Rodolphe Sepulchre


	Rodolphe Sepulchre Professor Systems and Modeling Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, B28 Université de Liège B-4000 Liege Sart-Tilman, Belgium. Tel : +32 4 366 29 87 Fax : +32 4 366 29 89 Email : r.sepulchre@ulg.ac.be
	My Citations

2009-2011 Department Chair
2010 IEEE CSS Distinguished Lecturer
2010 IEEE Fellow
2009-2010 Invited Professor, Mines Paris-Tech
2008 IEEE CSS Ruberti young researcher prize
2000- present Invited Professor, Université catholique de Louvain.
2002-2003 Visiting fellow, Princeton University.
1995-1997 FNRS Research Associate, Université catholique de Louvain.
1994-1996 B.A.E.F. Fellow, Research Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara.
1994 Ph.D. Université catholique de Louvain.

Research interests

My research involves nonlinear control and optimization problems. Specific current interests include:

Optimization algorithms on matrix manifolds. My current work focuses on low-rank optimization algorithms.
Slides of my plenary lecture at CIFA, Nancy, June 2010. Related paper (in french). A recent preprint.

Synchronization and neurodynamics. Networks of oscillators, ryhthmic systems, modeling of dopaminergic neurons. A recent preprint.

Control and coordination on nonlinear spaces. Slides of my plenary lecture at NOLCOS, Bologna, September 2010. Accompanying paper.

Control applications: control of induction motors (Schneider-Toshiba S.A, France), distributed control of the Extreme Large Telescope (ESO)

Publications	Most of my publications can be downloaded from here or from arxiv. The complete list is also available (December 2011).
Books	Optimization on Matrix Manifolds, Princeton University Press, 2008. A pdf version of the book is freely available from the publisher website. We also maintain a page with some information about the book. Constructive Nonlinear Control, Springer Verlag, 1997. The book is out of print. You can download the monograph here (pdf format, 1,5MB)

PhD Students (Contact me for opportunities)	Raphaël Liégeois Machine learning for neuroimaging data (2011- ) Julie Dethier (FNRS) statistical methods for multichannel recordings (2011- ) (co-supervised by D. Ernst) Bamdev Mishra (FNRS) Low-rank optimization (2010- ) (co-supervised by F. Bach) Anne Collard Geometric methods for DTI imaging (2009- ) (co-supervised by Ch. Phillips) Laura Trotta Global analysis of bistable models (2009- ) (co-supervised by E. Bullinger) Guillaume Drion Firing mechanisms of dopaminergic neurons (2008- ) (co-supervised by V. Seutin) Pierre Sacré (FNRS) Phase-response curve based robustness and performance measures (2008- )
Postdoc	Fulvio Forni Contraction analysis for nonlinear control
Former PhD students	Alexandre Mauroy (FNRS, 2007-2011). Postdoc, University of California, Santa Barbara. Gilles Meyer (FNRS, 2007-2011). Consultant NSide, Belgium. Michel Journée (FNRS, 2005-2009). Researcher at Royal Meteorological Institute, Brussels. Alain Sarlette (FNRS, 2005-2009). Assistant Professor, Gent University. Christophe Germay (2003-2008) Epslog, Founder and Managing Director. Renaud Ronsse (2002-2007). Assistant Professor, Université catholique de Louvain. Guy-Bart Stan (FNRS, 2000-2005). Lecturer, Imperial College London, UK. Manuel Gérard (FNRS, 2000-2005). Consultant Avaloq, Luxembourg. Pierre-Antoine Absil (FNRS, 1998-2003). Professor, Université catholique de Louvain. Frédéric Grognard (FNRS, 1997-2001). Researcher at INRIA-Sophia Antipolis.
Former Postdocs	Denis Efimov (2008-2009). Researcher at INRIA-Lille, France. Christian Lageman (2008- 2009) Researcher, Würzburg University, Germany. Silvere Bonnabel (2007-2008). Assistant Professor, Mines Paris-Tech, France. Emre Tuna (2006 - 2007). Professor, Middle East Technical University, Turkey. Luca Scardovi (2005-2007), Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Canada. Dong Eui Chang (2004-2005), Associate Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada. Javier Moreno(2004-2005), Professor, Citedi, Mexico Pierre Ansay (2000-2001). Nomics, Founder and Managing Director. Jose De Dona (2000). Associate Professor, University of Newcastle, Australia.

Teaching	Visit our biomedical engineering program SYST 002 : Modélisation et analyse des systèmes SYST 003 : Analyse des systèmes et introduction à leur synthèse SYST 017 : Systèmes non-linéaires GBIO 011: Modélisation des systèmes biologiques GBIO 016: Introduction to systems biology GBIO 001: Introduction au génie biomédical Spring04: A graduate course on Integral Quadratic Constraints, taught with U. Jonsson (KTH) and J. Willems (KUL)
Miscellaneous	I stopped shaving on Jan. 15, 2011. Here is why. I shaved again on Dec. 2, 2011. Finally.
Editorial tasks	Editor-in-Chief (2010- ) or Systems and Control Letters (Elsevier) Associate Editor (2007-) of SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization Associate Editor (2008-2011) of Journal of Nonlinear Science (Springer) Associate Editor (1999-2002) of Automatica (Elsevier) Associate Editor (1999-) of Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems (Springer Verlag) Co-Editor with Eduardo Sontag of the Nonlinear Control Abstracts e-letter
Links	Our lab is funded by the Interuniversity Attraction Pole IAP VI/4 in systems and control Recently organized Workshops and minicourses Member of CESAME (Center for Systems Engineering and Applied Mechanics)) Partner in the European Control Training Site and the HYCON network of excellence Committee member of the Graduate School in Systems and Control

Last updated in January 2012.