Semidefinite programs and especially those derived from the Kalman-YakubovichPopov lemma are quite common in control applications. KYPD is a dedicated solver for KYP-SDPs. It solves the optimization problem via the dual SDP. The solver is iterative. In each step a Hessian is formed and a linear system of equations is solved. The calculations can be performed much faster if we utilize sparsity and low rank structure. We show how to transform a dense optimization problem into a sparse one with low rank structure. A customized calculation of the Hessian is presented and investigated.Keywords: Semidefinite programming, Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov lemma, low rank Utilizing low rank properties when solving KYP-SDPs Janne Harju, Ragnar Wallin and Anders HanssonAbstract-Semidefinite programs and especially those derived from the Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov lemma are quite common in control applications. KYPD is a dedicated solver for KYP-SDPs. It solves the optimization problem via the dual SDP. The solver is iterative. In each step a Hessian is formed and a linear system of equations is solved. The calculations can be performed much faster if we utilize sparsity and low rank structure. We show how to transform a dense optimization problem into a sparse one with low rank structure. A customized calculation of the Hessian is presented and investigated.