I graduated from "Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Informatique et Mathematiques Appliquees" (ENSIMAG) in Grenoble, then got my PhD (1978) and "Doctorat d'Etat" (1984) degrees both from Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse (France).
I have been at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse since1980, where I am currently Directeur de Recherche. I am also a member of IMT, the Institute of Mathematics of Toulouse. I was a one year visitor (1978-79 and 1985-86) at the Electrical Engineering Dept. of the University of California at Berkeley with a fellowship from INRIA and NSF.
I have done several one-month visits to Stanford University (Stanford, California),
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Cambridge), the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI, Berkeley), the Fields Institute (Fields, Toronto), the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA, Minneapolis), the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM, UCLA), Cinvestav-IPN (Cinvestav, Mexico), Leiden University (Leiden, The Netherlands), the Tinbergen Institute (Tinbergen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), the University of Adelaide (Adelaide, Australia), the University of South Australia (UniSA, Adelaide), the University of New South wales (UNSW, Sydney), the University of British Columbia (UBC, Vancouver).
Awards & distinctions:
- 2019 ISSAC' 20109 Distinguished Paper Award (Beijing, July 2019) with F. Bréhard & M. Joldès.
- 2018: Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2018), Rio de Janeiro, August 2018. Section 16: Optimal Control & Optimization.
- 2015 John von Neumann Theory prize of the INFORMS society.
- 2015 Khachiyan prize of the Optimization Society of INFORMS.
- 2009 Lagrange prize in Continuous optimization (awarded jointly every 3 years by SIAM and the Mathematical Optimization Society).
- SIAM Fellow (class 2014)
- 2014 Laureate of an ERC-Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for the TAMING project.