Koen Maertens

• Born in 1976 in Veurne, Belgium.
• Master degree in Electromechanical Engineering, option Power Electricity and Control Engineering (1999), University of Ghent, Belgium.
• Master thesis about analytical modelling of grain flow through the combine harvester at the Department of Control Engineering and Automation at the University of Ghent.
• Research engineer in this lab since September 1999. Working on projects about data-driven modelling and control of agricultural machinery.
• Visiting scientist at the Delft Center for Systems and Control in November-December 2002
• PhD degree on May 17th, 2004.

• Control systems for harvesters
• Model-based predictive control
• Recursive identification of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models
• Support Vector Machines (SVM) for process monitoring and control
• Model-based control of complex, biological processes