CURRICULUM VITAE
Didier GEORGES
GIPSA-lab, Grenoble INP-ENSE3
11, rue des Mathématiques
38400 Saint Martin d’Hères, France
Professional web page: http://www.gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr/~didier.georges/
Born August 6, 1961
1.- EDUCATION
1984 - Engineer Degree from ESIEE Paris (in Automatic Control and Signal Processing)
1987 - Doctoral Degree in Automatic Control and Applied Mathematics (Docteur-Ingénieur en Mathématiques et Automatique) from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris
1997 - Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, INP Grenoble
2.- PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1988-1990: Research Assistant at Ecole des Mines de Paris, Assistant Professor at ESIEE Paris, Associate Professor at ENSTA
1990 - 1992: Research Engineer at Electricité de France (EDF/DER/Service Etudes de Réseaux, Clamart, France)
1992 - 1995: Assistant Professor at Institut Supérieur d’Automatique et de Robotique (ISAR), Valence, France, Associate Researcher at Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble
1995 - 1998: Associate Professor at Grenoble INP – ESISAR
1998 - Present: Full Professor of Automatic Control at Grenoble INP (Professeur Classe Exceptionnelle 2)
Sept. 2012-feb. 2013: Délégation CNRS – 6 months
March 2018-august 2018: CRCT (waiver of teaching for research activities)
3. – TRAINING & RESEARCH FIELDS
Automatic Control, Estimation, Modelling and Optimization of Complex Systems (Networked Systems, Partial Differential Equations) with applications to both energy (power system estimation & control), and environmental systems (estimation in hydrology, leak detection in pipes), optimal location of sensors and actuators
4.- PROFESSIONAL COMMITMENTS
In Training
1992-1998: Head of the Automatic Control Department at ISAR-ESISAR
1997-2000 and 2006-2007: Member of the expert team assisting the Vice-President for Teaching at INP Grenoble
2002-2006: Expert of PFIEV (Programme de Formation d’Ingénieurs d’Excellence au Vietnam), in charge of developing a new program of engineer studies in Mechatronics at Polytechnical Institute of Hô Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2005-2008: Representative of Grenoble INP President for Teaching (in charge of coordinating development and CTI evaluation of new masters of engineering and reorganization of engineering schools)
In Research and Training by Research
1999-2006: Head of the research team « Analysis and Optimization of Large-scale Systems », and of the research group "Modelling and Identification" of Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble
2001-2002: Head of Laboratoire de Conception et d’Intégration des Systèmes (LCIS, EA 3747), Valence, France (in charge of the lab project for EA labelling by the French Minister of Higher Education)
Since 2003: Member of the International Federation on Automatic Control Technical Committee 6.3 "Power Plants and Power Systems”
2005-2009: Member of the expert committee on Communication Networks of CNRS
Jan. 2007-july 2009: Deputy Director of GIPSA-lab, head of the Control Systems Department
April 2008-feb. 2012: Vice President for Research at Grenoble INP
Since jan. 2010: Co-chair of the working group « Automatique et Réseaux de Communication » (Control and Communication Networks) of GdR « Modélisation, Analyse et Conduite des Systèmes dynamiques »
2014-2016: Head of the Doctoral College(Directeur du Collège Doctoral) at Communauté Université Grenoble Alpes (3700 doctorates, 14 Doctoral Schools, 750 doctors per year)
In Transversal Responsibilities
2007-2008: Vice-President of the Administration Board of INP Grenoble
2008-2012: President of the GIS GRAAL (a national project of information system development for research lab administration)
2015-2016: Vice-President of the National Network of Doctoral Studies Colleges
5. - SCIENTIFIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS
More than 170 communications in books, journals or international conferences (32 peer-reviewed papers in international journals).
Supervisions or co-supervisions of 19 PhD (1 on going).
Management of 10 research projects (for an amount of 850 k€, with public and private funding) and 11 funded industrial projects (Grenoble INP-ESISAR, scientific management of teams of 3 students, technology transfer projects of 6 months).
Holder of the premium for scientific excellence and doctoral training (PEDR/PES) since 1997.
Google Scholar Citations Indices (july 2017): h-index: 25, i10-index: 59, 2126 citations.