IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award

To recognize outstanding papers 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

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.

Positions & Affiliations

University of Southern California

United States

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

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).