Nicolas Petit was born in Paris, France, in 1972. He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in 1995, and obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics and Control at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris in 2000, and the "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" from Université Paris 6, in 2007.
He is a professor at and head of the Centre Automatique et Systèmes, MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University.
His research interests include constrained optimal trajectory generation, delay systems, and nonlinear observers. He is also active in industrial process control, control of multiphasis flow, internal combustion engines, guidance navigation and control. Dr. Petit received two times the "Journal of Process Control Paper Prize" for Best article over the periods 2002-2005 and 2008-2011, and is recipient of the 2016 Production and Operations Regional Award from Society of Petroleum Engineers.
He has developed the controllers of several industrial chemical reactors, manufacturing processes, microfluidi
