Publications

You can find a full list of my articles on my Google Scholar profile. Selected recent publications are featured below.

Conference Papers


Time-varying safe data-driven optimization

Published in The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024), 2024

We propose a method for optimization with unknown and time-varying optimization objective and constraints, based on Bayesian optimization.

Recommended citation: YJialin Li, Marta Zagorowska, Giulia De Pasquale, Alisa Rupenyan, John Lygeros, NeurIPS, 2024
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Books


Robotics and Manufacturing Application

Published in The Impact of Automatic Control Research on Industrial Innovation: Enabling a Sustainable Future, John Wiley & Sons, 2024, 2024

A book chapter, focused on advanced control methods, suitable for industrial applications in robotics and precision motion systems.

Recommended citation: 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.
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Journal Articles


Efficient safe learning for controller- and process parameter tuning

Published in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, volume 143, 1 March 2025, 109894, 2025

We propose a method for safe and fast data-driven optimization by formulating a series of optimization problems instead of a grid search.

Recommended citation: YJialin Li, Marta Zagorowska, Giulia De Pasquale, Alisa Rupenyan, John Lygeros, NeurIPS, 2024
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Safe risk-averse bayesian optimization for controller tuning

Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, presented on IEEE ICRA 2023, 2023

RAGoOSe is a novel data-driven approach that combines safe learning with risk-averse Bayesian optimization to safely tune controllers in high-precision systems with variable noise, demonstrating improved performance over traditional methods in both synthetic and real semiconductor manufacturing applications.

Recommended citation: 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).
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