Christophe Zhang
Welcome!
I am currently in secondment at INRIA - Paris, as a researcher in the CAGE team. I am interested in the control, stabilization and optimal control of PDEs and systems, mainly hyperbolic and parabolic equations, with or without constraints. I have also worked on problems in data-driven modelling and control, in particular methods involving the Koopman operator.
More recently, I have taken an interest in reachability analysis. I co-supervised the PhD thesis of Ivan Hasenohr with Camille Pouchol and Yannick Privat, during which we developed computer-assisted proofs of reachability and non-reachability.
I was formerly a postdoctoral researcher for the Chair Dynamics, Control and Numerics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg. I defended my PhD thesis (you can find a version of the manuscript here) at the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, under the supervision of Jean-Michel Coron, in October 2019.
Interests
- Control theory
- Optimal control
- Analysis, control and stabilization of PDEs
- data-driven modelling and control
- approximation theory
Education
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PhD in applied mathematics, 2019
Sorbonne Université
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Master's degree in applied mathematics, 2016
Paris 6 University
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Engineering degree, 2015
Ecole polytechnique