Federica Garin





RESUME

Research positions:

Oct. 2010 – present:
    Researcher (chargée de recherche), NeCS/DANCE team, Inria, Grenoble, France.

March 2010 – Sept. 2010:
    Post-doc, NeCS team, Inria, Grenoble, France.
    Topic: Control with communication contraints.
    Advisor: dr. Carlos Canudas-de-Wit

March 2008 – Feb. 2010:
    Post-doc, DEI, Università di Padova,
Italy.
    Topic: Distributed estimation algorithms for sensor networks.
    Advisor: prof. Sandro Zampieri

Education: 

March 2008:
    Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Politecnico di Torino,
Italy.
    Thesis: “Generalized serial turbo coding ensembles: analysis and design”. 
    Advisor:
prof. Fabio Fagnani.


September 2006 – June 2007: 
    visiting prof. Paul Siegel’s research group, University of California at San Diego (UCSD).

 
December 2004: 
    M.S., Applied Mathematics (110/110, cum laude), Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
    Thesis: “Codici turbo seriali su anelli per modulazioni non binarie”. 
    Advisor: prof. Fabio Fagnani.

 
October 2002 – July 2003: 
    Erasmus exchange program, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

 
September 2002:
    B.S., Applied Mathematics
(110/110, cum laude), Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

 
July 1999:   
    Piano performing diploma (10/10), Conservatorio di Torino, Italy

    

Teaching:

Since 2014 Master course Distributed Algorithms and Network Systems, MiSCIT, Univ. Grenoble Alpes

2012-13 and 2013-14 – Teaching assistant at IUT-UJF Grenoble (automatic control)

2005-06 and 2007-08 – Teaching assistant at Politecnico di Torino (calculus)

2001-02 and 2003-04 – Student teaching assistant at Politecnico di Torino 
                                       (calculus and linear algebra)
 
    

Current Ph.D. students:

Raoul Prisant, Ph.D. student at Univ. Grenoble Alpes since Nov. 2023, co-advised with Paolo Frasca, research topic: Continuous models for the control of large networks: graphon limits.

Former Ph.D. students:

Ujjwal Pratap, graduated at Univ. Grenoble Alpes in Sept. 2022, co-advised with Carlos Canudas de Wit and Henrik Sandberg, thesis: Estimation and control for resilience in large-scale network systems.

Sebin Gracy, graduated at Univ. Grenoble Alpes in Nov. 2018, co-advised with Alain Kibangou, thesis: Input and state observability of linear network systems with application to security of cyber-physical systems.

Stéphane Durand, graduated at Univ. Grenoble Alpes in Dec. 2018, co-advised with Bruno Gaujal, thesis: Analysis of best response dynamics in potential games.

Pietro Grandinetti, graduated at Univ. Grenoble Alpes in Sept. 2017, co-advised with Carlos Canudas de Wit, thesis: Control of large-scale traffic networks.

Simon Gerwig, Ph.D. student at Univ. Grenoble Alpes (CIFRE industrial thesis at Alstom, Grenoble), Feb. 2014 - March 2016, co-advised with Carlos Canudas de Wit and Bilal Sari, research topic: Collaborative and reconfigurable resilient control design of hydroelectric powerplants.

Ruggero Fabbiano, graduated at Univ. Grenoble Alpes in May 2015, co-advised with Carlos Canudas de Wit, thesis: Collaborative source-seeking control.

Nicolas Cardoso de Castro, graduated at Université de Grenoble in Oct. 2012, co-advised with Carlos Canudas de Wit, thesis: Energy-aware control and communication co-design in wireless networked control systems.


Former master and undergraduate students:

Mattéo Gautier, 1st-year engineering student at Ensimag - Grenoble INP, internship at gipsa-lab in June-July 2024, co-advised with P. Frasca, topic: Graphons and graph properties for systems and control.

Ali Salame
, graduated at Univ. Grenoble-Alpes (M2 MiSCIT) in July 2021, co-advised with Paolo Frasca and Maria Laura Delle Monache, master thesis: Stability and control of vehicle platoons with a connected autonomous vehicle.

Renato Vizuete
, graduated at Univ. Grenoble-Alpes (M2 MiSCIT) in July 2019, co-advised with Paolo Frasca, master thesis: Graphons: from data models to control systems for large scale networks.

Léo Gayral, graduated at ENS Lyon (M2 Informatique Fondamentale) in July 2019, co-advised with B. Gaujal, topic: Random potential games with partial interactions.

Dennis Swart
, master student at University of Twente, Enschede (The Netherlands), internship at gipsa-lab in fall 2017, co-advised with S. Gracy and A. Kibangou, topic: Monitoring network systems subject to external attacks.

Yvan Gaudfrin, graduated at University of Bristol (UK) in Sept. 2013, co-advised with R. Fabbiano and J. Dumon, master thesis: Source seeking via Poisson integrals - Practical implementation of a source-localization set-up.

Samir Hachour
, graduated at ENSISA Mulhouse in July 2011 with a research internship at gipsa-lab Grenoble, co-advised with Alain Kibangou, master thesis: Approche décentralisée pour la détection et la localisation de défauts dans une ferme photovoltaïque.