Alireza KarimiAlireza Karimi received his B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1987 and 1990, respectively, from Amir Kabir University (Tehran Polytechnic). Then he received his DEA and Ph. D. degrees both on Automatic Control from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) in 1994 and 1997, respectively. He was Assistant Professor at Electrical Engineering Department of Sharif University of Technology in Teheran from 1998 to 2000. Then he joined Automatic Laboratory of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne, Switzerland. He is currently Professor of Automatic Control and the head of "Data-Driven Modelling and Control" group. His research interests include data-driven controller tuning and robust control with application to mechatronic systems and electrical grids.
Dominique BonvinDominique Bonvin is Professor and Director of the Automatic Control Laboratory of EPFL. He received his Diploma in Chemical Engineering from ETH Zürich, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He worked in the field of process control for the Sandoz Corporation in Basel and with the Systems Engineering Group of ETH Zürich. He joined the EPFL in 1989, where his current research interests include modeling, control and optimization of dynamic systems. He served as Director of the Automatic Control Laboratory for the periods 1993-97, 2003-2007 and again since 2012, Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department in 1995-97 and Dean of Bachelor and Master Studies at EPFL for the period 2004-2011.
Thomas LieblingOriginaire de Greifensee (ZH), Thomas M. Liebling est né à La Paz (Bolivie) en 1942. Il obtient un diplôme d'ingénieur électricien, le titre de docteur et l'habilitation en mathématiques à l'EPFZ. Il est lauréat du Prix et de la Médaille de l'ETH, ainsi que du Prix Biennial de la Science de la GOR.
Après des séjours aux USA comme chercheur et professeur, notamment aux universités de Stanford et au Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute il entre à l'EPFL en 1980, en tant que professeur au Département de mathématiques. Il dirige le ROSO, un groupe formé d'une douzaine de collaborateurs se vouant à la modélisation, simulation et optimisation de systèmes physiques, biologiques, techniques et économiques, en particulier aux applications en logistique et productique.
Membre de 107 jurys de thèse de doctorat et habilitations, il en a été directeur de 39. En outre il a dirigé quelque 150 thèses de master et 350 projets de semestre.
Durant dix ans il est un des responsables du cours postgrade en informatique technique. Il dirige le cours doctoral en optimisation discrete organisé conjointement avec les Universités de Grenoble, Louvain-la-Neuve et Cologne. Il a présidé la Commission informatique de l'EPFL et le Conseil PHP, ainsi que de la Conférence des chefs de département. Chargé de créer le Prix EPFL des doctorats, il en préside le jury. Durant cinq ans il préside la commission de recherche de l'EPFL.
Auteur et coauteur de plusieurs ouvrages et de quelque 200 d'articles scientifiques, il a fonctionné comme Editeur départemental de Management Science, et Editeur associé notamment de Operations Research, Operations Research Letters, Mathematical Programming, Discrete Optimzatio. Il est membre du conseil scientifique du Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum. Il est membre individuel dela SATW, l'académie suisse des sciences techniques. Il a préside le Tucker Prize Committee de la Société Internationale de Programmation Mathématique, ainsi que le Symposium Advisory Committee. De 2003 à 2008 il est membre du Comité du Conseil de Fondation du Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique.
Joaquim Loizu CisquellaJoaquim Loizu graduated in Physics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, carrying out his Master thesis project at the Center for Bio-Inspired Technology, Imperial College London, on the theoretical and numerical study of the biophysics of light-sensitive neurons. In 2009, he started his PhD studies with Prof. Paolo Ricci at the Swiss Plasma Center, the major plasma and fusion laboratory in Switzerland. His thesis focused on the theory of plasma-wall interactions and their effect on the mean flows and turbulence in magnetized plasmas. He obtained his PhD in December 2013. In 2014, he joined the Max-Planck-Princeton Center for plasma research as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, spending one year at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and one year at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany. During this time, he worked on three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics, studying the formation of singular currents and magnetic islands at rational surfaces. In 2016, he obtained a two-years Eurofusion Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry out research at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany. During this time, he focused on the computation of 3D MHD equilibria in stellarators, including the possibility of magnetic islands and magnetic field-line chaos. In 2018, he joined the Swiss Plasma Center as a Scientist and Lecturer. He is also one of the leaders of the Simons Collaboration on Hidden Symmetries and Fusion Energy. His current research interests include MHD equilibrium and stability, magnetic reconnection, self-organization, non-neutral plasmas, plasma sheaths, and plasma transport in chaotic magnetic fields.
