Luis Alvergue

Controls engineer by training, transportation engineer by trade

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About me

My professional work has been split in two, transportation and controls. Although I mostly do transportation work from 8-5, I still like to keep up with the controls field during my free time. These days I’m interested in data-based control and system identification using open source tools. You can find my current resume here.

As a transportation engineer

Most recently I’ve been working on traffic operations using macroscopic models documented in the Highway Capacity Manual, analyzing speed, crash, and origin/destination data for traffic studies, and doing systems engineering analyses for Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Experience

Arcadis, Austin, TX
Staff Transportation Engineer, July 2016 – Present

Gresham, Smith and Partners, Baton Rouge, LA
Transportation Services Engineer, June 2015 – July 2016

Posters and Presentations

  1. Macroscopic Modeling of Louisiana Freeways Using Highway Capacity Freeway Facilities Method, Soheil Sajjadi, Luis Alvergue, Thomas Montz, Siavash Shojaat, Transportation Research Board 99th Annual Meeting, January 14 2020, Washington, DC, USA.

  2. Planning Louisiana’s Bridges with Big Data, Joanathan McIntosh, Thomas Montz, Luis Alvergue, Laura Schewel, 2018 National Planning Conference, April 24 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

As an automatic control engineer

For several years I worked on applying sector bound nonlinearity modeling to fluid flow systems and designing controllers for them. I became very familiar with applied linear algebra for reduced order modeling and convex optimization for controller design, and I did a bit of work aplying these methods to multi-agent systems and communications problems.

Experience

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Instructor, Spring 2017, Spring 2018
Instructor/Postdoctoral Research Associate, June 2013 – May 2015

Shell Exploration and Production Co., Houston, TX
Summer Post Grad Intern, May – August 2009, June – August 2008

Journal Publications

  1. A Generalized Sector Bound Approach to Feedback Stabilization of Nonlinear Control Systems, Luis Alvergue, Guoxiang Gu, Sumanta Acharya, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Vol. 23, Issue 14, pp. 1563-1580, 2013.
  2. Feedback Stabilization of a Reduced-Order Model of a Jet in Crossflow, Luis Alvergue, Hessam Babaee, Guoxiang Gu, Sumanta Acharya, AIAA Journal, Vol. 53, No. 9, pp. 2472-2481, 2015.

Book Chapters

Modeling and Control of Flexible Structures in Frequency Domain, Luis Alvergue, Jie Chen, Guoxiang Gu, Identification and Control: The Gap between Theory and Practice, Edit. Ricardo S. Sanchez-Pena, Joseba Quevedo Casin, Vicenc Puig Cayuela, Springer-Verlag London Limited, 2007.

Conference Publications

  1. Output Consensus Control for Multi-Agent Systems in the Presence of Gap Metric Uncertainties, Luis D. Alvergue, Guoxiang Gu, Li Qiu, 2015 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 15-18, 2015, Osaka, Japan.
  2. Stabilization of feedback control systems over signal-to-noise ratio constrained channels, Kun Xu, Fei Liu, Luis D. Alvergue, Guoxiang Gu, 2015 American Control Conference, pp. 6034-6039, July 1-3 2015, Chicago, USA.
  3. Secure networked control systems against replay attacks without injecting authentication noise, Bixiang Tang, Luis D. Alvergue, Guoxiang Gu, 2015 American Control Conference, pp. 6028-6033, July 1-3 2015, Chicago, USA.
  4. A Consensus Approach to Dynamic State Estimation for Smart Grid Power Systems, Luis Alvergue, Bixiang Tang, Guoxiang Gu, 2014 World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, pp. 174-179, June 29 - July 4 2014, Shenyang, China.
  5. Output Consensus Control for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems, Luis Alvergue, Abhishek Pandey, Guoxiang Gu, Xiang Chen, 2013 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1502-1507, December 10-13 2013, Firenze, Italy.
  6. A Generalized Sector Bound Approach to Feedback Stabilization of Nonlinear Control Systems, Luis D. Alvergue, Guoxiang Gu, Sumanta Acharya, 2012 American Control Conference, pp.2583-2588, June 27-29 2012, Montreal, Canada.
  7. Feedback Control for Quadratic Nonlinear Systems, Luis D. Alvergue, Guoxiang Gu, 24th Chinese Control and Decision Conference, pp. 2566-2571, May 23-25 2012, Taiyuan, China.
  8. System Identification Based on Error-In-Variables Estimator, Luis D. Alvergue, Guoxiang Gu, 2011 SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, July 25-27 2011, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  9. A Novel Feedback Controller for Reduced Order Fluid Flow Models, Luis Alvergue, Guoxiang Gu, Sumanta Acharya, 2011 30th Chinese Control Conference, pp. 711-716, July 22-24 2011, Yantai, China.
  10. Overinstrumented Systems, L. Alvergue, X. Li, J. Aravena, Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Region 5 Technical Conference, April 20-21 2007, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA.

Posters

Flow Control for Cooling of Turbine Blades, Luis Alvergue, Guoxiang Gu, Sumanta Acharya, 2008 IGERT Project Meeting, May 18-20 2008, Arlington, Virginia, USA.

Technical Reports

  1. Temperature Based Automated Control of Electrical Heaters: Thermal Signature of Curie Elements and Electromagnetic Modeling of Self-Regulating Curie Heaters, Luis Alvergue, Dhruv Arora, Chris Harris, Scott Nguyen, Albert Harvey, Dave Burns, Shell Thermal Modeling Team Reports, EP2009-3037.
  2. Horizontal Producer Well Productivity Modelling and Its Application in Grosmont T2C, Deming Mao, Luis Alvergue, Xueying Xie, Norliza Mohd-Nor, John Karanikas, Albert D. Harvey, Shell Thermal Modeling Team Reports.