About Me
Since September 2024, I am a postdoctoral researcher at INRAE Occitanie-Montpellier, as a member of UMR MISTEA working with Alain Rapaport (Senior Researcher at INRAE Montpellier). I specialize in applied mathematics, with a focus on optimal control and optimization, particularly in hybrid systems. My research applies these techniques to areas such as modeling and epidemiology.
Before that, from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2024, I was a ATER (Temporary Lecturer and Research Assistant) at Avignon Université.
Prior to that, from October 1, 2020, to November 17, 2023, I was a PhD student at Avignon Université. My Phd supervisors were Térence Bayen (Prof. at Avignon Université) and Loïc Bourdin (MCF HDR at Limoges Université). My research involved the derivation of first-order necessary optimality conditions for optimal control problems involving spatially heterogenous dynamics and their applications to optimal control problems with loss control regions (Here is my manuscript for more details).
Research interests
Optimal Control Theory
Pontryagin's Maximum Principle
Heterogeneous Dynamics
Loss Control Regions & Non-Permanent Control
Mathematical Modeling
Epidemiology
Numerical Optimization
Dynamical Systems
Education
PhD in Applied Mathematics (2020–2023)
Avignon Université, Avignon, FranceMaster 2 in Applied Mathematics (2019–2020)
Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, FranceMaster 1 in Applied Mathematics (2018–2019)
Université Mohammed V, Rabat, MoroccoBachelor in Mathematics (2015–2018)
Université Ibn Tofail, Kénitra, Morocco
Projects
BOUM pour les jeunes de la SMAI (with Ruben Chenevat and Mahugnon Gildas Dadjo): Organization of a Conference day on Optimization, Modeling, and Control at INRAE Montpellier (upcoming in 2025)
ANR NOCIME: Post-doc
PEPS JCJC 2024 (with El-Mehdi El Arar): Stochastic Rounding Effects on Solving Optimal Control Problems
Contact
Email: anas.bouali@inrae.fr
Address: 2 Place Pierre Viala, 34000 Montpellier, France
Office: 305, 3rd Floor