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Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering

Process control and automation

The group led by Prof. Francesco Corona and Prof. Iiro Harjunkoski is a trans-disciplinary research team that builds up on chemical engineering, applied mathematics and computer science. Our research is at the interface of automatic control, machine learning, and optimisation, we emphasise the computational and inferential thinking of process systems.
CMET_PCA group

We develop fundamental methodologies and concrete tools of process control and process systems engineering that are capable of sensing, learning, reasoning, and actuating on chemical and physical systems based on observational data and domain knowledge.

The research develops on four foundational pillars:

  1. Data
  2. Phenomenological and probabilistic modelling
  3. Statistical inference/learning
  4. Optimal control/decision

The formal framework for modelling and control is given as a model of the system in which the uncertainties associated with our knowledge and the measuring process are clearly stated. An important objective in our research is the design and control of models that capture complex dynamics.

Open positions
  • MSc Thesis:  None
  • BSc Thesis: None

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Latest publications:

Teemu J. Ikonen, Boeun Kim, Christos T. Maravelias, Iiro Harjunkoski 2025 Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Otacilio B.L. Neto, Michela Mulas, Francesco Corona 2025 IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

D. Aguado, J. Alferes, F. Arteaga, L. Belia, J. B. Copp, L. Corominas, F. Corona, A. Ferrer, H. Haimi, P. Kazemi, Q. H. Le, I. Miletic, M. Mulas, A. Robles, M. V. Ruano, S. Russo, O. Samuelsson, J. P. Steyer, K. Villez, E. I.P. Volcke, M. J. Wade, J. Zambrano 2024 Metadata Collection and Organization in Wastewater Treatment and Wastewater Resource Recovery Systems

Otacílio B.L. Neto, Michela Mulas, Francesco Corona 2024 Chemical Engineering Journal

José Augusto F. Magalhães, Otacilio B. L. Neto, Francesco Corona 2023 IFAC-PapersOnLine

Teemu Ikonen, Samuli Bergman, Francesco Corona 2023 Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems

Teemu J. Ikonen, Francesco Corona, Iiro Harjunkoski 2023 IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Anni Juvakoski, Henrik Rantanen, Michela Mulas, Francesco Corona, Riku Vahala, Olli Varis, Ilkka Mellin 2023 Water Research

Daniel Aguado García, Henri Haimi, Michela Mulas, Francesco Corona 2022 2nd International Joint Conference on Water Distribution Systems Analysis & Computing and Control in the Water Industry

Eduardo Fernandes Montesuma, Michela Mulas, Francesco Corona, Fred Maurice Ngole Mboula 2022 IFAC-PapersOnLine
More information on our research in the Aalto research portal.
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