Emmanuel Witrant

Emmanuel Witrant received the B.Sc. degree in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree in automatic control from the University of Grenoble, Grenoble, France, in 2005. He joined the Department of Physics with UFR PhITEM, and the Grenoble Image Parole Signal Automatique Laboratory, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, as an Associate Professor in 2007. His current research interests include finding new methods for modeling and control of inhomogeneous transport phenomena (of information, energy, and gases), with real-time and/or optimization constraints. Such methods provide new results for automatic control (time-delay and distributed systems), controlled thermonuclear fusion (temperature/magnetic flux profiles in tokamak plasma), environmental sciences (atmospheric history of trace gas from ice cores measurements), and Poiseuille’s flows (ventilation control in mines, car engines, and intelligent buildings).