Dr Iñaki Esnaola
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Senior Lecturer
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- 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
- Empirical Risk Minimization with Relative Entropy Regularization. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 1-1.
- 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, 1-16.
- 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 ⁎ ⁎ This document is a result of a research project funded by the University of Sheffield, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) UK and Andrew Moore & Associates Ltd.. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 53(2), 1517-1524.
- Denial of Service Attacks on Control Systems with Packet Loss. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 53(2), 3488-3495.
- Stealth Attacks on the Smart Grid. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. View this article in WRRO
- 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. View this article in WRRO
- 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.
- 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.
- Linear analog coding of correlated multivariate gaussian sources. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 61(8), 3438-3447.
- An information theoretic metric for measurement vulnerability to data integrity attacks on smart grids. IET Smart Grid.
Conference proceedings papers
- Stability of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Under Consecutive Packet Losses. 2024 UKACC 14th International Conference on Control (CONTROL), 10 April 2024 - 12 April 2024.
- 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), 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), 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), 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), 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), 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), 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), 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 - 12 July 2019. View this article in WRRO
- Recovery of Missing Data in Correlated Smart Grid Datasets. 2019 IEEE Data Science Workshop (DSW), 2 June 2019 - 5 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), 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 - 27 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 - 27 October 2017. View this article in WRRO
- Decentralized MMSE attacks in electricity grids. 2016 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP), 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 View this article in WRRO
- Sea-surface reconstruction for surface marine vehicles: A matrix completion approach. 2016 UKACC 11th International Conference on Control (CONTROL), 31 August 2016 - 2 September 2016.
- Approximate capacity of the Gaussian interference channel with noisy channel-output feedback. 2016 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 11 September 2016 - 14 September 2016. View this article in WRRO
- When Does Channel-Output Feedback Enlarge the Capacity Region of the Two-User Linear Deterministic Interference Channel? (pp 471-483)
- A Kriging algorithm for location fingerprinting based on received signal strength. 2015 Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF), 6 October 2015 - 8 October 2015. View this article in WRRO
- A shrinkage-based particle filter for tracking with correlated measurements. 2015 Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF), 6 October 2015 - 8 October 2015. View this article in WRRO
- Equilibria in data injection attacks. 2014 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), 3 December 2014 - 5 December 2014.
- A new algorithm for digital holograms denoising based on compressed sensing. Optical Modelling and Design II
- Mismatched MMSE estimation of multivariate Gaussian sources. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings (pp 716-720)
- 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)
Patents
Reports
- Empirical Risk Minimization with Relative Entropy Regularization. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 1-1.
- 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