IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award

"Differential Dissipativity Theory for Dominance Analysis"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 64, no. 6, pp. 2340-2351, June 2019, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2018.2867920.

Fulvio Forni, and Rodolphe Sepulchre

Acceptance Speech

"Feedback Refinement Relations for the Synthesis of Symbolic Controllers"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 1781-1796, April 2017, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2016.2593947.

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

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

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 735-747, March 2016, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2015.2452831.

Masaaki Nagahara, Daniel Quevedo

, and Dragan Nesic

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

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 1158-1169, May 2016, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2015.2457784.

Yongxin Chen, Tryphon Georgiou

, and Michele Pavon

"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, Jan. 2015, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2014.2330702.

John Lygeros

, Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, and Tobias Sutter

"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, Feb. 2013, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2012.2209975.

Giacomo Como

, Ketan Savla

, Daron Acemoglu, Munther Dahleh

, and Emilio Frazzoli

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

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 58, no. 7, pp. 1644-1658, July 2013, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2013.2239000.

Ashutosh Nayyar, Aditya Mahajan, and Demosthenis Teneketzis

"A Nonstochastic Information Theory for Communication and State Estimation"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 58, no. 6, pp. 1497-1510, June 2013, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2013.2241491.

Girish Nair

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

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 2235-2249, Sept. 2012, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2012.2202052.

Bassam Bamieh

, Mihailo Jovanovic

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

, Partha Mitra, and Stacy Patterson

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

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 55, no. 10, pp. 2321-2336, Oct. 2010, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2010.2046044.

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).

Affiliation(s)

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

University of Rome Tor Vergata

Italy

"To Sample or Not to Sample: Self-triggered Control for Nonlinear Systems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 55, no. 9, pp. 2030-2042, Sept. 2010, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2010.2042980.

Adolfo Anta, and Paulo Tabuada

"Feedback Control in the Presence of Noisy Channels: ‘Bode-Like’ Fundamental Limitations of Performance"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 53, no. 7, pp. 1604-1615, Aug. 2008, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2008.929361.

Munther Dahleh

, and Nuno Martins

"Approximation Metrics for Discrete and Continuous Systems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 782-798, May 2007, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2007.895849.

Antoine Girard, and George J. Pappas

George J. Pappas

Website

Biography

George Papas earned his B.S. in 1991 and M.S. in 1992 in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before coming to Berkeley. While a student at Berkeley, he also served as a graduate fellow in the Division of Applied Sciences at Harvard in 1994. He was the recipient of the Berkeley EECS Eli Jury Award for Excellence in Systems Research in 1999.

Pappas was hired as a professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE) at the University of Pennsylvania in 2000, with secondary appointments in the Departments of Computer and Information Sciences, and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. He served as the Deputy Dean for Research in the School of Engineering and Applied Science from 2008 to 2012, when he was named Chair of the ESE Department. He is a member and former director of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab and a member of the Penn Research In Embedded Computing and Integrated Systems Engineering (PRECISE) Center. His research focuses on control theory and in particular, hybrid systems, embedded systems, hierarchical and distributed control systems, with applications to unmanned aerial vehicles, distributed robotics, green buildings, and biomolecular networks.

Pappas won an NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2004 and became an IEEE Fellow in 2009. He has received numerous awards including the IEEE Control Systems George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award in 2009, the IEEE Control Systems Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize in 2010, the American Control Conference O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award in both 2014 and 2016, the Penn George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research in 2015, the ICRA Best Paper Award in 2017, and the Penn Provost's Award for Distinguished PhD Teaching and Mentoring also in 2017. Pappas was named Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) in 2019 "for contributions to hybrid and networked control systems with applications to robotics."

Affiliation(s)

University of Pennsylvania

United States

"The Scenario Approach to Robust Control Design"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 742-753, May 2006, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2006.875041.

Giuseppe Calafiore, and Marco Campi

Marco Campi

Biography

Marco Claudio Campi is Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Brescia, Italy.

In 1988, he received the doctor degree in electronic engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy. From 1988 to 1989, he was a Research Assistant at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano. From 1989 to 1992, he worked as a Researcher at the Centro di Teoria dei Sistemi of the National Research Council (CNR) in Milano and, in 1992, he joined the University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy. He has held visiting and teaching positions at many universities and institutions including the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Bangalore, India; the University of Melbourne, Australia; the Kyoto University, Japan.

Prof. Campi is an Associate Editor of Systems and Control Letters, and a past Associate Editor of Automatica and the European Journal of Control. From 2002 to 2008, he served as Chair of the Technical Committee IFAC on Stochastic Systems (SS) and he is currently vice-chair for theTechnical Committee IFAC on Modeling, Identification, and Signal Processing (MISP). Moreover, he has been a distinguished lecturer of the Control Systems Society. Marco Campi's doctoral thesis was awarded the "Giorgio Quazza" prize as the best original thesis for year 1988. In 2008, he received the IEEE CSS George S. Axelby outstanding paper award for the article "The Scenario Approach to Robust Control Design", co-authored with G. Calafiore.

The research interests of Marco Campi include: randomized methods, robust convex optimization, system identification, adaptive and data-based control, robust control and estimation, and learning theory.

Affiliation(s)

University of Brescia

United States

"A Characterization of Convex Problems in Decentralized Control"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 50, no. 12, pp. 1984-1996, Dec. 2005, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2005.860365.

Michael Rotkowitz, and Sanjay Lall

"Uniform Stability of Switched Linear Systems: Extensions of LaSalle's Invariance Principle"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 470-482, April 2004, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2004.825641.

João Hespanha

Biography

João P. Hespanha received the Licenciatura in electrical and computer engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal in 1991 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and applied science from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut in 1998. From 1999 to 2001, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2002, where he currently holds a Professor position with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prof. Hespanha is Associate Director for the Center for Control, Dynamical-systems, and Computation (CCDC), Vice-Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a member of the Executive Committee for the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB). From 2004—2007 he was an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

His current research interests include hybrid and switched systems; the modeling and control of communication networks; distributed control over communication networks (also known as networked control systems); the use of vision in feedback control; and stochastic modeling in biology.

Dr. Hespanha is the recipient of the Yale University’s Henry Prentiss Becton Graduate Prize for exceptional achievement in research in Engineering and Applied Science, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the 2005 best paper award at the 2nd Int. Conf. on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, the 2005 Automatica Theory/Methodology best paper prize, the 2006 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award, and the 2009 Ruberti Young Researcher Prize. Dr. Hespanha is a Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE distinguished lecturer since 2007.

Affiliation(s)

University of California, Santa Barbara

United States

"Generalized KYP Lemma: Unified Frequency Domain Inequalities with Design Applications"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 41-59, Jan. 2005, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2004.840475.

Tetsuya Iwasaki

, and Shinji Hara

"Coordination of Groups of Mobile Autonomous Agents Using Nearest Neighbor Rules"

Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2002., Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2002, pp. 2953-2958 vol.3, doi: 10.1109/CDC.2002.1184304.

Ali Jadbabaie, Jie Lin, and A. Stephen Morse

"Distributed Control of Spatially Invariant Systems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 47, no. 7, pp. 1091-1107, July 2002, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2002.800646.

Bassam Bamieh

, Fernando Paganini, and Munther Dahleh

Munther Dahleh

Biography

Munther A. Dahleh received his Ph.D. degree from Rice University, Houston, TX, in 1987, in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Since then, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA, where he is now the William A. Coolidge Professor of EECS. He is currently the acting director of the Engineering Systems Division, and Director-designate of a new organization addressing major societal problems through unification of the intellectual pillars in Statistics, Information and Decision Systems, and Human and Institution Behavior. Previously, he held the position of Associate Department Head of EECS. He has been a visiting Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, for the Spring of 1993. He has consulted for various national research laboratories and companies.

Dr. Dahleh is interested in Networked Systems with applications to Social and Economic Networks, Transportation Networks, and the Power Grid. Specifically, he focuses on the development of foundational theory necessary to understand, monitor, and control systemic risk in interconnected systems. His work draws from various fields including game theory, optimal control, distributed optimization, information theory, and distributed learning. His collaborations include faculty from all five schools at MIT.

Dr. Dahleh is the co-author (with Ignacio Diaz-Bobillo) of the book Control of Uncertain Systems: A Linear Programming Approach, published by Prentice-Hall, and the co-author (with Nicola Elia) of the book Computational Methods for Controller Design published by Springer. He is the three times recipient of the George Axelby outstanding paper award for best paper in IEEE Transactions on automatic control. He is also the recipient of the Donald P. Eckman award from the American Control Council in 1993 for the best control engineer under 35. He has given many keynote lectures at major conferences.

Affiliation(s)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

"A Generalized Entropy Criterion for Nevanlinna-pick Interpolation With Degree Constraint"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 822-839, June 2001, doi: 10.1109/9.928584.

Christopher Byrnes, Tryphon Georgiou

, and Anders Lindquist

"Asymptotically Stable Walking for Biped Robots: Analysis via Systems with Impulse Effects"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 51-64, Jan. 2001, doi: 10.1109/9.898695.

Jessy Grizzle

, Gabriel Abba, and Franck Plestan

"Decentralized Supervisor Control with Communicating Controllers"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 45, no. 9, pp. 1620-1638, Sept. 2000, doi: 10.1109/9.880613.

George Barrett, and Stéphane Lafortune

"Control of Mixing in Fluid Flow: A Maximum Entropy Approach"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 44, no. 10, pp. 1852-1863, Oct. 1999, doi: 10.1109/9.793724.

Domenico D'Alessandro, Mohammed Dahleh, and Igor Mezic

"Robustness Analysis of Nonlinear Feedback Systems: An Input-Output Approach"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 1200-1221, Sept. 1997, doi: 10.1109/9.623082.

Tryphon Georgiou

, and Malcolm Smith

"A Nonlinear Small Gain Theorem for the Analysis of Control Systems with Saturation"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 41, no. 9, pp. 1256-1270, Sept. 1996, doi: 10.1109/9.536496.

Andrew Teel

"Invariant Manifolds and Asymptotic Properties of Adaptive Nonlinear Stabilizers"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 817-829, June 1996, doi: 10.1109/9.506234.

Miroslav Krstic

"Pade Approximation for Stochastic Discrete-Event Systems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 1349-1358, Aug. 1995, doi: 10.1109/9.402227.

Wei-Bo Gong, S. Nananukul, and A. Yan

"A Function Space Approach to Sampled Data Control Systems and Tracking Problems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 703-713, April 1994, doi: 10.1109/9.286247.

Yutaka Yamamoto

"H-Infinity-Optimal Control for Singularly Perturbed Systems, Part II: Imperfect State Measurements"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 280-299, Feb. 1994, doi: 10.1109/9.272324.

Tamer Bașar

, and Z. Pan

"Limited Lookahead Policies in Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 1921-1935, Dec. 1992, doi: 10.1109/9.182478.

S.L. Chung, Stéphane Lafortune

, and F. Lin

"Systematic Design of Adaptive Controllers for Feedback Linearizable Systems"

1991 American Control Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 1991, pp. 649-654, doi: 10.23919/ACC.1991.4791451.

I. Kanellakopoulos, Petar Kokotovic, and A. Stephen Morse

"Optimal Robustness in the Gap Metric"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 673-686, June 1990, doi: 10.1109/9.53546.

Tryphon Georgiou

, and Malcolm Smith

"Output Regulation of Nonlinear Systems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 131-140, Feb. 1990, doi: 10.1109/9.45168.

Alberto Isidori, and Christopher Byrnes

"Robust Control of Ill-conditioned Plants: High-purity Distillation"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 33, no. 12, pp. 1092-1105, Dec. 1988, doi: 10.1109/9.14431.

S. Skogestad, Manfred Morari

, and John Doyle

"State-space Solutions to Standard H-2 and H-infinity Control Problems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 831-847, Aug. 1989, doi: 10.1109/9.29425.

John Doyle

, Keith Glover

, Pramod Khargonekar, and Bruce Francis

"L1-Optimal Feedback Controllers for MIMO Discrete-Time Systems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 314-322, April 1987, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1987.1104603.

Munther Dahleh

, and J. Boyd Pearson

"Output Feedback Control of Linear Two-Time-Scale Systems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 32, no. 9, pp. 784-792, September 1987, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1987.1104720.

Hassan Khalil

Biography

Hassan K. Khalil received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1973 and 1975, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1978, all in electrical engineering.

Since 1978, he has been with Michigan State University (MSU), where he is currently University Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has consulted for General Motors and Delco Products, and published several papers on singular perturbation methods and nonlinear control. He is the author of Nonlinear Control (Pearson 2015), Nonlinear Systems (Macmillan 1992; Prentice Hall 1996 & 2002) and coauthor of Singular Perturbation Methods in Control: Analysis and Design (Academic Press 1986; SIAM 1999).

Dr. Khalil was named IEEE Fellow in 1989 and IFAC Fellow in 2007. He received the 1989 IEEE-CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award, the 2000 AACC Ragazzini Education Award, the 2002 IFAC Control Engineering Textbook Prize, the 2004 AACC O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, the 2009 AGEP Faculty Mentor of the Year Award, and the 2015 IEEE-CSS Bode Lecture Prize. At MSU he received the 1983 Teacher Scholar Award, the 1994 Withrow Distinguished Scholar Award, and the 1995 Distinguished Faculty Award. He was named University Distinguished Professor in 2003. He served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, and Neural Networks, and as Editor of Automatica for nonlinear systems and control. He was Registration Chair of the 1984 CDC, Finance Chair of the 1987 ACC, Program Chair of the 1988 ACC, and General Chair of the 1994 ACC.

Affiliation(s)

Michigan State University

United States

"Application of Modern Synthesis to Aircraft Control: Three Case Studies"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 995-1014, November 1986, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1986.1104161.

D. Gangsaas, K. Bruce, J.D. Blight, and Uy-Loi Ly

"Robust Adaptive Control in the Presence of Bounded Disturbances"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 306-315, April 1986, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1986.1104259.

K.S. Narendra, and Anuradha Annaswamy

Anuradha Annaswamy

Website

Biography

Dr. Anuradha Annaswamy received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 1985. She has been a member of the faculty at Yale, Boston University, and MIT where currently she is the director of the Active-Adaptive Control Laboratory and a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests pertain to adaptive control theory and applications to aerospace, automotive, and propulsion systems, cyber-physical systems science, and CPS applications to Smart Grids, Smart Cities, and Smart Infrastructures. She is the author of a hundred journal publications and numerous conference publications, co-author of a graduate textbook on adaptive control (2004), co-editor of several reports including “Systems & Control for the future of humanity, research agenda: Current and future roles, impact and grand challenges,” (Elsevier) “IEEE Vision for Smart Grid Control: 2030 and Beyond,” (IEEE Xplore) and Impact of Control Technology, (ieeecss.org/main/IoCT-report, ieeecss.org/general/IoCT2-report).

Dr. Annaswamy has received several awards including the George Axelby and Control Systems Magazine best paper awards from the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), the Presidential Young Investigator award from NSF, the Hans Fisher Senior Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technische Universität München, the Donald Groen Julius Prize from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, a Distinguished Member Award, and a Distinguished Lecturer Award from IEEE CSS. Dr. Annaswamy is a Fellow of the IEEE and IFAC. She has served as the Vice President for Conference Activities (2014-15) and is currently serving as the VP for Technical Activities (2017-18) in the Executive Committee of the IEEE CSS.

Affiliation(s)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

"Convergence of Parameter Sensitivity Estimates in a Stochastic Experiment"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 30, no. 9, pp. 845-853, September 1985, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1985.1104076.

Xi-Ren Cao

Biography

Xi-Ren Cao received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University, in 1981 and 1984, respectively, where he was a research fellow from 1984 to 1986. He then worked as a consultant engineer/engineering manager at Digital Equipment Corporation, Massachusetts, U.S.A, until October 1993. Then he joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where he is currently chair professor, director of the Research Center for Networking. He held visiting positions at Harvard University, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, AT&T Labs, University of Maryland at College Park, University of Notre Dame, Tsinghua University, University of Science and Technology of China, and other universities.

Dr. Cao owns three patents in data- and telecommunications and published three books in the area of stochastic learning and optimization and discrete event dynamic systems: "Stochastic Learning and Optimization - A Sensitivity-Based Approach," Springer, 2007, “Realization Probabilities - the Dynamics of Queuing Systems,” Springer Verlag, 1994, and “Perturbation Analysis of Discrete-Event Dynamic Systems,” Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991 (co-authored with Y. C. Ho). He received the Outstanding Transactions Paper Award from the IEEE Control System Society in 1987, the Outstanding Publication Award from the Institution of Management Science in 1990, and the Outstanding Service Award from IFAC in 2008. He was elected as a Fellow of IEEE in 1995, and as a Fellow of IFAC in 2008. He is Editor-in-Chief of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, Associate Editor at Large of IEEE Transactions of Automatic Control, and he served as the Chairman of IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee of IEEE Control System Society (2005-2007), and member of the Board of Governors of IEEE Control Systems Society. He is the chairman of IFAC Coordinating Committee on Systems and Signals (2206-2011) and on the Technical Board of IFAC, He is/was associate editor of a number of international journals and chairman of a few technical committees of international professional societies. His current research areas include discrete event dynamic systems, stochastic learning and optimisation, performance analysis of communication systems, signal processing, and financial engineering.

Affiliation(s)

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

China

"Minimum-Time Control of Robotic Manipulators with Geometric Path Constraints"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 531-541, June 1985, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1985.1104009.

K. Shin, and N. McKay

"H-Infinity-Optimal Feedback Controllers for Linear Multivariable Systems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 29, no. 10, pp. 888-900, October 1984, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1984.1103387.

Bruce Francis

, J.W. Helton, and George Zames

"On the Complexity of Decentralized Decision-making and Detection Problems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 440-446, May 1985, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1985.1103988.

J.N. Tsisiklis, and Michael Athans

"Generic ControllabilityTheorems for Descriptor Systems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 144-152, February 1985, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1985.1103903.

T. Yamada, and David Luenberger

"Optimal Control of Two Interacting Service Stations"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 491-499, June 1984, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1984.1103577.

B. Hajek

"Optimal Disturbance Reduction in Linear Multivariable System"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 29, no. 10, pp. 880-887, October 1984, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1984.1103409.

Bor-Chin Chang, and J. Boyd Pearson

"Robust Stabilizability for a Class of Transfer Functions"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 29, no. 9, pp. 788-793, September 1984, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1984.1103663.

Hidenori Kimura

"An Asymptotic Error Analysis of Identifiers and Adaptive Observers in The Presence of Parasitics"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 921-927, August 1982, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1982.1103028.

P.A. Iaonnou, and Petar Kokotovic

"Asymptotic Agreement in Distributed Estimation"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 650-655, June 1982, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1982.1102982.

V. Borkar, and Pravin Varaiya

"Nonlinear Decoupling Via Feedback: A Differential Geometric Approach"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 331-345, April 1981, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1981.1102604.

Alberto Isidori, Arthur Krener, C. Gori-Giorgi, and S. Monaco

"An Algebraic Theory for the Design of Controllers for Linear Multivariable Systems: Parts I and II"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 171-182, February 1981, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1981.1102554.

L. Pernebo

"Feedback and Optimal Sensitivity: Model Reference Transformations, Multiplicative Seminorms, and Approximate Inverses"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 301-320, April 1981, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1981.1102603.

George Zames

"Robust Identification of a Non-minimum Phase System: Blind Adjustment of a Linear Equalizer in Data Communications"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 385 - 399, June 1980

A. Benveniste, M. Goursat, and G. Ruget

"Discrete-time Multivariable Adaptive Control"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 449-456, June 1980, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1980.1102363.

Graham Goodwin, Peter J. Ramadge, and Peter Caines

Peter Caines

Biography

Peter Caines received the BA in mathematics from Oxford University in 1967 and the PhD in systems and control theory in 1970 from Imperial College, University of London, where his supervisor was D. Q. Mayne, FRS. After periods as a postdoctoral researcher and faculty member at UMIST, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Toronto and Harvard, he joined McGill University, Montreal, in 1980, where he is James McGill Professor and Macdonald Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Peter Caines is a Fellow of the IEEE, SIAM and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2003. In 2000 the adaptive control paper he coauthored with G. C. Goodwin and P. J. Ramadge (IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1980) was recognized by the IEEE Control Systems Society as one of the 25 seminal control theory papers of the 20th century. Peter Caines has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Transactions on Information Thoory and the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization; during 1992 - 95 he served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society, was a Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Plank Society, 2002 - 2007 and the EU HYCON Review Committee, 2005 - 2007. Peter Caines is the author of Linear Stochastic Systems, John Wiley, 1988, and is the co-editor of several volumes of papers on stochastic systems. His research interests include the areas of system identification, adaptive control, logic control and discrete event systems. Recently his activities have focused on hybrid systems theory, and stochastic multi-agent and distributed systems theory, together with their links to physics, economics and biology.

Affiliation(s)

McGill University

Canada

"On the Application of Tuning Regulators to Control a Commercial Heat Exchange"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 361-375, June 1980, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1980.1102379.

Edward Davison

, P. A. Taylor, and J. D. Wright

"Discrete-Time Point Processes in Urban Traffic Queue Estimations"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 12-27, February 1979, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1979.1101944.

John Baras, William Levine, and Tahsin Lin

"On the Metric Complexity of Causal Linear Systems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 222-230, April 1979, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1979.1101976.

George Zames

"On Positive Real Transfer Functions and the Convergence of Some Recursive Scheme"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 539-551, August 1977, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1977.1101552.

Lennart Ljung

Biography

Lennart Ljung received the Ph.D. in automatic control from the Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden, in 1974.,Since 1976, he has been Professor and Chair of Automatic Control Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden. He has held visiting positions at Institut Problem Upravleniya Im. V.a.trapeznikova Ran, Moscow, Russia, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, Berkeley College, New York, NY, USA, and Newcastle University, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, and has written several books on system identification and estimation.

Dr. Ljung is an IFAC Fellow and an IFAC Advisor. He is as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA), a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), an Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering, an Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, and a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) as well as a member of the Academia European. He was the recipent of honorary doctorates from the Baltic State Technical University in St. Petersburg; from Uppsala University, Sweden; from the Technical University of Troyes, France; from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; and from the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. He was the recipient of the Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize from the IEEE Control Systems Society, in 2003, and the IEEE Control Systems Award, in 2007. He was the recipient of the Quazza Medal, in 2002, and the Nichols Medal in 2017, both from IFAC.

Affiliation(s)

Linkopings Universitets

Sweden

"Analysis of Recursive Stochastic Algorithms"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 551-575, August 1977, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1977.1101561.

Lennart Ljung

Biography

Lennart Ljung received the Ph.D. in automatic control from the Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden, in 1974.,Since 1976, he has been Professor and Chair of Automatic Control Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden. He has held visiting positions at Institut Problem Upravleniya Im. V.a.trapeznikova Ran, Moscow, Russia, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, Berkeley College, New York, NY, USA, and Newcastle University, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, and has written several books on system identification and estimation.

Dr. Ljung is an IFAC Fellow and an IFAC Advisor. He is as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA), a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), an Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering, an Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, and a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) as well as a member of the Academia European. He was the recipent of honorary doctorates from the Baltic State Technical University in St. Petersburg; from Uppsala University, Sweden; from the Technical University of Troyes, France; from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; and from the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. He was the recipient of the Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize from the IEEE Control Systems Society, in 2003, and the IEEE Control Systems Award, in 2007. He was the recipient of the Quazza Medal, in 2002, and the Nichols Medal in 2017, both from IFAC.

Affiliation(s)

Linkopings Universitets

Sweden

"Stability of Interconnected Dynamical Systems Described on Banach Spaces"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 464 - 471, August 1976

Anthony Michel, and Robert Rasmussen

"Structural Stabilization and Quenching by Dither"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 352-361, June 1977, doi: 10.1109/TAC.1977.1101504.

George Zames, and N.A. Shneydor

"Modern Wiener-Hopf Design of Optimal Controllers--Part II: The Multivariable Case"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 21. No. 3, pp. 319 - 338, June 1976

J.J. Bongiorno, H.A. Jabr, and Dante Youla

"Reducing Energy Consumption through Trajectory Optimization for a Metro Network"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 590 - 595, October 1975

A. Haurie, Hoc H Huang, and Michael Polis

"Suboptimal Control of Linear Systems by Augmentation with Application to Freeway Traffic Regulation"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 210 - 219, June 1973

L. Lsaken, and H.J. Payne

"A Minimization Algorithm for the Design of Linear Multivariable Systems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 220 - 225, June 1973

S.H. Wang, and Edward Davison

Edward Davison

Biography

Edward J. Davison received the A.R.C.T. degree in piano in 1958, the B.A.Sc. in Engineering -Physics and the M.A. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Toronto in 1960, 1961 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree and Sc.D. degree from Cambridge University in 1964 and 1977, respectively.

He was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto in 1964 – 1966, an Assistant Professor in the Dept of Electrical and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley in 1966 – 1967, and an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor in the ECE Department, University of Toronto, in 1967 – 1968, 1968 – 1974, 1974 – 2001 respectively. He was appointed a University Professor, Dept. of ECE, University of Toronto in 2001 and University Professor Emeritus, in 2004.

He was inducted into the University of Toronto’s Engineering Alumni Hall of Distinction in 2003 and was awarded the Electrical and Computer Engineering Club Teaching Award in 2002. He has been a Designated Consulting Engineer of the Association of Professional Engineers of the Province of Ontario since 1979 and was President of Electrical Engineering Consociates Ltd., 1997 – 1999. His research interests are in the area of Control Systems Theory and Automation, with a particular interest in Large Scale Systems, Decentralized Control, Robustness, Controller Design of Large Flexible Space Structures, and Process Control. He has published over 500 research papers, of which one of his papers (1966) has appeared in the Citation Index of Current Contents, and two of his papers have been chosen for best paper awards in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1973), (1980).

Affiliation(s)

University of Toronto

Canada