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The IFAC Symposium on Large Scale Complex Systems (IFAC LSS) is a core triennial event of IFAC Technical Committee on Large Scale Complex Systems. The Symposium is to discuss new developments in methodologies and techniques useful in handling complexity in analysis, modelling, control and optimization for large scale complex systems.

The George Nicholson Student Paper Competition, arguably the most prestigious student award in the operations research community, is held each year since 1975 to honor outstanding student papers in the field of operations research and the management sciences. Viet Anh, a visiting PhD student at TU Delft and co-supervised by Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, is the first winner from a European university. He received the 2018 Nicholson Award for the paper “Distributionally Robust Inverse Covariance Estimation: The Wasserstein Shrinkage Estimator”.

In today’s TU Delft TV video, Temitope Agbana explains how to detect a tropical disease by a smartphone. Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease which accounts for almost 200,000 deaths a year and affects over 285 million people worldwide.

PhD researcher Temitope Agbana and Professor Gleb Vdovine from the 3ME faculty have developed a novel technique, which utilizes optical analysis of patient blood samples using automated smart algorithms integrated into a potentially low-cost multispectral optical imaging platform. With this technique, they aim at the development of a portable, field compatible, affordable smart optical diagnostic instrument for early detection of African Animal Trypanosomiasis and other Hemoparasitic infection in animals. A smart parasite detector for animals: automated, rapid reliable diagnosis which requires minimal human intervention.

Anahita Jamshidnejad has won the 1st Prize in the 2018 IEEE ITSS Best PhD Dissertation Award competetion for her PhD thesis "Efficient predictive model-based and fuzzy control for green urban mobility". The IEEE ITSS Best Dissertation Award is given annually by the Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) of IEEE for the best dissertation in any Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) area that is innovative and relevant to practice. The 1st Prize award consists of a plaque and a cash award of USD 2000.

Zeven onderzoekers van de TU Delft krijgen van de Europese Onderzoeksraad een ERC Starting Grant. Deze beurzen (1,5 miljoen euro voor een programma van vijf jaar) zijn bedoeld om wetenschappers te ondersteunen die nog aan het begin van hun carrière staan maar onder begeleiding al uitstekend werk hebben geleverd.