IFAC NMPC 2024 Young Authors Award

The IFAC NMPC 2024 Young Author Award will be presented for the best paper accompanied by an oral presentation, with the first and presenting author being a student at the time of paper submission.

Self-nominations will not be accepted. Nominations may be made by supervisors, reviewers, or senior co-authors. The nomination deadline for the Award is May 31st, 2024 extended to June 7th, 2024. Nominations should be proposed by completing the nomination form and sending it as a PDF file via email to: award@nmpc2024.org. The email should clearly state the student's name, the title and ID of the NMPC 2024 paper, the role of the proposer with respect to the nominee, and the reason for the nomination. The nomination form can be accessed HERE.

A selection committee, appointed by the IPC chairs, will choose a number of finalists based on the nomination letters, review reports, and the papers. Finalists will be notified prior to the event. The Committee will select the winner from among the finalists after having attended the oral presentation of the paper.

The award will be presented during the NMPC 2024 closing event on Saturday, August 24th, 2024.

The winner, along with all finalists, will be presented with an IFAC certificate.

A prize of 300 Euros will be awarded to the winner of the award.

Young Author Award Selection Committee:
Rolf Findeisen
Maria Prandini
Daniel Quevedo
Masaaki Nagahara (Chair)


Young Authors Award Winner

Jean Pierre Allamaa (KU Leuven/Siemens Digital Industries Software)

Young Authors Award Finalists

The following is the list of the IFAC NMPC2024 Young Authors Award finalists:

  • Jean Pierre Allamaa (KU Leuven/Siemens Digital Industries Software)
  • Katrin Baumgärtner (University of Freiburg)
  • Sophie Hall (ETH Zurich)
  • Antoine Leeman (ETH Zurich)
  • Julian D. Schiller (Leibniz University Hannover)

IFAC NMPC 2024 Best Interactive Presentation Award

The prize is for the best paper accepted and presented at the IFAC NMPC 2024 in the interactive sessions. At the conference, the presentations will be given in two formats: lecture/oral sessions and interactive sessions.

The Chair of the IFAC NMPC 2024 Best Interactive Presentation Award will be responsible for nominating papers for the prize based on the reviews collected for the papers to be presented in interactive sessions. The Selection Committee determines a short list of finalists, and notifies the respective corresponding authors. The winner is determined at the time of the conference, based on the written paper and the interactive presentation.

The award will be presented during the NMPC 2024 closing event on Saturday, August 24th, 2024.

The winner, along with all finalists, will be presented with an IFAC certificate.

Best Interactive Presentation Award Selection Committee:
Heejin Ahn
Julian Berberich
Sergio Lucia
Robert McAllister
Gabriele Pannocchia
Ali Mesbah (Chair)


Best Interactive Paper Award Winner

Distributed Economic MPC with Adaptive Terminal Weights
Matthias Koehler (University of Stuttgart), Matthias A. Muller (Leibniz University Hannover), Frank Allgower (University of Stuttgart)

Finalists for NMPC 2024 Best Interactive Paper Award

8 papers have been selected as finalists of the NMPC 2024 Best Interactive Paper Award.

  • R^2NMPC: A Real-Time Reduced Robustified Nonlinear Model Predictive Control with Ellipsoidal Uncertainty Sets for Autonomous Vehicle Motion Control
    Baha Zarrouki (Technical University of Munich), João Pedro Dias Nunes (Technical University of Munich), Johannes Betz (Technical University of Munich)
  • Disturbance Feedback-Based Model Predictive Control in Uncertain Dynamic Environments
    Philipp Buschermöhle (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Taouba Jouini (Lunds University), Torsten Lilge (Leibniz Universitat Hannover), Matthias A. Muller (Leibniz University Hannover)
  • Semi-Infinite Programs for Robust Control and Optimization: Efficient Solutions and Extensions to Existence Constraints
    Jad Wehbeh (Imperial College London), Eric C. Kerrigan (Imperial College London)
  • Properties of Nonlinear MPC Solutions Illustrated with a Simple Example
    Raphael Dyrska (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Martin Monnigmann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
  • On the Design of Terminal Ingredients for Linear Time Varying Model Predictive Control: Theory and Experimental Application
    Nicolas Matthias Kessler (Politecnico di Milano), Lorenzo Fagiano (Politecnico di Milano)
  • Frequency-Domain Data-Driven Predictive Control
    Tomas Meijer (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven), Sven Adrianus Nicolaas Nouwens (Eindhoven University of Technology), Koen Scheres (Eindhoven University of Technology), Victor Dolk (ASML), Maurice Heemels (Eindhoven University of Technology)
  • Numerical Methods for Optimal Boundary Control of Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Systems
    Marcus Johan Schytt (Technical University of Denmark), John Bagterp Jorgensen (Technical University of Denmark)
  • Distributed Economic MPC with Adaptive Terminal Weights
    Matthias Koehler (University of Stuttgart), Matthias A. Muller (Leibniz University Hannover), Frank Allgower (University of Stuttgart)