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Rodolphe Sepulchre

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Rodolphe Sepulchre is a professor of control engineering in the Control Group at the University of Cambridge and at KU Leuven, with research interests in nonlinear control and neural behaviours.

Education and early career

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Sepulchre achieved a bachelor's degree from Université catholique de Louvain between 1989 and 1990, before remaining at this institution to study a PhD in mathematical engineering between 1990 and 1994.[1] Between 1990 and 1997 he was employed as a researcher, and held a postdoctoral position at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1994 to 1996. In 1997 he achieved a post as a professor at Université de Liège in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.[2]

Published works

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He has written two books: Optimisation Algorithms on Matrix Manifolds,[3] published in 2007, and Constructive Nonlinear Control,[4] published in 1996.

His main research interests include nonlinear control; optimisation on manifolds; coordination, synchronization, and consensus on nonlinear spaces; and neural behaviors, and has published over 90 papers in these areas.[5]

In May 2022 he published a paper in Proceedings of the IEEE entitled 'Spiking Control Systems',[6] in which he incorrectly cited the Wikipedia article on the homeostat, claiming

According to Wikipedia [47], the homeostat did not work very reliably.

Other works

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Sepulchre was a guest on the podcast inControl,[7] and has been the editor of IEEE control systems magazine since February 2020.[8]

Awards

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  • Sepulchre was awarded the IEEE Control Systems Society Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize in 2008.[9]
  • In 2020 he received the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society for his paper on differential dissipativity, co-written with Professor Fulvio Forni.[10]

References

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  1. ↑ "Rodolphe Sepulchre - LinkedIn".[self-published]
  2. ↑ "Professor Rodolphe Sepulchre". University of Cambridge. 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
  3. ↑ Absil, P.A. (2007). Optimisation algorithms on matrix manifolds. Princeton University Press (published 23 December 2007). ISBN 9780691132983.
  4. ↑ Sepulchre, Rodolphe (August 1996). Constructive Nonlinear Control. Santa Barbara, California: Springer-Verlag.
  5. ↑ "Rodolphe Sepulchre". scholar.google.com.
  6. ↑ Sepulchre, Rodolphe (2020). "Spiking control systems". Proceedings of the IEEE: 577–589.
  7. ↑ Padoan, Alberto (15 February 2023). "inControl: ep9 - Rodolphe Sepulchre: Spiking control systems, nonlinear control, neuroscience and optimization on manifolds".
  8. ↑ Sepulchre, Rodolphe (25 May 2024). "IEEE Control systems".
  9. ↑ "IEEE CSS Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize".
  10. ↑ "Prestigious awards for outstanding contributions to control systems technology". 27 Jan 2021.