IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award | IEEE Control Systems Society

To recognize significant technical contributions or outstanding long-term service to the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Prize:

Galvanic (photo engraved) plaque, conference registration and a IEEE Control Systems Society pin for each recipient.

Funding:

Funded by the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Presentation:

At the Awards Ceremony of the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Basis for Judgement:

The technical merit of the significant technical contributions and outstanding long-term service. The broader impacts of the contribution towards the benefit of society at large and towards the IEEE Control Systems Society diversity and inclusiveness goals in terms of geography, gender, and work sector.

Eligibility:

Must have been a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society (IEEE CSS) for at least five (5) years. Must be an IEEE CSS member at the time of nomination. Current members of the IEEE CSS Executive Committee are not eligible for this award.

Recipients

2012

Alessandro Astolfi

Biography

Alessandro Astolfi (F’09) was born in Rome, Italy, in 1967. He received the Graduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rome, Rome, in 1991, the M.Sc. degree in information theory and the Ph.D. degree with Medal of Honor with a thesis on discontinuous stabilization of nonholonomic systems from ETH-Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, both in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree for his work on nonlinear robust control from the University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, in 1996.,Since 1996, he has been with the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Imperial College London, London, U.K., where he is currently a Professor of nonlinear control theory and the Head of the Control and Power Group. From 1998 to 2003, he was also an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronics and Information, Politecnico of Milano. Since 2005, he has also been a Professor with Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ingegneria Informatica, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome. He has been a Visiting Lecturer in nonlinear control with several universities, including ETH-Zurich (1995–1996); Terza University of Rome (1996); Rice University, Houston, TX, USA (1999); Kepler University, Linz, Austria (2000); SUPELEC, Paris, France (2001); and Northeastern University (2013). He is the author of more than 150 journal papers, 30 book chapters, and more than 240 papers in refereed conference proceedings. He is the author (with D. Karagiannis and R. Ortega) of the monograph Nonlinear and Adaptive Control With Applications (Springer-Verlag). His research interests include mathematical control theory and control applications, with special emphasis on the problems of discontinuous stabilization, robust and adaptive control, observer design, and model reduction.

Prof. Astolfi was the recipient of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) A. Ruberti Young Researcher Prize (2007), the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Googol Best New Application Paper Award (2009), the IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (2012), and the Automatica Best Paper Award (2017). He was also the recipient of the 2015 Sir Harold Hartley Medal, for outstanding contribution to the technology of measurement and control, from the Institute of Measurement and Control. He is a Distinguished Member of the IEEE CSS, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the International Federation of Automatic Control. He served as an Associate Editor for the Automatica, the Systems and Control Letters, the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the International Journal of Control, the European Journal of Control, and the Journal of the Franklin Institute; an Area Editor for the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing; a Senior Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; and an Editor-in-Chief for the European Journal of Control. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He served as the Chair of the IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board (2010–2017) and in the International Program Committee (IPC) of several international conferences. He has been a Member of the IEEE Fellow Committee (2016, 2019).

Positions & Affiliations

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

University of Rome Tor Vergata

Italy

For contributions to nonlinear control theory and adaptive control theory and their applications to electromechanical and power systems, and for outstanding service to the Control Systems Society as Chair of the Society’s Conference Editorial Board

Mario Sznaier

For contributions to multiobjective robust control, dynamic vision and imaging, and identification, and for outstanding service to the Control Systems Society in his role as Executive Director and member of its Board of Governors

2011

Ted Djaferis

For contributions to robust control theory, parametric robustness and algebraic systems theory; and outstanding service to the Control Systems Society in conference organization, revitalization of the CSS conference-related structures, and society governance (in Board of Governors, Vice President and President roles)

Maria Elena Valcher

For scientific contributions in the areas of multidimensional linear systems, behavior theory, fault detection, delay systems, switched systems, positive systems, and outstanding service to the Control Systems Society through conference and membership related activities

2010

Edwin Chong

Biography

from the University of Adelaide, South Australia, in 1987, graduating top of his class in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering; and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1989 and 1991, respectively, both from Princeton University in the Department of Electrical Engineering, where he held an IBM Graduate Fellowship. His Ph.D. advisor at Princeton was Professor Peter Ramadge. From August 1991 to August 2001, he was on the faculty in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, where he was promoted to Professor in 2001. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. He also serves as Director of CSU's Information Science & Technology Center (ISTeC).

Professor Chong's research interests are primarily in the areas of control, optimization, and modeling, with applications to computer/communication networks, sensor networks, and wireless systems. He received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 1995.

Professor Chong is a Fellow of IEEE. He has served as the faculty advisor and branch counselor for the Purdue University IEEE student branch. He received the Outstanding IEEE Branch Counselor and Advisor Award in 1993, and the IEEE Section Recognition Award (IEEE Central Indiana Section) in 1994. He served as Vice President, Financial Activities, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2012--2014, and then as President Elect (2016), President (2017), and Past President (2018).

Professor Chong was an inaugural Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2009--2016). He was also previously on the editorial boards of Computer Networks, Journal of Control Science and Engineering, and IEEE Expert Now. He was the founding chairman of the IEEE Technical Committee on Discrete Event Systems (under the IEEE Control Systems Society). He has served on the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board, and on program/organizing committees for several conferences, including the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), American Control Conference (ACC), IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC), IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), and IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).

Professor Chong is coauthor of a best-selling book, An Introduction to Optimization, Fourth Edition, Wiley-Interscience, 2013.

For his contributions to research and education in electrical engineering, Professor Chong received the 1998 Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the ASEE, sponsored by HP (see information on the Terman Award and list of awardees). He was named a Purdue University Faculty Scholar in 1999. In 2010, he received the IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Member Award.

Positions & Affiliations

Colorado State University

United States

To recognize significant technical contributions in the areas of control, optimization, and modeling, and outstanding long-term service to the Society through editorial and conference-related activities

2009

Yutaka Yamamoto

To recognize significant technical contributions and outstanding long-term service to the Society

Francis J. Doyle, III

To recognize significant technical contributions and outstanding long-term service to the Society

Jay Farrell

To recognize significant technical contributions and outstanding long-term service to the Society

2008

Richard Middleton

Biography

Professor Richard H. Middleton was born on 10th December 1961 in Newcastle, Australia. He received his B.Sc. (1983), B.Eng. (Hons-I)(1984) and Ph.D. (1987) from the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has had visiting appointments at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Michigan, and the Hamilton Institute (National University of Ireland Maynooth).

In 1991 he was awarded the Australian Telecommunications and Electronics Research Board Outstanding Young Investigator award. In 1994 he was awarded the Royal Society of New South Wales Edgeworth-David Medal; he was elected to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE starting 1999, and received the M.A. Sargent Award from the Electrical College of Engineers Australia in 2004. He has served as an associate editor, associate editor-at-large and senior editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology, and Automatica, as Head of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Newcastle; as a panel member and sub-panel chair for the Australian Research Council; as Vice President - Member Activities and also as Vice President – Conference Activities of the IEEE Control Systems Society; President (2011) of the IEEE Control Systems Society; as Director of the ARC Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control; a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Control Systems Society, and as a research professor at the Hamilton Institute, The National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

He is currently director of the University of Newcastle Priority Research Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control. His research interests include a broad range of Control Systems Theory and Applications, including Systems Biology.

Positions & Affiliations

University of Newcastle

Australia

To recognize significant technical contributions and outstanding long-term service to the Society

2007

Thomas Parisini

Biography

Thomas Parisini received the "Laurea" degree (Cum Laude and printing honours) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Genoa in 1988 and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in 1993. He was with Politecnico di Milano and since 2001 he is professor and Danieli Endowed Chair of Automation Engineering with University of Trieste. Since 2009, Thomas Parisini is Deputy Rector of University of Trieste and since 2010 he holds the Chair of Industrial Control at the Imperial College London. He authored or co-authored more than 200 research papers in archival journals, book chapters, and international conference proceedings. His research interests include neural-network approximations for optimal control problems, fault diagnosis for nonlinear and distributed systems and nonlinear model predictive control systems. Among several awards, he is a co-recipient of the 2004 Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks and a recipient of the 2007 IEEE Distinguished Member Award. He is involved as Project Leader in several projects funded by the European Union, by the Italian Ministry for Research, and he is currently leading consultancy projects with some major process control companies (ABB, Danieli, Duferco, Electrolux, among others). Thomas Parisini is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. He was the Chair of the Conference Editorial Board and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society. Moreover, he was an elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society and of the European Union Control Association (EUCA) as well as a member of the board of evaluators of the 7th Framework ICT Research Program of the European Union. Thomas Parisini is currently serving as an Associate Editor of Int. J. of Control and served in several editorial boards of international journal including the IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Automatica, and the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks. He was involved in the committees of several international conferences. In particular, he was the Program Chair of the 2008 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and he is General Co-Chair of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Thomas Parisini is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Positions & Affiliations

Imperial College London, UK

United Kingdom

To recognize significant technical contributions and outstanding long-term service to the Society

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