Silvère Bonnabel  born in 1981
EDUCATION
2014: Research Habilitation HDR (Mathematics, Paris VI Sorbonne)
2004-2007: Ph.D. Ecole des Mines de Paris
2003-2004: Master in financial mathematics (Paris XII Gustave Eiffel)
2001-2004: Ecole des Mines de Paris (Mines ParisTech) Engineering School
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022 (Fall): INRIA Paris. Invited in the SIERRA Team.
2019-2022: Professor at University of New Caledonia
2017 (Fall): University of Cambridge, elected Visiting Fellow
2016- : Professor at Ecole des Mines ParisTech
2009-2016: Assistant professor at Ecole des Mines ParisTech
2007-2008: Post-doctoral fellow at the University of Liθge
AWARDS
2024: George N. Saridis Best Transactions Paper Award for Outstanding Research IEEE Transactions On Intelligent Vehicles, for the paper "AI-IMU Dead-Reckoning".
2022: Prix Espoir IMT - Academie des sciences.
2021: European Control Award. "For contributions to geometric filtering".
2020: Automatica Paper Prize for the paper "Symmetry reduction for dynamic programming".
2015: IEEE / SEE Glavieux prize: "For the development of remarkable mathematical abstractions
for the design of automatic control systems and their implementation for navigation and guidance in various industrial applications".
2015: SAGEM (SAFRAN) Innovation Award : WO/2015/075248 elected best patent of the year.
2009: PhD prize GDR MACS (the French PhD prize in control).
2009: PhD prize Club EEA
(from the researcher Club in Electronics, Electrotechnics, and Automatic control).
2007: Co-founder of the start-up company Synertie awarded by the french goverment (OSEO).
LINKS WITH INDUSTRY
Various collaborations with leading industrial players (High pressure polyethylene reactor with TOTAL PETROCHEMICALS. Carling. France. -- Crane control with POTAIN / MANITOWOC. --
Inertial navigation with SAGEM / SAFRAN. -- Autonomous vehicles with SAFRAN -- Radar tracking with THALES AIR SYSTEMS -- Autonomous Underwater Vehicles with SCHLUMBERGER Robotics Department in Boston) and startups (online gait analysis with FEETME).
Scientific Advisor to the Robotics start-up OFFROAD.
METRICS
Over 100 authored or co-authored articles.
Co-inventor of 9 patents.
h-index: 39, Citations: 6500 ( source).
STUDENTS
Sven Goffin (Universite Liege). Visitor 2023-
Postdoc of Clement Chahbazian. 2024-
PhD of Jonas Benhamou. Co-advised with C. Chapdelaine. 2022-
PhD of Marc Lambert. Co-advised with Francis Bach. 2020-
PhD of Colin Parellier in collaboration with Safran. Co-advised with Axel Barrau. 2020-
PhD of Sami Jouaber in collaboration with the company Thales. Co-advised with Santiago Velasco-Forero. 2019-2022.
PhD of Priyanka Das in collaboration with the company Safran Electronics and Defense (SAGEM). Co-advised with Eric Chaumette. 2018-2021. Currently Co-Founder & GNC Engineer at The Exploration Company.
PhD of Martin Brossard. Co-advised with Axel Barrau. 2017-2020. Currently a research engineer at Arcturus Industries (Madrid). This thesis was awarded the 1st PhD prize of the GdR Robotique (the French Robotics Community).
PhD of Paul Chauchat in collaboration with the company SAFRAN TECH. Co-advised with Axel Barrau. 2017-2020. Currently assistant professor at CentraleSupelec.
PhD of Marion Piltι in collaboration with the company THALES AIR SYSTEMS. 2015-2018. Currently an engineer and researcher at Thales. The thesis was awarded the Thales PhD prize (two laureates out of seventy PhD defenses) see the news.
PhD of Axel Barrau in collaboration with the company SAGEM. Non-linear state error based extended Kalman filters
with applications to navigation. 2012-2015. ( pdf). After 7 years as an engineer and researcher at Safran Tech, Paris, Axel co-founded the robotics startup OFFROAD. This thesis was awarded the 2d PhD prize of the GdR Robotique (the French Robotics Community).
Post-doc of Martin Barczyk (co-advised with F. Goulette). Kinect-based localization. 2012-2014. Currently an assistant professor at University of Alberta, Canada.
PhD of Jean Grιgoire (co-advised with A. de La Fortelle). Priority-based coordination of mobile robots. 2011-2014. ( pdf). After a post-doc at MIT, Jean became an entrepreneur in San Francisco.
PhD of Thach N. Dinh (co-advised with F . Mazenc). Interval observers and positive observers. 2011-2014. ( pdf). Currenty Assistant Professor at CNAM Paris, France.
PhD of Gilles Meyer (co-advised with R. Sepulchre). Geometric optimization algorithms
for linear regression on fixed-rank matrices. 2007-2011. ( pdf). Currently a Software Engineer at EVS Broadcast Equipment, Belgium.
Visitor: Sebastien Diemer (co-advised with A. de La Fortelle). Motion planning. 2013-2014. Currently an engineer at Polyconseil, Paris.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE (2019-2023)
Deputy director of the university of New Caledonia (UNC)'s science lab, ISEA.
Elected member of the boards Conseil d'Administration & Commission Recherche, UNC
Scientific integrity resource person, UNC.
Deontology resource person, UNC.
OTHER INTERESTS
Music (violin/chamber music) : Fin d'ιtudes/1 accessit - Conservatoire de Marseille (CNR). (a not-so-recent-anymore performance).
Poetry. A quote from Rene Char - for whom I have a longstanding passion - which could well apply to mathematicians: Nous sommes ingouvernables. Le seul maitre qui nous soit propice, c'est l'Eclair, qui tantot nous illumine et tantot nous pourfend.
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