CV

Education

• Ph.D in Physics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2009
• M.S. in Laser Physics and Optics, Sofia University, 2005
• B.S. in Engineering Physics, Sofia University, 2003

Work experience

• September 2023: Rieter Endowed Professor for Industrial AI
  • ZHAW University, Center for AI
• February 2018 - August 2023: Group Leader, Advanced Control and Automation
  • Inspire AG (Research institute for technology transfer strongly linked to ETH Zurich)
• August 2021 - August 2023: Senior Scientist
  • Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich
• January 2014 - August 2017: Head of Application Development
  • Qualysense AG, Zurich
• March 2011 - September 2013: Postdoctoral fellow (ETH fellow on individual granf)
  • Laboraotry for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Attosecond Science, ETH Zurich
• January 2010 - January 2011: Postdoctoral researcher
  • Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Science, University of Amsterdam

Publications

In-situ controller autotuning by Bayesian optimization for closed-loop feedback control of laser powder bed fusion process

Barış Kavas, Efe C Balta, Michael R Tucker, Raamadaas Krishnadas, Alisa Rupenyan, John Lygeros, Markus Bambach, Additive Manufacturing, volume 99, 2025

Efficient safe learning for controller- and process parameter tuning

M Zagorowska, C König, H Yu, EC Balta, A Rupenyan, J Lygeros Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2025

Time-varying safe data-driven optimization

Jialin Li, Marta Zagorowska, Giulia De Pasquale, Alisa Rupenyan, John Lygeros, NeurIPS, 2024

Robotics and Manufacturing Application

Alisa Rupenyan, Efe C. Balta (2024). "Robotics and Manufacturing Application." The Impact of Automatic Control Research on Industrial Innovation: Enabling a Sustainable Future, John Wiley & Sons, 2024.

Safe risk-averse bayesian optimization for controller tuning

Christopher König, Miks Ozols, Anastasia Makarova, Efe C Balta, Andreas Krause, Alisa Rupenyan (2023). "Safe risk-averse bayesian optimization for controller tuning." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 8(8208 - 8215).

Talks

Keynote, Flexible automation for manufacturing tasks

January 30, 2025

Plenary Keynote at Innovation Booster Robotics, AI in Robotics, Rotkreuz, Switzerland

Workshop Control meets Practice in Advanced Manufacturing

September 01, 2024

Debate moderation at IEEE CASE 2024, Bari, Italy

Panel, Automatic Control Horizon: Roadmap and Industrial Innovation

June 30, 2024

Panel at European Control Conference 2024, Stockholm, Sweden

Keynote, Bayesian optimization algorithms for optimization in manufacturing

June 28, 2024

Talk at European Control Conference, Workshop Bayesian optimization meets control, Stockholm, Sweden

Plenary, Data-driven optimization and control in advanced manufacturing

March 28, 2024

Plenary Keynote at Benelux meeting on Systems and Control, Blankenberge, Belgium

Keynote, Data-driven optimization for manufacturing applications

March 28, 2024

Plenary at Swiss Technology Days, 2024, Dubendorf, Switzerland

Teaching

MLDM

Artificial Intelligence 1

Service and leadership

• Associate editor for Control Engineering Practice (a journal of IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control)

• Executive member of the IFAC Industry Committee