Xavier LITRICO Researcher in: - Automatic control of canal and rivers, - Hydraulic modeling. Email: [email protected] HDR in Automatic Control Science PhD in Water Sciences

EDUCATION 2007: Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (equivalent to tenure), Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG). ”Frequency domain approaches for modeling and control of open channel hydraulic systems”. 1996-1999: PhD thesis on ”Modeling, identification and robust control of open channel hydraulic systems”, Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts (ENGREF). Defended in April 1999 with honors. 1994-1995: MSc in Hydrology, University of Montpellier II. 1993-1995: Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts (ENGREF), Paris: environmental science management. 1990-1993: Ecole Polytechnique (school training top level French officials). RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2007-2008: Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Supervision of 3 PhD students, writing of a book on open channel modeling and control, use of cell-phone GPS data to reconstruct traffic flow data (joint research project UC Berkeley, Nokia, CalTrans and CCIT), hydraulic modeling of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, GPS data assimilation in a flow model. 2000-present: Researcher, Cemagref Montpellier (Irrigation Research Unit) in modeling and control of open channel systems: • Scientific leader of a research team of 30 researchers (since 2006) • Supervised 5 PhD students, 11 MSc and engineer students. • Responsible for research collaborations with: - Compagnie d’Aménagement des Coteaux de Gascogne, on improving algorithms for real-time automatic control of rivers. - University of Evora (Portugal), on modeling and control of a laboratory canal. - Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tarbes, in the French-Spanish project GERHYCO II on optimal control of water resources. - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, on robust control of time delay water systems (AQUAE). - Centre International de la Recherche en Agronomie pour le Développement and Ecole Nationale d’Agronomie de Montpellier, on modeling an automatic control gate. • Research in automatic control of open channel hydraulic systems. - First application of H∞ control to an open channel, - Study of maximal performance for open channel systems. • Missions in Spain, Nigeria, Portugal, USA. 1999: Post-doc fellow at INRIA Sophia Antipolis: • Research in linear irrational transfer function models and control for rivers. • Developed new nonlinear models for flow transfer in rivers.

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1995-1999: Research assistant, Cemagref Montpellier (Irrigation Research Unit) in modeling and control of open channel systems: • Developed an identification method for a nonlinear distributed parameter model of a river. Application to regulated rivers in South-Western France. • Developed a robust internal model control design method for regulated rivers. • Developed a robust LQG control design method for regulated rivers. • Developed a tool for improving manual control of irrigation canals. Application to a canal in Pakistan. 1995: Research trainee, IIMI (International Irrigation Management Institute) and Cemagref. • Research on alternative scenarios for improved manual operations at the main canal level: 6 months’ study applied on a canal in Pakistan. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2009-2010: Associate Prof. at Montpellier SupAgro 2003-2010: Associate Prof. at ENGREF Montpellier (Post-graduate engineering school) • Responsible for two teaching modules (20 days/year): open channel hydraulics and irrigation 2003-2010: Lecturer at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electronique, Electrotechnique, Informatique, Hydraulique et Télécommunications (ENSEEIHT) Toulouse • Teaching in modeling and automatic control of open channels (20 h/year). 1996-2003: Lecturer at ENGREF Montpellier • Teaching in modeling and automatic control of regulated rivers (12 h/year). 1995-1998: Lecturer at Université Montpellier II • Teaching in applied mathematics (60 h/year). EXPERTISE and EVALUATION 2010 : Reviewer for projects funded by Evaluation scientifique de projets hollandais et québécois. 2009-2010 : Reviewer for scientific projects submitted to the Challenge Program Water and Food. 2007-2010 : Analysis and modernization of water management in the Tadla irrigated scheme, Morocco (4 one-week missions for NOVEC). 2007: Mission in Morocco for a European project on irrigation canal management (15 days). 2006: Consultant for a Portuguese project on the control of flow models (3 days). 2005: Teaching of open-channel modeling and control for Office du Niger (Mali) (15 days). 2003: Scientific evaluation of a Portuguese European project for the 5th FRD. 2000-2001: Two missions in Nigeria for the Programme Commun Systèmes Irrigués (Cirad-IRDCemagref): diagnosis and hydraulic modelling of an irrigation canal (2 × 15 days). 1998-2005: Studies for the French Ministry of Agriculture on the management of dam-river systems in the South of France: inventory of dams, evaluation of water efficiency, propositions for improved management. 2000-present: Reviewer for Automatica, Systems and Control Letters, Advances in Water Resources, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Journal of Process Control, Applied Mathematical Modelling, Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Journal of Hydro-environment Research, Control Engineering Practice, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Water Resources Management, la Houille blanche, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-Series B, Control and Intelligent System, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, American Control Conference, European Control Conference, Portuguese Control Conference, IFAC World Congress, Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation OTHER EXPERIENCES 1994: BURGéAP. 2 months’ study on affordable drinking water supply in small towns in Africa.

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1994: AFVP. mission in Benin (3 months): Economic viability of drinking water supply in small towns. 1992: Volunteer in the trail crew at Redwood National Park, California (1 month). 1990: Military service (Head of patrol) at 6

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Régiment du Génie at Angers (France).

PERSONAL INFORMATION Languages: French (mother tongue), English (fluent TOEIC 950/990), Spanish, some German. Sports: swimming, cycling PUBLICATIONS 35 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals 1 book, 1 edited book, 2 book chapters 40 publications in international conferences (see list of publications) HONORS 2010: Finalist for the best student paper award at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. 2007: Recipient of the Honorable Mention Paper Award of the ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 2007-present: Editorial Board member of The Open Automation and Control Systems Journal and of the Open Hydrology Journal 2005: Recipient of the Best Paper Award of the ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering.

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