Dependable Control and Decision Group

DECODE – Dependable Control and Decision Group

The DECODE (Dependable Control and Decision) group focuses on complex control systems, where coupling between subsystems, local sources of uncertainty, and structural changes can undermine reliability and generate dangerous behaviors. By leveraging tools from control theory, optimization, and machine learning, we contribute to the development of next-generation systems that are dependable, more autonomous and self adapt to changes in the internal dynamics and the surrounding environment.

The DECODE group is part of the EPFL Automatic Control Laboratory and the NCCR automation.

All software related to our publications is freely available on GitHub.

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News

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Best paper award at hEART 2025

— Pengbo Zhu, Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate, and Nikolas Geroliminis received the Best Paper Award at the 13th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART), held from June 10 to June 12, 2025, at the Technical University of Munich for their paper “A Detour Planning Algorithm for Ride-Pooling Vehicles with Available Seats,”

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Welcome to Sabri El Amrani, who just started his PhD!

— Sabri is affiliated with the NCCR automation and will study reinforcement learning with stability and performance guarantees. 

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Warmest Congratulations to Andrea on His Doctorate!

— Andra Martin successfully defended his PhD on Friday, May 2, 2025.

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Congratulations to Zak on Earning His PhD

— The public defense of Muhammad Zakwan took place on Friday, 11/04/25

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Congrats to Mahrokh on the 2024 CDC Outstanding Student Paper award!

— Mahrokh Ghoddousi Boroujeni got the 2024 CDC Outstanding Student Paper Award for the paper "A PAC-Bayesian Framework for Optimal Control with Stability Guarantees," by Mahrokh Ghoddousi Boroujeni, Clara Lucia Galimberti, Andreas Krause, and Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate.

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Jean-Sébastien obtained his PhD: congratulations!

— The public defense of Jean-Sébastien Brouillon took place on Friday, 29/11/24

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Congratulations to Clara on succesfully completing her PhD!

— The public defense of Clara Galimberti took place on Monday, 23/09/24

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Welcome to Jakob Nylöf!

— Jakob has joined the DECODE group to work on distributional robust control under the supervision of Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Daniel Kuhn and John Lygeors. He's also a student member of the NCCR automation.

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DECODE at ECC2024, Stockholm, Sweden

— DECODE organized a successful workshop on 'Neural network control with stability guarantees' with PoliMi, and presented several papers on regret minimization and unconstrained optimization of neural networks for control and system identification.

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Contact

Head of the group: Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate
Office: ME C2 398
Mail: [email protected]

Administration : Barbara Schenkel
Office : ME C2 389
Phone : +41 21 693 07 80
Fax : +41 21 693 2574
Mail : [email protected]

How to reach the DECODE group and the Laboratoire d’Automatique from the M2 metro station

Dependable Control and Decision group (DECODE)
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
EPFL STI IGM SCI-STI-GFT 
ME C2 398 (Bâtiment ME) , Station 9 
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland


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