Prof. Dr. Sebastian Peitz

Data Science for Engineering

Head of Research Group - Former

Contact and Affiliations

Office Address:
Pohlweg 51
33098 Paderborn
Room:
O4.213
Head of Research Group - Former
Chairperson of the Board - Former
Office Address:
Pohlweg 51
33098 Paderborn
Room:
O4.213

About Sebastian Peitz

Curriculum Vitae

Since 01.10.2026: Professor for Scientific Machine Learning (Paderborn University)

01.10.2024 - 30.09.2026: Professor of Safe Autonomous Systems (TU Dortmund)

https://cs.tu-dortmund.de/sonstiges/kachel-peitz/

01.04.2021 - 30.09.2024: Assistant Professor (Jun.-Prof.)

Data Science for Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University

01.10.2017 - 31.03.2021: Managing Director

Institute for Industrial Mathematics, Paderborn University

01.10.2013 - 30.09.2017: Scientific Employee

Chair of Applied Mathematics and Institute for Industrial Mathematics (Prof. Dr. Michael Dellnitz, Paderborn University)

08.08.2017: PhD

Title: "Exploiting Structure in Multiobjective Optimization and Optimal Control"

01.10.2007 - 18.07.2013: Studies

Mechanical Engineering (RWTH Aachen)
Graduation: 07/18/2013 (M. Sc.)

16.06.2006: Abitur

Hans-Ehrenberg-Gymnasium (Sennestadt)

2022: Junior Research Group leader ("Multicriteria Machine Learning"), funded by BMBF

2019: Best paper award at the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Predictive Control of Electrical Drives and Power Electronics (PRECEDE)

Publications

Selected Publications

Finite-data error bounds for Koopman-based prediction and control

F. Nüske, S. Peitz, F. Philipp, M. Schaller, K. Worthmann, Journal of Nonlinear Science 33 (2023).



Koopman analysis of quantum systems

S. Klus, F. Nüske, S. Peitz, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 55 (2022) 314002.


On the Treatment of Optimization Problems with L1 Penalty Terms via Multiobjective Continuation

K. Bieker, B. Gebken, S. Peitz, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 44 (2022) 7797–7808.


Deep model predictive flow control with limited sensor data and online learning

K. Bieker, S. Peitz, S.L. Brunton, J.N. Kutz, M. Dellnitz, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics 34 (2020) 577–591.


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Further Information

1. Research topics

  • Multiobjective optimization and optimal control
    • Acceleration of algorithms by structure exploitation
    • Applications in the area of machine learning (e.g., sparse regression & neural network training)
    • Real-time applicability in combination with model predictive control
    • Solution of PDE constrained problems using model order reduction
       
  • Model reduction of complex systems, in particular PDEs, using
    • Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD)
    • Koopman Operator-based approaches
    • Machine Learning
       
  • Data-driven optimization and control of complex systems, in particular fluid flows
     
  • Optimization methods for efficiency increasements of machine learning algorithms

2. Additional Information