News at the division of Systems and Control
September 2019
- Daniel Gedon joins us as a new PhD student. He will be working together with Thomas Schön. Welcome!
August 2019
- Per Mattsson joins us as an Assistant Professor. Welcome!
- Håkan Runvik joins us as a new PhD student. He will be working with Alexander Medvedev. Welcome!
March 2019
- Ludvig Hult joins us as a new PhD student. He will be working with Dave Zachariah Welcome!
January 2019
- Riccardo Risuleo joins us as a postdoc. He will be working together with Thomas Schön.
November 2018
- Thomas Schön and Ian Manchester received an ARC grant.
- Niklas Gunnarsson joins us as an industrial PhD student.
October 2018
- Andreas Svensson defended his PhD thesis Machine learning with state-space models, Gaussian processes and Monte Carlo methods
Friday October 12.
September 2018
- Fredrik Gustafsson joins the division as a PhD student in Thomas Schön's group.
- Antonio Horta Ribeiro joins the division as a guest PhD student. He will be staying for a year and work together with Thomas Schön's group.
May 2018
- Fredrik Olsson defended his licentiate thesis Modeling and Assessment of Human Balance and Movement Disorders Using Inertial Sensors Tuesday May 29.
- Rubén Cubo defended his PhD thesis Model-based optimization for individualized deep brain stimulation Friday May 25.
April 2018
- Tatiana Chistiakova defended her licentiate thesis Ammonium Based Aeration Control in Wastewater Treatment Plants - Modelling and Controller Design Thursday April 12.
- Johan Alenlöv joins the division as a post doc and will work together with Fredrik Lindsten.
February 2018
- Koen Tiels joins the division as a post doc and will work together with Fredrik Lindsten and Thomas Schön.
January 2018
- Maria Bånkestad joins the division as an industrial PhD student in Thomas Schön's group.
November 2017
- David Widmann joins the division as a PhD student with Fredrik Lindsten as main supervisor.
October 2017
- Oscar Samuelsson defended his licentiate thesis Fault Detection in Water Resource Recovery Facilities.
September 2017
- Juozas Vaicenavicius joins the division as a researcher.
- Jack Umenberger joins the division as a post doc in Thomas Schön's group.
June 2017
- Jalil Taghia joins the division as a post doc and will work together with Fredrik Lindsten.
May 2017
- Muhammad Osama joins the division as a PhD student with Dave Zachariah as main supervisor.
April 2017
- Fredrik Lindsten receives Ingvar Carlsson Award from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research.
- Helena Andersson joins the division as a PhD student with Alexander Medvedev as main supervisor.
February 2017
- Thomas Schön receives the Tage Erlander's prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
- Carl Jidling joins the division as a PhD student with Thomas Schön as main supervisor.
December 2016
- Peter Stoica to receive the Rudbeck medal from UU
November 2016
- Per Mattsson defends his thesis Modeling and identification of nonlinear and impulsive systems
Friday November 25 - Fredrik Lindsten receives a start-up grant from the Swedish Research Council for the project "Statistical learning of large-scale probabilistic dynamical models".
October 2016
- Lawrence Murray joins the division as new researcher in Thomas Schöns group.
- Guo Zhaoyu joins the division as new visiting PhD student with Alexander Medvedev as supervisor.
- Peter Stoica is appointed foreign member of the Americal National Academy of Engineering.
September 2016
- Anna Wigren joins the division as new PhD student
- Carl Andersson joins the division as new PhD student
April 2016
- Liang Dai defends his PhD thesis Identification using Convexification and Recursion Faculty opponent: Prof Magnus Jansson, KTH.
March 2016
- Thomas Schön is awarded the Arnberg prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Niklas Wahlström joins the division as post-doc. His thesis Modeling of Magnetic Fields and Extended Objects for Localization Applications was defended in December 2015 at Linköping University.
February 2016
- Johannes Nygren defends his PhD thesis Input-Output Stability Analysis of Networked Control Systems Faculty opponent: Prof Torkel Glad, Linköping University.
January 2016
- Peter Stoica is awarded the Athanasios Papoulis award from the European Association of Signal Processing.
- Fredrik Lindsten joins the division as Senior Lecturer. He comes from a post-doc visit at University of Cambridge, following doctoral studies at Linköping University.
- Invited session "Mathematical Modeling of Diseases and Medical Intervention Effects" proposed by Alexander Medvedev and Caterina Scoglio, Kansas State University, is included in full in the program of The 2016 American Control Conference, July 6-8, Boston, MA, USA.
- Ruben Cubo presents his Licentiate Thesis Mathematical Modeling for Optimization of Deep Brain Stimulation. Discussion leader is Prof. Karin Wårdell, Linköping University
December 2015
- Margarida Silva (former PhD student at Systems and Control) has been awarded Bjurzons premium for an excellent thesis by the Faculty for Science and Technology at Uppsala University. Margarida defended her thesis Nonlinear Modeling and Feedback Control of Drug Delivery in Anesthesia in Nov 2014. Her supervisor was Alexander Medvedev.
November 2015
- Daniel Jansson defends his PhD thesis Identification Techniques for Mathematical Modeling of the Human Smooth Pursuit System. Faculty oppnent: Prof. Johan Schoukens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
August 2015
- The paper "Model-based Optimization of Lead Configurations in Deep Brain Stimulation" by Ruben Cubo, Mattias Åström, Alexander Medvedev gets Best Paper Award from The First International Conference on Smart Portable, Wearable, Implantable and Disability-oriented Devices and Systems (SPWID 2015), held in Brussels, Belgium - June 21 - 26, 2015
July 2015
- Invited session "Biological Oscillators" proposed by Alexander Medvedev and Ming Cao, University of Groningen, is included in the program of the 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, December 15-18, 2015.
May 2015
- May 12: Olov Rosén defends his PhD thesis Parallel stochastic estimation on multicore platforms. Faculty oppnent: Prof Petar Djuric, Stony Brook University, NY, USA.
- May 8: Marcus Björk defends his PhD thesis Contributions to Signal Processing for MRI. Faculty opponent: Prof Andreas Jacobsson, Lund University
February 2015
- February 1: Sholeh Yasini joins the division as Post-Doc.
January 2015
- January 1: Fredrik Olsson joins the division as PhD Student. Main supervisor is Kjartan Halvorsen and co-supervisor is Kristiaan Pelckmans.
December 2014
- December 16: Egi Hidayat, Alexander Medvedev, and Karin Nordström won Best Paper Award at IEEE-sponsored 6th International Congress on Ultra Modern Communication and Control Systems in Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 6-8, 2014 for the paper "Identification of a Layer of Spatially Distributed Motion Detectors in Insect Vision"
November 2014
- November 21: Alexander Medvedev is granted funding from Vinnova's program "Innovations for Future Health" for a project on quantification of motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease. The project is led by ACREO Swedish ICT and other collaborators are University hospitals (Uppsala Academic Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden and Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden), universities (Dalarna University and Uppsala University), and companies (Sensidose and Cenvigo).
- November 21: Margarida Silva defends her PhD thesis Nonlinear Modeling and Feedback Control of Drug Delivery in Anesthesia. Faculty Opponent: Prof. Robain De Keyser, University of Gent, Belgium
- November 14: Bengt Carlsson receives Uppsala University's pedagogical prize for 2014 at the annual inauguration of new Professors.
- November 11: Per Mattsson, Daniel Jansson, Egi Hidayat, and Alexander Medvedev have contributed three chapters in the book
"Signal and Image Analysis for Biomedical and Life Sciences" published by Springer.
October 2014
- October 17: Hans Norlander defends his thesis Modelling and Control Methods with Applications to Mechanical Waves. Faculty Opponent: Prof. Jonas Sjöberg, Chalmers.
- October 14: Mojtaba Soltanalian defends his thesis Signal Design for Active Sensing and Communications. Faculty Opponent: Prof. Bo Wahlberg, KTH.
September 2014
- September 19: Soma Tayamon defends her thesis Nonlinear System Identification and Control Applied to Selective Catalytic Reduction Systems. Faculty Opponent: Prof Bo Egardt, Chalmers.
- September 10: Erik Ullenhag, Minister for Integration meets staff at Systems and Control for a discussion on labor migration.
- September 9: Per Mattsson presents his licentiate thesis "Pulse-modulated Feedback in Mathematical Modeling and Estimation of Endocrine Systems". Discussion leader is Dr. Denis Efimov, INRIA Lille - Nord.
- September 4: Tobias Rydén joins the division as an Adjunct Professor. Tobias main employer is Lynx Asset Management and he has perviously held Professor positions (mathematical statistics) at Lund University and KTH.
August 2014
- Thomas Schön received the Automatica best paper award for papers published in Automatica 2011-2013. Awarded for the paper: Thomas B. Schön, Adrian Wills and Brett Ninness. System identification of nonlinear state-space models. Automatica, 47(1):39-49, January 2011. DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2010.10.013.
July 2014
- July 22: Peter Stoica on Thomson Reuters' updated list of highly cited researchers: "... among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and year of publication, earning them the mark of exceptional impact." He was also on the first list published in 2001. See also press release.
May 2014
- May 28: Bengt Carlsson to receive Uppsala University Pedagogical Prize for the area of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering.
April 2014
- April 29: Linda Åmand defends her PhD thesis Ammonium Feedback Control in Wastewater Treatment Plants. Faculty Opponent: Prof. Peter A Vanrolleghem, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
- April 9: Liang Dai presents his licentiate thesis "On Several Sparsity Related Problems and the Randomized Kaczmarz Algorithm"
March 2014
- March 27: Johannes Nygren presents his licentiate thesis "Output Feedback Control - Some Methods and Applications"
- March 3: Egi Hidayat defends his PhD thesis On Identification of Biological Systems. Faculty Opponent: Prof. Elling W. Jacobsen, KTH
February 2014
- Håkan Lanshammar to receive Gustaf Adolf medal in gold for successful management of the Department of Information Technology.
January 2014
- January 21: Daniel Jansson presents his licentiate thesis: "Mathematical modeling of the Human Smooth Pursuit System". Discussion leader: Dr. Tianshi Chen, Division of Automatic Control, Linköping University
November 2013
- Daniel Jansson has received Best Student Paper Prize for the paper "Stochastic anomaly detection in eye-tracking data for quantification of motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease" at International Symposium on Computational Models for Life Science (CMLS-2013), November 27-29, Sydney, Australia. The co-authors are Alexander Medvedev, Hans Axelson and Dag Nyholm.
- Peter Stoica has been selected to receive the 2013 SPS Best Paper Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society for a paper on localization in sensor networks, "Exact and Approximate Solutions of Source Localization Problems". DOI:10.1109/TSP.2007.909342
October 2013
- Kristiaan Pelckmans together with David Sumpter (Dept. of Mathematics, UU) and Niclas Kolm (Dept. of Ecology and Genetics) receive 23 million SEK from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation for the project "Linking social behaviour to the brain".
- Diana Yamalova has joined Systems and Control as a PhD student.
September 2013
- Thomas Schön has joined Systems and Control as Professor of Automatic Control.
- Andreas Svensson has joined Systems and Control as a PhD student.
May 2013
- Johan Wågberg has joined Systems and Control as a PhD student.
April 2013
- April 19: Olov Rosén presents his licentiate thesis: "Parallelization of Stochastic Estimation Algorithms on Multicore Computational Platforms". Discussion leader: Dr. Thomas Schön, Division of Automatic Control, Linköping University
March 2013
- March 11: SysCon is represented by three papers at the IFAC Workshops PSYCO 2013 and ALCOSP 2013, Caen, France.