OPTEC I - Optimization in Engineering
From 01-11-2005 to 31-10-2011
Website: http://www.kuleuven.be/optec
Description
Optimization of products and processes is a key element in the actual industrial practice, with major economic and competitive value. Typically it allows to reduce costs and use of energy and material, and to improve the quality of products and the speed/yield/safety/performance of processes. Often these optimizations have to be performed under strict practical, physical, technological limitations, called constraints, e.g. volume, weight, lifetime, environment, equipment and manpower constraints. The four partners (EE Dept. (ESAT/SCD), Dept. of Mechanical Engineering (PMA), Dept. of Computer Science (NATW) and Dept. of Chemical Engineering (BioTeC), K.U.Leuven) of this proposed Center of Excellence have achieved over the past years a number of breakthroughs that are often based on intense collaboration and on a new approach to optimization called “the New School of Optimization”. The underlying philosophy is that good insight in optimization methods and the application domain can allow to convert difficult problems into convex problems that are tractable by computers and software. The main research objectives of this proposal are to: • further develop and strengthen the foundations of the New School paradigm; • jointly solve generic and crucial optimization problems in engineering design, estimation and control based on the New School paradigm; • exploit the cross fertilization between different engineering disciplines, both conceptual and applied, to realize major breakthroughs thereby boosting the scientific impact of the research; • promote the New School paradigm for optimization in engineering to the peripheral groups within and outside the university, and provide scientific support for the research valorization in research centers and industry, locally as well as internationally. To realize these research objectives, the four teams can build on past solid scientific achievements. However, in order to obtain a major leap forward, the partners consider it necessary to attract and recruit an internationally recognized young principal investigator (PI) in the field of convex optimization. This PI will compose a research team of postdocs and PhD students, that interacts with the partners in this Center of Excellence.Team
- Moritz Diehl, Co-promoter
- Marc Moonen, Co-promoter
- Johan Suykens, Co-promoter
- Sabine Van Huffel, Co-promoter
- Joos Vandewalle, Promoter
Financing
Funding: KU Leuven - Internal Funding KU Leuven
Events
2/09/2024:
PhD defense - Martijn Oldenhof
Machine Learning for Advanced Chemical Analysis and Structure Recognition in Drug Discovery
3/09/2024:
Meet the Jury Igor Tetko on Advanced Machine Learning in Drug Discovery
12/09/2024:
Multimodal analysis of cell-free DNA for sensitive cancer detection in low-coverage and low-sample settings
Seminar by Antoine Passemiers
News
STADIUS Alumni Herman Verrelst – new CEO of Biocartis
08 June 2017
Herman Verrelst, the founder of KU Leuven spin-off Cartagenia, who has been working in Silicon Valley, US for the last few years will be returning to Belgium to follow the steps of Rudi Pauwels as CEO of the Belgian diagnostic company, Biocartis.
Supporting healthcare policymaking via machine learning – batteries included!
29 May 2017
STADIUS takes the lead in the data analytics efforts in an ambitious European Project MIDAS.
Marc Claesen gives an interview about his PhD for the magazine of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences "Geniaal"
10 February 2017
Did you know that in Belgium approximately one third of type 2 diabetes patients are unaware of their condition?
Joos Vandewalle is nieuwe voorzitter KVAB
09 October 2016
Op 5 oktober 2016 heeft de Algemene Vergadering van de Academie KVAB Joos Vandewalle verkozen tot voorzitter van de KVAB.