Benoît Legat is a new faculty member of ICTEAM/INMA.
During his Ph.D. thesis, Benoît worked on invariant sets computation in control using convex optimization with Raphaël Jungers. During his postdoc at MIT with Pablo Parrilo, he studied the optimization of nonconvex formulations for factorization problems appearing in polynomial optimization. The research at KULeuven with Bart De Moor focused on numerical solving of systems of polynomial equations.
His research interests are hidden convexity in nonconvex optimization problems appearing in machine learning and control as well as the open source development of JuMP, an optimization framework in Julia.
Welcome Benoît !