About me
Scientific researcher in the Advanced Robust and Intelligent methods for engineering Applications (ARIA) research team at the IMS laboratory. Jérôme Cieslak was Associate Professor (2008-2023) of control engineering. In 2019, he obtained the authorization to conduct researches (HDR). Since 2023, he is Full Professor with the University of Bordeaux, attached to IMS laboratory UMR CNRS 5218, France.
Updated website: https://jeciesla.wordpress.com/
Research activities
Since October 2008, Jérôme Cieslak establishes collaborations on R&D projects:
– in aerospace (aircraft, commercial airplane, spacecraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, etc.)
– and in biomedical engineering (blood glucose regulation for patients with diabetes, etc.)
Main goals are:
– to improve the autonomy of a system (aircraft, artificial pancreas, …) by integrating self-adaptive control solutions, e.g. design a fault tolerant control (FTC) by using norm-based techniques, switching control or sliding mode theory.
– to propose advanced methods in a Multiple Inputs / Multiple Outputs (MIMO) setup for optimal allocation. Applicative perspectives are in the field of aerospace and personalized medicine;
– to improve the knowledge of human islet physiology and build new bio-inspired mathematical models to recreate, in silico, multi-organ interactions in humans.
Activities linked with research
Co-lead of the cross-disciplinary research team BioMAS (Biotechnologies and Advanced Modeling for Sustainable Healthcare) at IMS laboratory (2025-2028)
Plenary talk in 14th International conference on diagnostics of processes and systems, 21-23 September 2020, Zielona Gora, Poland.
Associate Editor of the Frontiers in Aerospace Engineering, section Navigation, Guidance, and Control for the term (2022 to date)
Associate Editor of the International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science for the term (2021 to date)
Board Member of the International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science for the term (2017 to 2020)
Member of the International Program Committe of the IFAC symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace
Track chair of Medical and Digital Healthcare at IEEE Applied sensing conference
Member of the Technical Committee of the Council of European Aerospace Societies (CEAS), section Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) for the term (2022 to date)
Member of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) – Technical Committee 7.3: Aerospace for the term (2021 to date)
Board Member of the Scientific Committee of Autonomous system for GIS ALBATROS (2024 to date)
Scientific committee member of the IMS laboratory UMR CNRS 5218 (2021 to date)
Scientific committee member of the IMS laboratory UMR CNRS 5218 (2015-2021)
Scientific research grant (2015-2019), (2019-2023) and (2023-2025)
Co-coordinator of a research action (GDR-MACS-CNRS) called “Control for Health” (2022 to 2025)
International Bordeaux Summer School – Innovative technologies and clinical applications in cancer research, June 30-July 4, 2025, Bordeaux,France
Member of Alliance Innovation Santé – Nouvelle Aquitaine cluster (2021 to date)
Expert for ANR France (AAPG 2025)
Expert for FWO (Belgium, 2025)
Expert for FNR Luxembourg CORE Application (2022)
Expert for the project assessment in ECOS-NORD (Mexique) / CNRS program (2018)
Grants
National actions:
2024-2028: Project coordinator of ANR-MIMICbio project : Mathematical Modelling of human pancreatic Islet electrical aCtivity for bio-inspired and fully automated insulin delivery system. Partners: IMS, CBMN, LS2N (Nantes). Financial support: 676 k€
2025: Principal Investigator of CoRAIL project: Flight Control Reconfiguration Challenges for the Autonomy of HybrId AeriaL Drones. Partners: THALES, IMS. Financial support: 10k€
2023-2025: Principal Investigator of GALOPIN project (IdeX grant): Automated Multi-Drug Infusion System to Control Anesthesia and Hemodynamic Dynamics of Diabetic Patients. Partners: IMS, Bordeaux Hospitals: Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases Unit and Anesthesia Unit. Financial support: 64k€
2023-2024: Co-Investigator and technical contributor of CoACTIONS project: Supervised Control to achieve Power Grid Stability of a Hybrid Power/Storage Plant. Partners: ESTIA, IMS. Financial support: 12k€
2018-2022: Co-Investigator and technical contributor in the national project ANR-DIABLO to Decode Islet Algorithms of a Bio-sensor for open and closed-loop glycemia control. Partners: IMS, CBMN, Bordeaux Hospitals: Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases Unit. Financial support: 460 k€
2007-2010: Technical contributor in the national project SIRASAS to the establishment of innovative strategies for an enhanced autonomy of aerospace systems. Financial support: 2,2M€
European actions:
2016-2019: Technical contributor in the industrial contract “Control and Management of Robotics Active Debris Removal” (COMRADE) between GMV Space, ESA, Airbus Defence & Space Bremen, Exeter university and the IMS laboratory. Financial support: 42 k€
2016-2018: Technical contributor in the project “IOA-GNC: Advanced GNC for Assembly of Large and Flexible Structures and Vehicles” between GMV Space, Thales Aliena Space, Exeter university and the IMS laboratory. Financial support: 30 k€
2014-2017: Technical contributor in the project Projet “ACFTMM: Active control with fault tolerance capabilities for microvibrations mitigation applied to high stability missions“. Members: University of Bordeaux / European Space Agency / Aquitaine region and Airbus Defense and Space. Financial support: 184 k€
2009-2012: Technical contributor in the European project FP7-ADDSAFE to the development of Advanced Fault Diagnosis for Sustainable Flight Guidance and Control. Financial support: 3,6 M€
2006-2008: Technical contributor in the European project FM-AG(16) GARTEUR on Fault Tolerant Control. The aim of the FM-AG(16) was to demonstrate the capability and viability of modern FTC schemes applied to a realistic, nonlinear design problem and to assess their capability to improve aircraft survivability.
International actions
2019-2023: ECOS NORD grant to promote research stays between Tijuana (Mexico) and Bordeaux (France) researchers. Financial support: around 5 k€ per years for mobility
2016-2019: Co-Investigator for the CONACyT grant (Mexico) dedicated to the PhD project of Jazmin Zenteno Torres with the National Polytechnique Institute (NPI), School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, San Jose Ticoman, Mexico City. Financial support: around 110 k€ (PhD salary)
2014: Co-Investigator and technical contributor in an academic collaboration between Mexico (CONACyT) and CNRS (France) to develop Fault tolerant control strategies based on sliding mode theory. Financial support from CNRS: 1915 €, Finantial support from CONACyT: 8000€
Invited professor stay in foreign universities (higher than 7 days):
2022, Stay at the Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN) of Mexico City, Mexico
2020, The stay in China has been cancelled due to CoviD pandemic situation. An invited virtual talk has thus been given for students and researchers of the School of Astronautics of Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) of Xi’an, China.
2020, The stay in Mexico has been cancelled due to CoviD pandemic situation.
2018, Stay at the School of Astronautics of Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) of Xi’an, China.
2018, Stay at Xidian University, China.
2014, Stay at the Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN) of Mexico City, Mexico
2012, Stay at the “Université Nationale Autonome du Mexique” (UNAM) of Mexico City, Mexico
Member of PhD thesis jury:
2024, Assessor of the PhD thesis of Bob AUBOUIN-PAIRAULT untitled “Data-based anesthesia process modelling for online monitoring and prediction“, Université de Grenoble, GIPSA-Lab
2024, Assessor of the PhD thesis of Renato MURATA untitled “Fault detection and isolation for a multi-engine cluster of a reusable launcher“, Université de Paris-Saclay – ONERA
2022, Co-supervisor of the PhD thesis of Martin FAURE untitled “Diagnostic basé Hinfini/Hmoins et tolérance aux fautes pour l’autonomie des missions spatiales“, Université de Bordeaux, IMS
2022, Assessor of the PhD thesis of Emeric SCHARBARG untitled “Automatisation de l’insulinothérapie fonctionnelle – réalisation d’un prototype de pancréas artificiel“, Centrale Nantes, LS2N
2022, Co-supervisor of the PhD thesis of Louis CASSANY untitled “Modélisation et régulation de la glycémie dans la maladie du diabète“, Université de Bordeaux, IMS
2021, Assessor of the PhD thesis of Loïc OLCOMMENDY untitled « In silico development of a bioelectronic islet-based artificial pancreas », Université de Bordeaux, IMS
2020, Co-supervisor of the PhD thesis of Jazmin ZENTENO TORRES untitled “Sliding mode control with fault tolerance capacities: application to a rendezvous mission in a circular orbit“, Université de Bordeaux, IMS
2019, Assessor of the PhD thesis of Boussad ABCI untitled “Approche informationnelle pour la navigation autonome tolérante aux défauts: Application aux systèmes robotiques mobiles“, Université de Lille, CrisTAL
2017, Co-supervisor of the PhD thesis of Valentin PREDA untitled “Robust microvibration control and worst-case analysis for high pointing stability space missions“, Université de Bordeaux, IMS
2013, Co-supervisor of the PhD thesis of Anca GHEORGHE untitled “Détection robuste et précoce de l’embarquement et du grippage dans le système de commandes de vol“, Université de Bordeaux, IMS
Awards & honnors
2025, Best paper award of the 23rd IFAC symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace
2023, Prizewinner of the IFAC Aerospace Competition on Fault Detection and Fault Tolerance during the 22nd IFAC World Congress 2023
2015, Best application paper award during the 9th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes
2015, Certification of a model-based fault detection scheme dedicated to Airbus commercial airplane. Technology Readiness Level (TRL) assessment: 9, actual system “flight proven” through successful mission operations
2014, Aerospace Valley award for the co-supervised PhD thesis of Anca GHEORGHE
2012, Prizewinner model-based fault detection scheme in the European FP7-ADDSAFE project. Technology Readiness Level (TRL) assessment: 4, validation in laboratory environment
2008, Third best results of Fault-Tolerant Control (FTC) strategies applied to a real flight simulator in the European FM-AG(16) GARTEUR project. Technology Readiness Level (TRL) assessment: 4, validation in laboratory environment
Article (41)
Book (1)
Book sections (7)
Patents (13)
Thesis (1)
HDR (1)
Conference proceedings (78)
Invited lectures (3)
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