Dr Iñaki Esnaola

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Senior Lecturer

Iñaki Esnaola
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esnaola@sheffield.ac.uk
Amy Johnson Building

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Dr Iñaki Esnaola
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
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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 ±¬ÁÏTV, 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
  • 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

  • Tang Y, Esnaola I & Panoutsos G (2025) TaylorPODA: A Taylor Expansion-Based Method to Improve Post-Hoc Attributions for Opaque Models.. CoRR, abs/2507.10643.
  • 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.

Conference proceedings

  • Daunas F, Esnaola I & Perlaza SM (2025) . 2025 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) (pp 740-745), 29 September 2025 - 3 October 2025.
  • 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.

Preprints

  • Silva SSA, Dakanalis I, Schiavo LACA, Tziotziou K, Ballai I, Jafarzadeh S, Pereira TMD, Tsiropoula G, Verth G, Esnaola IA , McLaughlin JA et al (2025) , arXiv.
  • Tang Y, Esnaola IA & Panoutsos G (2025) , arXiv.
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

Links

  Information and Communication Engineering