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Didier GEORGES
Professor (PRCE2) at Grenoble Institute of Technology@univgrenoble-alpes, France
Head of the Doctoral Studies College@univ-grenoble-alpes
[email protected]
http://www.gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr/~didier.georges/
Date of birth: August 6, 1961, married, 2 children
Education
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1984: Engineer Degree from ESIEE Paris (in Automatic Control and Signal Processing)
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1984: Research Master Degree (DEA de Génie Industriel - modélisation et calcul des systèmes) from
Ecole Centrale de Paris
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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
Main positions and career
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1988-1990: Research Assistant at Ecole des Mines de Paris, Assistant Professor at ESIEE Paris,
Associate Professor at ENSTA
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1990-1992: Research Engineer at Electricité de France (EDF)
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1992-1995: Assistant Professor at Institut Supérieur d’Automatique et de Robotique (ISAR),
Valence, France, Associate Researcher at Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble
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1995-1998: Assistant Professor at INP Grenoble – ESISAR and Laboratoire d'Automatique de
Grenoble
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Since sept. 1998: Professor at INP Grenoble - ESISAR (from sept. 1998 to august 2002), then at
Grenoble INP - ENSE3 (former ENSIEG) (since sept. 2002), and GIPSA-lab
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Sept. 2012-feb. 2013 : Délégation CNRS – 6 months
Main responsibilities
Teaching
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1992-1998: Head of the Automatic Control Department at ISAR-ESISAR
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1997-2000 and 2006-2007: Member of the expert team assisting the Vice-President for Teaching at
INP Grenoble
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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
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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)
Research and Training by Research
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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
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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)
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Since 2003: Member of International Federation on Automatic Control TC 6.3 "Power Plants and
Power Systems”
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2005-2009: Member of the expert committee on Communication Networks of CNRS
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Jan. 2007-july 2009: Deputy Director of GIPSA-lab, head of the Control Systems Department
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April 2008-feb. 2012: Vice President for Research at Grenoble INP
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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 »
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Since jan. 2014: Head of the Doctoral Studies College (Directeur du Collège Doctoral) at
Communauté Université Grenoble Alpes
Transversal Responsibilities
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2007-2008: Vice-President of the Administration Board of INP Grenoble
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2008-2012: President of the GIS GRAAL (a national project of information system development for
research lab administration)
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Since march 2015: Vice-President of the National Network of Doctoral Studies Colleges
Didier Georges is teaching Automatic Control, Estimation, Modelling and Optimization of Complex Systems
(Networked Systems, Partial Differential Equations) at both Bachelor (L3) and Master Levels (M1-2) at
Grenoble INP / Université Grenoble Alpes. His research activities are in the same fields, with specific
applications to both energy and environmental systems. He has published more than 150 communications
in books, journals or international conferences. He has successfully advised or co-avised 18 PhD. He is
holder of the premium for scientific excellence and doctoral training (PEDR/PES) since 1997.
Some recent publications in international journals (2014-2015)
V. T. PHAM, D. GEORGES, G. BESANCON, Predictive Control with Guaranteed Stability for Water Hammer Equations,
IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Vol. 59, 2, (2014), 465-470.
D. GEORGES, Optimal PMU-based monitoring architecture design for power systems, Control Engineering Practice,
(2014), 150-159,http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2013.11.019.
D. GEORGES, G. BESANCON, J.-F. DULHOSTE, A Decentralized Optimal LQ State Observer Based on an Augmented
Lagrangian Approach, Automatica, (2014), 1451-1458, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2014.03.006.
V. T. PHAM, D. GEORGES, G. BESANCON, Infinite-Dimensional Predictive Control for Hyperbolic Systems, SIAM Journal
on Control and Optimization, 52-6 (2014), 3592-3617, http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/110838200.
V. T. NGUYEN, D. GEORGES, G. BESANCON, State and Parameter Estimation in 1-D Hyperbolic PDEs based on an Adjoint
Method, Automatica, Vol. 67, (2016), 185–191, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2016.01.031.