DDLC Seminar: Melanie Zeilinger (ETH Zurich)

Data Driven Learning and Control seminar series is organized by the Information and Decision Science Lab at Cornell University and aims to explore the latest advancements and interdisciplinary approaches to data-driven learning and control systems.

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Bio:
Melanie Zeilinger is an associate professor at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, where she is leading the Intelligent Control Systems group at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control. She received the diploma in engineering cybernetics from the University of Stuttgart in Germany in 2006 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich in 2011. From 2011 to 2012 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. From 2012 to 2015 she was a postdoctoral researcher and Marie Curie fellow in a joint program with the University of California, Berkeley and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tuebingen, Germany. From 2018 to 2019 she was a professor at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Her awards include the ETH medal for her Ph.D. thesis, a Marie-Curie IO fellowship and an SNF Professorship grant. She is one of the organizers of the new Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC). Her research interests include learning-based control, as well as distributed control and optimization, with applications to robotics and human-in-the-loop control.