Cristina STOICA

Cristina Stoica is a full Professor at CentraleSupélec/L2S, Université Paris-Saclay. She received her B.Sc. (2004) and M.Sc. (2005) in Automatic Control from University Politehnica Bucharest, Romania, and her Ph.D. (2008) from Université Paris-Sud, France. Her current research activities include distributed state estimation and predictive control of multi-agent systems, learning-based control, mobile robotics, control education, art & control. She is involved in international cooperations with different research groups and she had multiple scientific exchange visits abroad. Since 2020, she is the head of the research team SYCOMORE of L2S. She was co-general chair of the joint IFAC SSSC TDS COSY 2025 conference held in CentraleSupélec and the IPC chair of the IFAC ACE 2025 symposium. She is actively involved in numerous outreach activities and she has received several awards for her contributions to enhancing the societal impact of control. / CentraleSupélec

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HighlightsPublications

PhD students

Education and qualificationsTeaching

Raphaël MAHAUT, “Cyber-attack resilient distributed estimation for sensor networks: learning-based and moving horizon estimation” (since 2026)
Co-supervision: Sylvain Bertrand (ONERA), Teodoro Alamo (University of Seville) and Eduardo F. Camacho (University of Seville)

Elliot POINSIGNON, “Quadcopter autonomous navigation in complex industrial environments using Reinforcement Learning” (since 2025)
Co-supervision: Ashley Hill (Framatome), Mathieu Segond (Framatome)
1st place award, Multi-Robot Surveillance and Monitoring real-world Challenge, IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot System, Prague, Czech Republic (2025)
2nd place award, Multi-Robot Surveillance and Monitoring simulation Challenge, IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot System, Prague, Czech Republic (2025)

Leonardo DUARTE VARGAS E SILVA, “Data-driven distributed predictive control for multi-agent systems” (since 2024)
Co-supervision: Cristina Vlad, Alessio Iovine

Hao DENG, “Fault tolerant predictive control techniques for uncertain systems” (since 2023)
Co-supervision: Mohammed Chadli (IBISC)
Best Paper Award, 2nd International Symposium on Systems Modelling and Simulation, Putrajaya, Malaysia, 2026

Matthieu BORELLE, “Robust estimation techniques: Distributed moving horizon estimation for sensor networks and distributionally robust estimation” (2022-2025)
Co-supervision: Sylvain Bertrand (ONERA), Teodoro Alamo (University of Seville) and Eduardo F. Camacho (University of Seville)
Finalist for the best Ph.D. thesis in Automatic Control in France, GDR MACS, Automatic Control section of EEA Club and SAGIP, 2026
Best ONERA Ph.D. thesis in Information Processing and Systems, 2025

Antonello VENTURINO, “Constrained distributed state estimation for surveillance missions using multi-sensor multi-robot systems” (2019 – 2022)
Co-supervision: Sylvain Bertrand (ONERA), Teodoro Alamo (University of Seville) and Eduardo F. Camacho (University of Seville)
Best Paper Award, 24th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing, Sinaia, Romania, 2020
Best Paper Award, Control Engineering Practice, 2023

Thomas CHEVET, “Fault-tolerant predictive control techniques for multi-vehicle formations” (2017 – 2020)
Co-supervision: Cristina Vlad and Youmin Zhang (Concordia University, Montréal)

Dory MERHY, “Contribution to ellipsoidal and zonotopic set-membership state estimation” (2016 – 2019)
Co-supervision: Teodoro Alamo (University of Seville) and Eduardo F. Camacho (University of Seville)
Best Paper Award, 23rd International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing, Sinaia, Romania, 2019

Gauthier ROUSSEAU, “Optimal trajectory planning and predictive control for cinematographic flight plans with quadrotors” (2016 – 2019)
Co-supervision: Sihem Tebbani, Mathieu Babel (Parrot) and Nicolas Martin (Parrot)

Minh Tri NGUYEN, “Safe predictive control for Multi-Agent dynamical systems” (2013 – 2016)
Co-supervision: Sorin Olaru

Marjorie COSSON, “Stability of electrical distribution network – Automatic control point of view analysis of a complex system” (2013 – 2016)
Co-supervision (via RiseGrid Institute): Didier Dumur, Hervé Guéguen, Gilles Malarange (EDF R&D) and Vincent Gabrion (EDF R&D)
PhD students award of IEEE Power & Energy Society, France Chapter, 2016

Sofiane BEN CHABANE, “Fault tolerant control for uncertain systems” (2012 – 2015)
Co-supervision: Didier Dumur, Teodoro Alamo (University of Seville) and Eduardo F. Camacho (University of Seville)

Vu Tuan Hieu LE, “Robust predictive control based on zonotopic set-membership estimation” (2009 – 2012)
Co-supervision: Didier Dumur, Teodoro Alamo (University of Seville) and Eduardo F. Camacho (University of Seville)

Ionela PRODAN, “Constrained cooperative control of dynamical multi-agent systems” (2009 – 2012)
Co-supervision: Sorin Olaru and Silviu-Iulian Niculescu
Finalist of the 2013 European PhD Award on Control for Complex and Heterogeneous Systems