Teaching

Spring 2026

Introduction to Transportation Systems

Section(s): Civil Engineering

Lecturer: Michel Bierlaire

Teaching assistant: Marija Kukic, Anne-Valerie Preto, Candice Baud, Louise Lallemand

Number of students: unknown

Optimization and Simulation

Section(s): Doctoral program in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Lecturers: Michel Bierlaire, Prunelle Vogler, Lea Ricard

Number of students: unknown

PhD theses

Defense scheduled in 2026 or after and theses in progress

Ongoing

Marija Kukic

Modeling the activities of households

PhD committees

Sara Momen

Electrified Multimodal Urban Transport Planning and Operations under Uncertainty

Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

October 14, 2026

Victor Cantillo Garcia

Improving the understanding of travel behaviour over time

University of Leeds, United Kingdom

August 24, 2026

Jaïr Kees Evert Karel Campfens

Participatory Modelling for Energy Scenarios and Transition Pathways

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

August 21, 2026

Yongtao Wu

Optimization in Modern Machine Learning: Steepest Descent Theory and Trustworthy Models

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

July 22, 2026

Bastien Van Delft (President of the jury)

Navigating Generative Diffusion Priors: From Latent Spaces and Training Dynamics to Composition and Adaptation

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

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