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PhD courses in Systems and Control

Broad introductory courses are marked as such.

PhD-level Courses during 2024

The following PhD-level courses are taught by the Division of Systems and Control during 2024:

Course Broad? Responsible Start
African-European Masterclasses in AI and Computational Thinking, 5 credits Yes David Sumpter Start November 2023

PhD-level Courses during 2023

The following PhD-level courses are taught by the Division of Systems and Control during 2023:

Course Broad? Responsible Start
Data to Decisions, 6+3 credits Yes Dave Zachariah Jan 2023
Deep Learning, 5+3 credits Yes Niklas Wahlström Joakim Lindblad March 2023
Large-scale optimization, 5+3 credits Yes Jens Sjölund, Sebastian Mair September 2023
Great Ideas in Learning & Control Theory, 5 credits Yes Dave Zachariah, André Teixeira, Sergio Pequito and Per Mattsson October 2023

PhD-level Courses during 2022

The following PhD-level courses are taught by the Division of Systems and Control during 2022:

Course Broad? Responsible Start
A computational introduction to stochastic differential equations No Zheng Zhao 17/10/2022
Dynamic models of social influence networks Yes Alexander Medvedev 19-23/09/2022

PhD-level Courses during 2021

The following PhD-level courses are taught by the Division of Systems and Control during 2021:

Course Broad? Responsible Start
Convex optimization, 5+3 credits Yes Jens Sjölund October 2021
Seminar Course: The unreasonable effectiveness of overparameterized machine learning models, 3 credits No Antonio Ribeiro, Dave Zachariah, Per Mattsson September 2021
Sequential Monte Carlo methods, 6 credits No Thomas Schön August 2021
Deep Learning, 5+3 credits Yes Niklas Wahlström March 2021

PhD-level Courses during 2020

The following PhD-level courses are taught by the Division of Systems and Control during 2020:

Course Broad? Responsible Start
Reinforcement learning, 5+3 credits Yes Per Mattsson late spring 2020
Statistical Learning and Inference for Data Science, 9+3 credits Yes Dave Zachariah September 2020 (preliminary)

PhD-level Courses during 2019

The following PhD-level courses are taught by the Division of Systems and Control during 2019:

Course Broad? Responsible Start
Deep Learning, 5+3 credits Yes Niklas Wahlström March 2019
Sequential Monte Carlo methods, 5 credits No Johan Alenlöv August 2019

MSc-level Courses

The following advanced MSc-level courses are given each year by the Division of Systems and Control. Students who have not already included them in their MSc degree may take them as PhD-level courses if needed (more information here and here).

Course Broad? Responsible Time
Automatic Control II Focused Hans Rosth Period 1 & 4
Automatic Control III Focused Thomas Schön Period 1
Spectral Analysis of Signals Focused Marcus Björk Period 1
Statistical Machine Learning Focused Niklas Wahlström and David Sumpter Period 2 & 3
Advanced probabilistic machine learning Focused Niklas Wahlström Period 1
Reinforcement learning Focused Per Mattsson Period 4
Systems Analysis and Operations Research Focused Marcus Björk Period 3
System Identification Focused Kristiaan Pelckmans Period 4

PhD-level Courses Elsewhere

There are also relevant courses at other places. See for example:

PhD-level Courses during 2018

The following PhD-level courses are taught by the Division of Systems and Control during 2018:

Course Broad? Responsible Start
Probabilistic Machine Learning, 5+3 credits Yes Thomas Schön March 2018
Statistical Estimation Theory and Its Applications, 9+3 credits Focused Dave Zachariah September 2018

PhD-level Courses during 2017

Course Responsible Start
Sequential Monte Carlo Fredrik Lindsten and Thomas Schön August 2017
Reinforcement Learning Kristiaan Pelckmans October 2017

PhD-level Courses during 2016

Course Responsible Start
Statistical Machine Learning Thomas Schön January 2016
Network dynamics Giacomo Como April 2016
Statistical Estimation Theory and Its Applications Dave Zachariah Fall 2016

PhD-level Courses during 2013-2015

Course Responsible Start
Stochastic dynamic systems Torsten Söderström September 2015
Foundations of Machine Learning Kristiaan Pelckmans September 2015
Statistical Machine Learning Thomas Schön January 2014
Stochastic dynamic systems Torsten Söderström September 2013

PhD-level Courses before 2013

Course Responsible Start
Compressive Sensing with Structured Matrices Holger Rauhut Autumn 2012
Next Generation Bioinformatics Tools Hesham H. Ali September 2012
Nonlinear System Identification and its Applications Er-Wei Bai June 2011
Linear Systems Torsten Söderström January 2011
Updated  2023-10-20 09:31:35 by David J.T. Sumpter.