Research:

Full professor - gewoon hoogleraar

Numerical linear algebra

• (Linear/generalized) complementarity problems
• Generalized singular value decompositions
• Structured Total Least Squares problems
• Multilinear algebra
• Quantum-computing and quantum information theory

System Identification and Advanced Process Control

• Subspace identification
• Model Predictive Control
• Neural net models and controllers
• (least-squares) Support Vector Machines

Neural networks and datamining

• Bio-informatics
• Medical Diagnosis Systems
• Bayesian learning and decision

Current research team:

Lieven De Lathauwer, Frank De Smet, Kristiaan Pelckmans, Oscar Barrero, Kristof Engelen, Bert Coessens, Marcelo Espinoza, Frizo Janssens, Tom Van Herpe, Raf Van de Plas, Olivier Gevaert, Peter Van Loo, Tim Van den Bulcke, Niels Haverbeke, Fabian Ojeda, Thomas Dhollander, Steven Van Vooren, Mauricio Agudelo, Bart Huyck, Shi Yu, Abeer Fadda, Anneleen Daemen, Inge Thijs, Riet De Smet, Hong Sun, Tillmann Falck, Julian Bonilla, Lieven Thorrez, Zarrineh Peyman, Tunde (Adeshola) Adefioye, Kris De Brabanter, Philippe Dreesen, Sonia Leach, Pieter Schuddinck, Xinhai Liu, Mimi Deprez, Peter Clerinx, John Vos, Minta Thomas, Michael Peeters, Maarten Breckpot, Nico Verbeeck, Kim Batselier, Arnaud Installe
 

Biography:

Active Projects:

• Data mining in process industry: KPI analysis, intelligent alarms and transition support for continuous processes
• Can response to Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor antibodies in patients with metastatic Colorectal Cancer be predicted?
• SB-Dreesen-Concepten en Algoritmes voor de Identificatie van Dynamische Systemen
• BioMaGNet - Bioinformatics and Modeling: from Genomes to Networks
• CLIMAQs - Climate Impact and Air Quality Modelling for Policy Support
• DYSCO - Dynamical systems, control and optimization
• GENAGRID - Bioinformatic services for genetic association studies using high-performance grid computation
• Glycemie_2 - Optimization and implementation of a control system aiming the normalization of glycemia of critically ill patients
• MaNet - Mathematical engineering tools for Networks: Data driven mining, identification, control and optimization
• Robust MHE - Moving horizon estimation: robust stability, robust performance and interaction with model predictive control
• SVM and kernel methods - Support Vector Machines and Kernel Based Learning: Advanced Algorithms
• SymBioSys - K.U.Leuven Center for Computational Systems Biology

Awards:

• IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award
  IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (1999) (joint with Johan Suykens, Joos Vandewalle), awarded at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, June 2000, Istanbul, Turkey http://icassp2000.sdsu.edu for the paper: NLq theory: checking and imposing stability of recurrent neural networks for nonlinear modelling, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (special issue on neural networks for signal processing), Vol.45, No.11, pp. 2682-2691, Nov. 1997.
• Tri-annual best paper award of Automatica
  Tri-annual best paper award of Automatica (1996), a journal of the International Federation of Automatic Control (joint with Peter Van Overschee) for the paper: Subspace algorithms for the identification of combined deterministic-stochastic systems, Automatica 30 (1), pp.75-94, January 1994; The award citation reads: With deep insight, this paper develops a most useful and efficient method for multivariable system identification. The presentation covers numerical, statistical and implementation issues, and has had an immediate impact on best practice in identification applications. Published in Automatica
• Bi-annual Siemens prize
  Bi-annual Siemens prize (1994), joint with Peter Van Overschee, for the paper: Graphical User Interface Software for System Identification (Available as ESAT/SISTA TR 1994-06, Department of Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteite Leuven, Belgium, awarded at a Prize Ceremony, October 17 1994, NFWO/FNRS, Brussels
• Promotor for an honorary degree awarded to Prof. Dr. Gene Golub
  Promotor for an honorary degree awarded to Prof. Dr. Gene Golub, Stanford University, at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, December 1992
• Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences
  Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences (1992), first prize, with the paper: Numerical Algorithms for State Space Subspace System Identification, Published in Academia Analecta, Klasse der Wetenschappen, Koninklijke Akademie voor Wetenschappen, Jaargang 55, nr.5, 1993
• Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award
  Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award (1990) of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, joint with Lieven Vandenberghe en Joos Vandewalle for the paper:The Generalized Linear Complementarity Problem Applied to the Complete Analysis of Resistive Piecewise Linear Circuits. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, November 1989, Volume 36, Number 11, pp.1382-1391
• The Leslie Fox Prize
  The Leslie Fox Prize (1989), first prize, (17 international candidates, 7 finalists) for the paper presentation: The restricted singular value decomposition: Properties and applications. Cambridge University, England, September 5, 1989; Published as: De Moor B., Golub G.H. The restricted singular value decomposition: properties and applications. Siam Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Vol.12, no.3, July 1991, pp.401-425.
• Leybold-Heraeus Prize
  Leybold-Heraeus Prize (1986) for a report on the 1986 position of Belgium in comparison with Japan and the United States with respect to scientific research and technological innovation

Editorship:

• Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
• Journal A (Systems and Control Journal for Benelux branch of IFAC)
• Systems and Control Letters
• Applied and Computational Control, Signals and Circuits
• The Journal of the Franklin Institute
• 'Onze Alma Mater'

Membership:

• Associated Member of the Brussels Chapter of the Club of Rome
• Scientific advisory committee of Technopolis, the Flemish Children Science and Technology Center (www.technopolis.be)
• CAWET: Comité van de Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen en Techniek (Royal Belgian Academy Council of Applied Science)
• Research Policy Council of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Board of Belgian Study Center for Nuclear Energy
• The American - European Community Association
• Board of Flemish Center for Postharvest Technology
• IFAC Technical Group on Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing
• IEEE Technical Committee on Robust Control