William Jussiau
About
Hei,
My name is William Jussiau, I arrived at NTNU-ITK in May 2025 to work on bird strike prevention for wind turbines.
Curriculum:
- (2014-2018) Graduated from ISAE-SUPAERO (Aerospace Graduate School in Toulouse, France) in 2018 as an Aerospace Control Engineer.
- (2018-2020) Worked for Safran Electronics & Defense near Paris, France, as a Research Control Engineer. Topics: aircraft anticollision (ACAS Xu, MPC, trajectory optimization).
- (2020-2024) PhD at ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab. Research focused on developing control laws for suppressing self-sustained oscillations in low-Reynolds fluid flows.
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Competencies
Research
- My previous research (PhD at ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab) consisted in developing controller synthesis methods for oscillator fluid flows. Oscillator flows form a particular class of laminar flows that exhibit an unstable equilibrium and an attractor (limit cycle, quasi-periodic attractor or chaotic attractor). The most well-known oscillator flow is the flow past a cylinder exhibiting the von Kármán vortex street. The control challenge lie in the high-dimensionality and nonlinearity of the system.
- My current research at NTNU-ITK consists in developing control laws for bird avoidance with wind turbines, as part of the SKARV project with SINTEF.
Publications
Data-driven stabilization of an oscillating flow with linear time-invariant controllers
In this paper (published in a fluid dynamics journal), we propose advances towards the data-based control of periodic oscillator flows with a sequence of linear time-invariant controllers.
Control of a Class of High-Dimensional Nonlinear Oscillators: Application to Flow Stabilization
In this article, we propose a simulation-based method using Youla parametrization to produce linear time-invariant controllers suppressing oscillations in oscillator flows.
2026
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Jussiau, William;
Garcia Rosa, Paula Bastos;
Imsland, Lars.
(2026)
Active Bird Collision Avoidance with Wind Turbines Using LPV Control.
Academic chapter
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Garcia Rosa, Paula Bastos;
Jussiau, William;
Chabaud, Valentin Bruno;
Imsland, Lars.
(2026)
Feasibility of active bird collision avoidance by wind turbine control.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
Academic article
Journal publications
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Garcia Rosa, Paula Bastos;
Jussiau, William;
Chabaud, Valentin Bruno;
Imsland, Lars.
(2026)
Feasibility of active bird collision avoidance by wind turbine control.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
Academic article
Part of book/report
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Jussiau, William;
Garcia Rosa, Paula Bastos;
Imsland, Lars.
(2026)
Active Bird Collision Avoidance with Wind Turbines Using LPV Control.
Academic chapter
Teaching
- 2021-2023: Assistant teacher in Signal Processing (level: BSc) at Université de Toulouse, France.
- 2021-2023: Assistant teacher in Signal Processing (level: Advanced Masters) at ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse, France.
- 2021-2023: Assistant teacher in Control Theory and Applications (levels: BSc, MSc) at ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse, France.
Supervision
- 2022-2024: Supervision of 2 MSc projects at ISAE-SUPAERO (Toulouse, France) on MPC/RG for uncertain constrained systems, with an application to quadrotors.
Outreach
2026
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Other presentationJussiau, William; Critchley, Emma Jane; Garcia Rosa, Paula Bastos; Imsland, Lars. (2026) MPC as an add-on for single-bird collision avoidance. DeepWind 2026