Awards and Honors

Bart De Moor

Automatica 3-annual Best Paper Prize Award

(Tri-annual prize of the journal of the International Federation of Automatic Control IFAC) for Peter Van Overschee and Bart De Moor, awarded at the ceremony at the 1996 World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, San Francisco, July 1996, 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.

SIEMENS Prize 1994

for Bart De Moor together 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 Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) awarded at a Prize Ceremony, October 17 1994, NFWO/FNRS, Brussels (see also article in 'Siemphone', Dec. 1994, no.6, Tweejaarlijkse prijzen Siemens 1994 uitgereikt, pp.18-19.)

Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Science

for Bart De Moor, December 1992, First Prize, for the work 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 Award 1990 of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems

Best Paper 1989 for Vandenberghe L., De Moor B., Vandewalle J., 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.

Leslie Fox Prize 1989

for Bart De Moor 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)

The Leybold-Heraeus Prize 1986

for Bart De Moor 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.

Marc Moonen

Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Science December 1997

 

Scientific Award Alcatel Bell 1996

for Marc Moonen and Piet Vandaele.

Prize of the K.U.Leuven Research Council 1994

 

Honorable mention SIAM student paper competition 1989

for Marc Moonen, awarded at the SIAM Annual Meeting San Diego (USA), July 1989.

Joos Vandewalle

Corresponding member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Science in 1996

 

Francqui Chair on Artificial Neural Networks at the Univ. of Li\`ege 1991-1992

 

Elected Fellow of IEEE for contributions to nonlinear circuits and systems, 1992

 

Best paper award Design Automation Conference DAC 1989

for the paper ``Loop Optimization in Register-Transfer Scheduling for DSP Systems'', (with G. Goossens and H. De Man)

 

IEEE Millenium Medal in recognition and appriciation of value services and outstanding contributions

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Golden Jubilee Medal in recognition for outstanding contributions to the Society

PhD Students and Postdocs

Master Thesis Award 1988

of the Belgian Institute for Control Theory and Automation (BIRA), for the master thesis students Van Mieghem P., Vandenberghe L. for their master thesis: A new algorithm for the identification of linear multivariable systems.

Best Paper and Presentation Award

for Yves Moreau and Joos Vandewalle, for the paper System Modeling using Composition Networks, awarded at the Second IEEE Workshop on Computer-Intensive Methods in Control and Signal Processing, August 28-30, 1996, Prague, Czech Republic.

Junior Best Presentation Award

for Lieven De Lathauwer, at the 16th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, March 5-7, 1997, Houffalize, Belgium.

Guillemin-Cauer Award 1990

of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Best Paper 1989 for Vandenberghe L., De Moor B., Vandewalle J., 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.

Master Thesis Award

for the best Belgian biomedical master thesis from the Artsenkrant, 1988, for the master thesis student Erik Keuppens: Numerical methods for the analysis of the post-stimulus electromyographic complex.

Honorable Mention

in the SIAM Student Paper Competition 1992 (SIAM Annual Meeting LA July 1992, USA) for Peter Van Overschee for a paper combining stochastic realization and numerical linear algebra.

Student paper contest 1993

IEEE region 8, third prize: Guido Vandenberghe, Piano key action models for electrical pianos, May 1993, Paris.

Starters award from the 'Koning Boudewijnstichting'

for the initiation of ISMC NV (Intelligent System Modelling and Control), a spin-off company of ESAT/SISTA/Leuven Research and Development, April 1994.

Student paper contest 1995

Student Award IEEE SP/Athos Workshop on Higher-Order Statistics, June 12-14, 1995, Parador d'Aiguablava, Begur, Spain, for the paper: Lieven De Lathauwer, Bart De Moor, Joos Vandewalle, Dirk Callaerts, Fetal Electrocardiogram Extraction by Source Subspace Separation.

Flanders Technoland

(the 3-annual technological exhibition happening of the Flemish Government) Starters Award Winner April 1996 with ISMC NV for the best start-up company commercial presentation.

Honorable mention in the TECH-ART prize 1995

competition of the Vlaamse Ingenieurs Kamer for Peter Van Overschee, 26 april 1996, Antwerpen for the ISID II Software package, commercialized by ISI Inc., CA, USA.

Master Thesis Award 1997

of the Royal Flemish Society of Engineers (KVIV), for Simon Doclo and Erik De Clippel for their master thesis: Enhancement of speech intelligibility in hearing aids by adaptive noise suppression in real time (promotors: Jan Wouters, Marc Moonen, Dirk Van Compernolle)

1998 Richard C. DiPrima Prize

for Bart De Schutter for his PhD thesis "Max-Algebraic System Theory for Discrete Event Systems"