IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) Best Student Paper Award

To recognize excellence in a conference paper whose primary contributor(s) is a (are) Student Member(s) of the IEEE.

Historical Background:

Established in 1992

Prize:

Certificate laminated on a plaque, and travel expenses to the Conference on Decision and Control for one recipient (round trip restricted minimal coach air fare, conference registration, and up to 4 conference-rate hotel nights for a 3-day conference, and up to 5 conference-rate hotel nights for a 4-day conference). The remaining finalists receive Outstanding Student-Paper award certificates and free student conference registrations.

Funding:

Funded by the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Presentation:

At the Awards Ceremony of the CSS.

Basis for Judging:

Originality, clarity and potential impact on practical applications or theoretical foundations of control.

Eligibility:

Primary contributor(s) of a paper, who was a (were) Student Member(s) of the IEEE at the time of original submission.

Nomination Details:

Deadline: 31 August

Nominations must be made by the student's major professor (advisor) through PaperPlaza using the official nomination form. Nominations are limited to one per advisor.

The final version of the paper must be submitted before submitting the nomination.

Nomination Form

Recipients

2020

"On the Differentiability of Projected Trajectories and the Robust Convergence of Non-convex Anti-Windup Gradient Flows"

IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 620-625, July 2020

Adrian Hauswirth, Florian Dörfler, and Andrew Teel

2019

"An Approach to Duality in Nonlinear Filtering"

2019 American Control Conference (ACC), Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2019, pp. 5360-5365

Jin-Won Kim, Amirhossein Taghvaei, and Prashant G. Mehta

Prashant G. Mehta

Biography

Prashant Mehta received his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1996 and the Ph.d. degree in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University in 2004 (with Prof. Tim Healey). He is now an Associate Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He is affiliated with the Coordinated Science Laboratory, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Neuroscience program at UIUC. He was the co-founder and the Chief Science Officer of the startup Rithmio whose gesture recognition technology was acquired by Bosch Sensortec in 2017. Prior to his academic appointment at UIUC in 2005, he worked at United Technologies Research Center (1996-98 and 2002-05) where he invented the symmetry-breaking solution to suppress combustion instabilities. This solution — which helped solve a sixty-year-old open problem — has since become an industry standard and is widely deployed in jet engines and afterburners sold by Pratt & Whitney.

At UIUC, Prashant works with his students on mathematical and computational aspects of dynamics and control theory. His most significant recent contribution is the feedback particle filter algorithm (see recent projects for details on ongoing research in his lab). He is passionate about working with and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students. His students have won the best paper awards at IEEE CDC 2007 and 2009 and have been finalists for the best paper awards at ACC 2010 and at IEEE CDC 2012. He teaches dynamics and control classes as well as the graduate course sequence on engineering mathematics (see list of courses taught). For his teaching, he frequently makes the Incomplete list of teachers rated as excellent at UIUC.

He has served as the Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2019-), Systems and Control Letters (2011-14) and the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control (2012-16). He guest-edited the special issue of the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control to commemorate the life, achievements and impact of Rudolph E. Kalman.

Affiliation(s)

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

2018

"Selective Recruitment in Hierarchical Complex Dynamical Networks with Linear-Threshold Rate Dynamics"

2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Miami Beach, FL, 2018, pp. 5227-5232

Erfan Nozari, and Jorge Cortés

Jorge Cortés

Biography

Jorge Cortés is a Professor with the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He received the Licenciatura degree in mathematics from the Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering mathematics from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, in 2001. He held postdoctoral positions at the Systems, Signals and Control Department of the University of Twente in 2002 and at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2002 to 2004. He was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 2004 to 2007.

Dr. Cortés is the author of "Geometric, Control and Numerical Aspects of Nonholonomic Systems" (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2002) and co-author of "Distributed Control of Robotic Networks" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009). He received an NSF CAREER award in 2006 and was the recipient of the 2006 Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics Young Researcher Prize. He has co-authored papers that have won the 2008 IEEE Control Systems Outstanding Paper Award, the 2009 SIAM Review SIGEST selection from the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, the 2012 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award in the Theory category, and the 2019 IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Outstanding Paper Award. He has been an IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer (2010-2014) and is an IEEE Fellow. He served in the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2010-2012), IEEE Control Systems magazine (2012-2016), IEEE Access (2015-2017), Systems and Control Letters (2009-2012), and European Journal of Control (2006-2009) and in the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2005-2009). He currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of Nonlinear Science and Journal of Geometric Mechanics

Affiliation(s)

University of California, San Diego

United States

2017

"Safe Online Navigation of Convex Potentials in Spaces with Convex Obstacles"

2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Melbourne, VIC, 2017, pp. 2473-2478

Santiago Paternain, and Alejandro Ribeiro

2016

"A Dynamic Collective Choice Model with an Advertiser"

2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Las Vegas, NV, 2016, pp. 6098-6104

Rabih Salhab, and Jerome Le Ny

2015

"Orthotic Body-Weight Support Through Underactuated Potential Energy Shaping with Contact Constraints"

2015 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Osaka, 2015, pp. 1483-1490

Ge Lv, and Robert D. Gregg

2014

"Team Optimal Control of Coupled Subsystems with Mean-field Sharing"

53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, CA, 2014, pp. 1669-1674

Jalal Arabneydi

2013

"Communication Delay Co-design in ℌ2 Decentralized Control Using Atomic Norm Minimization"

52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, 2013, pp. 6522-6529

Nikolai Matni

2012

"Intrinsic Consensus on SO(3) with Almost-global cConvergence"

2012 IEEE 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Maui, HI, 2012, pp. 2052-2058

Roberto Tron, and Bijan Afsari

2011

"Symmetric Formulation of the Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov Lemma and Exact Losslessness Condition"

2011 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, FL, 2011, pp. 5645-5652

Takashi Tanaka, and Cédric Langbort