Dave Zachariah
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Information Technology; Division of Systems and Control
- E-mail:
- dave.zachariah@it.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Hus 10, Regementsvägen 10
- Postal address:
- Box 524
751 20 UPPSALA
- Academic merits:
- Docent
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Short presentation
Associate professor at the division of Systems and Control. Research interests include: statistical machine learning & signal processing; decision theory & causal inference; localization & sensor fusion.
Data-Driven Decisions and Control Group
Paper preprints available on arXiv
Reproducible research accessible on github

Publications
Recent publications
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Modeling of Biodiversity Dynamics After Forest Clear-cutting by Plot Aggregation
2026
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Detecting Feedback-path Delay Injection Attacks Using Interacting Multiple Model Filtering
Part of 24th European Control Conference (ECC), p. 309-316, 2026
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Quantifying the impact of forestry practices on biodiversity using causal inference methods
2026
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Part of eClinicalMedicine, 2026
- DOI for Persistence to antihypertensive drug classes in uncomplicated hypertension: a nationwide Swedish cohort study
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Certified Inventory Control of Critical Resources
Part of Operations Research Letters, 2026
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All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of eClinicalMedicine, 2026
- DOI for Persistence to antihypertensive drug classes in uncomplicated hypertension: a nationwide Swedish cohort study
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Certified Inventory Control of Critical Resources
Part of Operations Research Letters, 2026
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Target tracking using robust sensor motion control
Part of Signal Processing, 2026
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Adaptive Experiment Design for Nonlinear System Identification with Operational Constraints
Part of IEEE Signal Processing Letters, p. 151-155, 2026
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Predicting allergy and postpartum depression from an incomplete compositional microbiome
Part of BMC Genomics, 2025
- DOI for Predicting allergy and postpartum depression from an incomplete compositional microbiome
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Kernel Learning with Adversarial Features: Numerical Efficiency and Adaptive Regularization
Part of Advances Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025
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Error Reduction in Leukemia Machine Learning Classification With Conformal Prediction
Part of JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics, 2025
- DOI for Error Reduction in Leukemia Machine Learning Classification With Conformal Prediction
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Part of Neurocritical Care, p. 387-397, 2024
- DOI for Machine Learning Based Prediction of Imminent ICP Insults During Neurocritical Care of Traumatic Brain Injury
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Online Learning for Prediction via Covariance Fitting: Computation, Performance and Robustness
Part of Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2023
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Off-Policy Evaluation with Out-of-Sample Guarantees
Part of Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2023
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Diagnostic Tool for Out-of-Sample Model Evaluation
Part of Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2023
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Part of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2023
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Analysis of the Minimum-Norm Least-Squares Estimator and Its Double-Descent Behavior [Lecture Notes]
Part of IEEE signal processing magazine (Print), p. 39-75, 2023
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Regularized Linear Regression via Covariance Fitting
Part of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, p. 1175-1183, 2023
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A shift from the problematic of "transformation"
Part of WORLD REVIEW OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, p. 463-471, 2022
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Robust localization in wireless networks from corrupted signals
Part of EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2021
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Scalable Belief Updating for Urban Air Quality Modeling and Prediction
Part of ACM/IMS Transactions on Data Science, p. 1-19, 2021
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Robust Risk Minimization for Statistical Learning From Corrupted Data
Part of IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, p. 287-294, 2020
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Robust Prediction When Features are Missing
Part of IEEE Signal Processing Letters, p. 720-724, 2020
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Classical labor values: properties of economic reproduction
Part of World Review of Political Economy, p. 388-414, 2020
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Data Consistency Approach to Model Validation
Part of IEEE Access, p. 59788-59796, 2019
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Effect Inference From Two-Group Data With Sampling Bias
Part of IEEE Signal Processing Letters, p. 1103-1106, 2019
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Learning sparse graphs for prediction of multivariate data processes
Part of IEEE Signal Processing Letters, p. 495-499, 2019
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Identification of cascade water tanks using a PWARX model
Part of Mechanical systems and signal processing, p. 40-48, 2018
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Part of IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, p. 725-734, 2018
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Recursive nonlinear-system identification using latent variables
Part of Automatica, p. 343-351, 2018
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Comments on “Enhanced PUMA for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation and Its Performance Analysis”
Part of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, p. 6113-6114, 2017
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Scalable and Passive Wireless Network Clock Synchronization in LOS Environments
Part of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, p. 3536-3546, 2017
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Recursive identification method for piecewise ARX models: A sparse estimation approach
Part of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, p. 5082-5093, 2016
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A multicomponent T2 relaxometry algorithm for myelin water imaging of the brain
Part of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, p. 390-402, 2016
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Cramér–Rao bound analog of Bayes' rule
Part of IEEE signal processing magazine (Print), p. 164-168, 2015
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Online hyperparameter-free sparse estimation method
Part of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, p. 3348-3359, 2015
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Joint ranging and clock parameter estimation by wireless round trip time measurements
Part of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, p. 2379-2390, 2015
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Schedule-based sequential localization in asynchronous wireless networks
Part of EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2014
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Estimation for the linear model with uncertain covariance matrices
Part of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, p. 1525-1535, 2014
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Cooperative localization by dual foot-mounted inertial sensors and inter-agent ranging
Part of EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2013
Articles, review/survey
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Weighted SPICE: A unifying approach for hyperparameter-free sparse estimation
Part of Digital signal processing (Print), p. 1-12, 2014
Conference papers
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Detecting Feedback-path Delay Injection Attacks Using Interacting Multiple Model Filtering
Part of 24th European Control Conference (ECC), p. 309-316, 2026
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Quantifying the impact of forestry practices on biodiversity using causal inference methods
2026
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Detecting feedback-path delay injection attacks using interacting multiple model filtering
2025
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Efficient Optimization Algorithms for Linear Adversarial Training
Part of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, p. 1207-1215, 2025
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Externally Valid Policy Evaluation from Randomized Trials Using Additional Observational Data
Part of ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 37 (NEURIPS 2024), p. 69787-69813, 2024
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Safe Output Feedback Improvement with Baselines
Part of 2024 IEEE 63rd Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), p. 1899-1904, 2024
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Adaptive Robust Learning using Latent Bernoulli Variables
Part of Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, p. 23105-23122, 2024
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Experimental Characterization of a Robust Localization Method Based on UWB Ranging
Part of 2024 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, I2MTC 2024, p. 1-5, 2024
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Regularization properties of adversarially-trained linear regression
Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023), p. 23658-23670, 2023
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Learning Pareto-Efficient Decisions with Confidence
Part of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, p. 9969-9981, 2022
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Inference of Causal Effects when Control Variables are Unknown
Part of Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, PMLR, p. 1300-1309, 2021
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Part of ASME Turbo Expo 2021, 2021
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Learning Robust Decision Policies from Observational Data
Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33 (NeurIPS 2020), 2020
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Approximate Gaussian Process Regression and Performance Analysis Using Composite Likelihood
Part of 30th IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP 2020, Espoo, Finland, September 21-24, 2020, p. 1-6, 2020
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A latent variable approach to heat load prediction in thermal grids
Part of 2020 European Control Conference (ECC), p. 344-349, 2020
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Flexible Models for Smart Maintenance
Part of 2019 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY (ICIT), p. 1772-1777, 2019
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Calibration tests in multi-class classification: A unifying framework
Part of ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 32 (NIPS 2019), 2019
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Inferring Heterogeneous Causal Effects in Presence of Spatial Confounding
Part of Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning, p. 4942-4950, 2019
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Prediction of Spatial Point Processes: Regularized Method with Out-of-Sample Guarantees
Part of ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 32 (NIPS 2019), 2019
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Learning localized spatio-temporal models from streaming data
Part of Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning, p. 3927-3935, 2018
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Regularized parametric system identification: a decision-theoretic formulation
Part of 2018 Annual American Control Conference (ACC), p. 1895-1900, 2018
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Identification of nonlinear feedback mechanisms operating in closed loop using inertial sensors
p. 473-478, 2018
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How consistent is my model with the data?: Information-theoretic model check
p. 407-412, 2018
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Model-robust counterfactual prediction method
Part of ICML Workshop on Machine Learning for Causal Inference, Counterfactual Prediction, and Autonomous Action, 2018
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Prediction Performance After Learning in Gaussian Process Regression
Part of Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, p. 1264-1272, 2017
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Recursive nonlinear system identification using latent variables
Part of 25th European Research Network System Identification Workshop, 2016
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Online prediction of spatial fields for radio-frequency communication
Part of Proc. 24th European Signal Processing Conference, p. 1252-1256, 2016
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Prediction performance after learning in Gaussian process regression
Part of 25th European Research Network System Identification Workshop, 2016
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Part of Proc. 22nd European Signal Processing Conference, 2014
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Minimum sidelobe beampattern design for MIMO radar systems: A robust approach
Part of Proc. 39th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, p. 5312-5316, 2014
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Enhanced Capon beamformer using regularized covariance matching
Part of Proc. 5th International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, p. 97-100, 2013
Manuscripts (preprints)
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Composite Gaussian Processes: Scalable Computation and Performance Analysis
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Scalable Belief Updating forUrban Air Quality Modeling and Prediction
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Semi-Supervised Learning of Classierswhen Labels are Missing at Random
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CalibrationAnalysis.jl: Calibration analysis of probabilistic models in Julia
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Learning Treatment Allocations with Risk Control Under Partial Identifiability
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