The Optimization in Engineering Center (OPTEC) was created in 2005 as one of the twelve Centers of Excellence at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. OPTEC is a center of interdisciplinary research on engineering applications of mathematical optimization, emerging from four different engineering fields: computer science, as well as chemical, mechanical and electrical engineering. The main OPTEC objective is to shift the international state of the art by developing new and efficient formulations of the application-specific optimization problems that arise in each of the considered domains. Such new formulations will be the result of synergetic cooperation between top experts in both mathematical programming and each of the application domains, who are brought together within the OPTEC framework.
Johan Suykens has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant.
The ERC Project is entitled "A-DATADRIVE-B: Advanced Data-Driven Black-box modelling" and will in the coming 5 years considerably reinforce the research of OPTEC's working group 2 on Data Driven Modelling, which is led by Johan Suykens. More info can be found on
http://www.kuleuven.be/research/erc/suykens.html
