Biography |
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Education |
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PhD in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University,
USA, on "Stochastic realization theory" under the
supervision of Prof. Thomas Kailath
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Teaching |
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Academic appointments |
- 2010-present: Professor Emeritus at the "Institute
of Information and Communication Technologies,
Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM)," ,
Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- 2010-2012: Professor (part-time) at the Department ELEC,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
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1972-1983: Research Associate (Premier Assistant),
then Assistant
Professor (Chargé de Cours), then Professor at the
"Laboratoire
d'Automatique, Dynamique et Analyse des Systèmes",
Université
Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
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1968-1969: Assistant at
"Microelectronics Labs", Université Catholique de
Louvain, Belgium
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Fields of interest and research experience
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System
identification, experiment design, multivariable
systems, adaptive and robust control,
identification for robust control, finite wordlength
effects in signal
processing and control problems, identification of
dynamical networks
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Applications of system
identification and process control
- Scientific performance indicators
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Theses
supervised
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Salah Aidarous
(1976), Bernard Deswysen
(1977), Georges Bastin
(1979)
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Vincent Wertz
(1982), X. Lige (1989)
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Gang Li
(1990), Christophe Delépaut
(1991), Vincent Blondel
(1992), Marc Haest
(1992), Franky Debruyne
(1996), Pierre Carrette
(1997), Pierre Ansay
(1999)
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Benoît Codrons
(2000), Xavier Bombois
(2000), Gabriel Solari (2005), Tzvetan Ivanov (2011)
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Awards & Fellowships |
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Editorial boards |
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Paper reviewing activities for |
Automatica, Control Engineering
Practice, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions
on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on
Industrial Electronics, Proceedings of the IEEE, Systems
and Control Letters, Control - Theory and Advanced
Technology, European Journal of Control, International
Journal of Control, Journal of Process Control, Journal
of the Australian Mathematical Society, Journal of
Econometrics, SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization,
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications,
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control,
International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal
Processing, Mathematical Reviews, Applied Stochastic
Models and Data Analysis, ASME Journal of Dynamic
Systems, Measurement and Control, IEE Proceedings on
Control Theory and Applications, Computers and Chemical
Engineering, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer
Science, Chemical Engineering Science, Industrial &
Engineering Chemistry Research.
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Evaluation activities for |
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Prentice Hall
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the US
National Science Foundation
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the
Australian Research Council
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the CNRS
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
France)
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the Natural
Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada
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the Swedish
Research Council, the Swedish
National Board for Industrial and Technical
Development (NUTEK), and the
Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research
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the Dutch
Technology Foundation
- the Dutch Academy of Science
- the University of Uppsala,
Sweden
- the Estonian Academy
of Science
- the University of Vaasa, Finland
- Chalmers University, Sweden
- Linköping University, Sweden
- the National Agency for the Evaluation of
Italian Universities (ANVUR)
- the Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
(FWO, Belgium)
- the Fonds National de la Recherche
Scientifique (FNRS, Belgium)
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Conferences |
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Member of the International
Program Committee of numerous Conferences organized by the
IEEE (Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers), IFAC (International
Federation of Automatic Control), and EUCA (European Union Control
Association)
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Co-Chairman (with
G. Bastin) of the European
Control Conference 1997
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Thesis Committees |
Member of thesis review
committees in many universities:
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Université Catholique de Louvain, Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven,
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Vrije Universiteit
Brussel, Université
de Liège (Belgium)
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Université de Paris, Institut National Polytechnique
de Grenoble,
Université de Rouen (France), Nancy-Université
- Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
- Linköping University, Royal Institute of Technology
(KTH) - Stockholm (Sweden)
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Eindhoven University of Technology, Delft University
of Technology,
Twente University (The Netherlands)
- Australian National University, University of
Newcastle, Melbourne University (Australia)
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Visiting Academic Appointments |
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Visiting Professor,
Australian National
University in 1996 (4 weeks), 1995 (4 weeks),
1994 (5 weeks), 1993 (3 weeks), 1991 (2 months), and
1987 (1 month)
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Visiting Professor,
University of
Newcastle, Australia in 1989 (1 month), 1987 (1
month), 1981 (1 month), and 1980 (10 months)
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- Visiting Professor, Ecole Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland: several
one-week visits in 2004 and 2005
- Visiting Professor, Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil:
one-week visits in 2011, 2012 and 2013, three-week
visits in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020,
2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
- Visiting Professor, Universidade Federal de Santa
Catarina (UFSC), Brazil: one-week visits in 2012
and 2013
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Teaching experience |
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Courses on System Identification, Control,
Stochastic Processes and Estimation Theory at
UCL
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Numerous seminars,
lectures and plenary
lectures in various universities and at
conferences throughout the world
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Post-graduate courses
(2 days to 1 week) on System
Identification, Identification for Control and
Optimal Control
at the Australian National University (1985),
Link�ping University,
Sweden (1987), organised by the Nordic Graduate
Council, the University
of California, Santa Barbara (1991), the Dutch Summmer
School on
Identification for Control (1993), the Technical
University of Denmark,
Lyngby (1994), the Laboratoire d'Automatique de
Grenoble (1996), the
`Ecole d'Été d'Automatique de Grenoble' (1994 and
1998), the Dutch
Institute for Systems and Control (1998, 1999), and
the Belgian
Graduate School on Systems and Control (1993, 1994,
1996, 1997)
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One-day course at
the IEEE Conferences on Decision and Control (1992,
1993, 1995, 1996) and at the IFAC World Congress
(1996) on the connections
between identification and robust control,
some of them jointly with Dr. Robert Kosut (Stanford
University), Dr. Robert Bitmead (Australian National
University) and Dr. Roy Smith (UC Santa Barbara)
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Responsibilities at UCL |
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Foundation Director
of the Laboratoire d'Automatique, Dynamique et Analyse
des Systèmes, 1976-1980, and Director
again from 1989 to 1996
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Assistant to the Dean
of the School of Engineering (Université Catholique de
Louvain) in charge of post-graduate admissions,
1978-1980
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Co-Director,
jointly with G. Bastin, of the Centre for Advanced
Control Methods,
funded from 1988 to 1990 by the Belgian Ministry of
Science
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Co-Director,
jointly with G. Bastin and M.J. Crochet, of the
Interuniversity
Research Network in Modeling, Simulation and Control
of Complex
Systems, funded from 1991 to 1996 by the Belgian
Ministry of Science
(Interuniversity Attraction Pole - II/17)
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Chairman of the
Graduate Programme Committee of the School of
Engineering, Université Catholique de Louvain,
1996-2000
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Member of the
Ethics in Research Committee of the Universit�
Catholique de Louvain, 1999-2012
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Director
of the Interuniversity Research Network in Modelling,
Identification,
Simulation and Control of Complex Systems, funded from
1997 to 2001 by
the Belgian Ministry of Science (Interuniversity
Attraction Pole - IV/2)
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- Director of the Interuniversity
Research Network on
Dynamical Systems, Control, and Optimization (DYSCO)
funded from 2007 to 2011 by the Belgian
Federal Ministry of Science (Interuniversity
Attraction Pole - VI/4)
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Member of the
Research Council of the Université Catholique de
Louvain, 2000 - 2005
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Member of the
Committee that prepares the UCLouvain candidates for a
BAEF or Fullbright Fellowship, 2016 - present
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Responsibilites in scientific
organisations |
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President of the
European Union Control Association from 1997 to 1999
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Member of the
Board of Governors of the Control Systems Society of
the IEEE (1991), 1995-1997, and 1998-2000
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Vice-President of
the Control Systems Society of the IEEE, 2000-2001
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Chairman of the
International Committee of the IEEE Control Systems
Society, 1995-1999
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Chairman of the
Young Author Prize Committee of IFAC (International
Federation of Automatic Control), 1996-1999
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Member of the IFAC
Awards Committee, 1996-1999
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Member of the IFAC
Technical Committee on Modelling, Identification and
Signal Processing, since 1995
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Member of the IFAC
Theory Committee, 1980-1994
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Member of the
Comité Scientifique du Laboratoire Heudiasyc, CNRS,
Compiègne, France
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Member
of the Comité Scientifique du Laboratoire de Signaux
et Systèmes, CNRS,
Gif-sur-Yvette, France, 1988-1991, of the Comité
Scientifique du
Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble, 1992-1994, and
of the Comité
Scientifique du Laboratoire I3S, CNRS, Sophia
Antipolis, France,
1995-1997
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Member of
GRECO/CNRS (Groupe de Recherches Coordonnées du CNRS,
France) on Adaptive Systems, since 1986
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Member of the
Signals and Systems committee of the Swedish Research
Council, 2001-2007
- Member of the scientific
committee SEN-3 of the FNRS (Fonds National de la
Recherche Scientifique, Belgium) for the period
2010-2012.
- Member of the
selection committee of the European Control Award, 2014
and 2015.
- Member of the Conseil Fédéral de
la Politique Scientifique (CFPS), Belgium, 2014-2023
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Books |
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Adaptive
Optimal Control (with Robert R. Bitmead and
Vincent Wertz), Prentice Hall, 1990 (ISBN
0-13-013277-2)
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Parametrizations
in Control, Estimation and Filtering Problems
(with Gang Li), Springer Verlag, 1993 (ISBN
3-540-19821-0)
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Plenary Lectures and
Mini-Courses (with Georges Bastin), European
Control Conference (ECC), 1997
 
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Publications |
As of 27 February, 2025: 2 books, 16 book chapters, 103
journal papers, 170 conference papers. See my full list of publications |
Useful links |
UCL, Directory UCL,
DYSCO, Google
Scholar Citations, Travel
instructions (to Louvain-la-Neuve) |