Past Workshops

Summary of the 2024 ERNSI Workshop

The thirty-second ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held on September 29 – October 2, 2024 at Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice, Italy. Alessandro Chiuso was the general chair of the organization committee.  John Lataire was the program chair. Simone Formentin and Mattia Zorzi were the local co-chairs. The workshop had 100 participants. The program included the two invited plenary talkspresentations.

  • Michael Mahoney, UC Berkeley, USA: Model selection and ensembling when there are more parameters than data
  • Peter Zeidman, University College London, UK: Variational Bayesian inference for structure learning

15 regular oral presentations and one survey in a single track from members of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students and researchers also had the opportunity to present their work in two poster sessions. Altogether, there were 45 poster presentations with poster teasers.

Further information including the detailed program can be found at https://automatica.dei.unipd.it/32nd-ernsi-main-page/

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Summary of the 2023 ERNSI Workshop

The thirty-first ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held on September 24-27, 2023 at Ersta Diakoni in Stockholm Sweden. Håkan Hjalmarsson was the general chair of the organization committee.  Marion Gilson was the program chair, Martin Enqvist and Cristian Rojas were local co-chairs. The workshop had 94 participants. The program includeded the three invited plenary talks

  • Florian Dörfler, ETH, Switzerland: Data-driven control based on behavioral systems theory
  • Alexandre Proutiere, KTH, Sweden: Finite-time analysis of linear system identification: sample complexity lower bounds and optimal algorithms
  • Vikram Krishnamurthy, Cornell University, USA: Social sensing and inverse reinforcement learning

and 8 regular oral presentations and one survey in a single track from members of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students and researchers also had the opportunity to present their work in two poster sessions. Altogether, there were 44 poster presentations with oral highlights presentations.

Further information including the detailed program can be found at https://www.kth.se/ernsi2023

Summary of the 2022 ERNSI Workshop

The thirties ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held September 19 – 21, 2022 in Leuven, Belgium. The local organizers were Bart de Moor, Katrien De Cock and Philippe Dreesen. The co-chair for the program was Martin Enqvist. The workshop had 111 participants. The program includes three invited plenary talks by

  • Maria Prandini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • Lieven De Lathauwer, KU Leuven, Belgium
  • Elizabeth Cross, University of Sheffield, U.K.

and 10 regular oral presentations in a single track from members of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students and researchers also had the opportunity to present their work in two poster sessions. Altogether, there were 56 poster presentations.

Further information including the detailed program can be found at https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/stadius/ERNSI2022/

Summary of the 2021 ERNSI Workshop

(The 2020 ERNSI WS was postponed to 2021 due to the pandemic)

The twenty-ninth ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was organized as a Hybrid (face2face and virtual participation) and Connected (connected co-locations) on September 20-21, 2021. Qinghua Zhang was the chairof the organization committee and Marion Gilson was the local co-chair. Thomas Schön was the program chair and Guillaume Mercère was the program co-chair.

The workshop had in total 116 participants. The program includes two invited plenary talks by

  • Arno Solin Aalto University, Finland: Fast and furious methods for real-time inference in SLAM.
  • Pierre Del Moral, INRIA Bordeaux, France: On the stability and the uniform propagation of chaos properties of ensemble Kalman-Bucy filters,

and 12 regular oral presentations in a single track from members of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students and researchers also had the opportunity to present their work in three poster sessions. Altogether there were 42 poster presentations.

Further information including the detailed program can be found at https://ernsi2021.inria.fr/ 

Summary of 2019 ERNSI Workshop at Kasteel Vaeshartelt, Maastricht, the Netherlands

The twenty-eight ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held September 22 – 25, 2019 in Maastricht, The Netherlands. The local organizers were Paul Van den Hof and Roland Tóth. The co-chair for the program was Håkan Hjalmarsson. The workshop had 86 participants. The program includes three invited plenary talks by

  • Qi (Rose) Yu, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
  • Donatello Materassi, University of Minnesota, USA
  • Michael Eichler, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands

and 12 regular oral presentations in a single track from members of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students and more senior researchers also had the opportunity to present their work in two poster sessions. Altogether there were 42 poster presentations.

Further information including the detailed program can be found at https://ernsi2019.tue.nl/

Summary of 2018 ERNSI Workshop at Pembroke College, Cambridge, U.K

The twenty-seventh ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held September 23 – 26, 2018 at Pembroke College, Cambridge, U.K. The local organizers were Carl Rasmussen, Jan Maciejowski and Rodolphe Sepulchre. The co-chair for the program was Martin Enqvist. The workshop had 95 participants. The program includes two invited plenary talks by

  • Roderich Gross, Natural Robotics Lab, Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield
  • Ioannis Kontoyiannis, Signal Processing and Communications Group, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

and 17 regular oral presentations in a single track from members of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students and more senior researchers also had the opportunity to present their work in two poster sessions. Altogether there were 45 poster presentations. Further information including the detailed program can be found at http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/ernsi2018

Summary of 2017 ERNSI Workshop at Domaine St Joseph in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, France

The twenty-sixth ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held on September 24 – 27, 2017 at Domaine St Joseph in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, France. The local organizers were Xavier Bombois, Guillaume Mercère and Laurent Bako. The co-chair for the program was Paul Van den Hof. The workshop had 99 participants. The program consisted of two invited plenary talks by

  • Francis Bach, INRIA Research Director, Head of the Machine Learning Laboratory SIERRA, France
  • Luigi Vanfretti, Associate Professor at the Electrical, Computer & Systems Department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, USA

one discussion lecture and nine regular oral presentations in a single track from members of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students and more senior researchers also had the opportunity to present their work in three poster sessions. Altogether there were 58 poster presentations. Further information including the detailed program can be found at https://ernsi2017.sciencesconf.org/

Summary of 2016 ERNSI Workshop in Cison di Valmarino, Italy

The twenty-fifth ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held on September 25 – 28, 2016 at Castelbrando in Cison di Valmarino, Italy. The local organizer was Alessandro Chiuso. Co-chairs for the program were Rik Pintelon and Marco Campi. The workshop had 95 participants. The program consisted of two invited plenary talks

  • Prof. Domenico Giannone, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, USA  
  • Prof. Jan Peters, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

two tutorials and 12 regular oral presentations in a single track from members of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students and more senior researchers also had the opportunity to present their work in poster sessions. Altogether there were 57 poster presentations. Further information including the detailed program can be found athttp://automatica.dei.unipd.it/ERNSI2016.html

Summary of 2015 ERNSI WS in Varberg, Sweden

The twenty-fourth ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held on September 20 – 23, 2015 at Varbergs stadshotell in Varberg, Sweden. The local organizer was Martin Enqvist. Co-chairs for the program were Marion Gilson and Tomas McKelvey. The workshop had 86 participants. The program consisted of one invited plenary talk from

  • Dr. Ola Härkegård, Saab Aeronautics, Sweden,

two tutorials, and 9 regular oral presentations in a single track from members of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students and more senior researchers also had the opportunity to present their work in poster sessions. Altogether there were 55 poster presentations. Further information including the detailed program can be found at http://www.control.isy.liu.se/en/conferences/ernsi2015/index.html

Summary of 2014 ERNSI WS in Ostend, Belgium

The twenty-third ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held September 21 – 24, 2014 at the Thermal Palace Hotel, Ostend, Belgium. The local organizer was Rik Pintelon. Co-chairs for the program were Xavier Bombois and Carl Rasmussen. The workshop had 111 participants. The program consisted of one invited plenary talk from

  • Prof. Alf Isaksson, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden

and 9 oral presentations in a single track from members of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students and post-docs had the opportunity to present their work in poster sessions. Altogether there were 73 poster presentations. Further information including the detailed program can be found at http://wwwtw.vub.ac.be/elec/ERNSI%202014/ERNSI2014-home.html

Summary of 2013 ERNSI WS in Pont-à-Mousson , France

The twenty-second ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held September 22 – 25, 2013 at Abbaye des Prémontrés, Pont-à-Mousson, France. The local organizer was Hugues Garnier. Co-chairs for the program were Roland Tóth and Martin Enquist. The workshop had 99 participants. The program consisted of one invited plenary talk from

  • Prof. Robert Bitmead, University of California in San Diego, USA

and 18 oral presentations in a single track from members and guests of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students and post-docs had the opportunity to present their work in poster sessions. Altogether there were 48 poster presentations. Further information including the detailed program can be found at http://ernsi-2013.cran.univ-lorraine.fr/

Summary of 2012 ERNSI WS in Maastricht, the Netherlands

The twenty-first ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held September 23 – 25, 2012 at Kasteel Vaeshartelt in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The local organizers were Paul Van den Hof, Roland Toth, Xavier Bombois and Ralf Peeters. Co-chairs for the program were Håkan Hjalmarsson and Alessandro Chiuso. The workshop had 92 participants.  The program consisted of one invited plenary talk from

  • Prof. Michal I. Jordan from UC at Berkeley:  Bayesian non-parametrics and combinatorial stochastic processes,

and 13 oral presentations in a single track from members and guests of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students and post-docs had the opportunity to present their work in poster sessions.

Altogether there were 40 poster presentations. Further information including the detailed program and slides can be found at http://www.ernsi2012.tue.nl/

Summary of 2011 ERNSI WS at La Maison du Séminaire in Nice, France

The twentieth ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held September 26 – 28, 2011 at La Maison du Séminaire in Nice, France. The organizers were Martine Olivi, Laurent Baratchart and Qinghua Zhang. The workshop had 81 participants. The program consisted of 4 tutorial lectures:

  • Prof. Michèle Basseville: Towards the handling of uncertainties in statistical fault detection and isolation
  • Prof. Lennart Ljung: Potentials and possibilities of regularization in system identification
  • Prof. Manfred Deistler: Generalized factor models
  • Prof. Laurent Baratchart: Orthogonal rational functions and prediction theory for certain non-stationary stochastic processes,

16 oral presentations in a single track and 30 poster presentations. Further information can be found at http://www-sop.inria.fr/manifestations/ERNSI11/index.htm

Summary of 2010 ERNSI WS at Pembroke College, Cambridge, U.K.

The nineteenth ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held September 27 – September 29, 2010 at Pembroke College, Cambridge, U.K. The local organizer was Jan Maciejowski. Bo Wahlberg and Paul Van den Hof were co-chairs. The workshop had 65 participants. The program consisted of 5 tutorial lectures:

  • Prof. Zoubin Ghahramani, Cambridge University: Probabilistic Machine Learning View.
  • Prof. Alessandro Chiuso, University of Padova: Bayesian Techniques in Identification
  • Prof. Carl Rasmussen, Cambridge University: Probabilistic Learning and Identification
  • Prof. Johan Schoukens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel:  Nonparametric Preprocessing in System Identification
  • Prof. Paul Van den Hof, Delft University of Technology: Physical Model Structures, Applied to Reservoir Engineering

13 oral presentations and 28 poster presentations. Further information can be found at http://www-control.eng.cam.ac.uk/jmm/ernsi/ernsi2010.html

Summary of 2009 ERNSI WS at Stift Vorau, Austria

The eighteenth ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held September 30 – October 2, 2009 at the Stift Vorau in Austria. The workshop had 41 participants. The program consisted of 3 invited lectures:

  • Prof. Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz: Stochastic Model Specification Search for Gaussian and Non-Gaussian State Space Models
  • Prof. Håkan Hjalmarsson, KTH: System identification of complex systems
  • Prof. Benno Pötscher, Universität Wien: Model Selection, Penalized Maximum Likelihood and Inference

8 oral presentations and 15 poster presentations. The organizers were Manfred Deistler and Wolfgang Scherrer. Further information can be found at www.eos.tuwien.ac.at/ERNSI09.

 Summary of 2008 ERNSI WS in Sigtuna, Sweden

The seventeenth ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held October 1-3 2008 in Sigtuna at the Sigtuna Foundation. The workshop is sponsored by the VR Linnaeus Research Center ACCESS (Autonomic Complex Communication nEtworks Signals and Systems) at KTH, www.access.ee.kth.se, the Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, CIAM at KTH and Uppsala University. The 2008 workshop had 63 participants. The program is a single track, with longer presentations including three invited guest presentations

  • Fredrik Gustafsson, Linköping University: Modelling for Kalman filtering
  • Timo Koski, KTH: On learning of structures for Bayesian networks
  • Peter Grundwald, CWI: The Catch-Up Phenomenon in Model Selection and Prediction

There was also a poster session. The program is available at http://www.ernsi.org/ERNSIWS08.htm

A special session on a roadmap for System Identification was held. The presentation is available at ERNSI White Paper Project.pdf

Summary of 2007 ERNSI WS in San Servolo,  Italy.

The sixteenth ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held in the island of San Servolo in the Venetian lagoon, October 1-3, 2007. European Research Network System Identification (ERNSI) was launched in 1992 by the European Commission as a SCIENCE project.  The 2007 workshop had 65 participants. The program is a single track, with longer presentations including three invited guest presentations,

  • Carl Rasmussen, University of Cambridge U.K.: Three ideas which revolutionized Machine Learning
  • Eugenio Cinquemani, ETH Zurich:Stochastic modeling and parametric identification of genetic networks
  • Torhu Katayama, University of Doshisha University, Japan: Closed loop subspace identification of industrial plants

There was also a poster session. The program is available at http://control.dei.unipd.it/ERNSI07

The conclusion of the workshop is that data-driven modeling of dynamical systems is a very exciting and vital field of research with strong connections to a lot of other areas, including signal processing and machine learning. The advances in control of complex systems, e.g. using model predictive control and networked control, and a multitude of important industrial applications are all based on the availability of reliable models. System identification is about combining physical and engineering modeling with experimental information, and is thus of fundamental importance in taking advantage of the progress in the whole field of information and control systems