Mouhacine Benosman
- Phone: 617-621-7596
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Position:
Research / Technical Staff
Senior Principal Research Scientist,
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Education:
Ph.D., École Centrale de Nantes, 2002 -
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Biography
Before coming to MERL in 2010, Mouhacine worked at universities in Reims University, France and Strathclyde University, Scotland before spending 5 years as a Research Scientist with the Temasek Laboratories at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include modeling and control of flexible systems, nonlinear robust and fault tolerant control, multi-agent control with applications to smart-grid and robotics, estimation and control of partial differential equations with applications to thermo-fluid models, learning-based adaptive control for nonlinear systems, and control-theory based optimization algorithms with application to machine learning. Mouhacine has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers, and has more than 20 patents in the field of mechatronics systems control. He is a senior member of the IEEE, Associate Editor of the Control System Society Conference Editorial Board, Associate Editor of the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Associate Editor of the Journal of Advanced Control for Applications, Associate Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Letters, and Senior Editor of the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing.
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Recent News & Events
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TALK [MERL Seminar Series 2024] Tom Griffiths presents talk titled Tools from cognitive science to understand the behavior of large language models Date & Time: Wednesday, September 18, 2024; 1:00 PM
Speaker: Tom Griffiths, Princeton University
MERL Host: Mouhacine Benosman
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Human-Computer InteractionAbstract
Large language models have been found to have surprising capabilities, even what have been called “sparks of artificial general intelligence.” However, understanding these models involves some significant challenges: their internal structure is extremely complicated, their training data is often opaque, and getting access to the underlying mechanisms is becoming increasingly difficult. As a consequence, researchers often have to resort to studying these systems based on their behavior. This situation is, of course, one that cognitive scientists are very familiar with — human brains are complicated systems trained on opaque data and typically difficult to study mechanistically. In this talk I will summarize some of the tools of cognitive science that are useful for understanding the behavior of large language models. Specifically, I will talk about how thinking about different levels of analysis (and Bayesian inference) can help us understand some behaviors that don’t seem particularly intelligent, how tasks like similarity judgment can be used to probe internal representations, how axiom violations can reveal interesting mechanisms, and how associations can reveal biases in systems that have been trained to be unbiased.
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NEWS MERL Researchers Presented Six Papers at the 2022 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC’22) Date: December 6, 2022 - December 9, 2022
Where: Cancún, Mexico
MERL Contacts: Mouhacine Benosman; Ankush Chakrabarty; Devesh K. Jha; Arvind Raghunathan; Diego Romeres; Yebin Wang
Research Areas: Control, OptimizationBrief- MERL researchers presented six papers at the Conference on Decision and Control that was held in Cancún, Mexico from December 6-9, 2022. The papers covered a broad range of topics in the areas of decision making and control, including Bayesian optimization, quadratic programming, solution of differential equations, distributed Kalman filtering, thermal monitoring of batteries, and closed-loop control optimization.
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Awards
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AWARD ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference 2022 Best Paper Award nominee Date: July 14, 2022
Awarded to: Weidong Cao, Mouhacine Benosman, Xuan Zhang, and Rui Ma
MERL Contact: Mouhacine Benosman
Research Area: Artificial IntelligenceBrief- The Conference committee of the 59th Design Automation Conference has chosen MERL's paper entitled 'Domain Knowledge-Infused Deep Learning for Automated Analog/RF Circuit Parameter Optimization', as a DAC Best Paper Award nominee. The committee evaluated both manuscript and submitted presentation recording, and has chosen MERL's paper as one of six nominees for this prestigious award. Decisions were based on the submissions’ innovation, impact and exposition.
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AWARD International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS) 2022 Openedges Award Date: June 15, 2022
Awarded to: Yuxiang Sun, Mouhacine Benosman, Rui Ma.
MERL Contact: Mouhacine Benosman
Research Area: Artificial IntelligenceBrief- The committee of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS) 2022, has selected MERL's paper entitled 'GaN Distributed RF Power Amplifier Automation Design with Deep Reinforcement Learning' as a winner of the AICAS 2022 Openedges Award.
In this paper MERL researchers propose a novel design automation methodology based on deep reinforcement learning (RL), for wide-band non-uniform distributed RF power amplifiers, known for their high dimensional design challenges.
- The committee of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS) 2022, has selected MERL's paper entitled 'GaN Distributed RF Power Amplifier Automation Design with Deep Reinforcement Learning' as a winner of the AICAS 2022 Openedges Award.
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MERL Publications
- , "Reinforcement Learning-Based Estimation for Spatio-Temporal Systems", Nature Scientific Reports, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-72055-1, Vol. 14, pp. 22464, October 2024.BibTeX TR2024-134 PDF
- @article{Mowlavi2024oct,
- author = {Mowlavi, Saviz and Benosman, Mouhacine}},
- title = {Reinforcement Learning-Based Estimation for Spatio-Temporal Systems},
- journal = {Nature Scientific Reports},
- year = 2024,
- volume = 14,
- pages = 22464,
- month = oct,
- doi = {10.1038/s41598-024-72055-1},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-134}
- }
- , "From Convexity to Strong Convexity and Beyond: Bridging The Gap In Convergence Rates", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), September 2024.BibTeX TR2024-131 PDF
- @inproceedings{Romero2024sep,
- author = {Romero, Orlando and Benosman, Mouhacine and Pappas, George}},
- title = {From Convexity to Strong Convexity and Beyond: Bridging The Gap In Convergence Rates},
- booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
- year = 2024,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-131}
- }
- , "ROSE-Opt: Robust and Efficient Analog Circuit Parameter Optimization with Knowledge-infused Reinforcement Learning", IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, September 2024.BibTeX TR2024-132 PDF
- @article{Cao2024sep,
- author = {Cao, Weidong and Gao, Jian and Ma, Tianrui and Ma, Rui and Benosman, Mouhacine and Zhang, Xuan}},
- title = {ROSE-Opt: Robust and Efficient Analog Circuit Parameter Optimization with Knowledge-infused Reinforcement Learning},
- journal = {IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems},
- year = 2024,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-132}
- }
- , "Controlgym: Large-Scale Control Environments for Benchmarking Reinforcement Learning Algorithms", Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference (L4DC), July 2024, pp. 181-196.BibTeX TR2024-098 PDF
- @inproceedings{Zhang2024jul2,
- author = {Zhang, Xiangyuan and Mao, Weichao and Mowlavi, Saviz and Benosman, Mouhacine and Basar, Tamer}},
- title = {Controlgym: Large-Scale Control Environments for Benchmarking Reinforcement Learning Algorithms},
- booktitle = {Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference (L4DC)},
- year = 2024,
- pages = {181--196},
- month = jul,
- publisher = {PMLR},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-098}
- }
- , "Policy Optimization for PDE Control with a Warm Start", arXiv, March 2024.
- , "Reinforcement Learning-Based Estimation for Spatio-Temporal Systems", Nature Scientific Reports, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-72055-1, Vol. 14, pp. 22464, October 2024.
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Videos
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MERL Issued Patents
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Title: "System for Performing a Task According to a Reference Trajectory"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Jha, Devesh
Patent No.: 12,038,727
Issue Date: Jul 16, 2024 -
Title: "Simulation-in-the-loop Tuning of Robot Parameters for System Modeling and Control"
Inventors: Jain, Siddarth; Van Baar, Jeroen; Corcodel, Radu Ioan; Sullivan, Alan; Benosman, Mouhacine
Patent No.: 11,975,451
Issue Date: May 7, 2024 -
Title: "Deep Learning-based Online Adaptation of Digital Pre-Distortion and Power Amplifier Systems"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Ma, Rui; KANTANA, Chouaib; Waters, Richard C.
Patent No.: 11,948,071
Issue Date: Apr 2, 2024 -
Title: "Interactive Online Adaptation for Digital Pre-Distortion and Power Amplifier System Auto-Tuning"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Ma, Rui; KANTANA, Chouaib
Patent No.: 11,843,353
Issue Date: Dec 12, 2023 -
Title: "Apparatus and Method for Control with Data-Driven Model Adaptation"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Chakrabarty, Ankush; Nabi, Saleh
Patent No.: 11,840,224
Issue Date: Dec 12, 2023 -
Title: "Controlling Thermal State of Conditioned Environment Based on Multivariable Optimization"
Inventors: Nabi, Saleh; Chakrabarty, Ankush; Benosman, Mouhacine; VijayShankar, Sanjana
Patent No.: 11,808,472
Issue Date: Nov 7, 2023 -
Title: "Robust Adaptive Dynamic Mode Decomposition for Modeling, Prediction, and Control of High Dimensional Physical Systems"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Nabi, Saleh
Patent No.: 11,790,247
Issue Date: Oct 17, 2023 -
Title: "Apparatus and Method for Controlling a System Having Uncertainties in its Dynamics"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Russel, Reazul; van Baar, Jeroen
Patent No.: 11,640,162
Issue Date: May 2, 2023 -
Title: "System for Continuous-Time Optimization with Pre-Defined Finite-Time Convergence"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Romero, Orlando
Patent No.: 11,513,484
Issue Date: Nov 29, 2022 -
Title: "Power Amplifier System and Transfer Learning-based Autotuning Optimization Method Thereof"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Ma, Rui; Jeong, Soyeon
Patent No.: 11,336,231
Issue Date: May 17, 2022 -
Title: "Robust Source Seeking and Formation Learning-based Controller"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Poveda, Jorge
Patent No.: 10,915,108
Issue Date: Feb 9, 2021 -
Title: "System and Method for Controlling Operations of Air-Conditioning System"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Borggaard, Jeff
Patent No.: 10,619,879
Issue Date: Apr 14, 2020 -
Title: "Power Amplifier System and Learning-based Autotuning Method Thereof"
Inventors: Ma, Rui; Benosman, Mouhacine; Manjunatha, Koushik A.; Niu, Sufeng; Da Costa Dinis, Daniel Antonio
Patent No.: 10,454,427
Issue Date: Oct 22, 2019 -
Title: "Hybrid Battery State Sensor"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Wei, Chun
Patent No.: 10,353,008
Issue Date: Jul 16, 2019 -
Title: "Methods and Systems for Predicting Flow of Crowds from Limited Observations"
Inventors: Mansour, Hassan; Benosman, Mouhacine; Huroyan, Vahan
Patent No.: 10,210,398
Issue Date: Feb 19, 2019 -
Title: "Controlling Sway of Elevator Cable with Movement of Elevator Car"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine
Patent No.: 10,207,894
Issue Date: Feb 19, 2019 -
Title: "System and Method for Controlling Operations of Air-Conditioning System"
Inventors: Boufounos, Petros T.; Grover, Piyush; Kramer, Boris; Benosman, Mouhacine
Patent No.: 10,145,576
Issue Date: Dec 4, 2018 -
Title: "System and Method for Controlling Outputs of Photovoltaic System"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Wei, Chun
Patent No.: 10,044,193
Issue Date: Aug 7, 2018 -
Title: "System and Method for Controlling Operations of Air-Conditioning System"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Boufounos, Petros T.; Kramer, Boris; Grover, Piyush
Patent No.: 9,976,765
Issue Date: May 22, 2018 -
Title: "Model Predictive Control with Uncertainties"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Di Cairano, Stefano
Patent No.: 9,897,984
Issue Date: Feb 20, 2018 -
Title: "Method and System for Segmenting Pedestrian Flows in Videos"
Inventors: Mansour, Hassan; Dicle, Caglayan; Tian, Dong; Benosman, Mouhacine; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 9,892,520
Issue Date: Feb 13, 2018 -
Title: "Semi-Active Feedback Control of Sway of Cables in Elevator System"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine
Patent No.: 9,875,217
Issue Date: Jan 23, 2018 -
Title: "Controlling Sway of Elevator Cable Connected to Elevator Car"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Nakazawa, Daisuke; Watanabe, Seiji; Fukui, Daiki
Patent No.: 9,862,570
Issue Date: Jan 9, 2018 -
Title: "Method and System for Segmenting Pedestrian Flows in Videos"
Inventors: Mansour, Hassan; Dicle, Caglayan; Tian, Dong; Benosman, Mouhacine; Vetro, Anthony
Patent No.: 9,600,896
Issue Date: Mar 21, 2017 -
Title: "Controlling Sway of Elevator Rope Using Movement of Elevator Car"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Fukui, Daiki; Watanabe, Seiji; Nakazawa, Daisuke
Patent No.: 9,475,674
Issue Date: Oct 25, 2016 -
Title: "Semi-Active Feedback Control of Elevator Rope Sway"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine
Patent No.: 9,434,577
Issue Date: Sep 6, 2016 -
Title: "Finite Time Power Control for Smart-Grid Distributed System"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Polymeneas, Evangelos
Patent No.: 9,419,437
Issue Date: Aug 16, 2016 -
Title: "Method and System for Controlling Sway of Ropes in Elevator Systems by Modulating Tension on the Ropes"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine
Patent No.: 9,278,829
Issue Date: Mar 8, 2016 -
Title: "Elevator Rope Sway and Disturbance Estimation"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine
Patent No.: 9,242,838
Issue Date: Jan 26, 2016 -
Title: "Distributed Path Planning for Mobile Sensors"
Inventors: Boufounos, Petros T.; Vaccaro, Richard J; Benosman, Mouhacine
Patent No.: 9,218,646
Issue Date: Dec 22, 2015 -
Title: "Model-Based Learning Control"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine
Patent No.: 9,182,753
Issue Date: Nov 10, 2015 -
Title: "Elevator Rope Sway Estimation"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Bortoff, Scott A.
Patent No.: 9,096,411
Issue Date: Aug 4, 2015 -
Title: "Elevator Rope Sway Estimation"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Bortoff, Scott A.
Patent No.: 9,045,313
Issue Date: Jun 2, 2015 -
Title: "System and Method for Controlling Actuators"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Atinc, Gokkan
Patent No.: 8,860,352
Issue Date: Oct 14, 2014 -
Title: "Controller for Reducing Vibrations in Mechanical Systems"
Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Shilpiekandula, Vijay; Bortoff, Scott A.
Patent No.: 8,855,826
Issue Date: Oct 7, 2014
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Title: "System for Performing a Task According to a Reference Trajectory"