Dependability assessment of systems using uncertainty theories (Probability theory, Imprecise probabilities, Belief functions theory, Fuzzy set theory)

Dependability of railway systems (European Rail Traffic Management System: ERTMS) and railway safety standards

Graphical models for Risk assessment (Valuation Based Systems (VBS), Statecharts, Bayesian networks)

Importance measures and Risk-informed decision making

Reliability allocation and optimization problems

Formal methods for verification and validation of software

Reliability assessment of System-of-Systems

Member of the Labex MS2T project : “Control of Technological Systems-of-Systems”, 2011-2021

Member of the SURF project : “Security and safety in the factory of the future”, PEPS-CNRS, 2016

Member of ANR JCJC (Young researcher program) Récif project : “Belief networks for quantitative evaluation of dependability parameters of railway systems”, French National Research Agency (ANR), 2013-2017

Felipe Aguirre. Reliability analysis of systems using belief functions theory to represent epistemic uncertainty. October 2009-2012. Co-supervisor: Mohamed Sallak

Siqi Qiu. Safe design of Systems of Systems in the presence of uncertainty. November 2011-2014. Co-supervisor: Mohamed Sallak

Yunhui Hou (2012-2016): Estimation of the probability and uncertainty of undesirable events in large-scale systems. Co-supervisors: Mohamed Sallak and Nikolaos Limnios

Subeer Rangra (2014-2017): Integrating of human factors in risk analysis: Application to advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and railway systems, co-tutoring with Mohamed Sallak (UTC) and Frederic Vanderhaegen (Valenciennes University)