President's Message - 2021 Welcome to 2021, the 67th anniversary of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS). I feel thrilled, honored, and privileged to serve as president of our Society for the first two-year term, per the constitutional changes approved in July 2020 at the meeting of the CSS Board of Governors (BoG). An exciting journey has started for me! Serving for two years instead of one gives the president a great opportunity to be more effective in enabling the implementation of strategies already in place and consolidating the long-term initiatives of our Society. This is particularly welcome in 2021, a busy year (our publications and our Society as a whole will be reviewed by IEEE, as happens every five years). The CSS has a longstanding tradition of excellence, and we have always performed extremely well at these review exercises. We shall do so this time as well! Why? Because the CSS is a volunteer-based professional society. This is our value, our richness, and, let me also say, our safeguard during these challenging times. Many of my predecessors focused their inaugural message on our volunteers and I am very glad to be upholding this tradition. CSS institutional memory (I am quoting this term from 2018 CSS President Francesco Bullo’s inaugural message) is a distinctive feature of our professional ecosystem, which is made up of volunteers who serve our volunteers and community of scholars, students, and practitioners. Indeed, the title of my message contains the word inclusive. This is what the CSS already is; however, a lot more must be achieved. This goal will be the main driving force during my term... (continued) I look forward to working with you over the next two years. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with me at t.parisini@imperial.ac.uk. Thomas Parisini IEEE CSS President, 2021-2022 Please continue reading my presidential message and all previous presidential messages here. Related Content: Presidential Messages News Presidential Messages Archive 2021 - Thomas Parisini January 2021: "The IEEE Control Systems Society: An Inclusive Ecosystem for Volunteers" 2020 - Anuradha Annaswamy October 2020: "Conferences in the IEEE Control Systems Society" August 2020: "Cyberphysical and Human Systems: A New Frontier in Control Systems" June 2020: "Electronic Dissemination" April 2020: "Women in the IEEE Control Systems Society" February 2020: "The Science of Muddling Through" 2019 - Bob Bitmead December 2019: "Three-Quarter-Time Spray" October 2019: "... Like a Lizard Drinking" August 2019: "Does Plan S Serve the IEEE Control Systems Society the Dingo’s Breakfast?" June 2019: "The Good Oil on Control or the Raw Prawn" April 2019: "Tall Poppies of Control" February 2019: "A Clayton’s Regime Change" 2018 - Francesco Bullo December 2018: "A Year in Review" October 2018: "Getting it Write" August 2018: "Nurturing Diversity and Reducing Implicit Evaluation Bias" June 2018: "On the Tools of Our Trade" April 2018: "On Developing World of Copyrights" February 2018: "The Visible Values of Volunteering in the Hidden Technology World" December 2017: President's Interview 2017 - Edwin Chong December 2017: "Do We Have Common Philosophical Presuppositions?" October 2017: "Control and Sustainability" August 2017: "Our Society's Best Practices" June 2017: "Textbook Models: Expanding Applications" April 2017: "The Control Problem" February 2017: "To Control, with Love" December 2016: President's Interview 2016 - Francis (Frank) J. Doyle III December 2016: "Oh, the Places You'll Go" October 2016: "Reflections on the Convergence Paradigm" August 2016: "IEEE Control Systems Society and IFAC" June 2016: "Control and Biology" April 2016: "The Evolving Landscape of IEEE Control Systems Society Publishing" February 2016: "The Many Faces of Control" December 2015: President's Interview 2015 - Maria Elena Valcher December 2015: "Discovering China" October 2015: "The Joy of Research" August 2015: "The Value of Conferences" June 2015: "The Impact of Control: Do We Have an Impact?" April 2015: "Ethics in Publishing and the Reuse of Previously Published Material" February 2015: "Peer Review" December 2014: President's Interview 2014 - Jay A. Farrell December 2014: "The Perspective One Year Later" October 2014: "Control Ambassadors" August 2014: "CSS Governance: Theories and Practice" June 2014: "Impact of Control" April 2014: "Prediction Is Very Difficult, Especially About the Future" February 2014: "A Society of Volunteers" December 2013: President's Interview 2013 - Yutaka Yamamoto December 2013: "Internationalization - A Default Virtue?" October 2013: "Recognition by Peers, Society Business, and Various Thoughts on Culture and Writing" August 2013: "Theory, Invention, and Practice" June 2013: "Citing Others' Work" April 2013: "Presentation Skills" February 2013: "A Renewed Thought on Professional Societies" December 2012: President's Interview 2012 - Christos G. Cassandras December 2012: "A Year in Retrospect" October 2012: "Open Access and the Future of Scientific Publishing" August 2012: "Plagiarism and Other Sins" June 2012: "Fifty Years of CDCs: Rises, Falls, and Trends in Systems and Control" April 2012: "It's Just So Darn Hard..." February 2012: "A Healthy Identity Crisis" December 2011: President's Interview 2011 - Rick Middleton December 2011: "The Half Century" October 2011: "Memories and Lessons from Adaptive Control" August 2011: "Challenges and Future Directions" June 2011: "Publications" April 2011: "Conferences on Decision and Control" February 2011: "What Does "Control" Have to Offer?" December 2010: President's Interview 2010 - Roberto Tempo December 2010: "Mountains and Control" October 2010: "The Data Deluge and Obliquity for Control" August 2010: "Handwriting, Typing, and LaTex" June 2010: "From Hard Copy to Electronic" April 2010: "Research, a Never-Ending Story" February 2010: "Internationalization and Globalization" December 2009: President's Interview 2009 - Tariq Samad December 2009: "Applications, Definitions, Transitions"
President's Message - 2021 Welcome to 2021, the 67th anniversary of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS). I feel thrilled, honored, and privileged to serve as president of our Society for the first two-year term, per the constitutional changes approved in July 2020 at the meeting of the CSS Board of Governors (BoG). An exciting journey has started for me! Serving for two years instead of one gives the president a great opportunity to be more effective in enabling the implementation of strategies already in place and consolidating the long-term initiatives of our Society. This is particularly welcome in 2021, a busy year (our publications and our Society as a whole will be reviewed by IEEE, as happens every five years). The CSS has a longstanding tradition of excellence, and we have always performed extremely well at these review exercises. We shall do so this time as well! Why? Because the CSS is a volunteer-based professional society. This is our value, our richness, and, let me also say, our safeguard during these challenging times. Many of my predecessors focused their inaugural message on our volunteers and I am very glad to be upholding this tradition. CSS institutional memory (I am quoting this term from 2018 CSS President Francesco Bullo’s inaugural message) is a distinctive feature of our professional ecosystem, which is made up of volunteers who serve our volunteers and community of scholars, students, and practitioners. Indeed, the title of my message contains the word inclusive. This is what the CSS already is; however, a lot more must be achieved. This goal will be the main driving force during my term... (continued) I look forward to working with you over the next two years. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with me at t.parisini@imperial.ac.uk. Thomas Parisini IEEE CSS President, 2021-2022 Please continue reading my presidential message and all previous presidential messages here. Related Content: Presidential Messages News