Stephan Trenn is currently an Associate Professor for “Systems and Control” in the Jan C. Willems Center for Systems and Control (in particular in the SCO-group) at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. His main research interests is the analysis and control of switched differential-algebraic equations (DAEs). In general he is interested in questions of mathematical control theory with a focus on discontinuous effects (switches) as well as on nonlinear adaptive control (in particular, funnel control).

Saeed Ahmed is an Assistant Professor of Systems and Control at Univeristy of Groningen (RUG), affiliated with the Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen (ENTEG) and the Jan C. Willems Center for Systems and Control. He joined RUG in December 2022, following research positions at RUG and the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (now RPTU), Germany, Inria Paris-Saclay, France, and Bilkent University, Turkey. He completed his Ph.D. at Bilkent University, Turkey and CentraleSupélec, France. His research interests include intelligent control for autonomous vehicles, energy systems, and mechatronics. On the theoretical side, his work focuses on control and optimisation for smart autonomy with emphasis on feedback optimisation, observer design, nonlinear and hybrid systems, game theory, and reinforcement learning. He has received awards such as Best Presentation (IEEE Graduate Research Conference 2018) and the Outstanding Reviewer award (European Journal of Control). He serves as an Associate Editor of Systems and Control Letters and IEEE Technology Conference Editorial Board and is a member of IFAC Technical Committees on Networked Systems, Non-linear Control Systems, and Distributed Parameter Systems. He earned his University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) degree from RUG.