ZIDANI Hasnaa

Hasnaa ZIDANI is a Professor in applied mathematics at INSA Rouen Normandie, holding the COPTI Chair. Her research focuses on optimal control, mathematical modeling, and numerical simulation, with applications to transportation systems (e.g., autonomous vehicles, traffic management) and environmental modeling (e.g., resource management, marine ecology). She leads the COPTI project, funded by the ANR, Région Normandie, and EU’s ERDF, aiming to advance international-level research in optimal control methods.

Research priorities include

• Optimal control of large-scale and stratified systems,
• Trajectory planning and crowd movement optimization,
• Image segmentation and optimal transport,
• Applications in aerospace (e.g., launcher trajectory optimization) and energy (e.g., demand response systems).

ZIDANI actively contributes to academic events, such as the 2024 conference on Control Theory (co-chair) and the 2023 workshop on Optimal Control in Italy. She collaborates with institutions like Thales Alenia Space and develops tools like the ROC-HJ solver for reachability analysis and optimal control.

Affiliations: Laboratoire de Mathématiques de l’INSA Rouen (LMI), CNRS EA-3226. Contact via Hasnaa.Zidani@insa-rouen.fr.