Fernanda Urrea

PhD student · LMI/ INSA Rouen

Rouen, France Email (enable JavaScript)

Fernanda Urrea

About

I am a PhD student in mathematics at the University of Rouen Normandie. My research interests are in optimal transport and optimal control.

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Research

I am interested in optimal control problems in the space of probability measures. I am currently working on necessary and sufficient conditions for optimal control problems driven by a non-local continuity equation. In particular, in the non-smooth analysis and geometry of the Wasserstein space. I am also interested in applications of optimal control to deep neural networks and machine learning.

Interests

  • Optimal transport
  • Optimal control
  • Partial differential equations

Publications & preprints

  1. F. Urrea, H. Zidani, “A Pontryagin Maximum Principle for State-Constrained Control Problems in Wasserstein Spaces.” SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (accepted)
  2. F. Urrea and Hasnaa Zidani, “Sensitivity Analysis for Free-Time Horizon Problems over Wasserstein Spaces.” (in preparation)
  3. F. Urrea, E. Treumun, “Non-smooth analysis in the Wasserstein space for optimal control problems.” (in preparation)
  4. J. Deride, F. Urrea & J.O. Royset, “A Variational Approach to a Cumulative Distribution Function Estimation Problem Under Stochastic Ambiguity.” Set-Valued and Variational Analysis 32, 30 (2024) DOI