
A fractal in the steepest descent algorithm
My activity has found applications in biomedical engineering
(identification
problems in pharmacokinetics), chemical engineering (identification
problems
in electrochemistry and heterogeneous catalysis), telecommunications
(blind equalisation), image processing (comparison of dissimilar
images, estimation of movement in sequences of video images),
mechanical and electrical engineering (quality improvement,
modelling and multiobjective optimisation).
I participated to the
european project (CE)2 of the BRITE-EURAM program,
concerning the development of a general
purpose tool for multiobjective optimisation through the use of
numerical simulation codes (1996-1999) and to the projects TITOSIM and
ONE,
also related to simulation and optimisation (2001-2004). I have been
member of the Network of Excellence PASCAL (Pattern
Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning). I
supervised a Ph.D. (started in November 2005) with
Pascal Duchêne from IFP
(Institut Français du Pétrole) on an application of
kriging to the construction of catalysts, I co-supervise with Joao
Rendas (I3S) a Ph.D. (started in October 2011) on the identification of
a biophysical model dedicated to the prevention of decompression
accidents.