Prof. Dr. Melanie Zeilinger
Prof. Dr. Melanie Zeilinger
Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering
Short Bio
Melanie Zeilinger is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, where she is leading the Intelligent Control Systems group at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control. She received the diploma in Engineering Cybernetics from the University of Stuttgart in Germany in 2006 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich in 2011. From 2011 to 2012 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. From 2012 to 2015 she was a Postdoctoral Researcher and Marie Curie fellow in a joint program with the University of California at Berkeley, USA, and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tuebingen, Germany. From 2018 to 2019 she was a professor at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Her awards include the ETH medal for her PhD thesis, a Marie-Curie IO fellowship and an SNF Professorship grant. She is one of the organizers of the new Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC). Her research interests include learning-based control, as well as distributed control and optimization, with applications to robotics and human-in-the-loop control.
Publications
A current list of publications can be found on my external page Google Scholar profile.
In the News
- "Designing Low-cost Medical Devices", ETH Industry News (2021)
- "Engineers from Africa for Africa", ETH News (2020)
- "The Algorithm on my Team", ETH Globe (2020)
- "Creating a Low-cost Ventilator for All", ETH News (2020)
- "An Autopilot for Drilling", ETH Industry News (2020)
- Portrait for the International Women's Day, ETH Equal! (2019)
Selected Academic and Professional Activities
Organizer / Co-Organizer
- external page Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference, 2019-2021
- Invited session series on Learning-based Control, Conference on Decision and Control, 2016-2021
- IPAM Workshop on external page Intersections between Control, Learning and Optimization
- Workshop on Learning Control, Max-Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems, 2015 & 2018
- WEF-ETH Workshop “Factory of the Future”
- Workshop on Dynamic Locomotion and Manipulation, ETH Zurich, 2016
Editorial Duties and Program Committees
- Associate Editor, IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2021-2024
- Member of the Conference Editorial Board of the European Control Conference, since 2019
- Area Chair, Conference on Robot Learning, 2020
- Associate Editor, IFAC World Congress, 2020
- Program Committee, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2019
- Program Committee, IFAC Int. Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, 2018
- Associate Editor, Int. UKACC Conference on Control, 2018
- Program Committee, Robotics: Science and Systems, 2017
- Associate Editor, Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2016, 2017
- Program Committee, International Conference on Machine Learning, 2016
- Workshop Chair for Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2016
Reviewing
I routinely review journal papers for IEEE TAC, Automatica, IEEE TCST, IEEE RA-L, IEEE TRO, as well as papers for various conferences (CDC, ACC, ECC, IFAC WC, AISTATS, NeurIPS, ICML).
Selected Invited Talks
- external page Control Meets Learning Seminar Series, 2020
- EU-US Frontiers of Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019
- Bosch AICON, Renningen, Germany, 2019
- Keynote, European Conference on Mobile Robots, Prague, Czech Republic, 2019
- Keynote, Foundations of Process Analytics and Machine Learning (FOPAM)}, Raleigh, USA, 2019
- Keynote, IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, Madison, USA, 2018.
- Kolloquium Technische Kybernetik, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2017.
- Zurich‘s Global Risk Engineering Conference, Zurich Insurance, Switzerland, 2017.
- Data Learning and Inference Meeting, Tenerife, Spain, 2017.
Awards & Honors
- SNF Assistant Professorship "Safety and Performance for Human in the Loop Control".
- Marie-Curie International Outgoing Fellowship.
- Participant Rising Stars in EECS -- By-invitation-only workshop (40 participants selected US wide). 2014.
- ETH Medal -- Awarded to the top 8% of Ph.D. dissertations at ETH Zurich. 2011.
- General Chairs' Recognition Award for Interactive Papers, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. 2009.
- 3rd prize of the BFG'09 Best Talk Award, Belgian-French-German (BFG) Conference on Optimization. 2009.
- Professor-Peter-Sagirow Award -- For an outstanding diploma in the undergraduate program Engineering Cybernetics. 2007.
- Pre-diploma Award -- For outstanding pre-diploma results (average 1.0) in the undergraduate program Engineering Cybernetics. 2003.