PhD exams

Xavier Guidetti
Titel: Intelligent Additive Manufacturing: a Holistic Approach to the Optimization of Data-PoorComplex Processes

Chair Prof. Dr. Laurent Vanbever
Referee Prof. Dr. John Lygeros

Co-Examiners

• Prof. Dr. Mehmet Mercangöz, Imperial College, London, UK
• Dr. Efe Balta, inspire AG, Zurich

Date: Friday, May 31, 2024
Time: 14:00 h
Room: ETZ E 81

Mingzhou Yin
Titel:  Regularized and Nonparametric Approaches in System Identification and Data-Driven Control

Chair Prof. Dr. Hua Wang
Referee Prof. Dr. Roy Smith

Co-Examiners

• Prof. Dr. Florian Dörfler, ETH Zurich
• Prof. Dr. Alessandro Chiuso, University of Padova, Italy

Date: Monday, February 19, 2024
Time: 11:00 h
Room: LEE E 101

Andrea Martinelli
Titel: Control of Large-Scale Discrete-Time Systems - Dissipativity, Optimality, and Learning

Chair Prof. Dr. Kaveh Razavi
Referee Prof. Dr. John Lygeros

Co-Examiners

• Prof. Dr. Maria Prandini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Prof. Dr. Claudio de Persis, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Date: Friday, February 02, 2024
Time: 15:00 h
Room: HG D 3.2

Irina Subotic
Titel: Dynamics and control of power systems containing renewable generation and power electronics

Chair Prof. Dr. Benjamin Grewe
Referee Prof. Dr. Florian Dörfler

Co-Examiners

• Prof. Dr. Dominic Gross, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
• Prof. Dr. Tim Green, Imperial College, London, UK

Date: Tuesday, December 05, 2023
Time: 14:30 h
Room: HG D16.2

Liviu Aolaritei
Titel: Decision-Makingunder Distributional Uncertainty

Chair Prof. Dr. Amos Lapidoth
Referee Prof. Dr. Florian Dörfler

Co-Examiners

• Prof. Dr. Daniel Kuhn, EPFL Lausanne
• Prof. Dr. George J. Pappas, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Date: Monday, December 04, 2023
Time: 16:30 h
Room: LEE E101

Anilkumar Parsi
Titel: Closed-loop design strategies for robust and adaptive model predictive controllers

Chair Prof. Dr. Fisher Yu
Referee Prof. Dr. Roy Smith

Co-Examiners

• Prof. Dr. John Lygeros, D-ITET, ETH Zurich
• Prof. Dr. Mark Cannon, University of Oxford, UK
  

Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Time: 13:00 h
Room: HG E1.2

Ali Tayyebi
Titel: Grid-forming hybrid angle control for power converters in low-inertia powersystems

Chair Prof. Dr. Mickael Perrin
Referee Prof. Dr. Florian Dörfler

Co-Examiners

• Prof. JanuszBialek, Newcastle University, UK
• Dr. Adolfo Anta, Austrian Institute of Technology(AIT), Austria

Date: Wednesday, October 06, 2023
Time: 16:00 h
Room: LEE E101

Samuel Balula
Titel: Optimization-based trajectory planning for precision motion systems and autonomous robotic inspection

Chair Prof. Dr. Mickael Perrin
Referee Prof. Dr. John Lygeros

Co-Examiners

• Prof. Dominic Liao-McPherson, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
• Prof. Kira Barton, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Date: Wednesday, August 09, 2023
Time: 16:00 h
Room: HG D22

Alexandros Tanzanakis
Titel: Data-Driven Reinforcement Learning Control: Towards a Fully-Automated, Personalized Artificial Pancreas

Chair Prof. Dr. Luca Benini
Referee Prof. Dr. John Lygeros

Co-Examiners

• Prof. Kyriakos Vamvoudakis, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Prof. StavroulaMougiakakou, University of Bern & ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research,Bern

Date: Wednesday, July 05, 2023
Time: 14:00 h
Room: ETZ E81

Lukas Ortmann
Titel: Data-Driven Reinforcement Learning Control: Towards a Fully-Automated, Personalized Artificial Pancreas

Chair Prof. Dr. Christian Franck
Referee Prof. Dr. Florian Dörfler

Co-Examiners

• Prof. Christian Rehtanz, University of Dortmund, Germany
  
• Prof. Andreas Ulbig, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Dr. Saverio Bolognani, D-ITET, ETH Zurich

Date: Friday, June 23, 2023
Time: 16:00 h
Room: HG D16.2

Angeliki Kamoutsi
Titel: Alagrangian duality framework for provably efficient learning from demonstration

Chair Prof. Dr. Ender Konukoglu
Referee Prof. Dr. John Lygeros

Co-Examiners

• Prof. Sean Meyn, University of Florida, USA
• Prof. Niao He, D-INFK, ETH Zurich

Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Time: 13:30 h
Room: HG D22

Ahmed Aboudonia
Titel: Adaptive Learning-based Model Predictive Control of Uncertain Interconnected Systems

Chair        Prof. Dr. Fisher Yu
Referee     Prof. Dr. John Lygeros

Co-Examiners

• Prof. Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate, Automatic Control Laboratory, EPFL Lausanne
• Prof. Melanie Zeilinger, D-MAVT, ETH Zürich

Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Time: 15:00 h
Room: HG D16.2

Jeremy Coulson
Titel: Data-enabled Predictive Control - Theory and practice

Chair      Prof. Dr. Klaas Prüssmann
Referee   Prof. Dr. Florian Dörfler

Co-Examiners

• Prof. Dr. John Lygeros, D-ITET, ETH Zurich
• Prof. Dr. Lars Grüne, University of Bayreuth, Germany
• Prof. Dr. Nikolai Matni, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  

Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Time: 16:00 h
Room: LEE E 101

Ilnura Usmanova
Title: Safe Learning via Constrained Stochastic Optimization

Chair        Prof. Dr. Marco Stampanoni
Referee    Prof. Dr. Maryam Kamgarpour

Co-Examiners

• Prof. Dr. Andreas Krause, D-INFK, ETH Zurich
• Prof. Dr. Amin Karbasi, Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science, New Haven, USA

Date: Monday, September 19, 2022
Time: 14:00 h
Room: LEE E 101

Pier Giuseppe Sessa
Title: Learning and Efficiency in Multi-Agent Systems

Chair        Prof. Dr. Gabriela Hug
Referee    Prof. Dr. Maryam Kamgarpour  

Co-Examiner
Prof. Dr. Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Date: Friday, September 16, 2022
Time: 14:00 h
Room: HG D 16.2