I'm currently an Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) in automatic control at the French school of Engineering: École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques (ENSMM) in Besançon and a researcher in the Department of Automatique et Systèmes Micro-Mécatroniques (AS2M) at FEMTO-ST. My research interests are in the fields of port Hamiltonian systems, distributed parameter systems, and model and controller order reductions. I am also interested on the application of modeling and control theory on the Electro-active polymer-based soft actuators. 

Y. Le Gorrec was graduated as engineer in « Control, Electronics, Computer Engineering » at the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA, Toulouse, France) in 1995. He received in 1998 his Ph. D. degree from the National Higher School of Aeronautics and Aerospace (Supaero, Toulouse, France). His field of interest was robust control and self scheduled controller synthesis. From 1999 to 2008, he was Associate Professor in Automatic Control at the Laboratory of Control and Chemical Engineering of Lyon Claude Bernard University (LAGEP, Villeurbanne, France). He worked on port Hamiltonian systems and their use for the modeling and control of irreversible and distributed parameter systems with an application to physico-chemical processes. From september 2008 he is Professor at National Engineering Institute in Mechanics and Microtechnologies. His current field of research is the control of non linear systems and infinite dimensional systems with an application to smart material based actuators, and micro actuators by using the port Hamiltonian framework.

Ning Liu received the bachelor degree in aircraft design and engineering from the Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China in 2016, and the engineer degree (equivalent of master degree) in mechanical engineering from the national institute of applied sciences (INSA), Lyon, France in 2017, and the Ph.D. degree in automatic control from the FEMTO-ST institute (UMR CNRS 6174), University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, in 2020. Since 2021, she was a Postdoc researcher in the Integrated Actuators Laboratory, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Neuchâtel, Switzerland. From Oct. 2021, she becomes the Associate Professor (Maîtres de Conférences in French) at Université de Franche-Comté, and conducts her research work at FEMTO-ST Institute. Her research interests include electro-active polymer actuators, port-Hamiltonian systems, structure preserving discretization and passivity-based control.