IEEE Control Systems Award | IEEE Control Systems Society

To recognize outstanding contributions to control systems engineering, science, or technology.

Prize:

The award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and $10,000 honorarium.

Funding:

Funded by the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Presentation:

At the Awards Ceremony of the CSS.

Basis for Judgement:

In the evaluation process, the following criteria are considered: seminal nature of the contribution, singular achievement, practical impact, breadth of contributions, depth of contributions, historical precedence, and quality of the nomination.

Nomination Details:

Nomination Deadline: 15 January of each year

Endorsement deadline: 31 January of each year

More information about this award may be obtained directly from the IEEE.

Nomination Form:

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Recipients

2019

Pramod Khargonekar

For contributions to robust and optimal control theory

2018

John Tsitsiklis

Biography

John N. Tsitsiklis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1958. He received the B.S. degree in Mathematics (1980), and the B.S. (1980), M.S. (1981), and Ph.D. (1984) degrees in Electrical Engineering, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

During the academic year 1983-84, he was an acting assistant professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, Stanford, California. Since 1984, he has been with the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is currently a Clarence J Lebel Professor of Electrical Engineering.

After serving as acting co-director (Spring 1996 and 1997) and co-associate director (2008-2013), he is currently the director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). He has also served as a co-director of the Operations Research Center (ORC) (2002-2005), and as a member of the National Council on Research and Technology in Greece (2005-2007) and the associated Sectoral Research Council on Informatics (2011-2013). Finally, he has served (2013-2016) as the Chair of the Council of the Harokopio University, in Greece.

His research interests are in the fields of systems, optimization, control, and operations research. He is a coauthor of Parallel and Distributed Computation: Numerical Methods (1989, with D. Bertsekas), Neuro-Dynamic Programming (1996, with D. Bertsekas), Introduction to Linear Optimization (1997, with D. Bertsimas), and Introduction to Probability (1st ed. 2002, 2nd. ed. 2008, with D. Bertsekas). He is also a coinventor in seven awarded U.S. patents.

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the IEEE (1999) and of INFORMS (2007). His distinctions include the ACM Sigmetrics Achievement Award (2016), the INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize (2018), and the IEEE Control Systems Award (2018). He holds honorary doctorates from the Université catholique de Louvain, (2008), the Athens University of Economics and Business (2018), and the Harokopio University.

Positions & Affiliations

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

For contributions to the theory and application of optimization in large dynamic and distributed systems.

2017

Richard Murray

For contributions to the theory and applications of nonlinear and networked control systems.

2016

Arthur Krener

For contributions to the analysis, control, and estimation of nonlinear control systems

2015

Bruce Francis

For pioneering contributions to H-infinity, linear-multivariable, and digital control

2014

Tamer Bașar

Biography

Tamer Basar is the Fredric G. and Elizabeth H. Nearing Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He received BSEE from Robert College, Istanbul, in 1969, and the M.S., M.Phil, and Ph.D. from Yale University, during 1970-2. After stints at Harvard University and Marmara Research Institute (Gebze, Turkey), he joined UIUC in 1981, where he has been since then with the ECE Department and the Coordinated Science Lab. He has authored or co-authored over 400 publications (including two books and several edited volumes) in the general areas of systems, control, dynamic games, information theory, communication systems and networks, and mathematical economics. He was elected Fellow of IEEE in 1983, and served CSS in various capacities, such as: President (2000), Editor for Techn. Notes & Corresp. for TAC (1992-4), and CDC General Chair (1992) and Program Chair (1989). He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Automatica, the Editor of the Birkhäuser Series: Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications, Managing Editor of the Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games, and member of editorial and advisory boards of several international journals in control, wireless networks, and applied mathematics. Among some of his recent recognitions are: Tau Beta Pi Drucker Eminent Faculty Award of UIUC (2004), election to the National Academy of Engineering (2000), IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (1995) and Distinguished Member Award (1993) of CSS, and Medal of Science of Turkey (1993). He will also receive the Quazza Medal of IFAC in 2005. His current research interests are in routing, pricing, and congestion control in communication networks; control over wired and wireless networks; mobile computing; and robust and risk-sensitive estimation and control.

Positions & Affiliations

For seminal contributions to dynamic games, stochastic and risk-sensitive control, control of networks, and hierarchical decision making

2013

Stephen Boyd

Biography

Stephen Boyd is the Samsung Professor of Engineering, and Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford University. He received the A.B. degree in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1980, and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985, and then joined the faculty at Stanford. His current research focus is on convex optimization applications in control, signal processing, and circuit design. Professor Boyd is the author of many research articles and three books: Convex Optimization (with Lieven Vandenberghe, 2004), Linear Matrix Inequalities in System and Control Theory (with L. El Ghaoui, E. Feron, and V. Balakrishnan, 1994), and Linear Controller Design: Limits of Performance (with Craig Barratt, 1991). His group has produced several open source tools, including CVX (with Michael Grant), a widely used parser-solver for convex optimization.

Professor Boyd has received many awards and honors for his research in control systems engineering and optimization, including an ONR Young Investigator Award, a Presidential Young Investigator Award, and the AACC Donald P. Eckman Award, given annually for the greatest contribution to the field of control engineering by someone under the age of 35. In 2013, he received the IEEE Control Systems Award, given for outstanding contributions to control systems engineering, science, or technology. In 2012, Michael Grant and he were given the Mathematical Optimization Society's Beale-Orchard-Hays Award, given every three years for excellence in computational mathematical programming. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and SIAM, a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has been invited to deliver more than 60 plenary and keynote lectures at major conferences in control, optimization, and machine learning.

Positions & Affiliations

Stanford University

United States

For contributions to systems design and analysis via convex optimization

2012

Alberto Isidori

For pioneering contributions to nonlinear control theory

2011

Eduardo Sontag

For fundamental contributions to nonlinear systems theory and nonlinear feedback control

2010

Graham Goodwin

For contributions to the theory and practice of digital and adaptive control

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