Hosting institute:
Located at the heart of the future Green City of Benguerir, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), a higher education institution with an international standard, is established to serve Morocco and the African continent. Its vision is honed around research and innovation at the service of education and development. This unique nascent university, with its state-of-the-art campus and infrastructure, has woven a sound academic and research network, and its recruitment process is seeking high quality academics and professionals in order to boost its quality-oriented research environment in the metropolitan area of Marrakech.
Title:
Postdoctoral Position in Contract-based Design for Power Systems
Entity:
CC (College of Computing) at UM6P Benguérir
Positions summary:
The project aims to develop new approaches to the control of MicroGrids. Outdated classical control methods for MicroGrids necessitate compositional approaches due to the large number of interacting agents including for example renewable energy sources. The project focuses on establishing analytical and design methodologies using contract-based design for microgrids, emphasizing correct-by-design verification through scalable and modular control approaches.
References:
[1] SAOUD, Adnane, GIRARD, Antoine, et FRIBOURG, Laurent. Assume-guarantee contracts for continuous-time systems. Automatica, 2021, vol. 134, p. 109910.
[2] SAOUD, Adnane, GIRARD, Antoine, et FRIBOURG, Laurent. Contract-based design of symbolic controllers for safety in distributed multiperiodic sampled-data systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020, vol. 66, no 3, p. 1055-1070.
[3] ZONETTI, Daniele, SAOUD, Adnane, GIRARD, Antoine, et al. A symbolic approach to voltage stability and power sharing in time-varying DC microgrids. European Control Conference (ECC). IEEE, 2019. p. 903-909.
[4] LIU, Siyuan, SAOUD, Adnane, JAGTAP, Pushpak, et al. Compositional synthesis of signal temporal logic tasks via assume-guarantee contracts. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). 2022. p. 2184-2189.
Your role:
The successful candidates are expected to perform the following tasks:
• Leading research on contract-based design for power systems.
• Publishing in top-tier and high-impact conferences and journals.
• Providing assistance in the supervision of Master students.
• Assisting the preparation of new research proposals.
Research positions with no teaching duty.
Your profile:
A PhD degree in Control theory, Computer Science or Applied Mathematics
Sound publication track record in the areas related to the topics
Experience in research: ability to plan and carry out research experiments and projects
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
What we offer:
Duration: One year contract (possible extension depending on the performance).
Application:
Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled.
• Applications should be submitting online (mandatory)
• Applications should be also emailed to adnane.saoud@um6p.ma with the subject "[Postdoc position]", containing a CV, list of publications and the contact information of two reference persons.
