Olivier Kermorgant

Associate Professor of Robotics at Centrale Nantes, France

Contact

	olivier.kermorgant @ ec-nantes.fr
	École Centrale Nantes, office S.416 1 rue de la Noé 44321 NANTES cedex, FRANCE
	+33 (0)2 40 37 69 99

Short bio

Born in 1981 in Rennes. I graduated from École Centrale Paris in 2004, then I joined Arcelor research centre as a research engineer.
From 2008 to 2011 I was a PhD student in the Lagadic team at Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique, under the supervision of François Chaumette.
I then spent 6 months as a research assistant in Ocean Systems Lab at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, with Yvan Pétillot.
I was associate professor at Télécom Physique Strasbourg from 2012 to 2014, teaching Robotics, Discrete-time control theory and optimization.
From 2014 to 2015 I was at IRT Jules Verne as a research engineer, for the prototyping of an autonomous mobile robot in the ship industry.
Since 2015 I have been associate professor at Centrale Nantes and a researcher at LS2N (previously IRCCyN) in the ARMEN team.

Besides my teaching and research activities, I am the head of the Control and Robotics master (CORO) and its Advanced Robotics track.
I also manage the EMARO joint master programme, that allows students doing their robotics master among three European institutions.