Dr Iñaki Esnaola

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Senior Lecturer

Iñaki Esnaola
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esnaola@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5648
Amy Johnson Building

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Dr Iñaki Esnaola
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Profile

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

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

Journal articles

  • Daunas F, Esnaola I, Perlaza SM & Vincent Poor H (2025) . IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 71(8), 6198-6226.
  • Crowley G, Tait S, Panoutsos G, Speight V & Esnaola I (2025) . Water Research, 268(Pt B).
  • Ye X, Esnaola I, Perlaza SM & Harrison RF (2024) . IET Smart Grid, 7(5), 583-592.
  • Zou X, Perlaza SM, Esnaola J, Altman E & Poor HV (2024) . IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, 5, 175-189.
  • Perlaza SM, Bisson G, Esnaola I, Jean-Marie A & Rini S (2024) . IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 70(7), 5122-5161.
  • Ye X, Esnaola J, Perlaza S & Harrison R (2023) . IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 14(4).
  • Sun K, Esnaola J, Tulino AM & Poor HV (2023) . IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 14(4), 3189-3200.
  • Monsalve J, Ramirez J, Esnaola I & Arguello H (2022) . IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 31, 4817-4827.
  • Hodgson Z, Esnaola I & Jones B (2022) . IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 30(5), 2115-2130.
  • Sun K, Esnaola J, Okorie O, Charnley F, Moreno M & Tiwari A (2021) . International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 46(66), 33206-33217.
  • Sun K, Esnaola I, Perlaza SM & Poor HV (2020) . IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 11(2), 1276-1285.
  • Trenkwalder S, Esnaola I, Kaszubowski Lopes Y, Kolling A & Gross R (2020) . Autonomous Robots, 44(1), 93-114.
  • Hodgson Z, Esnaola I & Jones B (2020) . IFAC-PapersOnLine, 53(2), 1517-1524.
  • Casbolt W, Esnaola I & Jones B (2020) . IFAC-PapersOnLine, 53(2), 3488-3495.
  • Casbolt W, Jones B & Esnaola I (2019) Optimal Control over Multiple Input Lossy Channels.
  • Genes C, Esnaola I, Perlaza SM, Ochoa LF & Coca D (2019) . IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 10(4), 4057-4067.
  • Quintero V, Perlaza SM, Esnaola I & Gorce J-M (2018) . IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 64(7), 5326-5358.
  • Quintero V, Perlaza SM, Esnaola I & Gorce J-M (2017) . IEEE Transactions on Communications, 66(2), 615-628.
  • Kiring A, Salman N, Liu C, Esnaola I & Mihaylova LS (2017) . IEEE Sensors Journal, 17(10), 3152-3164.
  • Esnaola I, Perlaza SM, Poor HV & Kosut O (2016) . IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 7(4), 2007-2015.
  • Ozay M, Esnaola I, Yarman Vural FT, Kulkarni SR & Poor HV (2015) . IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 27(8), 1773-1786.
  • Ding Z, Perlaza S, Esnaola I & Poor HV (2014) . IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 13(2), 846-860.
  • Esnaola I, Tulino AM & Garcia-Frias J (2013) . IEEE Transactions on Communications, 61(8), 3438-3447.
  • Aubry A, Esnaola I, Tulino AM & Venkatesan S (2013) . IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 59(7), 4139-4170.
  • Ozay M, Esnaola I, Vural FTY, Kulkarni SR & Poor HV (2013) . IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 31(7), 1306-1318.
  • Memmolo P, Esnaola I, Finizio A, Paturzo M, Ferraro P & Tulino AM (2012) SPADEH: A Sparsity Based Denoising Method of Digital Holograms without Knowing the Noise Statistics. Optics Express, 20(15), 17250-17257.
  • Del Ser J, Crespo PM, Esnaola I & Garcia-Frias J (2010) Joint Source-Channel Coding of Sources with Memory using Turbo Codes and the Burrows-Wheeler Transform. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 58(7), 1984-1992.

Conference proceedings

  • Martinez E, Jacome R, Gualdrón-Hurtado R, Esnaola I & Arguello H (2025) . 2025 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP) (pp 31-35), 8 June 2025 - 11 June 2025.
  • Daunas F, Esnaola I, Perlaza SM & Poor HV (2024) . 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) (pp 759-764), 7 July 2024 - 12 July 2024.
  • Loma-Marconi P, Trodden P & Esnaola I (2024) . 2024 UKACC 14th International Conference on Control (CONTROL) (pp 295-300), 10 April 2024 - 12 April 2024.
  • Zou X, Perlaza SM, Esnaola J & Altman E (2024) . Proceedings of the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 38(15) (pp 17271-17279). Vancouver, Canada, 20 February 2024 - 20 February 2024.
  • Trodden P, Loma-Marconi PR & Esnaola I (2023) . IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 56(2) (pp 3818-3823). Yokohama, Japan, 9 July 2023 - 9 July 2023.
  • Perlaza SM, Esnaola I, Bisson G & Poor HV (2023) . 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) (pp 328-333), 25 June 2023 - 30 June 2023.
  • Daunas F, Esnaola I, Perlaza SM & Vincent Poor H (2023) . 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) (pp 340-345), 25 June 2023 - 30 June 2023.
  • Monsalve J, Marquez M, Sanchez K, Hinojosa C, Esnaola I & Arguello H (2022) . 2022 12th Workshop on Hyperspectral Imaging and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing (WHISPERS) (pp 1-6), 13 September 2022 - 16 September 2022.
  • Perlaza SM, Bisson G, Esnaola I, Jean-Marie A & Rini S (2022) . 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) (pp 684-689), 26 June 2022 - 1 July 2022.
  • Monsalve J, Marquez M, Esnaola I & Arguello H (2021) . 2021 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) (pp 2823-2827), 19 September 2021 - 22 September 2021.
  • Blanco G, Perez J, Monsalve J, Marquez M, Esnaola I & Arguello H (2021) . 2021 XXIII Symposium on Image, Signal Processing and Artificial Vision (STSIVA) (pp 1-5), 15 September 2021 - 17 September 2021.
  • Ye X, Esnaola I, Perlaza SM & Harrison RF (2020) . 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm) (pp 1-6), 11 November 2020 - 13 November 2020.
  • Arrieta M, Esnaola I & Effros M (2019) . 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) (pp 2154-2158). Paris, France, 7 July 2019 - 7 July 2019.
  • Genes C, Esnaola I, Perlaza S & Coca D (2019) . 2019 IEEE Data Science Workshop (DSW) (pp 263-269). Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2 June 2019 - 2 June 2019.
  • Sun K, Esnaola I, Tulino AM & Vincent Poor H (2019) . ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp 8102-8106), 12 May 2019 - 17 May 2019.
  • Arrieta M & Esnaola I (2017) . Proceedings of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) (pp 277-282). Dresden, Germany, 23 October 2017 - 23 October 2017.
  • Sun K, Esnaola I, Perlaza SM & Poor HV (2017) . Proceedings of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) (pp 455-460). Dresden, Germany, 23 October 2017 - 23 October 2017.
  • Jones BL, Heins PH & Esnaola I (2016) . 2016 UKACC 11th International Conference on Control (CONTROL) (pp 1-6), 31 August 2016 - 2 September 2016.
  • Quintero V, Perlaza SM, Esnaola I & Gorce J-M (2016) . Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2016 IEEE. Cambridge, UK, 11 September 2016 - 11 September 2016.
  • Esnaola I, Perlaza SM, Poor HV & Kosut O (2016) . 2016 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP) (pp 1-5), 26 June 2016 - 29 June 2016.
  • Genes C, Esnaola I, Perlaza SM, Ochoa LF & Coca D (2016) . IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC, Vol. 2016-August
  • Quintero V, Perlaza SM, Esnaola I & Gorce J-M (2016) (pp 471-483)
  • Liu C, Kiring A, Salman N, Mihaylova L & Esnaola I (2016) . Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF), 2015. Bonn, Germany, 6 October 2015 - 6 October 2015.
  • Kiring A, Salman N, Liu C, Esnaola I & Mihaylova LS (2016) . Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF), 2015. Bonn, Germany, 6 October 2015 - 6 October 2015.
  • Esnaola I, Perlaza SM & Poor HV (2014) . 2014 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) (pp 779-783), 3 December 2014 - 5 December 2014.
  • Esnaola I, Tulino AM & Poor HV (2013) A Statistical Physics Approach to the Wiretap Channel. IEEE international Symposium on Information Theory. Istanbul, Turkey
  • Ding Z, Perlaza S, Esnaola I & Poor HV (2013) Simultaneous Information and Power Transfer in Wireless Cooperative Networks. 8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China. Guilin, China, 14 August 2013 - 16 February 2014.
  • Ozay M, Esnaola I, Yarman Vural FT, Kulkarni SR & Vincent Poor H (2012) . 2012 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Smart Grid Communications Smartgridcomm 2012 (pp 312-317)
  • Esnaola I, Tulino AM, Venkatesan V & Ling J (2012) . IEEE International Conference on Communications (pp 2521-2525)
  • Ozay M, Esnaola I, Yarman Vural FT, Kulkarni SR & Vincent Poor H (2012) . 2012 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Smart Grid Communications Smartgridcomm 2012 (pp 306-311)
  • Esnaola I, Tulino AM & Poor HV (2012) . IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings (pp 716-720)
  • Memmolo P, Esnaola I, Finizio A, Paturzo M, Ferraro P & Tulino AM (2012) . SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 8429 (pp 84291G-84291G)
  • Memmmolo P, Esnaola I, Finizio A, Paturzo M, Ferraro P & Tulino AM (2011) Universal Denoising of Digital Holograms Using Compressed Sensing. EOS Topical Meeting on Optical Microsystems. Capri, Italy
  • Esnaola I, Carrillo RE, Garcia-Frias J & Barner KE (2010) Orthogonal Matching Pursuit Based Recovery for Correlated Sources with Partially Disjoint Supports. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems. Princeton, NJ
  • Esnaola I & Garcia-Frias J (2009) Distributed Analog Linear Coding of Correlated Gaussian Sources over Multiple Access Channels. IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communications. Siena, Italy
  • Esnaola I & Garcia-Frias J (2009) Linear Analog Coding of General Multivariate Gaussian Sources. IEEE Information Theory Workshop. Taormina, Italy
  • Esnaola I & Garcia-Frias J (2009) Distributed analog coding of correlated Gaussian sources. Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing. Monticello, IL
  • Esnaola I & Garcia-Frias J (2009) Analysis and Optimization of Distributed Linear Coding of Gaussian Sources. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems. Baltimore, MD
  • Esnaola I & Garcia-Frias J (2008) MMSE Estimation of Distributely Coded Correlated Gaussian Sources Using Random Projections. IEEE Global Communications Conference. New Orleans, LA
  • Garcia-Frias J & Esnaola I (2008) Distributed Compression of Correlated Real Sequences Using Random Projections. IEEE Information Theory Workshop. Porto, Portugal
  • Esnaola I & Garcia-Frias J (2008) Distributed Compression of Correlated Signals Using Random Projections. Data Compression Conference. Snowbird, UT
  • Garcia-Frias J & Esnaola I (2007) Exploiting Prior Knowledge in the Recovery of Signals from Noisy Random Projections. Data Compression Conference. Snowbird, UT
  • Esnaola I & Garcia-Frias J (2007) Exploiting Prior Knowledge in the Recovery of Non-Sparse Signals from Noisy Random Projections. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems. Baltimore, MD
  • Del Ser J, Crespo PM, Esnaola I & Garcia-Frias J (2006) Source Controlled Coding of Sources with Memory Using the Burrows Wheeler Transform. International Symposium on Turbo Codes. Munich, Germany
  • Del Ser J, Crespo PM, Esnaola I & García-Frías J (2006) Source controlled turbo coding of sources with Memory using the burrows wheeler transform. Turbo Coding 2006 4th International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Related Topics and 6th International ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding
  • Del Ser J, Esnaola I & Crespo PM (2005) Compresión de Fuentes con Memoria mediante Códigos LDPC y la Transformada de Burrows-Wheeler. Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio. Gandia, Spain

Patents

  • Tulino AM & Esnaola I (2013) Method Apparatus for Low Complexity Robust Reconstruction of Noisy Signals. (United States). Appl. 21 Mar 2013.

Reports

  • Ling J, Chizhik D, Tulino AM & Esnaola I (2011) Compressed Sensing Estimation of SCM Urban Channels
  • Tulino AM & Esnaola I (2011) Robust Reconstruction of Correlated Sparse Signals from Few Noisy Observations: Information Theoretic Bounds
  • Esnaola I, Tulino AM, Valenzuela R & Marzetta TL (2010) Channel State Information Acquisition in Wireless Systems Using Distributed Compressed Sensing
Grants

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
  • ACS232 Signals, Systems, and Communications
  • ACS6106 Cybersecurity for control systems
Professional activities and memberships

Patents

Tulino AM & Esnaola I (2013) Method Apparatus for Low Complexity Robust Reconstruction of Noisy Signals. (United States). Appl. 21 Mar 2013

Links

  Information and Communication Engineering