Resume

My name is Jean-Baptiste Bouvier and I am a French postdoctoral researcher with interests spanning robotics, astrodynamics, autonomy, control theory, machine learning and optimization among others.

I was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with Prof. Negar Mehr between June and December 2023 before transfering to UC Berkeley.

I completed my PhD in Aerospace Engineering at UIUC in May 2023. I was working with Prof. Melkior Ornik, in the Learning, Decision, Control and Autonomy research group. My PhD work focused on the resilience of autonomous systems in the face of actuator malfunctions. My PhD thesis is entitled Guaranteed Resilience of Autonomous Systems to Loss of Control Authority over their Actuators. During my PhD I also collaborated with Prof. Robyn Woollands to study the resilience of orbital missions and with Prof. Negar Mehr to establish guarantees on dynamics learning.

Before starting my PhD at UIUC I worked for six months at the French space agency CNES in Toulouse. During this internship I worked on Aurora a simulation software for mission planning of spacecraft constellations orbiting the Earth.

I completed my Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering at UIUC in 2018 where I worked with Prof. Koki Ho in the Space Systems Optimization Group which has now moved to GeorgiaTech. I worked on astrodynamics and more specifically in trajectory optimization in the three-body problem to design low-energy, low-thrust transfers. My Master thesis is entitled Orbit Control for a Spacecraft around a Splitting Contact Binary Asteroid.

I was able to study at UIUC thanks to a dual degree program with the French aerospace engineering school ISAE-Supaéro where I also obtained a Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering in 2019. Before focusing on aerospace I completed my undergraduate studies at one of the top French preparatory schools, the Lycée du Parc in Lyon with a major in math and physics.

When I am not working, I am most likely training for my next triathlon or running race. I am an Ironman triathlete and I won the 2022 Illinois State Championship of triathlon!