Dr. Emilia Silvas

Biography

Emilia Silvas is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Her current research interests focus on Cooperative and Autonomous Vehicle Systems and Mobile Robots. This includes Advanced Control Methods, Optimal System Design, System Identification, Modeling, and Data Mining at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and statistics. Emilia has extensive experience in integrated hybrid vehicle system design for commercial vehicles, particularly in the development of methods for optimal selection of topologies and control sizes across both hybrid vehicle and auxiliary unit levels. Her research project has received funding from the Dutch Automotive Research Program HTAS (High Tech Automotive Systems). Emilia earned her PhD from TU/e in 2015, working on the integrated optimal design of hybrid electric vehicles. She completed her undergraduate studies in Automatic Control and Computer Science at 'Politehnica' University of Bucharest, Romania, graduating with the highest possible marks (10/10) for her thesis on Neuro-Fuzzy Control of an Inverted Pendulum System. Additionally, she pursued a Master's in Systems Control at TU/e, conducting her research master thesis internship at ASML in the Mechatronics Research Department in Veldhoven, Netherlands. Alongside her work at TU/e, Emilia serves as the Scientist Team Lead of the Cooperative Control Systems Team within the Integrated Vehicle Safety Department of TNO (Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research) and is a member of the WISE-Network for female scientific staff at TU/e.

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