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Jan C. Willems

Jan C. Willems

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
72
Citations
31729
World Ranking
788
National Ranking
18

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 2012 - SIAM Fellow For development of conceptual and physical aspects of modeling dynamical systems.
  • 1998 - IEEE Control Systems Award "For seminal contributions to control theory and leadership in systems research."

Overview

Jan C. Willems was affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and worked primarily in the field of Engineering, with a subfield focus on Biomedical Engineering. Their research contributions included topics related to Biomedical and Engineering Education.

Their documented scholarly output includes a recent paper titled INTERACTIVE CLINICAL VIRTUAL REALITY LAB FOR HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS IN BIOMEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY, published in 2022 within the EDULEARN proceedings.

Frequent coauthors included:

  • Karolien Van Den Bergh
  • Ilse Vermeulen
  • Lut Gielen
  • Robbe Decraemer
  • Brecht Philtjens

The scientist published mainly in the EDULEARN proceedings venue.

Their work was recognized through several awards, including being named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013. Earlier distinctions comprised the SIAM Fellow in 2012 for contributions to conceptual and physical aspects of modeling dynamical systems, and the IEEE Control Systems Award in 1998 for contributions to control theory and systems research leadership.

Best Publications

  • Dissipative dynamical systems Part II: Linear systems with quadratic supply rates

    Jan C. Willems

  • Dissipative dynamical systems part I: General theory

    Jan C. Willems

  • Least squares stationary optimal control and the algebraic Riccati equation

    J. Willems

  • Passivity, feedback equivalence, and the global stabilization of minimum phase nonlinear systems

    C.I. Byrnes;A. Isidori;J.C. Willems

  • Introduction to Mathematical Systems Theory: A Behavioral Approach

    Jan Willem Polderman;Jan C. Willems

  • Paradigms and puzzles in the theory of dynamical systems

    J.C. Willems

  • A note on persistency of excitation

    Jan C. Willems;Paolo Rapisarda;Ivan Markovsky;Bart L.M. De Moor

  • The Analysis of Feedback Systems

    Jan C. Willems;M. Vidyasagar;George Williams

  • From time series to linear system-part I. Finite dimensional linear time invariant systems

    J C Willems

  • Dissipative Dynamical Systems

    Jan C. Willems

  • Models for Dynamics

    Jan C. Willems

  • The Behavioral Approach to Open and Interconnected Systems

    J.C. Willems

  • From time series to linear system—Part III. Approximate modelling

    J C Willems

  • 300 years of optimal control: from the brachystochrone to the maximum principle

    H.J. Sussmann;J.C. Willems

  • Almost invariant subspaces: An approach to high gain feedback design--Part II: Almost conditionally invariant subspaces

    J. Willems

  • On interconnections, control, and feedback

    J.C. Willems

  • On Quadratic Differential Forms

    J. C. Willems;H. L. Trentelman

  • Parametrizations of linear dynamical systems: Canonical forms and identifiability

    K. Glover;J. Willems

  • Brief paper: Feedback stabilizability for stochastic systems with state and control dependent noise

    Jacques L. Willems;Jan C. Willems

  • The Nyquist Criterion and the Circle Criterion

    Jan C. Willems

  • A note on persistency of excitation

    J.C. Willems;I. Markovsky;P. Rapisarda;B.L.M. De Moor

  • Topics in mathematical system theory

    J. Willems;J. Massey;W. Wonham

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith Glover
Keith Glover University of Cambridge
Christopher I. Byrnes
Christopher I. Byrnes Washington University in St. Louis
A.J. van der Schaft
A.J. van der Schaft University of Groningen
Alberto Isidori
Alberto Isidori Sapienza University of Rome
Roel Baets
Roel Baets Ghent University
Malcolm C. Smith
Malcolm C. Smith University of Cambridge
Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue
Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue University of Paris-Saclay
Rik Pintelon
Rik Pintelon Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Ioan Doré Landau
Ioan Doré Landau Grenoble Alpes University
Robert Mahony
Robert Mahony Australian National University

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