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
- 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), Linköping 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'Ete 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 |
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 Université 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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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-now
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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 6 June, 2019: 2 books, 16 book chapters, 101 journal papers, 168 conference papers. See my full list of publications : the most recent publications are available in [PDF] format |
Useful links |
UCL, Directory UCL, DYSCO, Google Scholar Citations, Travel instructions (to Louvain-la-Neuve) |