Louis Wehenkel - Biography#

Louis Wehenkel graduated from the University or Liège (Belgium) with a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) in 1986. In 1990 he was awarded a Ph.D. degree and, in 1994, a "Thèse d'agrégation", both also from the University of Liège.

Starting in 1988, he held successively Research fellow, Senior research fellow and Research associate positions with the FNRS (Belgian National Science Foundation). in 1998 he joined the faculty of the University of Liège and was promoted to full Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2002.

His research interests lie in the fields of stochastic methods for modelling, optimisation, machine learning and data mining, with applications in complex systems, in particular large scale power systems planning, operation and control, industrial process control, bioinformatics, and computer vision.

From 2013 to 2017, he has been the Scientific Advisor of the GARPUR European FP7 project, and from 2016 to 2022, he has been the Director of the Research Unit of the Montefiore Institute of the University of Liège.

In 2019, Louis Wehenkel was on sabbatical leave, spending four months at the Isaac Newton Institute of the University of Cambridge (UK) where he was involved in the organisation of the research programme on Mathematics of Energy Systems, and two months at the R&D division of RTE, the French Electricity System Operator working on the definition of a new research agenda for the next 10 years.