Jan H. van Schuppen's home page

Contents of this page

• Communication directions
• Current research topics
• CWI Research Group Control and System Theory
• Projects
• International research cooperation and contacts
• Publications
• Seminars and courses
• Functions

Mailing address: CWI, P.O. Box 94079, 1090 GB Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Phone +31 20 592 4085 (CWI Office)
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Website www.cwi.nl/~schuppen (This page)

• System theory and system identification.
  Realization of rational positive systems for biochemical reaction networks. Stochastic realization of non-Gaussian systems.
• System identification of nonlinear positive systems.
• Control of hybrid systems.
  Control-to-facet of piecewise-affine hybrid systems. Complexity of control of hybrid systems.
• Control of discrete-event systems.
  Distributed and modular control of discrete-event systems.
• Control of networks and decentralized control.
  Coordination control. Communication between controllers.
• Control of stochastic systems.
  Sufficient conditions for existence of analytic control laws.
• Control and system theory of biochemical reaction networks.
  Molecular cell biology. Modeling of biochemical reaction networks, in particular of metabolic networks. System reduction of biochemical systems.
  Modeling of genetic networks. Mathematical analysis of genetic networks.
• Distributed control of motorway traffic.

Participation in externally financed projects - Current projects.

• Towards functional models and control analysis of interconnected metabolic and regulatory networks,
  which is part of the project Mathematics and computation of the system biology of cells (Cell.Math.)
  (NWO Computational Life Sciences, 2005-2009).
• Control and realization of rational positive systems
  (NWO 613.000.442; 2005-2009).
• Biomathematics in mass spectroscopy based proteomics for identification and modeling of protein networks
  (NBIC.Biorange SP. 2.3.2; 2006-2009).

Participation in externally financed projects - Past projects.

• EU Esprit LTR Project Control and Computation (CC)
  Financially supported by the European Commission through the program ESPRIT LTR. Life time of the project was 1 January 2002 till 1 May 2005.
• EU TMR Project System Identification (SI)
  Financially supported by the European Commission through the program Training and Mobility of Researchers. Life time of project 1 March 1998 through 1 March 2003.
• EU Esprit LTR Project Verification of Hybrid Systems (VHS; 26270)
  VHS.CWI Information about the CWI participation in Project VHS.
  Financially supported by the European Commission through the program ESPRIT LTR. Life time of the project was 1 May 1998 till 1 November 2001.
• EU Transport Telematics Project DACCORD (TR 1017)
  (Lifetime of project was from 1 January 1996 to 1 March 1999.)

• Rene Boel (University of Gent, Gent, Belgium).
• Giorgio Picci (University of Padova, Padova, Italy).
• Pravin Varaiya (University of California, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.).
• Hans Westerhoff (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands).
• European Research Network System Identification(ERNSI).
• ERCIM Working Group Control and System Theory.
  (CNR-LADSEB, CRCIM-UTIA, CWI, INRIA, SICS-KTH, SZTAKI).

• Control of stochastic systems in continuous time. Fall 2006.
  Lecturer: Jan H. van Schuppen.
  At the Department of Mathematics of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Control of system theory of positive systems.
  Spring 2007.
  Lecturer: Jan H. van Schuppen.
  At the Department of Mathematics of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• System identification for the life sciences.
  Spring 2007.
  Lecturer: Jan H. van Schuppen.
  At the Department of Cell Physiology of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• CWI Seminar Control and System Theory - Fall 2006.
  Organization Jan H. van Schuppen.
• CWI Colloquium Control and System Theory
  Organization Jan H. van Schuppen.
• VU Mathematics Seminar Analysis and Operator Theory,
  Organization Prof. A.C.M. Ran, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
  

Information on courses of the past years.

Functions at CWI: Senior researcher and leader of research group.
Function at Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science: Full Professor and researcher. Present at VU on Fridays.

Editorial functions

• Editor-in-Chief of the journal Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems (Since 1 September 1994).

Past editorial functions

• Departmental Editor of Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems. (1990 - 2000)
• Associate Editor-at-Large of the journal IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1999 - 2001).

Past coordination functions

• Coordinator of European Research Network System Identification (ERNSI).
• Leader of the ERNSI team of The Netherlands.
• Chairman of Steering Committee of ERCIM Working Group Control and System Theory.