BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Dr. J.B. Lasserre
graduated from "Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Informatique et Mathematiques
Appliquees" (ENSIMAG) in Grenoble, France (1976). He then got his PhD
(1978) and "Doctorat d'Etat" (1984) degrees both from Paul Sabatier
University in Toulouse (France). He was a post-doc visitor at the Electrical
Engineering Dept. of the University of California at Berkeley with a fellowship
from Inria (1978-79) and NSF (1985-86). Since 1980 he has been at LAAS-CNRS in
Toulouse where he is currently "Directeur de Recherche". He is
the co-author of the books "Markov
Control Processes" and "Further
Topics in Markov Control Processes" (Springer-Verlag, 1996 and 1999)
and "Markov Chains and Invariant
Probabilities" (Birkhauser-Verlag, 2003). He is the Associate Editor
of the Journals: SIAM Journals on Control
and Optimization, and Electronic Journal Math. Phys., Sciences, and formerly
the Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Investigacion
Operativa, Automatica, and International Journal Production Research.
His research interests
include Production Planning and Scheduling, Markov control processes, Markov
chains, Probability, global and discrete optimization, and particularly, the
links between optimization, algebra and real algebraic geometry.