Rodolphe Sepulchre

Professor

Systems and Control  @  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


  CV (April 2008)

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:
Publications Most of my publications can be downloaded from here. The complete list is also available (April 2009).
My papers on Google Scholar.
Books Optimization on Matrix Manifolds, Princeton University Press, 2008.  
A pdf version of the book is freely available from the publlisher 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)
Anne Collard Geometric methods for DTI imaging (2009- )
Guillaume Drion Models of interacting dopaminergic neurons (2008- )
Pierre Sacré (FNRS) Phase-response curve based robustness and performance measures (2008- )
Gilles Meyer (FNRS) Learning of low-rank distances (2007- )
Alexandre Mauroy (FNRS) pulse-driven synchronization (2007- )
Boris Defourny   machine learning and multistage optimization (2005-)
Postdocs  Alain Sarlette (FNRS) Consensus and coordinated control on manifolds (2005-2009)
Former PhD students   Michel Journée (FNRS) Geometric algorithms for component analysis (2005 - 2009)
Alain Sarlette (FNRS) Consensus and coordinated control on manifolds (2005-2009)
Christophe Germay  Dynamics and control of stick-slip vibrations in drilling systems (2003-2008)
Renaud Ronsse  Rhythmic movements control (2002-2007)
Guy-Bart Stan (FNRS) Analysis and synthesis of oscillations: a dissipativity approach.(2000-2005)
Manuel Gérard (FNRS)    Dynamics and control of juggling systems.(2000-2005) 
Pierre-Antoine Absil
(FNRS) Geometry of numerical algorithms. (1998-2003) 
Frédéric Grognard
(FNRS) Constrained nonlinear control (1997-2001)
Former Postdocs  Denis Efimov Entrainment and synchronization in cyclic feedback models (2008-2009)
Christian Lageman Optimization on manifolds (2008- 2009)
Silvere Bonnabel geometric means on manifolds (2007-2008 )
Emre Tuna Switched systems, homogeneous systems; (2006 - 2007)
Luca Scardovi   control and coordination (2005-2007)
Dong Eui Chang Hamiltonian systems with collisions (2004-2005)
Javier Moreno Output feedback control of electromechanical sytems (2004-2005)
Pierre Ansay Iterative feedbak tuning (2000-2001) 
Jose De Dona Control of constrained linear systems (2000) 

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)


Editorial tasks Associate Editor (2007-) of SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization
Associate Editor (2008-) of Journal of Nonlinear Science (Springer) 
Associate Editor (2007-) of Systems and Control Letters (Elsevier) 
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 December 2009.