IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award

To recognize an outstanding paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

Prize:

A photo-engraved Plaque for each recipient and, for one recipient, travel expenses to the CDC (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).

Funding:

Funded by the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Presentation:

At most one (1) award presented at the Award Ceremony of the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Basis for Judgement:

Originality, potential impact on the theoretical foundations of control, importance and practical significance in applications, and clarity.

Eligibility:

Authors of papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (IEEE TAC) during the two calendar years preceding the year of the award. The paper publication date is determined by the journal volume date (not the online publication date).

Nomination Details:

Nominations and reference letters are due by May 15 and must be submitted using the IEEE Control Systems Society Awards Nomination system at awards.paperplaza.net.

Nomination Form

Nomination Instructions

Recipients

2019

"Feedback Refinement Relations for the Synthesis of Symbolic Controllers"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 1781-1796, April 2017

Gunther Reissig (Reißig), Alexander Weber, and Matthias Rungger

2018

"Maximum Hands-off Control: A Paradigm of Control Effort Minimization"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 61, No. 3, pp. 735-747, 2016.

Masaaki Nagahara, Daniel Quevedo, and Dragan Nesic

2017

"Optimal Steering of a Linear Stochastic System to a Final Probability Distribution, Part I"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 61, No. 5, pages 1158 -1169, May 2016

Yongxin Chen, Tryphon Georgiou

, and Michele Pavon

2016

"Performance Bounds for the Scenario Approach and an Extension to a Class of Non-Convex Programs"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 60, No.1, pp. 46–58, 2015

John Lygeros

, Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, and Tobias Sutter

2015

"Robust Distributed Routing in Dynamical Networks–Part II: Strong Resilience, Equilibrium Selection and Cascaded Failures"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 333-348, February 2013

Giacomo Como, Ketan Savla

, Daron Acemoglu, Munther Dahleh

, and Emilio Frazzoli

"Decentralized Stochastic Control with Partial History Sharing: A Common Information Approach"

IEEE Automatic Control, Vol. 58, No. 7, pp. 1644-1658, July 2013

Ashutosh Nayyar, Aditya Mahajan, and Demosthenis Teneketzis

2014

"A Nonstochastic Information Theory for Communication and State Estimation"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 58, No. 6, pp. 1497-1510, June 2013

Girish Nair

2013

"Coherence in Large-Scale Networks: Dimension-Dependent Limitations of Local Feedback"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 57, No. 9, pp. 2235-2249, September 2012

Partha Mitra, Stacy Patterson, and Mihailo Jovanovic

2012

"Model Reduction by Moment Matching for Linear and Nonlinear Systems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 55, No. 10, pp.2321-2336, October 2010

Alessandro Astolfi

Biography

SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE

Born October 11th, 1967 in Rome, Italy.
Diploma cum laude in Electrical Engineering at University of Rome "La Sapienza" (1991).
Research assistant at the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich (1992-1996).
Nachdiplomstudium (M.Sc.) in Informationstechnik from the ETH-Zurich (1995).
Doktor in Technischen Wissenschaften (PhD) with medal of honour from the ETH-Zurich (1995).
Thesis on Discontinuous control of nonholonomic systems.
Dottorato di Ricerca (PhD) from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (1996).
Thesis on Robust control of nonlinear systems.
Lecturer in Nonlinear Control Theory at the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich (1995-1996).
Visiting Lecturer on Control of constrained systems at the Terza University of Rome (1996).
Lecturer in Control Engineering at the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London (1996-2000).
Associate Professor at Dept. of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano, Milan (1998-2003).
Visiting Lecturer on Nonlinear Control at Rice University, Houston (1999).
Visiting Professor in Nonlinear Control at Kepler University, Linz (2000).
Senior Lecturer in Control Engineering at the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London (2000-2002).
Visiting Professor in Nonlinear Control at SUPELEC, Paris (2001).
Reader in Nonlinear Control Theory at the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London (2002-2005).
Visiting Fellow at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, (May-June 2003).
Philip Leverhulme Prize (2003). The prize is "to recognise the outstanding research achievements of young scholars of distinction and promise based in UK institutions".
Professor of Nonlinear Control Theory at the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London (2005-).
Professor at Dipartimento di Informatica Sistemi e Produzione, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome (2005-).
IEEE Control Systems Society Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize (2007). The Prize is given annually to "recognize distinguished cutting-edge contributions by a young researcher to the theory or application of systems and control".
IEEE Fellow (2009): for contributions to nonlinear control theory and its applications to mechanical, electromechanical and power systems.
Chair of the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2009--)