Cristina STOICA

Cristina Stoica est Professeur à CentraleSupélec/L2S, Université Paris-Saclay. Elle a obtenu son diplôme d'ingénieur (2004) et son diplôme de Master (2005) en Automatique à l'Université Politehnica Bucarest, Roumanie, et son doctorat (2008) et HDR (2014) à l'Université Paris-Sud. Ses activités de recherche portent sur l’estimation d’état distribuée et la commande prédictive des systèmes multi-agents, la commande fondée sur l'apprentissage, la robotique mobile, la pédagogie pour l'Automatique ou encore le lien Art et Automatique. Elle est impliquée dans de nombreuses collaborations internationales et elle a visité plusieurs groupes de recherche à l’étranger. Depuis 2020, elle est responsable de l’équipe de recherche SYCOMORE du L2S. Elle a été Co-general Chair de la conférence IFAC SSSC TDS COSY 2025 organisée à CentraleSupélec et IPC chair du symposium IFAC ACE 2025. Elle participe activement à de nombreuses activités de médiation scientifique et a reçu plusieurs prix pour sa contribution à l'impact sociétal de l'Automatique. / CentraleSupélec

L2S, CentraleSupélec
3 rue Joliot Curie
91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

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
– Honorable Mention as one of the 5 finalist papers for the Young Author Theory Prize at the 23rd IFAC World Congress, Busan, Korea (2026)

Hao DENG, “Fault tolerant predictive control techniques for uncertain systems” (2023-2026)
– 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