Research
I am largely interested in dynamical problems, e.g., designing (optimization) algorithms and control systems.
In particular, I like to understand the interplay between the underlying problem structure and achievable qualitative behaviour.
Selected (pre)prints
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A Large Deviations Perspective on Policy Gradient Algorithms
Wouter Jongeneel, Daniel Kuhn and Mengmeng Li (alphabetic)
Proceedings of the 6th Annual Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference (L4DC), PMLR vol. 242, pp. 916 - 928, 2024.
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Topological Obstructions to Stability and Stabilization: History, Recent Advances and Open Problems
Wouter Jongeneel and Emmanuel Moulay
SpringerBriefs in Control, Automation and Robotics (Open Access), pp. X, 132, 2023.
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Topological Linear System Identification via Moderate Deviations Theory
Wouter Jongeneel, Tobias Sutter and Daniel Kuhn
IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 307-312, 2022.
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Presented at the 2021 CDC
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Robust Linear Quadratic Regulator: Exact Tractable Reformulation
Wouter Jongeneel, Tyler Summers and Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 6742 - 6747, 2019.
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With special thanks to Daniel Kuhn, Mengmeng Li, Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, Emmanuel Moulay, Roland Schwan, Tyler Summers, Tobias Sutter and Man-Chung Yue.
Throughout, kindly supported by the EU, l'EPFL, the TU Delft, the NCCR Automation, the SNSF and l'UCLouvain.
Selected talks (feel free to request slides or references, I aim to put everything (relevant) online)
A Large Deviations Perspective on Policy Gradient Algorithms, July 2024, University of Konstanz, Department of Computer and Information Science.
Fika in Paris: on qualitative reasoning in a quantitative age, May 2024, KTH Stockholm, Division of Decision and Control Systems (DCS).
Topological obstructions to stability and stabilization, March 2022, University of Warsaw, Department of Mathematical Methods in Physics, Theory of Duality seminar.
From Correlated Data to Guarantees in Stable Identification, October 2020, ETH Zürich, Institut für Automatik (IfA).
Other
Stability via reverse I-projections, a symplectic perspective on the computation
Wouter Jongeneel
technical note, 2022
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From Moderate Deviations Theory to Distributionally Robust Optimization: Learning from Correlated Data
Tobias Sutter, Wouter Jongeneel and Daniel Kuhn
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Thesis
Stability: a search for structure
Wouter Jongeneel
PhD Thesis, Electrical Engineering, EPFL 2024, adviser Daniel Kuhn.
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Controlling the Unknown: A Game Theoretic Perspective
Wouter Jongeneel
MSc Thesis, Systems & Control, TU Delft 2019, adviser Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani.
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