Administrative missions
– Head of the SYCOMORE research team of L2S (since 2020)
– Scientific head of the flight arena of CentraleSupélec (since 2020)
– Co-head of the projects cluster “Pedagogical Innovation and EdTech” (since 2018)
– Deputy Head of the Professional Track on Research “Filière Métiers de la Recherche” (2017-2022)
Awards
– Award “La Transmetalente 2025” of CINOV Federation for mentoring activities and new teaching approaches of control via arts and experimentations (2025)
– Award “Prix Villageoisꞏe” for proposing innovative pedagogical workshops for educators/reasearchers, 10 years anniversary Pedagogical Innovations Day “Journée Initiatives pédagogiques” of Paris-Saclay University (2025)
– Honorable mention of “Bozenna Pasik-Duncan humanitarian mentorship award” (2024)
– 2023 Control Engineering Practice Best Paper Award: A. Venturino, C. Stoica Maniu, S. Bertrand, T. Alamo, E.F. Camacho, “Multi-vehicle localization by distributed MHE over a sensor network with sporadic measurements: Further developments and experimental results” (2023)
– Best Paper Award of the 24th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing, Sinaia, Romania: A. Venturino, S. Bertrand, C. Stoica Maniu, T. Alamo, E.F. Camacho, “Distributed moving horizon estimation with pre-estimating observer” (2020)
– Best Paper Award of the 23rd International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing, Sinaia, Romania: D. Merhy, C. Stoica Maniu, T. Alamo, Eduardo F. Camacho, “Ellipsoidal set-membership state estimation for descriptor systems” (2019)
– General Chairs’ Recognition Award for Interactive Papers of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and 28th Chinese Control Conference, Shanghai, China: C. Stoica, M.R. Arahal, D.E. Rivera, P. Rodriguez-Ayerbe, D. Dumur. “Application of robustified Model Predictive Control to a production-inventory system” (2009)
Key achievements
– Co-general Chair of the Joint 9th IFAC Symposium on System Structure and Control (SSSC), 19th IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems (TDS), and 2nd IFAC Workshop on Control of Complex Systems, Gif-sur-Yvette (2025)
– International Program Committee Chair of the 14th IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education, Budapest, Hungary (2025)
Interview
– Section “People in Control”, journal IEEE Control System Magazine (July, 2023)
Selected projects
– Principal investigator, “∞sCaR – 2D Animated Cart∞ns for Control Education Rise”, funded by the International Federation of Automatic Control Foundation (2024-2025)
– Principal investigator, “FAnAuto – Promoting sustainable learning in Control through illustration and experimentation”, funded by Paris-Saclay University (2023-2025)
– Principal investigator, “(Re)CreativeRobot – (Re)Creative Mobile Robotics for Kids”, funded by the International Federation of Automatic Control Foundation (2022-2023)
– Co-investigator, “DAReTeach – Drone Arenas-based Remote International Teaching”, funded by the French-American Cultural Exchange in Education and the Arts Foundation (2020-2021)
– Principal investigator, “MEECOD – Modernizing teaching based on tests on aerial UAVs formations”, funded by Paris-Saclay University (2019-2021)
Invited speaker
– Invited speaker “(Inter)national visibility for Control Education”, EEA Club, Webinar on “International teaching and feedback in the EEA field (IFAC TC 9.4). How can we be more international visible?” (2025)
– Invited speaker “Pedagogical Innovations in Control Education”, International Conference on Science & Technology for Engineering (ICSTeng), Gif-sur-Yvette (2025)
– Panel Session “Exchanges on pedagogical innovations”, GS EFE (Graduate School “Education, Formation, Enseignement”) Workshop “Behind the scenes of education and teaching professionals” (“Les coulisses des professionnels de l’éducation et de l’enseignement”), Orsay (2023)
– Invited talk on “Artistic consensus for mobile robots”, Virtual Festival WÆ – womxn from arts to engineering, Berlin (2022).
– Panel Session “Improving Students’ Learning in Control Education with Data- and Feedback- Driven Methodologies”, 12th IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education, Philadelphia, PA, USA (2019)
– Panel Session “Women in Tech” and Panel Session “Innovative pedagogies”, Matlab Expo, Paris (2019)
– Panel Session “The control curriculum for the 21st century”,12th International UKACC Conference on Control, Sheffield, UK (2018)
Memberships
– IEEE Senior member (since 2017)
– Member of the IFAC Technical Committees 9.4 on Control Education (since 2017), 9.2 on Systems and Control for Societal Impact (since 2020) and 2.2 Linear Control Systems (since 2024) of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).
