Teaching
See my teaching page for courses and available syllabi.
Ph.D. supervision and mentoring
- Alexis Vuille, UCLouvain — Data-driven control; started September 2023.
- Sara Kamali, University of Colorado Boulder — Formal methods for hybrid systems; started September 2023.
- Monal Narasimhamurthy, University of Colorado Boulder — 2021–2023; subsequently at Google Research.
Fellowships and grants
- FNRS postdoctoral researcher fellowship, 2023–2026.
- WBI postdoctoral research grant, 2022–2023.
- BAEF postdoctoral researcher fellowship, 2021–2022.
- FNRS–FRIA Ph.D. fellowship, 2017–2021.
Awards and distinctions
- Research Highlight in Communications of the ACM, 2021 — Worst-case topological entropy and minimal data rate for state observation of switched linear systems.
- HSCC Best Paper Award, 2020 — Worst-case topological entropy and minimal data rate for state observation of switched linear systems.
Seminars
- University of Oxford, 2025 — Safety in the face of uncertainty: When is a scenario decision-making algorithm reliable?
- UCLouvain, 2025 — Safety in the face of uncertainty: When is a scenario decision-making algorithm safe?
- University of Colorado Boulder, 2025 — Data-driven methods in control.
- UCLouvain, 2024 — Safety in systems and control: From theory to implementation.
- École Polytechnique, Paris, 2023 — Counterexample-guided methods for verification of hybrid linear systems.
- University of Colorado Boulder, 2021 — Quantized control of switched linear systems: Theory and application.
- University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 2019 — Path-complete $p$-dominance of switched linear systems.
- University of Cambridge, 2018 — Path-complete positivity of switched linear systems.
- KU Leuven, 2018 — Equivalent polyadic decompositions of matrix multiplication tensors.
Research visits
- École Polytechnique, Paris, France, November 2022 — Éric Goubault and Sylvie Putot.
- University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA, April–May 2019 — Daniel Liberzon.
- University of Cambridge, UK, February 2018 — Fulvio Forni and Rodolphe Sepulchre.
Main collaborations
- KU Leuven–SeLMA: Lieven De Lathauwer and Marc Van Barel.
- University of Cambridge: Fulvio Forni.
- University of Colorado Boulder: Chris Heckman, Morteza Lahijanian, and Sriram Sankaranarayanan.
- UCLouvain: Pierre-Antoine Absil, Yurii Nesterov, and Raphaël Jungers.
- University of Oxford: Nick Hawes.
- Zhejiang University: Zheming Wang.
Service to the community
Conference organization committees: RP 2019 (Brussels), HSCC 2021 (virtual), and ADHS 2021 (virtual). Support to the general chairs included bookings, websites, communication with chairs and stakeholders, and publicity.
Conference technical committees: HSCC 2021, 2023, and 2025.
Journal reviewing: Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, IEEE Control Systems Letters, SIAM Journal on Optimization, and SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications.
Other activities
Member of the UCLouvain IEEE Student Branch, 2017–2021. Organized activities for researchers and engineering students, bringing industry and researchers together.
Hobbies
Tennis, running, badminton, and skiing.