Message of the Coordinators

The academic year is just finished and we are all looking forward to a well-deserved summer break.
We wish you a nice summer and hope to see you again next academic year.

Paul Van Dooren and Julien Hendrickx
Coordinators of DYSCO


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Staff Movements and Visitors

UCL
  • Visitors
    • Moktar Kande, PhD Student (Sénégal), May 6 - December 5, 2017, Promotor : Raphaël Jungers.
    • Theo Golvet, Student (ENSTA, Paris), May 8 - July 28, 2017, Promotor : François Glineur.
    • Aditya Bhagwat, Student (Indian Institute of Technology Karagpur, India), May 26 - July 24, 2017, Promotor : Jean-Charles Delvenne.
    • Kaheni Mojtaba, PhD Student (Shahrood University of Technology, Iran), July 1 - November 30, 2017, Promotor : Denis Dochain.
    • Naeimeh Fakhr Shamloo, PhD Student (Shahrood University of Technology, Iran), July 1 - November 30, 2017, Promotor : Denis Dochain.
    • Kyle Gallivan, Professor (USA), June 11 - July 7, 2017, Promotor : Pierre-Antoine Absil.
    • Ngoc Ha Hoang, Postdoc (Vietnam), June 24 - July 22, 2017, Promotor : Denis Dochain.
    • Balazs Gerencser, Postdoc (Hungary), July 17 - July 21, 2017, Promotor : Julien Hendrickx.
    • Gerardo Lara-Cisneros, Postdoc (Mexico), August 1, 2017 - July 31, 2018, Promotor : Denis Dochain.
KUL
  • Staff
    • Sibasantar Padhy, Postdoc, Promotor : S. Van Huffel, June 1, 2017.
    • Mathieu Vendeville, Promotor : S. Van Huffel, July 1, 2017.
  • Visitor
    • Maxime Berar, May 8 - May 24, 2017, Promotor : S. Van Huffel.
VUB
  • Visitor
    • Akiko Takeda, Dept. Mathematical Analysis and Statistical Inference (Tokyo, Japan), September 18-20, 2017, Promotor : Yvan Markovsky.

Seminars

UCL
  • June 8, 2017
    Master students, Student's presentations on classic topics.
  • May 22, 2017
    Georgios Birpoutsoukis (VUB), Modeling of nonlinear systems using regularization : A tool to look into your brain?.
  • May 16, 2017
    Master students, Student's presentations on classic topics.
  • May 5, 2017
    Alexey Medvedev (UCL-UNamur), On the influence of network structure on non-Markovian spreading in deterministic and random graphs.
KUL
  • May 31, 2017
    Johan Suykens, STADIUS Seminar, Deep Restricted Kernel Machines.
  • June 1, 2017
    BIOMED Workshop, The role of wearable devices in health and well-being.
  • June 13, 2017
    Kris De Brabanter (Iowa Stat University), New Development in nonparametric smoothing. Local polynomial regression with correlated errors and unknow correlation structure.
  • June 30, 2017, 13h30-15h00, eSAT B91.300 (Aud. C), STADIUS minisymposium on signal procession.
    13h30 - 14h15 : Prof. S. Theodoridis (Dept. Informatics and Telecommunications, Univ. Athens, Greece), When Signal Processing Meets Machine Learning : Two case studies
    14h15 - 15h00 : Prof. A. Belouchrani (Ecole Nationale Polytechnique, Algiers, Algeria), Time frequency array signal processing : a synergistic relationship between time frequency methods and array signal processing

Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks

The SOCN Graduate School 2017-2018 programme is noy yet available.

Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools

Nothing to report for now.

Vacancies

Vacancies at UCL

On the website https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/icteam/vacancies.html, you will find some open job opportunities.

PhD defenses

Alexander De Cock, D-Optimal Input Design for the Identification of Structured Nonlinear Systems, VUB, May 2017, Promotor : Johan Schoukens

Thomas M., Deepening the methodolology behind data integration and dimensionality reduction. Applications in life sciences, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Apr. 2017, 136 p.

Papers produced by the IAP Network

UCL
Best Work-in-Progess paper award

Allan Barrea, Benoit P. Delhaye, Philippe Lefèvre, Jean-Louis Thonnard, were awarded the best work-in-progress paper award at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (http://www.worldhaptics2017.org/) held on June 6-9, 2017 in Munich (Germany) for their work entitled Finger pad mechanics during dexterous object manipulation.

Crevecoeur, Frédéric; Barrea, Allan; Libouton, Xavier; Thonnard, Jean-Louis; Lefèvre, Philippe. Multisensory Components of Rapid Motor Responses to Fingertip Loading. In: Journal of Neurophysiology, (2017). (Accepté/Sous presse). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/184456

Peel, Leto; Larremore, Daniel B.; Clauset, Aaron. The ground truth about metadata and community detection in networks. In: Science Advances, Vol. 3, no.5, p. e1602548 (2017). doi:10.1126/sciadv.1602548. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/184574

Necoara, Ion; Nesterov, Yurii; Glineur, François. Random block coordinate descent methods for linearly constrained optimization over networks. In: Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, (2017). doi:10.1007/s10957-016-1058-z. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/180606

Nesterov, Yurii; Spokoiny, Vladimir. Random gradient-free minimization of convex functions. In: Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 17, no. 2, p. 527-566 (2017). doi:10.1007/s10208-015-9296-2. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/181316

'Chevalier, Pierre-Yves; Hendrickx, Julien; Jungers, Raphaël M. Tight Bounds for Consensus Systems Convergence. In: Systems & Control Letters, Vol. 105, p. 78-83 (2017). doi:10.1016/j.sysconle.2017.05.001 (Accepté/Sous presse). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/185614

Philippe, Matthew; Jungers, Raphaël M.; Essick, Raymond; Dullerud, G. Stability of discrete-time switching systems with constrained switching. In: Automatica, (2014). doi:10.1016/j.automatica.2016.05.015. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/182298

KUL

Bottegal G., Castro-Garcia R., Suykens J.A.K., On the identification of Wiener systems with polynomial nonlinearity, Internal Report 17-55, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017.

Langone R., Jumutc V., Suykens J. A. K., Large-Scale Clustering Algorithms, in Chapter 1 of Data Science and Big Data: An Environment of Computational Intelligence, (Pedrycz W., and and Chen S.-M., eds.), vol. 24 of Studies in Big Data, Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp. 3-28.

Herceg D., Ntouskas S., Sopasakis P., Dokoumetzidis A., Macheras P., Sarimveis H., Patrinos P., Modeling and administration scheduling of fractional-order pharmacokinetic systems, Internal Report 17-58, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017. Accepted for publication in IFAC World Congress 2017, Toulouse, France, Jul. 2017.

Herceg D., Sopasakis P., Bemporad A., Patrinos P., Risk-averse model predictive control, Internal Report 17-59, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017.

Sampathirao A.K., Sopasakis P., Bemporad A., Patrinos P., Proximal limited-memory quasi-newton methods for scenario-based stochastic optimal control, Internal Report 17-60, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017. Accepted for publication in IFAC World Congress 2017, Toulouse, France, Jul. 2017.

Sopasakis P., Themelis A., Suykens J., Patrinos P., A primal-dual line search method and applications in image processing, Internal Report 17-61, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017.

Stella L., Themelis A., Sopasakis P., Patrinos P., A simple and efficient algorithm for nonlinear model predictive control, Internal Report 17-62, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017.

Herceg D., Georgoulas G., Sopasakis P., Castano M., Patrinos P., Bemporad A., Niemi J., Nikolakopoulos G., Data-driven modelling, learning and stochastic predictive control for the steel industry, Internal Report 17-63, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017.

Stella L., Themelis A., Patrinos P., Newton-type alternating minimization algorithm for conves optimization, Internal Report 17-64, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017.

Freris N.M., Dai L., Patrinos P., Fully distributed PageRank computation with linear convergence, Internal Report 17-65, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017.

Freris N.M., Khan M.W., Tzes A., Patrinos P., Distributed localization in multi-agent systems, Internal Report 17-66, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017.

Herceg D., Sopasakis P., Patrinos P., Risk-averse model predictive control, Proc. of the 36th Benelux Meeing on Systems and Control, Spa, Belgium, Mar. 2017, 1 p.

Latafat P., Patrinos P., Primal-dual proximal algorithms with large stepsizes and their application to distributed optimization, Proc. of the 36th Benelux Meeing on Systems and Control, Spa, Belgium, Mar. 2017, 1 p.

Themelis A., Latafat P., Patrinos P., A globally and superlinearly convergent algorithm for finding fixed points of nonexpansive operators, Proc. of the CORE@50, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, May 2016, 1 p.

Zink R., Hunyadi B., De Vos M., Van Huffel. S., Data-Driven Clustering of P300 EEG Data Using Coupled Tensor Decompositions, Internal Report 17-70, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017. Accepted for publication in International Scientific Conference on Information Technology and Data Related Research-SINTEZA. Singidunum University.

Houthuys L., Langone R., Suykens J.A.K., Multi-view Least Squares Support Vector Machines Classification, Internal Report 17-71, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017.

Ion-Margineanu A., Van Cauter S., Sima D., Maes F., Sunaert S., Himmelreich U., and Van Huffel S., Comparison of manual and semi-manual delineations for classifying glioblastoma multiforme patients based on histogram and texture MRI features, in 25th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN 2017), Bruges, Belgium, Apr. 2017, pp. 501-506.

Bharath H.N., Debals O., Sima D.M., Himmelreich U., De Lathauwer L., Van Huffel S., Lowner Based Method for Residual Water Suppression in 1H Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging, Internal Report 17-73, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017.

Stamile C., Kocevar G., Cotton F., Maes F., Sappey-Marinier D., Van Huffel S., Multi-parametric nonnegative matrix factorization for longitudinal variations detection in white-matter fiber bundles, Internal Report 17-76, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017. Accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2016.

Stamile C., Cotton F., Sappey-Marinier D., Van Huffel S., Longitudinal Neuroimaging analysis using non-negative matrix factorization, in The 12th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Systems (SITIS), 2016, pp. 55-61.

Marzullo A., Stamile C., Terracina G., Calimeri F., Van Huffel S., A tensor-based mutation operator for neuroevolution of augmenting topologies (NEAT), Internal Report 17-78, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017. Accepted for publication in IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2016.

Vandewalle J., Grotere of andere taligheid in STEM-richtingen, Meertaligheid dan ooit, Tijdschrift van de Alumni Letteren Leuven, Jaargang 7, Apr. 2017, pp. 19-22.

De Cooman T., Kjaer T., Van Huffel S., Sorensen H., Real-Time Adaptive Heart Rate-Based Seizure Detection in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients, Internal Report 17-85, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017.

Dereymaeker A., Pillay K., Vervisch J., Van Huffel S., Naulaers G., Jansen K., De Vos M., An automated quiet sleep detection approach in preterm infants as a gateway to assess brain maturation, International Journal of Neural Systems, vol. 27, no. 0, 2017, pp. 1-18 (1750023).

Deviaene M., Varon C., Testelmans D., Buyse B., Van Huffel S., Assessing Cardiovascular Comorbidities in sleep apnea patients using Sp02, Internal Report 17-87, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017.

Morales J.F., Varon C., Deviaene M., Borsee P., Testelmans D., Buyse B., Van Huffel S., Sleep Apnea Hypopnea Syndrome Classification in SpO2 Signals using Wavelet Decomposition and Phase Space Reconstruction, in Proc. of the 14th annual Body Sensor Networks Conference (BSN 2017), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 2017, 4 p.

Varon C., Lazaro J., Sanz A.H., Caicedo A., Van Huffel S., Removal of respiratory influences from hearyt rate during emotional stress, Internal Report 17-90, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017.

Varon C., Moeyersons J., Vandenberk B., Caicedo A., De Cooman T., Lazaro J., Van Huffel S., Random forest classification of single-lead ECG segments using Morphology and Rythm changes, Internal Report 17-91, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017.

Moeyersons J., Goovaerts G., Huijghebaert S., Vandenberk B., Willems R., Van Huffel S., Automated T Wave End Detection Methods: Comparison of Four Different Methods for T Wave End Detection, in Proc. of the 10th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSIGNALS 2017), Porto, Portugal, Jan. 2017, pp. 92-98.

Moeyersons J., Varon C., Testelmans D., Buyse B., Van Huffel S., ECG Artefact Detection Using The Cumulative Sum and A Simple Tree Classifier, Proc. of the 44th Annual Computing In Cardiology Conference (CINC 2017), Rennes, France, Sep. 2017.

Langone R., Suykens J. A. K., Fast Kernel Spectral Clustering, Internal Report 17-95, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017. Accepted for publication in Neurocomputing, pp. 1-16.

De Cooman T., Varon C., Van de Vel A., Ceulemans B., Lagae L., Van Huffel S., Semi-Supervised One-Class Transfer Learning For Heart Rate Based Epileptic Seizure Detection, Internal Report 17-96, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017.

Debals O., De Lathauwer L., Van Barel M., About higher-order Löwner tensors, Internal Report 17-98, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017.

Debals O., De Lathauwer L., The concept of tensorization, Internal Report 17-99, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017.

'Ansari A. H., Cherian P. J., Caicedo A., Dereymaeker A., Jansen K., De Wispelaere L., Dielman C., Vervisch J., Govaert P., De Vos M., Naulaers G., Van Huffel S., NeoGuard: a public, online learning platform for neonatal seizures, Internal Report 17-101, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017.

Lavanga M., De Wel O., Caicedo A., Heremans E., Jansen K., Dereymaeker A., Naulaers G., Van Huffel S., Automatic quiet sleep detection based on multifractality in preterm neonates: effects of maturation, Internal Report 17-102, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017. Proc. of the 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society of the IEEE EMBC 2017.

Lavanga M., De Wel O., Caicedo A., Jansen K., Dereymaeker A., Naulaers G., Van Huffel S., Monitoring effective connectivity in the preterm brain: a graph approach to study maturation, Internal Report 17-103, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2017.

VUB

Julien Ertveldt, Alfredo Lamberti, Ben De Pauw, Ali Rezayat, Rik Pintelon, Steve Vanlanduit, STUDY OF THE NONLINEARITY IN THE AEROELASTIC RESPONSE AT HIGH ANGLE OF ATTACK BY WIND TUNNEL TESTS ON THE ACTIVE AEROELASTIC TEST BENC, International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics, IFASD 2017, 25-28 June 2017 Como, Italy.

I. Markovsky, Application of low-rank approximation for nonlinear system identification, 25th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Valletta, Malta, 3-6 July 2017.

I. Markovsky, Otto Debals, and Lieven De Lathauwer, Sum-of-exponentials modeling and common dynamics estimation using tensorlab, proceedings of the 20th IFAC International World Congress, Toulouse, France, 9-14 July 2017.

Ricardo Castro-Garcia, Koen Tiels, Oscar Mauricio Agudelo & Johan A. K. Suykens, Hammerstein system identification through best linear approximation inversion and regularizatio, International Journal of Control, accepted for publication.

Maarten Schoukens, Jules Hammenecker, Adam Cooman, Obtaining the Pre-Inverse of a Power Amplifier using Iterative Learning Control, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques: accepted for publication.

K. Usevich and I. Markovsky, Variable projection methods for approximate (greatest) common divisor computations, Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 681, 12 June 2017, Pages 176–198.

E. Zhang, and R. Pintelon, Identification of multivariable dynamic errors-in-variables systems with arbitrary inputs, Automatica, Vol. 82, August 2017, pp. 69-78.

Jan Decuyper, Tim De Troyer, Mark Runacres, Koen Tiels, Johan Schoukens, Nonlinear state-space modelling of the kinematics of an oscillating circular cylinder in a fluid flow, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 98, 1 January 2018, pp. 209–230.

UMons

Grimard Jonathan, Dewasme Laurent, Vande Wouwer Alain, Dynamic modeling and model-based control of a twin screw extruder in "25th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation" , Valetta, Malta, 2017 (2017) - (accepted)

Dewasme Laurent, Feudjio Letchindjio Christian, Torres Zuniga Jesus Ixbalank, Vande Wouwer Alain, Micro-algae productivity optimization using extremum-seeking control in "25th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation" , Valetta, Malta, 2017 (2017) - (accepted)

IAP Contact Persons

UCLNathalie Ponet
KULIda Tassens
UGentEllen Lammens
VUBAnn Pintelon
ULgSophie Cimino
UMonsLaurent Dewasme
UNamurJoseph Winkin

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