Presentations

2026

• Numerical methods for data-driven systems theory and signal processing
  PhD Course to be given 8–12 June, GSSI, L'Aquila, Italy

• The Behavioral Toolbox
  Talk to be given 18 May, STADIUS, K.U.Leuven, Belgium

2025

• Data-driven fault detection
  Poster presented at the Dolomites Research Week on Approximation and Applications, 8–12 September, Alba di Canazei, Italy

• Low-Rank Approximation: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
  Talk at the Numerical Analysis Groups of the Mathematisches Institut, Universität Tübingen, 26 August, Tuebingen, Germany

• Computations for systems and control without model parameters
  Invited talk at the PVD75 - Proper Value Decomposition 75, 7–12 July, Selva di Fasano (Br), Italy

• Data-driven systems theory, signal processing, and control
  Mini-course given for the PhD students of the FRONTIERS network, 16 June, Barcelona

• A behavioral approach to direct data-driven fault detection
  Talk given at the Adaptive Modeling and Simulation conference, 9-11 June, Barcelona, Spain

• Hidden structures in data-driven representations of dynamical systems
  Invited Lecture at the Hidden structures in dynamical systems, optimization, and machine learning, 19–23 May, GSSI, L'Aquila, Italy

2024

• Behavioral approach to system identification and data-driven control
  Invited Lecture at the Workshop on data-driven control: theory and applications,
  Conference on Decision and Control, Milan, Italy, 15 December

• Data-driven systems theory, signal processing, and control
  Mini-course given at the UKACM-SEMNI Autumn school, 16–19 September

• Data-driven dynamic interpolation and approximation
  Poster presented at the Dolomites Workshop on Constructive Approximation and Applications, Canazei, Italy, ​9–13 September

• The Behavioral Toolbox
  Poster presented at the Annual Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference, Oxford, UK, ​15–17 July

2023

• System theory without state-space and transfer functions? Yes, it’s possible!
  Talk given at STADIUS, K.U.Leuven, Belgium, 4 December

• Optimization problems in data-driven control
  Invited talk at the “Optimization days” workshop, University of Southampton, 28 September

• Direct data-driven analysis, signal processing, and control
  Invited talk at the Kolloquium Technische Kybernetik, University of Stuttgart, 6 June

• Behavioral approach to system identification and data-driven signal processing
  Invited talk at the Seminar Series on Optimization, Learning and Control, Laboratoire d’Automatique, EPFL, 10 March

2022

• Tutorial on the behavioral approach to systems theory
  Invited talk at the Institute for Control Engineering, Leibniz University Hannover, 10 November

• Tutorial on the behavioral approach to systems theory
  Tutorial given at the Ifa seminar, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland, 18 October

• System theory without state-space and transfer functions? Yes, it’s possible!
  Poster presented at the Workshop of the European Research Network on System Identification (ERNSI), Leuven, Belgium, 18–21 September​

• Constructive proof of the fundamental lemma
  Talk given at the International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Bayreuth, Germany, Leuven, 12–16 September

• Tutorial on the behavioral approach to data-driven system theory and control
  Lecture delivered at the First ELO-X Seasonal School and Workshop, Leuven, Belgium, 25 March

• Behavioral approach to data-driven control
  Talk given at the CIMNE seminar, Barcelona, 11 March

2021

• System theory without transfer functions and state-space? Yes, it's possible!
  Talk given at the 60th IEEE conference on Decision and Control, Austin, USA, 13–17 December

• Deep learning using the human brain
  Talk given at the ELEC seminar, Brussels, 29 September

• Deep learning using the human brain
  Invited lecture at the International Conference of Automatics, Sozopol, Bulgaria, 3–7 September

• Data-driven dynamic interpolation and approximation: System theory without transfer function and state space representations
  Invited lecture at the Mini-symposium on Applications of Low Rank Matrix Completion, The Fields Institute, Canada, 9–11 June

• Data-driven signal processing
  Talk given at the division of mathematics, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila., online, 31 March

• Dynamic measurement
  Talk given at the division of automatic control systems, Technical University of Sofia, online, 16 March

2020

• Data-driven dynamic interpolation
  Talk given at the SeLMA seminar, Leuven, 23 November

• LTI embedding of nonlinear systems
  Talk given at the Ifa seminar, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland, 10 September

• Model-free signal processing and control
  Talk given at the SAAS group, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, 29 May

• Line spectral estimation with palindromic kernels
  Poster presented by D. Verbeke at the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Barcelona, Spain, 2–8 May

2019

• Subspace methods for multi-channel sum-of-exponentials common dynamics estimation
  Talk given at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, 11–13 December

• Software package for mosaic-Hankel structured low-rank approximation
  Talk given at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, 11–13 December

• Computing common factors of matrix polynomials with applications in system and control theory
  Talk given by A. Fazzi at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, 11–13 December

• Sparsity in system identification and data-driven control
  Invited lecure given at OptML: Optimization and Machine Learning, Southampton, UK, 18 October

• Data-driven simulation using nuclear norm matrix completion
  Poster presented by P. Dreesen at the workshop of the European Research Network on System Identification (ERNSI), Maastricht, The Netherlands, 22–25 September​

• Model-based vs data-driven linear quadratic tracking control
  Poster presented by J. Coulson at the workshop of the European Research Network on System Identification (ERNSI), Maastricht, The Netherlands, 22–25 September​

• Data-driven structured noise filtering via common dynamics estimation
  Talk given at the workshop of the European Research Network on System Identification (ERNSI), Maastricht, The Netherlands, 22–25 September​

• Data-driven simulation using nuclear norm matrix completion: guarantees for successful recovery
  Talk given by P. Dreesen at the Workshop on Low-Rank Models and Applications, Mons, Belgium, 12–13 September​

• Applications of common factor computation in signal processing
  Poster presented at the Dolomites Research Week on Approximation, Canazei, Italy, 2–6 September

• Data-driven simulation using the nuclear norm heuristic
  Talk given by P. Dreesen at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Brighton, UK, 12–17 ​May

• Common dynamics estimation
  Talks given at the ELEC seminar, Brussels, Belgium, 14 May

• A low-rank matrix completion approach to data-driven signal processing
  Invited lecture at the IfA-IDSC Control Seminar Series, ETH Zurich, 29 April

• Low-rank approximation with applications
  Talk given at the Mathematical Informatics 5th Lab, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 27 March

• Dynamic measurement: application of system identification in metrology
  Talk given at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK, 13 March

• A low-rank matrix completion approach to data-driven signal processing
  Talks given at the ELEC seminar, Brussels, Belgium, 7 February

2018

• Using Hankel low-rank approximation for sparse signal recovery
  Talk given at a workshop on “Sparse Approximation with Exponential Sums and Applications”, Goettingen, 26–27 November

• A Low-Rank and Joint-Sparse Model for Ultrasound Signal Reconstruction
  Poster presented by C. Schretter at the International Traveling workshop on interactions between low-complexity data models and sensing techniques, Marseille, France, 21–23, November​

• Dynamic measurement: application of system identification in metrology
  Talk given at the Workshop of the European Research Network on System Identification, Cambridge, UK, 23–26, September

• Identification of autonomous Wiener systems
  Poster presented at the Workshop of the European Research Network on System Identification, Cambridge, UK, 23–26, September

• Using Hankel low-rank approximation for sparse signal recovery
  Poster presented at the Dolomites Research Week on Approximation, Alba di Canazei, Italy, 10–14, September

• Identification of autonomous Wiener systems
  Talks given at the ELEC seminar, Brussels, Belgium, 4 September

• The no free lunch principle in data modeling
  Invited lecture at the BioTensors workshop, Leuven, Belgium, 27–31 August

• A comparison between structured low-rank approximation and correlation approach for data-driven output tracking
  Talks given by S. Formentin at the 8th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, Stockholm, Sweden, 9–11, July

• Using Hankel low-rank approximation for sparse signal recovery
  Poster presented at the 14th Int. Conf. of Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation, Guildford, UK, 2–6, July

• Applications of common factor computation in signal processing
  Poster presented at the 14th Int. Conf. of Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation, Guildford, UK, 2–6, July

• Structured low-rank approximation approach to sum-of-exponentials modeling
  Invited lecture at the International conference on Approximation and Matrix Functions, University of Lille, 1 June

• System identification in the behavioral setting
  Talks given at the Seminar of the Department of Electrical Engineering, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 14 March

• Data-driven signal processing
  SeLMA Kick-off meeting, K.U. Leuven, Belgium, 23 February

2017

• Learning to learn
  Talks given at the Seminarie Actuele Wetenschappen en Samenleving, University of Brussels, 17 November

• Identification from a “small” number of samples
  Poster presented at the Workshop of the European network on system identification (ERNSI), Lyon, France, 24–27, September

• Sum-of-exponentials modeling and common dynamics estimation using Tensorlab
  Interactive presentation at the IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, 9–14, July

• Application of low-rank approximation for nonlinear system identification
  Talk given at the Mediterranean conference on control and automation, Valletta, Malta, 3–6, July

• Sparsity in system identification and data-driven control
  Invited lecture at the Workshop on sparsity in applied mathematics and statistics, Brussels, 1–2 June

• Scientometrics via low-rank approximation and completion
  Talk given at the Intelligence Research Institute of the Spanish Research Council, Barcelona, Spain, 4 April

• Data-driven time-varying dynamic measurements
  Talk given by G. Quintana-Carapia at the Benelux meeting on systems and control, Spa, Belgium, 28–30, March

• A missing data approach to data-driven filtering and control
  Talk given at the CUED Control Group Seminars, Cambridge, UK, 27 February

• Low-rank approximation and its applications
  Talk given at the Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft, The Netherlands, 18 January

2016

• Low-rank approximation and its applications
  Invited lecture presented at the The 11th Annual Meeting of the Bulgarian Section of SIAM, Sofia, Bulgaria, 20–22, December

• Innovation-based subspace identification in open and closed-loop
  Talk given by Guillaume Mercère at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, 12-14 December

• An outlook from past and current research on low-rank approximation
  Invited lecture given at the DYSCO study day, Louvain-La-Neuve, 1 December

• Application of low-rank approximation in nonlinear system identification
  Discussion talk given at the "Nonlinear identification workshop, Brussels, 16–17, November

• Data-driven dynamic weight measurement
  Poster presented by Gustavo Quintana-Carapia at the International Workshop on Analysis of Dynamic Measurements, Berlin, Germany, 9–10 November

• Low-rank matrix approximation
  Two-hour seminar given at the University of Antwerpen, 24 October

• Structured low-rank approximation approach to sum-of-exponentials
  Talk given at the Colloquia Institut für Numerische und Angewandte Mathematik, Goettingen, 18 October

• A low-rank matrix completion approach to data-driven signal processing
  Talk given at the Workshop of the European network on system identification (ERNSI), Castelbrando Cison di Valmarino, Italy, 25–28 September

• Innovation-based subspace identification in open- and closed-loop
  Poster presented by Guillaume Mercère at the Workshop of the European network on system identification (ERNSI), Castelbrando Cison di Valmarino, Italy, 25–28 September

• Model order estimation based on a method for computing distance to uncontrollability
  Poster presented at the Conference on noise and vibration engineering (ISMA), Leuven, Belgium, 19–21 September

• A low-rank matrix completion approach to data-driven signal processing
  Invited lecture presented at the London Workshop on Sparse Signal Processing, 15-16 September

• Missing data estimation approach to data-driven signal processing
  Invited lecture presented at the Dolomites workshop on constructive approximation and applications, Canazei, Italy, 8–13 September

• Low-rank approximation and its applications
  Talk given at the Institute of mathematics and informatics, of the Bulgarian academy of science, Sofia, Bulgaria, 27 July

• Data driven dynamic measurements
  Talk given by Gustavo Quintana-Carapia at the Benelux meeting on systems and control, Soesterberg, Netherlands, 22–24 March

• Scientometrics via low-rank approximation and completion
  Invited lecture at the Vision, learning, and control group conference, Carys manor, UK, 23 March

• Subspace identification with constraints on the impulse response
  Talk at the ELEC seminar, Brussels, 4 March

• Scientometrics via low-rank approximation and completion
  Invited lecture at the Workshop on tensor decompositions and applications, Leuven, Belgium, 18–22 January

2015

• Subspace-based identification with equality constraints
  Poster presented by Guillaume Mercère at the ERNSI Workshop, Varberg, Sweden, 20–23 September

• System identification in the behavioral setting
  Poster presented at the International conference on latent variable analysis and signal separation, Liberec, Czech Republic, 25–28 August

• Model-free optimal tracking control via nuclear norm minimization
  Poster presented at the SIAM Conference on control and its applications, Paris, 8–10 June

• Structured low-rank approximation approach to sum-of-exponentials
  Invited lecture at the Sparse modelling and multi-exponential analysis, Dagstuhl, Germany, 14–19 June

• A structured low-rank approximation approach to system identification
  Invited lecture at the Workshop on Low-rank Optimization and Applications, Bonn, Germany, 8–12 June

• Low-rank approximation and its applications
  Invited lecture at the Structured low-rank approximation workshop, Grenoble, 1–2 June

• System identification in the behavioral setting
  Talk at the Seminars in Systems and Control, U.C. Louvain, 5 May

• System identification with missing data
  Talk at Laboratoire Vibrations Acoustique, Lyon, France, 30 April

• Blind FIR system identification, distance to uncontrollability, and minimal kernal representations
  Talk at the 34th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Lommel, Belgium, 24–26 March

2014

• Reproducible research with Emacs org-mode
  Talk at the ELEC seminar, Brussels, 10 December

• Progress and challenges in optimization methods for system identification and control
  Talk at the ELEC seminar, Brussels, 24 October

• System identification with missing data
  Poster at the Workshop of the European Research Network on System Identification, Ostend, Belgium, 21–24 September

• Multiple experiments in operational modal analysis
  Talk at the Leuven Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, Leuven, 15–17 September

• Adjusted least squares estimator for fitting algebraic hypersurfaces with arbitrary support
  Lecture presented by K. Usevich at the Structured Numerical Linear and Multilinear Algebra: Analysis, Algorithms and Applications, Kalamata, Greece, 8–12 September

• Tensor low multilinear rank approximation by structured matrix low-rank approximation
  Talk given by M. Ishteva at the International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Groningen, The Netherlands, 7–11 July

• Structured low-rank approximation with missing data
  Poster at the Householder Symposium, Spa, Belgium, 8–13 June

• Structured matrix low-rank approximation and its application for solving tensor problem
  Invited lecture presented by M. Ishteva at the Structured Matrix Days, Université de Limoges, May 26–27

• Low-rank approximation with applications
  Lecture at the International Conference on Numerical Methods for Scientific Computations, Bansko, Bulgaria, May 19–22

• Factorization approach to structured low-rank approximation
  Lecture presented by M. Ishteva at the International Conference on Numerical Methods for Scientific Computations, Bansko, Bulgaria, May 19–22

2013

• Exact system identification with missing data
  Presented at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, December 10–13, 2013.

• Approximate system identification with missing data
  Presented at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, December 10–13, 2013.

• Low-rank approximations and its applications in system identification and signal processing
  Plenary lecture given at the Study day of the IAP network on dynamical systems, control and optimization, Palais des Académies, Brussels, November 22.

• A software package for system identification in the behavioral setting
  Software demo presented at the Workshop of the ERNSI network, Nancy, 22–25 September.

• Subspace identification of autonomous linear periodically time-varying systems
  Poster presented at the Workshop of the ERNSI network, Nancy, 22–25 September.

• Low-rank approximation problems in system identification
  Presented at the Dolomites research week on approximation, Alba di Canazei, Italy, September 8.

• ELEC/VUB Doctoral school lectures on “Low-rank approximation and its applications”, VUB, Brussels, 28–29 May.

• Data-driven modeling: A low-rank approximation problem
  Presented at the Systems and Modeling group seminar, Liege, March 29.

• System identification in the behavioral setting
  Presented at the Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Houffalize, Belgium, March 26–28.

2012

• Data-driven modeling: A low-rank approximation problem
  ELEC seminar, Brussels, 8 November.

• System identification with missing data
  Poster presented at the Workshop of the ERNSI network, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 25 September.

• Fast algorithms and software for weighted mosaic Hankel low-rank approximation
  Poster at the Workshop of the ERNSI network, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 24 September.

• Fast algorithms and software for weighted mosaic-Hankel-like low-rank approximation
  Presented by K. Usevich at the conference “Structured numerical linear and multilinear algebra problems analysis, algorithms, and applications”, K.U. Leuven, 14 September.

• Hankel structured low-rank matrix completion
  Presented at the SISTA Seminar, K.U.Leuven, 19 September.

2011

• Hankel structured low rank matrix completion
  Presented at the Electrical Engineering Department, Cambridge, on 18 November.

• Fast measurements of slow processes
  Presented at the Department ELEC, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, on 10 November.

• Bias correction for polynomial low rank approximation
  Poster presented at the Workshop of the ERNSI network, Nice, France, 25–28 September.

• Low-rank approximation and its applications
  Poster, presented at the Dolomites research week on approximation, Alba di Canazei, Trento, Italy, 5–9, September.

• Nonlinearly structured low-rank approximation with application to algebraic curve fitting
  Poster presented at the Householder symposium, Lake Tahoe, California, USA, 12–17 June.

• Fast measurements of slow processes
  Presented at the Division of Systems and Control, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, March 29.

• Low-rank approximation: theory, algorithms, and applications
  Presented at the Mathematics Department, Leicester University, on 10 March.

• Low-rank approximation: a tool for data modeling
  Presented at the Optimisation and numerical analysis seminar, School of mathematics, University of Birmingham, on 3 February.

2010

• Data modeling using nuclear norm heuristic
  Presented at the ERCIM Conference on computing & statistics, London on 11 December.

• Low-rank approximation and its applications
  Presented at the Symbiosis seminar, Southampton, UK, on 24 November.

• Fitting algebraic curves to data
  Presented at the ERNSI workshop, Cambridge, UK, on 28 September, and the Workshop on singular spectrum analysis and its applications, Cardiff, UK, 20 September.

• Affine data modeling by low-rank approximation
  Presented at the Conference on numerical methods and applications, Borovez, BG, on 21 August.

• Low-rank approximation and its applications
  Presented at the Statistics seminar of the School of mathematics, Cardiff University, on March 9.

2009

• Closed-loop data-driven simulation
  Presented at the IFAC Symposium on system identification, Saint-Malo, France, on 7 July.

• Applications of structured low-rank approximation
  Presented at the IFAC Symposium on system identification, Saint-Malo, France, on 7 July.

• Data-driven simulation and control
  Presented at the Open and Interconnected Systems Modeling and Control, Brugge, Belgium, 17 September.

• Low-rank approximation and its applications
  Presented at the Algorithms for Approximation VI, Ambleside, U.K, on 1 September.

• Low-rank approximation: theory and applications
  Presented at the Computer Scince Department seminar series, University of Sheffield, on 18 June, and the Xerox seminar series, Xerox Research Center Europe, Grenoble, on 11 June.

2000–2008