Mouhacine Benosman
- Phone: 617-621-7532
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Position:
Research / Technical Staff
Senior Principal Research Scientist,
Team Leader -
Education:
Ph.D., École Centrale de Nantes, 2002 -
Research Areas:
External Links:
Mouhacine's Quick Links
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Biography
Before coming to MERL in 2010, Mouhacine worked at universities in Reims University, France and Strathclyde University, Scotland before spending 5 years as a Research Scientist with the Temasek Laboratories at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include modeling and control of flexible systems, nonlinear robust and fault tolerant control, multi-agent control with applications to smart-grid and robotics, estimation and control of partial differential equations with applications to thermo-fluid models, learning-based adaptive control for nonlinear systems, and control-theory based optimization algorithms with application to machine learning. Mouhacine has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers, and has more than 20 patents in the field of mechatronics systems control. He is a senior member of the IEEE, Associate Editor of the Control System Society Conference Editorial Board, Associate Editor of the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Associate Editor of the Journal of Advanced Control for Applications, Associate Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Letters, and Senior Editor of the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing.
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Recent News & Events
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NEWS MERL Researchers Presented Six Papers at the 2022 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC’22) Date: December 6, 2022 - December 9, 2022
Where: Cancún, Mexico
MERL Contacts: Mouhacine Benosman; Karl Berntorp; Ankush Chakrabarty; Marcus Greiff; Devesh K. Jha; Arvind Raghunathan; Diego Romeres; Yebin Wang
Research Areas: Control, OptimizationBrief- MERL researchers presented six papers at the Conference on Decision and Control that was held in Cancún, Mexico from December 6-9, 2022. The papers covered a broad range of topics in the areas of decision making and control, including Bayesian optimization, quadratic programming, solution of differential equations, distributed Kalman filtering, thermal monitoring of batteries, and closed-loop control optimization.
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NEWS Dr. Benosman is invited to give the mini-course in control theory at the 2022 edition of the Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control Date: July 5, 2022 - July 7, 2022
MERL Contact: Mouhacine Benosman
Research Areas: Control, Data Analytics, Dynamical SystemsBrief- The Benelux meeting is an annual conference gathering of the scientific community of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxemburg around systems and control. It is especially intended for PhD researchers and a number of activities are dedicated to them, including plenary talks and a mini-course.
Dr. Benosman has been invited to give the mini-course of the 2022 edition of the conference. This course, entitled 'A hybrid approach to control: classical control theory meets machine learning theory', will be centered around the topic of safe and robust machine learning-based control.
- The Benelux meeting is an annual conference gathering of the scientific community of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxemburg around systems and control. It is especially intended for PhD researchers and a number of activities are dedicated to them, including plenary talks and a mini-course.
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Awards
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AWARD ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference 2022 Best Paper Award nominee Date: July 14, 2022
Awarded to: Weidong Cao, Mouhacine Benosman, Xuan Zhang, and Rui Ma
MERL Contact: Mouhacine Benosman
Research Area: Artificial IntelligenceBrief- The Conference committee of the 59th Design Automation Conference has chosen MERL's paper entitled 'Domain Knowledge-Infused Deep Learning for Automated Analog/RF Circuit Parameter Optimization', as a DAC Best Paper Award nominee. The committee evaluated both manuscript and submitted presentation recording, and has chosen MERL's paper as one of six nominees for this prestigious award. Decisions were based on the submissions’ innovation, impact and exposition.
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AWARD International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS) 2022 Openedges Award Date: June 15, 2022
Awarded to: Yuxiang Sun, Mouhacine Benosman, Rui Ma.
MERL Contact: Mouhacine Benosman
Research Area: Artificial IntelligenceBrief- The committee of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS) 2022, has selected MERL's paper entitled 'GaN Distributed RF Power Amplifier Automation Design with Deep Reinforcement Learning' as a winner of the AICAS 2022 Openedges Award.
In this paper MERL researchers propose a novel design automation methodology based on deep reinforcement learning (RL), for wide-band non-uniform distributed RF power amplifiers, known for their high dimensional design challenges.
- The committee of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS) 2022, has selected MERL's paper entitled 'GaN Distributed RF Power Amplifier Automation Design with Deep Reinforcement Learning' as a winner of the AICAS 2022 Openedges Award.
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MERL Publications
- , "Reinforcement Learning-based Estimation for Partial Differential Equations", SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, May 2023.BibTeX TR2023-066 PDF
- @inproceedings{Mowlavi2023may,
- author = {Mowlavi, Saviz and Benosman, Mouhacine and Nabi, Saleh},
- title = {Reinforcement Learning-based Estimation for Partial Differential Equations},
- booktitle = {SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems},
- year = 2023,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-066}
- }
- , "A System Approach for Efficiency Enhancement and Linearization Technique of Dual-Input Doherty Power Amplifier", IEEE Journal of Microwaves, February 2023.BibTeX TR2023-008 PDF
- @article{Kantana2023feb,
- author = {Kantana, Chouabi and Benosman, Mouhacine and Ma, Rui and Komatsuzaki, Y.},
- title = {A System Approach for Efficiency Enhancement and Linearization Technique of Dual-Input Doherty Power Amplifier},
- journal = {IEEE Journal of Microwaves},
- year = 2023,
- month = feb,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-008}
- }
- , "Fixed-Time Stable Proximal Dynamical System for Solving MVIPs", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, December 2022.BibTeX TR2022-171 PDF
- @article{Garg2022dec,
- author = {Garg, Kunal and Baranwal, Mayank and Gupta, Rohit and Benosman, Mouhacine},
- title = {Fixed-Time Stable Proximal Dynamical System for Solving MVIPs},
- journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control},
- year = 2022,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-171}
- }
- , "ODE Discretization Schemes as Optimization Algorithms", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), December 2022.BibTeX TR2022-159 PDF
- @inproceedings{Romero2022dec,
- author = {Romero, Orlando and Benosman, Mouhacine and Pappas, Geroge},
- title = {ODE Discretization Schemes as Optimization Algorithms},
- booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
- year = 2022,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-159}
- }
- , "Lyapunov Robust Constrained-MDPs for Sim2Real Transfer Learning" in Federated and Transfer Learning, August 2022.BibTeX TR2022-111 PDF
- @incollection{Russel2022aug,
- author = {Russel, Reazul Hasan and Benosman, Mouhacine and van Baar, Jeroen and Corcodel, Radu},
- title = {Lyapunov Robust Constrained-MDPs for Sim2Real Transfer Learning},
- booktitle = {Federated and Transfer Learning},
- year = 2022,
- month = aug,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-111}
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- , "Reinforcement Learning-based Estimation for Partial Differential Equations", SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, May 2023.
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MERL Issued Patents
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Title: "Apparatus and Method for Controlling a System Having Uncertainties in its Dynamics"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Russel, Reazul; van Baar, Jeroen
Patent No.: 11,640,162
Issue Date: May 2, 2023 -
Title: "System for Continuous-Time Optimization with Pre-Defined Finite-Time Convergence"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Romero, Orlando
Patent No.: 11,513,484
Issue Date: Nov 29, 2022 -
Title: "Power Amplifier System and Transfer Learning-based Autotuning Optimization Method Thereof"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Ma, Rui; Jeong, Soyeon
Patent No.: 11,336,231
Issue Date: May 17, 2022 -
Title: "Robust Source Seeking and Formation Learning-based Controller"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Poveda, Jorge
Patent No.: 10,915,108
Issue Date: Feb 9, 2021 -
Title: "System and Method for Controlling Operations of Air-Conditioning System"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Borggaard, Jeff
Patent No.: 10,619,879
Issue Date: Apr 14, 2020 -
Title: "Power Amplifier System and Learning-based Autotuning Method Thereof"
Inventors: Ma, Rui; Benosman, Mouhacine; Manjunatha, Koushik A.; Niu, Sufeng; Da Costa Dinis, Daniel Antonio
Patent No.: 10,454,427
Issue Date: Oct 22, 2019 -
Title: "Hybrid Battery State Sensor"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Wei, Chun
Patent No.: 10,353,008
Issue Date: Jul 16, 2019 -
Title: "Methods and Systems for Predicting Flow of Crowds from Limited Observations"
Inventors: Mansour, Hassan; Benosman, Mouhacine; Huroyan, Vahan
Patent No.: 10,210,398
Issue Date: Feb 19, 2019 -
Title: "Controlling Sway of Elevator Cable with Movement of Elevator Car"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine
Patent No.: 10,207,894
Issue Date: Feb 19, 2019 -
Title: "System and Method for Controlling Operations of Air-Conditioning System"
Inventors: Boufounos, Petros T.; Grover, Piyush; Kramer, Boris; Benosman, Mouhacine
Patent No.: 10,145,576
Issue Date: Dec 4, 2018 -
Title: "System and Method for Controlling Outputs of Photovoltaic System"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Wei, Chun
Patent No.: 10,044,193
Issue Date: Aug 7, 2018 -
Title: "System and Method for Controlling Operations of Air-Conditioning System"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Boufounos, Petros T.; Kramer, Boris; Grover, Piyush
Patent No.: 9,976,765
Issue Date: May 22, 2018 -
Title: "Model Predictive Control with Uncertainties"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Di Cairano, Stefano
Patent No.: 9,897,984
Issue Date: Feb 20, 2018 -
Title: "Method and System for Segmenting Pedestrian Flows in Videos"
Inventors: Mansour, Hassan; Dicle, Caglayan; Tian, Dong; Benosman, Mouhacine; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 9,892,520
Issue Date: Feb 13, 2018 -
Title: "Semi-Active Feedback Control of Sway of Cables in Elevator System"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine
Patent No.: 9,875,217
Issue Date: Jan 23, 2018 -
Title: "Controlling Sway of Elevator Cable Connected to Elevator Car"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Nakazawa, Daisuke; Watanabe, Seiji; Fukui, Daiki
Patent No.: 9,862,570
Issue Date: Jan 9, 2018 -
Title: "Method and System for Segmenting Pedestrian Flows in Videos"
Inventors: Mansour, Hassan; Dicle, Caglayan; Tian, Dong; Benosman, Mouhacine; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 9,600,896
Issue Date: Mar 21, 2017 -
Title: "Controlling Sway of Elevator Rope Using Movement of Elevator Car"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Fukui, Daiki; Watanabe, Seiji; Nakazawa, Daisuke
Patent No.: 9,475,674
Issue Date: Oct 25, 2016 -
Title: "Semi-Active Feedback Control of Elevator Rope Sway"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine
Patent No.: 9,434,577
Issue Date: Sep 6, 2016 -
Title: "Finite Time Power Control for Smart-Grid Distributed System"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Polymeneas, Evangelos
Patent No.: 9,419,437
Issue Date: Aug 16, 2016 -
Title: "Method and System for Controlling Sway of Ropes in Elevator Systems by Modulating Tension on the Ropes"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine
Patent No.: 9,278,829
Issue Date: Mar 8, 2016 -
Title: "Elevator Rope Sway and Disturbance Estimation"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine
Patent No.: 9,242,838
Issue Date: Jan 26, 2016 -
Title: "Distributed Path Planning for Mobile Sensors"
Inventors: Boufounos, Petros T.; Vaccaro, Richard J; Benosman, Mouhacine
Patent No.: 9,218,646
Issue Date: Dec 22, 2015 -
Title: "Model-Based Learning Control"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine
Patent No.: 9,182,753
Issue Date: Nov 10, 2015 -
Title: "Elevator Rope Sway Estimation"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Bortoff, Scott A.
Patent No.: 9,096,411
Issue Date: Aug 4, 2015 -
Title: "Elevator Rope Sway Estimation"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Bortoff, Scott A.
Patent No.: 9,045,313
Issue Date: Jun 2, 2015 -
Title: "System and Method for Controlling Actuators"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Atinc, Gokkan
Patent No.: 8,860,352
Issue Date: Oct 14, 2014 -
Title: "Controller for Reducing Vibrations in Mechanical Systems"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Shilpiekandula, Vijay; Bortoff, Scott A.
Patent No.: 8,855,826
Issue Date: Oct 7, 2014
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Title: "Apparatus and Method for Controlling a System Having Uncertainties in its Dynamics"