Abstract Technologies based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
concepts are advancing at a rapid pace. The new paradigms are challenging the status-quo …

The damped van der Pol oscillator is a chaotic non-linear system. Small perturbations in
initial conditions may result in wildly different trajectories. Controlling, or forcing, the …

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) is an optimization-driven framework for producing control
strategies without explicit reliance on process models. Powerful new methods in RL are …

In this thesis, data driven approaches to sequential decision making problems within
process systems engineering (PSE) are developed. Specifically, the use of model-free …