Mouhacine Benosman

- Phone: 617-621-7532
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Position:
Research / Technical Staff
Senior Principal Research Scientist -
Education:
Ph.D., École Centrale de Nantes, 2002 -
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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 Research on Intelligent Power Amplifier is Cover Story of Microwave Journal Date: April 15, 2021
MERL Contacts: Mouhacine Benosman; Rui Ma; Koon Hoo Teo
Research Areas: Communications, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Machine LearningBrief- The cover article in the April issue of Microwave Journal features MERL and MELCO's invited paper entitled "A New Frontier for Power Amplifiers Enabled by Machine Learning". Our recent research applying ML for optimizing operating conditions of advanced power amplifier designs is highlighted.
Since 1958, Microwave Journal has been the leading source for information about RF and Microwave technology, design techniques, news, events and educational information. Microwave Journal reaches 50,000 qualified readers monthly with a print magazine that has a global reach.
- The cover article in the April issue of Microwave Journal features MERL and MELCO's invited paper entitled "A New Frontier for Power Amplifiers Enabled by Machine Learning". Our recent research applying ML for optimizing operating conditions of advanced power amplifier designs is highlighted.
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NEWS M. Benosman will give an invited talk at the Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Student Chapter at Virginia Tech. Date: October 9, 2020
MERL Contact: Mouhacine Benosman
Research Area: Dynamical SystemsBrief- M. Benosman will give an invited talk at the SIAM student chapter at Virginia Tech. to speak about several applications of mathematics to industrial problems.
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Student Chapter at Virginia Tech will host a number of talks by mathematicians working in industry. The speakers will describe the path they followed to reach this point in their careers and also tell us more about their industry and how mathematics is used.
- M. Benosman will give an invited talk at the SIAM student chapter at Virginia Tech. to speak about several applications of mathematics to industrial problems.
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Internships with Mouhacine
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DA1508: Safe reinforcement learning for real-life applications
MERL is seeking a motivated and qualified individual to conduct research in safe reinforcement learning (RL). The ideal candidate should have solid background in RL, e.g. CMDP, and RMDP theories. Knowledge of dynamical system theory and nonlinear control theory is a plus, but not a requirement. Publication of the results produced during the internship is anticipated, e.g., ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS. Duration of the internship is expected to be 3 months. Start date is flexible.
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MERL Publications
- "A New Frontier for Power Amplifier enabled by Machine Learning", Microwave Journal, No. 4, pp. 22-32, April 2021.BibTeX TR2021-030 PDF
- @article{Ma2021apr,
- author = {Ma, Rui and Komatsuszaki, Yuji and Benosman, Mouhacine and Yamanaka, Koji and Shinjo, Shintaro},
- title = {A New Frontier for Power Amplifier enabled by Machine Learning},
- journal = {Microwave Journal},
- year = 2021,
- number = 4,
- pages = {22--32},
- month = apr,
- issn = {0192-6225},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-030}
- }
, - "Robust Coordinated Hybrid Source Seeking with Obstacle Avoidance in Multi-Vehicle Autonomous Systems", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2021.3056365, March 2021.BibTeX TR2021-022 PDF
- @article{Poveda2021mar,
- author = {Poveda, Jorge and Benosman, Mouhacine and Teel, Andrew R. and Sanfelice, Ricardo G.},
- title = {Robust Coordinated Hybrid Source Seeking with Obstacle Avoidance in Multi-Vehicle Autonomous Systems},
- journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control},
- year = 2021,
- month = mar,
- doi = {10.1109/TAC.2021.3056365},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-022}
- }
, - "Robust Constrained-MDPs: Soft-Constrained Robust Policy Optimization under Model Uncertainty", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)-workshop, January 2021.BibTeX TR2021-009 PDF
- @inproceedings{Russel2021jan,
- author = {Russel, Reazul Hasan and Benosman, Mouhacine and van Baar, Jeroen},
- title = {Robust Constrained-MDPs: Soft-Constrained Robust Policy Optimization under Model Uncertainty},
- booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)-workshop},
- year = 2021,
- month = jan,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-009}
- }
, - "Data-Enabled Extremum Seeking: A Cooperative Concurrent Learning-Based Approach", International journal of adaptive control and signal processing, December 2020.BibTeX TR2020-180 PDF
- @article{Poveda2020dec,
- author = {Poveda, Jorge and Benosman, Mouhacine and Vamvoudakis, Kyriakos},
- title = {Data-Enabled Extremum Seeking: A Cooperative Concurrent Learning-Based Approach},
- journal = {International journal of adaptive control and signal processing},
- year = 2020,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-180}
- }
, - "Data-Driven Robust State Estimation for Reduced-Order Models of 2D Boussinesq Equations with Parametric Uncertainties", Journal of Computers and Fluids, December 2020.BibTeX TR2020-177 PDF
- @article{Benosman2020dec,
- author = {Benosman, Mouhacine and Borggaard, Jeff},
- title = {Data-Driven Robust State Estimation for Reduced-Order Models of 2D Boussinesq Equations with Parametric Uncertainties},
- journal = {Journal of Computers and Fluids},
- year = 2020,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-177}
- }
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- "A New Frontier for Power Amplifier enabled by Machine Learning", Microwave Journal, No. 4, pp. 22-32, April 2021.
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Videos
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MERL Issued Patents
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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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Title: "Robust Source Seeking and Formation Learning-based Controller"