Boris Houska

Biography

August and September 2014 he worked as a guest professor at the Institute for Microsystems Engineering at the University of Freiburg. Since October 2014 Boris Houska is an assistant professor, PI at the School of Information Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University. Boris Houska's research interests include numerical optimization and optimal control, robust and global optimization, as well as fast model predictive control algorithms. He has been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship for his work on global optimal control algorithms as well as an "ICCOPT Best Paper Prize for a Young Researcher in Continuous Optimization" (Finalist, Top 3) for his work on nonlinear robust optimization algorithms. Boris Houska has delivered a plenary lecture at the 2nd International Workshop on Mathematics and Algorithms for Computer-Aided Manufacturing, Engineering and Numerical Control and has served as a chair and organizer of various invited sessions at international conferences including the INFORMS Annual Meeting and the IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design. He is one of the main authors of the open-source optimal control software ACADO Toolkit. He has published more than 40 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings and is a reviewer for many top journals in the field of optimization and control.

Research Interest

*Optimal Control *Model Predictive Control *Robust Optimization