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Senior Scientist Automatic Control Laboratory - General

Alireza Karimi birth date: 21.09.1964 web site: http://la.epfl.ch office(s): MEC2397 phone(s): [+41 21 69] 35925 BIOGRAPHY Alireza Karimi was born in Mashad, Iran, in 1964. He received his B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1987 and 1990 from Amir Kabir University (Tehran Polytechnic). After 3 years of industrial experience he joined Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) in France and received his DEA and Ph. D. degrees both on Automatic Control in 1994 and 1997, respectively. He was Assistant Professor at Electrical Engineering Department of Sharif University of Technology in Teheran from 1998 to 2000. He is currently Senior Scientist at the Automatic Laboratory of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He is Associate Editor of European Journal of Control since 2004. His research interests include closed-loop identification, data-driven controller tuning approaches and robust control. PUBLICATIONS submitted 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 All journal papers All conference papers RESEARCH PROJECTS - Data-driven Methods for Tracking Improvement - Controller Design by Linear Programming - Robust RST Controller for a High-Precision Positioning System RECENT GRANTS (only inside EPFL) Fixed-order Controller Design for Polytopic Systems by Convex Optimization Linear Parameter Varying Controller Design Controller Design Based on Decorrelation

Skills System identification, robust control, data-driven controller tuning Teaching Mechanical Engineering Advanced Control Systems [fr] (SMA SMT SEL SGM) Estimation Theory [en] System Identification [fr] (SEL SMT SGM) Phd programs Electrical Engineering Manufacturing Systems and Robotics Computer, Communication and Information Sciences Phd Students Emedi Zlatko Gerussi Stefano Sad Abadi Mahdieh Sadat Past Phd students: Butcher Mark Edward John Galdos Sanz de Galdeano Gorka Garcia Daniel Kunze Marc Miskovic Ljubisa van Heusden Klaske Courses Material - System Identification - Estimation Theory - Robust Control International Benchmarks - Rejection of unknown/time-varying multiple narrow band disturbances (2011) - Design and Optimisation of Restricted Complexity Controllers (2003) - Flexible Transmission Benchmark (1995)