Nail Baloul

PhD Student in Applied Mathematics
École nationale des ponts et chaussées – CERMICS

About Me

Since October 2024, I am a PhD student (MAS team) at the CERMICS laboratory (École nationale des ponts et chaussées, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, CNRS). My research focuses on traffic flow modeling, control of PDEs, inverse problems, and learning-based methods for PDE-constrained systems. I am co-supervised by Pierre Lissy (Research Director, ENPC, IPP) and Thibault Liard (Associate Professor, Université de Limoges) and co-advised by Amaury Hayat (Professor, ENPC, IPP).

Education

Master 2 in Optimization, University Paris-Saclay, France (2023–2024)
Master in Analysis, PDEs and Applications, University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria (2021–2023)
Bachelor in Pure Mathematics, University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria (2018–2021)

Internships

Research Internship in Applied Mathematics, UMA, ENSTA, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France (Apr–Aug 2024)
Supervisor: Prof. Sorin-Mihai Grad
Topic: Proximal algorithms for constrained optimization problems
Research Internship in Pure Mathematics, AMNEDP, USTHB, Algiers, Algeria (Jan–Jun 2023)
Supervisor: Prof. Ammar Khemmoudj
Topic: Well-posedness of viscoelastic plate equations with time delay

Research Activities

Publications

Traffic Flow Reconstruction from Limited Collected Data
Nail Baloul, Amaury Hayat, Thibault Liard, Pierre Lissy
In Proceedings of the 64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2025), IEEE, Dec 2025, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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A splitting proximal method in portfolio optimization with entropic value-at-risk
Nail Baloul, Sorin-Mihai Grad, Oleg Wilfer
Submitted, preprint available in https://hal.science/hal-05610897v1

Conferences and Workshops

PGMO Days 2026, Paris-Saclay, France (paper presentation), 17-18 November 2026
DMV Annual Meeting, 2026, Kostanz, Germany (work presentation), 7-10 September 2026
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XI PDE, Optimization, Numerics, and Machine Learning, 2026, Benasque, Spain (work presentation), 23 August - 4 September 2026
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CANUM 2026, Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer, France (work presentation), 1-5 June 2026
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CDC 2025, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (paper presentation), 10-12 December 2025
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CDC 2025 Workshop – Neurocomputation and Dynamics, 9 December 2025
PGMO Days 2025, Paris-Saclay, France (paper presentation), 18-19 November 2025
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Conference on Control of PDEs and related topics, Toulouse, France (participant), 30 June - 4 July 2025
SMAI 2025, Carcans-Maubuisson, France (paper presentation), 2-6 June 2025
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EECI IGSC 2025 - Multi-agent optimization and learning: resilient and adaptive solutions, University College London, UK, 6-9 May 2025
PGMO Days 2024, Paris-Saclay, France (participant), 19-20 November 2024

Seminars

Speaker, Young Researchers Seminar, CERMICS, Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées, France, 21 July 2026
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Speaker, MOD Seminar, XLIM Laboratory, Université de Limoges, France, 10 October 2025
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Speaker, Faculty of Mathematics Seminar, USTHB, Algiers, Algeria, 6 October 2025
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Speaker, Journées Scientifiques des Jeunes du CERMICS (JSJC), Parent, France, 2-4 April 2025
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Academic Service

Member of the organizing committee, CJCMA 2026, Champs-sur-Marne, France, 2-4 March 2026
Member of the organizing team, Young Researchers Seminar, CERMICS, ENPC (since October 2025)
Co-led BOUM Project 2026–2027 (with Martin Chassard), organizing Workshop in Île-de-France for young researchers in Control and Artificial Intelligence

Teaching

Teaching Assistant (TD), PDE Modeling, ENPC, 2025–2026 and 2026–2027
Teaching Assistant (TD), Calculus for Engineers, ENPC, 2025–2026 and 2026–2027
Teaching Assistant (TD), Analysis, ENPC, 2025–2026 and 2026–2027
Instructor, AI Workshops, ENPC, 2025–2026
Project Supervisor, Second-Year Engineering Project, ENPC, 2025–2026

Documents

Contact

Email: nail.baloul@enpc.fr
GitHub: github.com/nailbaloul

Last updated: June 2026