Doctoral Dissertations Supervised - Jan C. Willems


     Name of candidate / present position / title of doctoral dissertation / institution / year
  • Bart Vanluyten
    Realization, Identification and Filtering for Hidden Markov Models Using Matrix Factorization Techniques
    K.U. Leuven, 2008 (promotor: B.L.M. De Moor)

  • Ivan Markovsky, Lecturer, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK
    Exact and Approximate Modeling in a Behavioral Setting
    K.U. Leuven, 2005 (promotor: B.L.M. De Moor)
    This dissertation appeared as Monograph 11 in SIAM's series Mathematical Modeling and Computation

  • Madhu Belur, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
    Control in a Behavioral Context
    University of Groningen, 2003  (day-by-day supervision by Harry Trentelman)

  • Tommaso Cotroneo, Staff member, ANZ Bank, Hong Kong
    Algorithms in Behavioral Systems Theory
    University of Groningen, 2001

  • Paolo Rapisarda, Senior Lecturer, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK
    Linear Differential Systems
    University of Groningen, 1998

  • Tonny ten Dam, Staff Member, National Aerospace Laboratory, Amsterdam
    Unilaterally Constrained Dynamical Systems
    University of Groningen, 1997

  • Berend Roorda, U.H.D. ( @ Senior Lecturer),  Department of Management Science, University of Twente
    Global Total Least Squares
    Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1995  (day-by-day thesis supervision by Dr. C. Heij)

  • Fabio Fagnani, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
    Symmetries in Linear Systems
    University of Groningen, 1992

  • Siep Weiland, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology
    Theory of Approximation and Disturbance Attenuation for Linear Systems
    University of Groningen, 1991

  • Paula Rocha, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oporto, Portugal
    Structure and Representation of 2-D Systems
    University of Groningen, 1990

  • Rein Smedinga, U.D. ( @ Lecturer), Department of Computing Science, University of Groningen
    Control of Discrete Events
    University of Groningen, 1989
     
  • Christiaan Heij, U.H.D. ( @ Associate Professor), Econometrics Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam
    Deterministic Identification of Dynamical Systems
    University of Groningen, 1988
    This dissertation appeared as Volume 127, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Springer Verlag, 1989

  • Jan Willem Polderman, U.H.D. ( @ Associate Professor), Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente
    Adaptive Control & Identification: Conflict or Conflux?
    University of Groningen, 1987 (supervision jointly with Dr. J.H. van Schuppen)
    This dissertation appeared as Tract No. 67, CWI, Amsterdam 1989

  • Harry Trentelman, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Groningen
    Almost Invariant Subspaces and High Gain Feedback
    University of Groningen, 1985.
    This dissertation appeared as Tract No. 29, CWI, Amsterdam, 1986.

  • Aart de Zeeuw, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Brabant (Tilburg University)
    Differential Games and Economic Policy
    University of Brabant, 1984

  • Pieter Otter retired, Department of Management Science, University of Groningen
    System Theory and Adaptive Control in Economics
    University of Groningen, 1984  (supervision jointly with Prof. M.A. Kooyman)
    This dissertation appeared as Volume 246, Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Springer Verlag, 1985.

  • Christian Commault, Enseignant chercheur, Laboratoire d'Automatique, University of Grenoble
    Quelques Aspects Structurels de la Commande des Systèmes Multivariables
    Thèse de Doctorat d''Etat, University of Grenoble, 1983

  • A.J. (Arjan) van der Schaft, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, University of Groningen
    System Theoretic Structure of Physical Systems
    University of Groningen, 1983
    This dissertation appeared as Tract No. 3, CWI, Amsterdam, 1984

  • Henk Nijmeijer, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology
    Nonlinear Geometric Control
    University of Groningen, 1983  (supervision jointly with Dr. J.H. van Schuppen)

  • Henk van de Water, U.H.D. ( @ Associate Professor), Department of Management Science, University of Groningen
    The Value of Information in Stochastic Control
    University of Groningen, 1980

  • Aad van Swieten, Staff member, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
    Qualitative Behavior of Dynamical Games with Feedback Strategies
    University of Groningen, 1977

  • Jonathan Wood, Director, Altor Inc., Natick, Massachusetts
    A Fundamental Study of DC to AC Energy Conversion
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973  (supervision jointly with Prof. R.W. Brockett)

  • Keith Glover, Professor of Control Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK
    Structural Aspects of System Identification
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973