Yacine Chitour was born in Algiers, Algeria, in 1968. He received his PhD from Rutgers, New Jersey, in 1996. He was with the Mathematics Department of Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, from 1997 to 2004. Since then, he is Professor of control theory at Université Paris-Saclay, France, and a member of the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, Université Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec and CNRS. He is interested in geometric and optimal control, delay and switched systems, sliding mode and control of partial differential equations.Paolo Mason was born in Dolo, Italy, in 1978. He received the Laurea degree in mathematics from the University of Padova, Italy, in 2002 and his PhD from SISSA, Trieste, Italy, in 2006. Since 2009, he works as a "chargé de recherche'' (researcher) for CNRS at the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, Université Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec and CNRS. His research interests include geometric control theory, quantum control and hybrid systems.Mario Sigalotti was born in Udine, Italy, in 1975. He received the Laurea degree in mathematics from the University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy, in 1999, and his PhD from SISSA, Trieste, Italy, in 2003. In 2005, he became an Associate Scientist (chargé de recherche) at Inria, Nancy, France. After joining the Inria center of Saclay from 2011 to 2017, he moved to the Inria center of Paris, where he is Research Director (directeur de recherche) and heads the team CAGE. He is member of the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Sorbonne Université, Paris. His research interests include hybrid systems, geometric control theory, and control of quantum systems.
