Scholar
Henk van Waarde
Google Scholar ID: 4K5iBboAAAAJ
Assistant professor, University of Groningen
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,255
H-index
20
i10-index
31
Publications
20
Co-authors
17
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- July 2025: Co-authored a new book on data-driven control with Kanat Camlibel and Harry Trentelman
- Pioneered the 'data informativity' framework to address how much data is required for control; see the new book and overview paper 'The informativity approach to data-driven analysis and control'
- Developed generalizations of the S-lemma and Finsler's lemma for robust controller design under noise and bounded nonlinearities, with key papers including 'Quadratic matrix inequalities with applications to data-based control', 'From noisy data to feedback controllers: non-conservative design via a matrix S-lemma', and 'A matrix Finsler's lemma with applications to data-driven control'
- Published work on kernel-based modeling for (incrementally) dissipative systems, such as 'Towards a representer theorem for identification of passive systems', 'Kernel-based models for system analysis', and 'Training Lipschitz continuous operators using reproducing kernels'
- Contributed to experiment design with papers including 'The shortest experiment for linear system identification', 'A persistency of excitation condition for continuous-time systems', and 'Beyond persistent excitation: online experiment design for data-driven modeling and control'
Research Experience
- Assistant professor in the Systems, Control and Optimization group at the University of Groningen
- June 2025: Delivered a lecture at the DISC summer school on experiment design for data-driven modeling and control
- April 2025: Co-lectured a 5-day course at IIT Mandi, India
- December 2024: Organized a workshop on data-driven control at the CDC in Milan
- March 2024: Gave a mini-course on data-driven control at the 2024 Benelux meeting on Systems and Control
Background
- Assistant professor at the University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Member of the Systems, Control and Optimization group at the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and AI
- Also affiliated with the Centre for Data Science and Systems Complexity and the Jan C. Willems Center for Systems and Control
- Research focuses on developing systems and control theory grounded in measured data, aiming to map raw data into models and control policies with rigorous guarantees on accuracy, stability, and performance
- Key research questions include: how much data is needed, how to handle noise, and how to design control-relevant experiments
- Specific research topics: direct data-driven control, system identification, kernel-based modeling of (physical) dynamical systems, experiment design, applications to networked systems and neuromorphic computing
