Marianne Akian

Marianne Akian is a Researcher at INRIA Saclay – Île-de-France, affiliated with the Tropical team (joint with CMAP, École Polytechnique, IP Paris, and CNRS). Her research spans deterministic and stochastic optimal control, tropical mathematics, idempotent analysis, and nonlinear Perron-Frobenius theory. She has contributed to numerical methods for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations and mean payoff games.

Education:

• PhD in Mathematics (1990), Université Paris IX-Dauphine
• Habilitation (HDR) in Mathematics (2007), Université Pierre et Marie Curie

Her work integrates max-plus/tropical algebra with applications in portfolio optimization, dynamic programming, and epidemiological modeling. Recent articles focus on accelerating value iteration algorithms, tropical convexity, and entropy games.

Scientific awards are not explicitly mentioned in the provided texts. She collaborates extensively with researchers like Stéphane Gaubert, Marouen B for Stochastic Control, and others in applied mathematics.

Lab/Team: Tropical team at INRIA, which bridges tropical mathematics with control theory and optimization.