Now senior researcher (Directeur de Recherche) at Inria, I am the team leader of the I4S project team. This a joint team between Inria and Univ. Gustave Eiffel. I am also Deputy Head of Science at Inria Rennes.
Research interests / field of activity
- Temperature rejection in Structural Health Monitoring systems
- System identification and monitoring of wind turbines
- System identification and monitoring of time varying systems
- Uncertainty quantification schemes
- Damage detection and localization approaches
Short bio
I received a Ph.D degree in applied mathematics in 1997 under the supervision of Francois Le Gland. I spent two years as a Postdoctoral Associate at LMS International, Leuven during the Eureka SINOPSYS project and also as a postdoc at CNR, Padova, Italy. I obtained my habilitation in 2008. Since 2000, I am with Inria, now senior research scientist (directeur de recherche) at Inria, centre Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique. I am working on identification and detection of partially hidden stochastic systems. I have been the advisor of 14 PhD students and several Master students.
PhD student supervision
- Nina Delette (2023-2026) : Damage quantification for wind turbines
- Nikhil Mahar (2°23-2026) : Learning methods for Structural Health Monitoring
- Neha Aswal (2019-2023): Structural health monitoring for tensegrity structures.
- Ambroise Cadoret (2020-): Operational modal analysis for wind turbines
- Eva Viefhues (2017-2022): Damage detection and related algorithms
- Thibaud Toullier (2016-2019): Simultaneous estimation of temperature and emissivity from IR
- Delwar Bhuyan (2014-2017): Algorithms for damage localization (with Univ. Nantes)
- Philippe Mellinger (2011-2014): Algorithms for identification and detection in frequency domain (CIFRE)
- Luciano Marin (2010-2013): Damage localization techniques using FEM and uncertainty driven rules (with Northeastern Univ., Boston)
- Ahmed Jhinaoui (2010-2014): Subspace identification and detection for rotating systems (with ISAE, Toulouse)
- Michael Döhler (2008-2011): Algorithms in identification and detection for large systems
- Xuan-Binh Lam (2008-2011): Uncertainty quantification for the identification of mechanical structures
- Rafik Zouari (2005-2008): Détection précoce d’instabilité aéroélastique des structures aéronautiques
- Houssein Nasser (2003-2006): Surveillance vibratoire de structures mécaniques sous contraintes thermiques
Recent projects
- Inria coordinator for the joint lab ASTI between Inria, Univ. Gustave Eiffel and CNR
- Inria coordinator of the Horizon Europe Brighter
- French coordinator of the COST action on the Value of SHM
- Inria coordinator for the DESDEMONA H2020 project
- Scientific leader of European project FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IAPP 251515 ISMS “Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways” on Internet-based Structural Health Monitoring (2010 – 2014)
- European project FP7-NMP CP-IP 213968-2 IRIS (Integrated European Industrial Risk Reduction System), iris-safety.eu (2008 – 2012)
- European Projects Eureka SINOPSYS, Flite and Flite2 from 1999 to 2008, H2020 DESDEMONA
- Coordinator of the French project CONSTRUCTIF (COuplage de coNcepts pour la Surveillance de sTRUCTures mécaniques InFormatisées), project labeled in 2003 by ACI Sécurité & Informatique
Conference and journal boards
- Member of scientific boards of EWSHM (European Workshop On Structural Health Monitoring), SHMII-10 and IOMAC (International Operational Modal Analysis Conference, until 2019)
- Member of the editorial board of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
- Associate Editor of Journal of Modeling and Simulation in Engineering – previously
- Associate Editor of Journal of Mathematical Problems in Engineering, and Journal of Shock and Vibration
- Chairman at SYSID 2006, IMAC 2009, IWSHM 2013, EWSHM 2014, SAFEPROCESS 2015, Safeprocess 2018, IFAC World Congress 2020
- Conference Organizer of the 7th EWSHM (2014) and QIRT2020
Contact
Inria Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique
Campus universitaire de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes
e-mail: laurent.mevel(at)inria.fr
personal webpage with full publication list
