Rudolph Kok

Ph.D. Student and Research Assistant Institute for Automation Engineering (IFAT) Laboratory for Systems Theory and Automatic Control Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg 39106 Magdeburg - Germany Room: G07 - 204 Email: rudolph.kok@ovgu.de

Modelling, machine learning, optimisation, and model-based control of (bio)chemical processes.

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[1]	A. Himmel, J. Matschek, R. Kok, B. Morabito, H.H. Nguyen, R. Findeisen. Machine Learning for Process Control of (Bio) Chemical Processes. 2023. arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.06073
[2]	R. L. Kok, A. F. Van der Merwe, G. Van Schoor, and K. R. Uren. Statistical modelling of an ammonium nitrate fluidised bed granulator for inference measurement. In 18th IFAC Symposium on Control, Optimization and Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing (MMM), volume 52, issue 14, pages 135--140, Stellenbosch, South Africa, August 2019. [ DOI ]

Miscellaneous

• R. L. Kok. A Statistical Model of an Ammonium Nitrate Fluidised Bed Granulator. Master thesis, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, North-West University. 2016.
• R. L. Kok. Inference Measurement for a Hydro Cyclone using a Neural Network with the Levenberg Marquardt Algorithm. Bachelor thesis, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, North-West University. 2014.

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Courses

• Assistant for Control of Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems (WS 2021)
• Assistant for Control of Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems (WS 2022)

Student Projects

Supervisor of the following student projects:

• Projektseminar Regelungstechnik: Control of a Partial Differential Equation System Using Recurrent Neural Networks (SS 2022)
• Projektseminar Regelungstechnik: Neural Lyapunov Control (WS 2022)

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Research Experience

• November 2020 - Currently: Member of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Advanced Methods in Process and Systems Engineering, Max Planck Institute, Magdeburg, Germany
• November 2020 - Currently: PhD Student and Research Assistant in the Group for Systems Theory and Automatic Control (Prof. Rolf Findeisen), Institute for Automation Engineering, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

Working Experience

• May 2017 - September 2020: Process Engineer, CDE Process, Secunda, South Africa
• February 2017 - April 2017: Software Engineer Intern, Agrisol Pty Ltd, Potchefstroom, South Africa

Education

• 2015 - 2016: Master's in Chemical Engineering (M.Eng.), North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
• 2011 - 2014: Bachelor's in Chemical Engineering (B.Eng.), North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

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