IEEE Fellow | IEEE Control Systems Society

Each year the IEEE designates as Fellows individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the electrical and electronics engineering profession. The CSS has two standing committees, with non-overlapping membership, that participate in the Fellow selection process. The chairs of these two committees, who must be IEEE Fellows and CSS members, are appointed by the BoG based on recommendations from the President-Elect and the Executive Committee. The chairs appoint the members of their committees.

To view recipients of IEEE Fellow prior to 2018 or to view members elevated by other Societies or Councils please visit the CSS IEEE Fellows Archive.

You can find more information regarding the IEEE Fellow Program along with a complete listing of IEEE Fellows here. A list of women CSS Fellows can be found here.

Nomination Details:

The Fellow Evaluation Committee, which should have at least six members, evaluates the achievements of those nominees whose forms are forwarded to it by their respective nominators. (Each nomination designates a relevant IEEE Society that should be asked to provide an evaluation of the candidate's achievements.) The Fellow Evaluation Committee should be composed of IEEE Fellows whose joint expertise spans the breadth of technical specialties covered by the CSS.

The Fellow Nomination Committee seeks out worthy candidates and nominators for those individuals in order to improve the pool of candidates for consideration as Fellows.

Recipients

2020

Antonella Ferrara

Biography

Antonella Ferrara was born in Genova, Italy. As a student at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Genova, she got the “IEEE Student Award” in 1986. She received the Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering in 1987 and the Ph.D. in Computer Science and Electronics in 1992 from the University of Genova. She was Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Computer and System Sciences of the University of Genova since 1992 until 1998. In November 1998 she became Associate Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Pavia. Since January 2005 she is Full Professor of Automatic Control in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering (ECBE) of the University of Pavia.

Her research activities are mainly in the area of sliding mode control and nonlinear control, with application to traffic control, automotive control, process control, and robotics.

She was/is a coordinator and member of several research units in national and European research projects. In particular, she was local coordinator of a PRIN project “Control of Advanced Transmission, Suspension, Steering and Braking Systems for the Management of Vehicle Dynamics” (2006-2007), and of the European Project PROTECTOR (Preventive safety for un-protected road user) ended in 2003. She is local coordinator of the European Projects ITEAM (Interdisciplinary Training Network in Multi-Actuated Ground Vehicles) starting on January 1st, 2016.

She was scientifically responsible for several research projects funded or co-funded by companies.

She has authored or co-authored more than 300 scientific papers, including 100 international journal papers. From 2000 to 2004 she was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. From 2007 to 2012 she was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Since January 2014, she is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine. She currently is and has been a member of the International Program Committee of several international conferences and events. She was Program Vice-Chair of the European Control Conference ECC14 held in Strasbourg, France, and Program Vice Chair of the 22nd IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation Med14 held in Palermo, Italy.

She is Senior Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society, member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Variable Structure and Sliding Mode Control, member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Automotive Control and a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Transportation Systems. She was appointed member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society for 2012. At present, she is: Chair of the Women in Control Committee of the IEEE Control Systems Society, elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society for 2016-2018, Member of the EUCA Council.

Affiliation(s)

The University of Pavia

Italy

for contributions to sliding mode control theory

Sarah Spurgeon

for contributions to variable structure control and estimation

2019

Santosh Devasia

for contributions to feedforward control of non-minimum-phase systems

Emilia Fridman

for contributions to time-delay systems and sampled-data control

Bart De Schutter

for contributions to optimization-based control of discrete-event systems, hybrid systems, transportation networks, and infrastructure networks

Keum-shik Hong

for contributions to adaptive estimation and brain-computer interface techniques using near-infrared light

Nicola Elia

for fundamental contributions to Networked Control Systems

Benjamin Van Roy

for contributions to the theory and practice of reinforcement learning and approximate dynamic programming

Mihailo Jovanovic

Biography

Mihailo R. Jovanovic is a professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the founding director of the Center for Systems and Control at the University of Southern California. He received the Dipl. Ing. and M.S. degrees from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1995 and 1998, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2004, under the direction of Bassam Bamieh. He was a visiting researcher with the Department of Mechanics, the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, from September to December 2004, and a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, from December 2004 until January 2017. He has held visiting positions with Stanford University and the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.

Professor Jovanovic's expertise is in modeling, dynamics, and control of large-scale and distributed systems and his current research focuses on large-scale and distributed optimization, design of controller architectures, sparsity-promoting optimal control, fundamental limitations in the design of large dynamic networks, and dynamics/control of fluid flows. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems and had served as a Guest Editor (of the Special Issue on Analysis, Control and Optimization of Energy System Networks in the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems), the Chair of the American Physical Society External Affairs Committee, a Program Vice-Chair of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, an Associate Editor of the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board.

Professor Jovanovic is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 2007, an Early Career Award from the University of Minnesota Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment in 2010, a Resident Fellowship within the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota in 2012, the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2013, the University of Minnesota Informatics Institute Transdisciplinary Research Fellowship in 2014, and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara in 2014. Papers of his students were finalists for the Best Student Paper Award at the American Control Conference in 2007 and 2014.

Affiliation(s)

University of Southern California

United States

for contributions to modeling, optimization, and control of large-scale and distributed systems

Min Wu

for contribution to the field of advanced control and intelligent automation for complex systems

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