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Bio-sketch

Dorothée Normand-Cyrot received the PhD degree in Mathematics and es-Sciences Doctorat d’Etat in Physics from University Paris VII and Paris Sud in 1978 and 1983 respectively. She joined the French National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in 1981 at the Laboratory of Signal and Systems (L2S), Paris Saclay, where she was Research Director from 1991 and currently Emeritus from 2021. She is an IEEE Fellow (class 2005) of the Control Systems Society for Contributions to Digital and Discrete-Time Control Systems. Since 1983, she promoted research activity within Europe and in particular with Italy, holding many visiting positions at the University of Rome La Sapienza through a mobility network on Sciences and Technologies for Information and Control and its Applications (AML-STICA) under the auspices of the French-Italian University UFI/UIF. Her research interest is in the field of nonlinear control theory with focus on discrete-time and digital systems; she is author and co-author of about 217 scientific publications, supervisor of nearly 30 PhD students; recipient of the IFAC-Control Engineering Practice Best Paper Award for 2011/13. Among others, she was Director of the CNRS Groupement de Recherche in Control Theory (GdR-A) from 1998 to 2002; Programme Chair of the ECC-91, Grenoble, France; General Chair of the Workshop Perspectives in Control in 1998, General Chair of CIFA2002 ”Conference Internationale Francophone d’Automatique” in Nantes, France. Member of several scientific and steering international committees, she was Funding Member of the European Union Control Association EUCA’91 and Editor at Large of the European Journal of Control from 2003. 

Research Interests

1. Nonlinear discrete-time control theory
2. Sampled-data systems
3. Nonlinear digital control

Recent talks and invitations

1. 2024 – Port Hamiltonian Seminar, Wuppertal University. “About a class of discrete-time and sampled-data Hamiltonian structures ”. (slides, video)
2. 2022 – 27th ICDEA International Conference on Difference Equations and Applications. « Nonlinear Discrete-Time Dynamics in Port-Hamiltonian Form“, Plenary Speaker. (slides) 
3. 2021 – 9th International Conference on Systems and Control, to celebrate Mohamed M’Saad, Univ. de Normandie, Caen. « Sur les structures non linéaires Hamiltoniennes en temps discret « . (slides)
4. 2021 – 7th IFAC Workshop LHMNC on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control , to celebrate B. Maschke’s 60th birthday, Berlin. “Some insights about Hamiltonian structures in discrete-time and under sampling”, Plenary Speaker. (slides)
5. 2018 – Dynamics, Control and Geometry : In honor of Bronisław Jakubczyk’s 70th birthday. Banach Center Warsaw. « Prolegomena to nonlinear discrete-time systems ». Plenary Speaker. (link)
6. 2018 – 22nd IEEE-CSS International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing. Sinaia. « Nonlinear digital Lyapunov based stabilizing control ». Plenary Speaker. (link)
7. 2009 – IEEE Control Systems Magazine, »People in control « , Interview with Dorothee Normand-Cyrot and Tarek Sobh », vol. 29, no. 4, doi: 10.1109/MCS.2009.932923. (link)