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Mouhacine Benosman

Mouhacine Benosman
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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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  • Awards

    •  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 Intelligence
      Brief
      • 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 Intelligence
      Brief
      • 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.
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  • MERL Publications

    •  Russel, R.H., Benosman, M., van Baar, J., Corcodel, R., "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}
      • }
    •  Cao, W., Benosman, M., Zhang, X., Ma, R., "Domain Knowledge-Infused Deep Learning for Automated Analog/Radio-Frequency Circuit Parameter Optimization", ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, July 2022.
      BibTeX TR2022-096 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Cao2022jul,
      • author = {Cao, Weidong and Benosman, Mouhacine and Zhang, Xuan and Ma, Rui},
      • title = {Domain Knowledge-Infused Deep Learning for Automated Analog/Radio-Frequency Circuit Parameter Optimization},
      • booktitle = {ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference},
      • year = 2022,
      • month = jul,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-096}
      • }
    •  Sun, Y., Benosman, M., Ma, R., "GaN Distributed RF Power Amplifier Automation Design with Deep Reinforcement Learning", International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), June 2022.
      BibTeX TR2022-074 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Sun2022jun,
      • author = {Sun, Yuxiang and Benosman, Mouhacine and Ma, Rui},
      • title = {GaN Distributed RF Power Amplifier Automation Design with Deep Reinforcement Learning},
      • booktitle = {International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS)},
      • year = 2022,
      • month = jun,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-074}
      • }
    •  Mowlavi, S., Benosman, M., Nabi, S., "Reinforcement Learning State Estimation for High-Dimensional Nonlinear Systems", International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop, April 2022.
      BibTeX TR2022-042 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Mowlavi2022apr,
      • author = {Mowlavi, Saviz and Benosman, Mouhacine and Nabi, Saleh},
      • title = {Reinforcement Learning State Estimation for High-Dimensional Nonlinear Systems},
      • booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop},
      • year = 2022,
      • month = apr,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-042}
      • }
    •  Cao, W., Benosman, M., Zhang, X., Ma, R., "Domain Knowledge-Based Automated Analog Circuit Design with Deep Reinforcement Learning", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February 2022.
      BibTeX TR2022-017 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Cao2022feb,
      • author = {Cao, Weidong and Benosman, Mouhacine and Zhang, Xuan and Ma, Rui},
      • title = {Domain Knowledge-Based Automated Analog Circuit Design with Deep Reinforcement Learning},
      • booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
      • year = 2022,
      • month = feb,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-017}
      • }
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  • MERL Issued Patents

    • Title: "Power Amplifier System and Transfer Learning-based Autotuning Optimization Method Thereof"
      Inventors: Ma, Rui; Benosman, Mouhacine; 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; Niu, Sufeng; Da Cos, 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.; Kramer, Boris; Grover, Piyush; 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.; 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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