The research group ESAT-STADIUS at the KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium, provides an excellent research environment. The Stadius Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing, and Data Analytics (STADIUS) is an academic research center, with a research focus on mathematical engineering, where mathematical tools from numerical linear and multilinear algebra, statistics and optimization are engineered for applications of dynamical systems and control, signal processing, data modeling and analytics.

STADIUS offers recognized expertise in diverse application fields such as industrial automation, audio and speech communication, digital communications, biomedical signal and data processing, and bioinformatics.

STADIUS has 12 academic faculty together with more than 80 PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers, and is a division of the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), Faculty of Engineering Science, KU Leuven.