Madiha NADRI is Maître de Conférences at LAGEPP, a CNRS laboratory, and Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. She is interested in state estimation and observer design for non-linear systems and robust control design; recently in data-driven control and links to machine learning. She is head of the teaching group Automatic Control. She has supervised 6 defended PhD theses and is associate editor of journal of process control and for the Control and Decision Conference (CDC) . Madiha Nadri has obtained her PhD from UCBL in 2000. From 2002 to 2004 she had a post-doctorate fellowship at Institut Français du Petrole (IFP).

Research topics

• State estimation and observer design for nonlinear systems.
• Modelling and closed-loop identification of dynamic systems.
• Robust control design methods with information constraints (event trigger, access to the measurements, model and measurement uncertainties ).
• Real applications of Control Theory, especially in the field of chemical engineering, Biotechnology, Rankine cycle, automotive technologies.
• Data driven control, and links between machine learning and control.

Publications

Complete list at Google scholar

Open PhD position:

Dynamic model Learning for Model Predictive Control of Nonlinear Systems

Current PhD students

• Ali Salami (10/2023-). Optimization of the energy efficiency of a thermodynamic process for the production of heat and domestic hot wate (Co-supervised with Pascal Dufour and Vincent Lemort (University of Liège)). CIFRE contract with Boostheat.
• Samuele Zoboli (06/2020-). Learned policies/control laws with prescribed local behavior (Co-supervised with Vincent Andrieu (LAGEPP), Daniele Astolfi (LAGEPP), Jilles S. Dibangoye (CITI, INSA-Lyon)). Funded by ANR Delicio.
• Steeven Janny (09/2020-). Deep Learning and physical models (co-supervised with Christian Wolf (Naver Labs Europe) and Julie Digne (LIRIS, CNRS). Funded by ENS grant.

Former PhD Students

• Dr. Francisco De Cossïo, Control design of automotive turbine Rankine Cycle System based Nonlinear State Estimation.
• Dr. Francesco Galuppo, Observer and model predictive control for on-line parameter identification in nonlinear systems.
• Dr. Vincent. Grellet , Topological optimization and control of the heat recovery Rankine cycle.
• Dr. Johan Peralez, Control design of automotive turbine Rankine Cycle System based Nonlinear State Estimation.
• Dr. Jun Qian, Observer and model predictive control for on-line parameter identification in nonlinear systems.
• Dr. Kun Zhang, Reachability-based feedback control of crystal size distribution in batch crystallization processes

Ongoing research projects

• I am the project leader of ANR project "DeLiCo" (stable and robust control in complex environments combining machine learning and control theory), involving 4 partners:
  • LAGEPP/Lyon 1 University (Madiha Nadri, Vincent Andrieu, Daniele Astolfi Laurent Bako(AMPERE Laboratory), Giacomo Casadei(AMPERE Laboratory))
  • LIRIS/INSA-Lyon (Christian Wolf, Laetitia Matignon)
  • CITI/INSA-Lyon (Jilles Dibangoye, Olivier Simonin, Ievgen Redko (LHC Laboratory))
  • Onera (Sylvain Bertrand, Julien Marzat, Hélène Piet-Lahanier)

Former research projects

• Gencovery (2020-2023) digital twin for living organisms.
• AllFraTech InnoTherMS 2018-2021) Innovative Predictive High Efficient Thermal Management System Partners: Greeening, Thesys, Hochschule Esslingen, Fraunhofer EMI, Saint Jean Industries, Segula Automotive, IFPEN, CEHTIL/INSA Lyon. Budget : 4M Euros.
• ANR LimICoS (2013-2016): Limited Information Control Systems; Partners : Gipsa-lab, LAGEP, LSS, Budget : 560k€.
• FUI-ODEO (2012-2014): Dermatextiles à action durable et contrôlée; Partners; Hamid Elaissari (DR. CNRS, LAGEP); 320k€.
• PEPS Sossyal (2011-2012): An optimal approach to design a hybrid observer, application to biological systems; Partners : LAGEP, INRIA Lorraine, Budget : 30k€. Funded by the CNRS.

Responsabilities (International)

• Associate editor for journal of process control
• Associate editor for Control and Decision Conference (CDC).
• Reviewer for international journals IEEE Transaction Automatic Control (TAC), Automatica, International Journal of Control, Journal of Process Control.
• Reviewer for international conferences CDC, ACC, IFAC, CIFA.
• Expert for French Agence National de Recherche (ANR).

Responsabilities (National, French)

• (2022-présent) Membre du CAC (Conseil académique) de l'Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1.
• (2022-présent) Co-responsable du parcours ASI (Automatique des systèmes intelligents).
• (2022-présent) Membre élu du conseil de département GEP de l'UCBL.
• (2010-présent) Membre nommé de la commission de patrimoine de la faculté UCB Lyon 1.
• (2007-présent) Responable de l'équipe pédagogique Automatique.
• (2009-2015) Membre élu du conseil du Laboratoire LAGEP.
• (2010-2015) Membre élu du conseil du département GEP.
• (2009-2010) Membre élu du comité international de l'Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1.
• (2009-2013) Membre élu du comité d'administration de l'Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1.

Contact information:

Email: madiha.nadri-wolf (at) univ-lyon1.fr

LAGEPP, Université de Lyon,
Domaine universitaire de la Doua, CPE, Batiment G, 2ème étage
43 bd du 11 Novembre 1918,
69622 Villeurbanne Cedex FRANCE
Office : G321
Phone number :+33 472 431 847

Steeven Janny, Aurélien Bénéteau, Madiha Nadri, Julie Digne, Nicolas Thome, Christian Wolf. EAGLE: Large-scale Learning of Turbulent Fluid Dynamics with Mesh Transformers. In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023.