Efe C. Balta
About me
I am leading the research group on Control and Automation at inspire AG, a strategic partner and technology transfer unit of ETH Zurich, focused on advanced manufacturing and production innovation. My group specializes in optimization, data-driven methods, control, and automation for developing and applying novel approaches to industry.
My research focuses on control theory, systems design, and optimization, with particular emphasis on their applications in robotics, cyber-physical systems, industrial processes, and additive manufacturing.
News
Oct 2024 - Submission "Layer-to-Layer Melt Pool Control in Laser Powder Bed Fusion," accepted to IEEE TCST.
Jul 2024 - Submission "Force Controlled Printing for Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing," accepted to Additive Manufacturing.
Jun 2024 - Our submission "Predictive Linear Online Tracking for Unknown Targets," is accepted to International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024 as a Spotlight paper, a distinction with an acceptance rate of 3.5%.
May 2024 - Submission "Data-Enabled Predictive Iterative Control" accepted to IEEE Control Systems Letters.
Apr 2024 - Submission "Iterative Learning Spatial Height Control for Layerwise Processes" accepted to Automatica.
Dec 2023 - Our submission "Online Linear Quadratic Tracking with Regret Guarantees" is accepted to IEEE Control Systems Letters.
Oct 2023 - Our submission "Layer-to-Layer Closed-loop Feedback Control Application for Inter-layer Surface Temperature in Laser Powder Bed Fusion" is accepted to Additive Manufacturing.
Oct 2023 - Our submission "Safe Risk-averse Bayesian Optimization for Controller Tuning," is accepted to IEEE RA-L [arxiv]
Sep 2023 - I started a new position as the head of the Control and Automation Research group at inspire AG.
July 2023 - One submission and the invited session on Online Learning for Optimization and Control accepted to IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2023
May 2023 - Journal paper accepted to Additive Manufacturing. [open-access]
May 2023 - 2 submissions accepted to the 7th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) 2023.
Apr 2023 - 4 submissions accepted to the IFAC World Congress 2023.
Feb 2023 - Our work on Cybersecurity using a digital twin framework is featured by NIST. [link]
Jan 2023 - Our paper "Risk-Averse Model Predictive Control for Priced Timed Automata" is accepted to ACC 2023.
Jan 2023 - Journal paper on Digital Twins for Cybersecurity accepted to IEEE T-ASE. [Preprint here]
Aug 2022 - 2 submissions accepted to the IEEE CDC 2022.
Jul 2022 - New work on network resource allocation accepted to IECON 2022.
Aug 2021 - Our submission is accepted to the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2021, TX Austin, USA
Jun 2021 - I joined IfA at ETH Zurich as a Postdoctoral Researcher
May 2021 - I had my PhD defense on my dissertation titled "Modeling and Intelligent Control for Spatial Processes and Spatially Distributed Systems"
Jan 2021 - Two journal papers accepted for publication in IEEE TCST.
Sep 2020 - Visiting Scholar at IfA, ETH Zurich between Sep 2020 - Dec 2020.
Feb 2020 - Submission accepted to IFAC World Congress 2020, Berlin, Germany
Jan 2020 - Our submission is accepted to the American Control Conference (ACC) 2020, Denver, CO
Contact
Physikstrasse 3, ETL K24, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
efe (dot) balta (at) inspire (dot) ch