Dr Iñaki Esnaola
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Senior Lecturer
esnaola@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5648
+44 114 222 5648
Amy Johnson Building
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Dr Iñaki Esnaola
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
- Profile
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I received my MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Navarra, Spain in 2006 and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware, Newark, DE in 2011. I am currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at The University of Sheffield, and a Visiting Research Collaborator in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, NJ.
In 2010-2011 I was a Research Intern at Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, and in 2011-2013 I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University. My research interests include information theory and communication theory with an emphasis on the application to electricity grid problems.
- Research interests
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I am interested in understanding the role of information in monitoring, communication, and decision making systems. My research lies broadly in:
- Information theory and data science
- Machine learning and high-dimensional statistics
- Cybersecurity
- Detection and mitigation of data integrity attacks
- Privacy and confidentiality
- Information processes on cyberphysical systems
- Robust estimation with imperfect information
- Optimal sensor placement problems
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Asymmetry of the Relative Entropy in the Regularization of Empirical Risk Minimization. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 71(8), 6198-6226.
- Information-theoretic sensor placement for large sewer networks. Water Research, 268(Pt B). View this article in WRRO
- An information theoretic metric for measurement vulnerability to data integrity attacks on smart grids. IET Smart Grid, 7(5), 583-592. View this article in WRRO
- The worst-case data-generating probability measure in statistical learning. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, 5, 175-189. View this article in WRRO
- Empirical risk minimization with relative entropy regularization. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 70(7), 5122-5161. View this article in WRRO
- Stealth data injection attacks with sparsity constraints. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 14(4). View this article in WRRO
- Asymptotic learning requirements for stealth attacks on linearized state estimation. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 14(4), 3189-3200. View this article in WRRO
- Covariance Estimation From Compressive Data Partitions Using a Projected Gradient-Based Algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 31, 4817-4827.
- Model-Based Optimal Adaptive Monitoring of Oil Spills. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 30(5), 2115-2130.
- Data-driven modeling and monitoring of fuel cell performance. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 46(66), 33206-33217. View this article in WRRO
- Stealth attacks on the smart grid. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 11(2), 1276-1285. View this article in WRRO
- SwarmCom : an infra-red-based mobile ad-hoc network for severely constrained robots. Autonomous Robots, 44(1), 93-114. View this article in WRRO
- Optimal Model-Based Sensor Placement & Adaptive Monitoring Of An Oil Spill. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 53(2), 1517-1524.
- Denial of Service Attacks on Control Systems with Packet Loss. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 53(2), 3488-3495.
- Optimal Control over Multiple Input Lossy Channels.
- Robust recovery of missing data in electricity distribution systems. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 10(4), 4057-4067. View this article in WRRO
- Approximate Capacity Region of the Two-User Gaussian Interference Channel with Noisy Channel-Output Feedback. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 64(7), 5326-5358. View this article in WRRO
- When Does Output Feedback Enlarge the Capacity of the Interference Channel?. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 66(2), 615-628.
- Tracking with Sparse and Correlated Measurements via a Shrinkage-based Particle Filter. IEEE Sensors Journal, 17(10), 3152-3164. View this article in WRRO
- Maximum Distortion Attacks in Electricity Grids. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 7(4), 2007-2015. View this article in WRRO
- Machine Learning Methods for Attack Detection in the Smart Grid. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 27(8), 1773-1786.
- Power Allocation Strategies in Energy Harvesting Wireless Cooperative Networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 13(2), 846-860.
- Linear analog coding of correlated multivariate gaussian sources. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 61(8), 3438-3447.
- Achievable rate region for gaussian MIMO MAC with partial CSI. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 59(7), 4139-4170.
- Sparse attack construction and state estimation in the smart grid: Centralized and distributed models. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 31(7), 1306-1318.
- SPADEH: A Sparsity Based Denoising Method of Digital Holograms without Knowing the Noise Statistics. Optics Express, 20(15), 17250-17257.
- Joint Source-Channel Coding of Sources with Memory using Turbo Codes and the Burrows-Wheeler Transform. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 58(7), 1984-1992.
Conference proceedings
- Compressive Sensing with Augmented Measurements via Generative Self-Distillation. 2025 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP) (pp 31-35), 8 June 2025 - 11 June 2025.
- Equivalence of Empirical Risk Minimization to Regularization on the Family of $f- text{Divergences}$. 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) (pp 759-764), 7 July 2024 - 12 July 2024.
- Stability of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Under Consecutive Packet Losses. 2024 UKACC 14th International Conference on Control (CONTROL) (pp 295-300), 10 April 2024 - 12 April 2024.
- Generalization analysis of machine learning algorithms via the worst-case data-generating probability measure. Proceedings of the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 38(15) (pp 17271-17279). Vancouver, Canada, 20 February 2024 - 20 February 2024. View this article in WRRO
- Stability and the separation principle in output-feedback stochastic MPC with random packet losses. IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 56(2) (pp 3818-3823). Yokohama, Japan, 9 July 2023 - 9 July 2023. View this article in WRRO
- On the Validation of Gibbs Algorithms: Training Datasets, Test Datasets and their Aggregation. 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) (pp 328-333), 25 June 2023 - 30 June 2023.
- Analysis of the Relative Entropy Asymmetry in the Regularization of Empirical Risk Minimization. 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) (pp 340-345), 25 June 2023 - 30 June 2023.
- Cocosvi: Single Snapshot Compressive Spectral Video Via Covariance Matrix Estimation. 2022 12th Workshop on Hyperspectral Imaging and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing (WHISPERS) (pp 1-6), 13 September 2022 - 16 September 2022.
- Empirical Risk Minimization with Relative Entropy Regularization: Optimality and Sensitivity Analysis. 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) (pp 684-689), 26 June 2022 - 1 July 2022.
- Compressive Covariance Matrix Estimation from a Dual-Dispersive Coded Aperture Spectral Imager. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) (pp 2823-2827), 19 September 2021 - 22 September 2021.
- Single Snapshot System for Compressive Covariance Matrix Estimation for Hyperspectral Imaging via Lenslet Array. 2021 XXIII Symposium on Image, Signal Processing and Artificial Vision (STSIVA) (pp 1-5), 15 September 2021 - 17 September 2021.
- Information Theoretic Data Injection Attacks with Sparsity Constraints. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm) (pp 1-6), 11 November 2020 - 13 November 2020.
- Universal privacy guarantees for smart meters. 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) (pp 2154-2158). Paris, France, 7 July 2019 - 7 July 2019. View this article in WRRO
- Recovery of missing data in correlated smart grid datasets. 2019 IEEE Data Science Workshop (DSW) (pp 263-269). Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2 June 2019 - 2 June 2019. View this article in WRRO
- Learning Requirements for Stealth Attacks. ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp 8102-8106), 12 May 2019 - 17 May 2019.
- Smart meter privacy via the trapdoor channel. Proceedings of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) (pp 277-282). Dresden, Germany, 23 October 2017 - 23 October 2017. View this article in WRRO
- Information-theoretic attacks in the smart grid. Proceedings of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) (pp 455-460). Dresden, Germany, 23 October 2017 - 23 October 2017. View this article in WRRO
- Sea-surface reconstruction for surface marine vehicles: A matrix completion approach. 2016 UKACC 11th International Conference on Control (CONTROL) (pp 1-6), 31 August 2016 - 2 September 2016.
- Approximate Capacity of the Gaussian Interference Channel with Noisy Channel-Output Feedback. Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2016 IEEE. Cambridge, UK, 11 September 2016 - 11 September 2016. View this article in WRRO
- Decentralized MMSE attacks in electricity grids. 2016 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP) (pp 1-5), 26 June 2016 - 29 June 2016.
- Recovering missing data via matrix completion in electricity distribution systems. IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC, Vol. 2016-August
- When Does Channel-Output Feedback Enlarge the Capacity Region of the Two-User Linear Deterministic Interference Channel? (pp 471-483)
- A Kriging Algorithm for Fingerprinting Positioning with received Signal Strengths. Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF), 2015. Bonn, Germany, 6 October 2015 - 6 October 2015. View this article in WRRO
- A. Kiring, C. Liu, N. Salman, I. Esnaola, L. Mihaylova, A Shrinkage-based Particle Filter for Tracking with Correlated Measurements. Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF), 2015. Bonn, Germany, 6 October 2015 - 6 October 2015. View this article in WRRO
- Equilibria in data injection attacks. 2014 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) (pp 779-783), 3 December 2014 - 5 December 2014.
- A Statistical Physics Approach to the Wiretap Channel. IEEE international Symposium on Information Theory. Istanbul, Turkey
- Simultaneous Information and Power Transfer in Wireless Cooperative Networks. 8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China. Guilin, China, 14 August 2013 - 16 February 2014.
- Smarter security in the smart grid. 2012 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Smart Grid Communications Smartgridcomm 2012 (pp 312-317)
- Channel estimation impact over MIMO-MAC achievable rates. IEEE International Conference on Communications (pp 2521-2525)
- Distributed models for sparse attack construction and state vector estimation in the smart grid. 2012 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Smart Grid Communications Smartgridcomm 2012 (pp 306-311)
- Mismatched MMSE estimation of multivariate Gaussian sources. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings (pp 716-720)
- A new algorithm for digital holograms denoising based on compressed sensing. SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 8429 (pp 84291G-84291G)
- Universal Denoising of Digital Holograms Using Compressed Sensing. EOS Topical Meeting on Optical Microsystems. Capri, Italy
- Orthogonal Matching Pursuit Based Recovery for Correlated Sources with Partially Disjoint Supports. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems. Princeton, NJ
- Distributed Analog Linear Coding of Correlated Gaussian Sources over Multiple Access Channels. IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communications. Siena, Italy
- Linear Analog Coding of General Multivariate Gaussian Sources. IEEE Information Theory Workshop. Taormina, Italy
- Distributed analog coding of correlated Gaussian sources. Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing. Monticello, IL
- Analysis and Optimization of Distributed Linear Coding of Gaussian Sources. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems. Baltimore, MD
- MMSE Estimation of Distributely Coded Correlated Gaussian Sources Using Random Projections. IEEE Global Communications Conference. New Orleans, LA
- Distributed Compression of Correlated Real Sequences Using Random Projections. IEEE Information Theory Workshop. Porto, Portugal
- Distributed Compression of Correlated Signals Using Random Projections. Data Compression Conference. Snowbird, UT
- Exploiting Prior Knowledge in the Recovery of Signals from Noisy Random Projections. Data Compression Conference. Snowbird, UT
- Exploiting Prior Knowledge in the Recovery of Non-Sparse Signals from Noisy Random Projections. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems. Baltimore, MD
- Source Controlled Coding of Sources with Memory Using the Burrows Wheeler Transform. International Symposium on Turbo Codes. Munich, Germany
- Source controlled turbo coding of sources with Memory using the burrows wheeler transform. Turbo Coding 2006 4th International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Related Topics and 6th International ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding
- Compresión de Fuentes con Memoria mediante Códigos LDPC y la Transformada de Burrows-Wheeler. Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio. Gandia, Spain
Patents
- Method Apparatus for Low Complexity Robust Reconstruction of Noisy Signals. (United States). Appl. 21 Mar 2013.
Reports
- Compressed Sensing Estimation of SCM Urban Channels
- Robust Reconstruction of Correlated Sparse Signals from Few Noisy Observations: Information Theoretic Bounds
- Channel State Information Acquisition in Wireless Systems Using Distributed Compressed Sensing
- Asymmetry of the Relative Entropy in the Regularization of Empirical Risk Minimization. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 71(8), 6198-6226.
- Grants
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Research Grants
- Sustainable advanced manufacturing via machine learning-assisted exploitation of sensing and data infrastructure, RCUK, 01/09/2022 - 31/03/2023, £58,153, as PI
- Teaching activities
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- ACS232 Signals, Systems, and Communications
- ACS6106 Cybersecurity for control systems
- Professional activities and memberships
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Patents
Tulino AM & Esnaola I (2013) Method Apparatus for Low Complexity Robust Reconstruction of Noisy Signals. (United States). Appl. 21 Mar 2013