Erik Weyer

Professor Erik Weyer is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering within the Engineering faculty at the University of Melbourne, serving as Head of the Control and Signal Processing group. He joined the university in January 1997 as a Research Fellow, progressing to Senior Research Fellow and later to full Professor. Prior to this, he held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Queensland from June 1994 to December 1996. Weyer obtained his Dr. Ing. degree, equivalent to a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, in 1993 from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (now Norwegian University of Science and Technology), with a thesis titled "System identification in the behavioural framework" supervised by Dr. I. M. Y. Mareels and Prof. R. Henriksen. He also earned his Sivilingeniør degree, a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with first-class honours, in 1988 from the same institution, achieving the highest distinction with a recommendation to the King and receiving the Elf Aquitaine Prize for outstanding undergraduate results.

Weyer's research focuses on system identification, control, and estimation, particularly finite sample properties of system identification methods and their applications to control systems for open water irrigation channels. Notable publications include "Finite sample properties of system identification methods" co-authored with M.C. Campi in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2002), "System identification of an open water channel" in Control Engineering Practice (2001), "Non-asymptotic confidence ellipsoids for the least squares estimate" with M.C. Campi in Automatica (2002), "Limitations of robust adaptive pole placement control" with I.M.Y. Mareels and J.W. Polderman in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1994), and "Grey box fault detection of heat exchangers" with G. Szederkényi and K.M. Hangos in Control Engineering Practice (2000). He has co-authored patents on control gates and fluid regulation for open water channels with Rubicon Systems Australia. Weyer has obtained several Australian Research Council grants, such as the ARC Linkage Grant (2003-2008) for control and safety monitoring of large-scale irrigation networks totaling $675,000. His awards include an honourable mention as a finalist for the IFAC World Congress Young Author Prize in 1999. Additionally, he has contributed through consulting for Rubicon Systems on modelling and control for irrigation and visiting fellowships at institutions including the Technical University of Vienna (2001) and Australian National University (1995).

Professional Email: ewey@unimelb.edu.au