Bjarne Foss

Pro-Rector for Research

Bjarne.Foss@ntnu.no +47 92422004

Hovedbygningen, Gløshaugen, Høgskoleringen 1

Bjarne Foss is Pro-Rector for Research at NTNU from 1 August 2017.

The Vice President Research at NTNU has a specific responsibility for monitoring research and strategy at the university. This includes research training. He also coordinates NTNU's international contacts.

Bjarne Foss has been a professor at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics since 1989. He has a PhD in Engineering Cybernetics from NTNU.

Current positions

2017 – Vice President Research, NTNU
1989 – Professor, Department of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU

Executive board positions

2000 – 2015 Board member of Cybernetica AS (spin-off company within process control)
2000 - 2002 Board member of First Scandinavia (foundation for youth interest in STEM)
2002 – 2005 Board member of NTNU
2009 – 2017 Board member of NTNU
2013 – Board member of Solution Seeker AS (spin-off company within AI)
2017 - Board member of Universities Norway (Universitets og høgskolerådet)
2018 - Chair of Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at NTNU

Research interests

Modeling, control and optimization for industrial applications
- Production optimization
- Data analytics
- Model predictive control
Model based control and optimization

Research projects

Main supervisor for 31 completed PhD degrees
Project leader for several national industry development projects
Project leader in several international development projects (for ESA and EU)

Publications

300 refereed journal papers, conference publications and book-chapters
H-factor 39, ~7000 citations (Google Scholar)
2 patents
Co-author of one book.
Guest editor in scientific journals
A substantial number of restricted technical reports and international keynotes and invited lectures

Professional activities

2008 - Member of the The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (founded 1760)
1997 - Senior Member of IEEE
1996 - 2004 Member editorial board of Mathematical Modelling
1996 - 2010 Associate editor in Journal of Process Control
1996 - Member IFAC Technical Committee on Chemical Process Control
1994 - Chair, co-chair and member of several IPCs (International Program Comittees)
1993 - Member of The Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences (NTVA)

Innovation

2013 Co-founder - Solution Seeker AS
2000 Co-founder - FIRST Scandinavia
2000 Co-founder - Cybernetica AS

Awards

2011 IBM Open Collaborative Faculty Award
2010 IBM Open Collaborative Faculty Award
2007 Award for pedagogical innovation «Pedagogisk nybrottsarbeid« by Tekna -The Norwegian Society of Chartered Technical and Scientific Professionals
1995 The Karl Diesel Best Paper Award from the Society of Design & Process Science, Austin, Texas
1980: «Innstilling« awarded for the siv.ing. (MSc) degree–communicated to the Norwegian King

Scientific, academic and artistic work

A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database

Journal publications

Jesmani, Mansoureh; Jafarpour, Behnam J.; Bellout, Mathias; Foss, Bjarne Anton. (2020) A reduced random sampling strategy for fast robust well placement optimization. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. vol. 184.
Krishnamoorthy, Dinesh; Foss, Bjarne Anton; Skogestad, Sigurd. (2019) A Primal decomposition algorithm for distributed multistage scenario model predictive control. Journal of Process Control. vol. 81.
Silva, Thiago Lima; Codas, Andrés; Stanko, Milan; Camponogara, Eduardo; Foss, Bjarne Anton. (2019) Network-Constrained Production Optimization by Means of Multiple Shooting. SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering. vol. 22 (02).
Foss, Bjarne Anton; Knudsen, Brage Rugstad; Grimstad, Bjarne André. (2018) Petroleum production optimization ? A static or dynamic problem?. Computers and Chemical Engineering. vol. 114.
Krishnamoorthy, Dinesh; Aguiar, Marco Aurelio; Foss, Bjarne Anton; Skogestad, Sigurd. (2018) A Distributed Optimization Strategy for Large Scale Oil and Gas Production Systems. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Control Applications.
Krishnamoorthy, Dinesh; Foss, Bjarne Anton; Skogestad, Sigurd. (2018) A Distributed Algorithm for Scenario-based Model Predictive Control using Primal Decomposition *. IFAC-PapersOnLine. vol. 51 (18).
Krishnamoorthy, Dinesh; Foss, Bjarne Anton; Skogestad, Sigurd. (2018) Steady-State Real-time Optimization using Transient Measurements. Computers and Chemical Engineering. vol. 115.
Krishnamoorthy, Dinesh; Suwartadi, Eka; Foss, Bjarne Anton; Skogestad, Sigurd; Jäschke, Johannes. (2018) Improving Scenario Decomposition for Multistage MPC using a Sensitivity-based Path-following Algorithm. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision & Control, including the Symposium on Adaptive Processes.
Krishnamoorthy, Dinesh; Suwartadi, Eka; Foss, Bjarne Anton; Skogestad, Sigurd; Jäschke, Johannes. (2018) Improving Scenario Decomposition for Multistage MPC using a Sensitivity-based Path-following Algorithm. IEEE Control Systems Letters. vol. 2 (4).
Antonelo, Eric; Camponogara, Eduardo; Foss, Bjarne Anton. (2017) Echo State Networks for data-driven downhole pressure estimation in gas-lift oil wells. Neural Networks. vol. 85.
Codas Duarte, Andres; Hanssen, Kristian Gaustad; Foss, Bjarne Anton; Capolei, Andrea; Jørgensen, John Bagtherp. (2017) Multiple shooting applied to robust reservoir control optimization including output constraints on coherent risk measures. Computational Geosciences. vol. 21 (3).
Hanssen, Kristian Gaustad; Codas, Andrés; Foss, Bjarne Anton. (2017) Closed-loop predictions in reservoir management under uncertainty. SPE Journal. vol. 22 (5).
Heirung, Tor Aksel N.; Ydstie, Birger Erik; Foss, Bjarne Anton. (2017) Dual adaptive model predictive control. Automatica. vol. 80.
Knudsen, Brage Rugstad; Faulwasser, Timm; Jones, Colin N.; Foss, Bjarne Anton. (2017) Incipient Actuator Fault Handling in Nonlinear Model Predictive Control. IFAC-PapersOnLine. vol. 50 (1).
Knudsen, Brage Rugstad; Foss, Bjarne Anton. (2017) Shale-gas wells as virtual storage for supporting intermittent renewables. Energy Policy. vol. 102.
Krishnamoorthy, Dinesh; Foss, Bjarne Anton; Skogestad, Sigurd. (2017) Gas Lift Optimization under Uncertainty. Computer-aided chemical engineering. vol. 40.
Aguiar, Marco Aurelio Schmitz de; Camponogara, Eduardo; Foss, Bjarne Anton. (2016) An Augmented Lagrangian Method for Optimal Control of Continuous Time DAE Systems. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Control Applications.
Codas Duarte, Andres; Foss, Bjarne Anton; Camponogara, Eduardo; Krogstad, Stein. (2016) Black-oil minimal fluid state parametrization for constrained reservoir control optimization. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. vol. 143.
Codas Duarte, Andres; Jahanshahi, Esmaeil; Foss, Bjarne Anton. (2016) A two-layer structure for stabilization and optimization of an oil gathering network. IFAC-PapersOnLine. vol. 49 (7).
Grimstad, Bjarne André; Foss, Bjarne Anton; Heddle, Richard; Woodman, Malcolm. (2016) Global optimization of multiphase flow networks using spline surrogate models. Computers and Chemical Engineering. vol. 84.