IEEE Control Systems Award | IEEE Control Systems Society

2024

Alain Bensousan

For fundamental contributions to stochastic control, control-theoretic methods in management and finance, and impactful leadership of scientific and engineering organizations.

2023

Naomi Leonard

For contributions to applications and theory for control of nonlinear and multiagent systems

2022

Dimitri P. Bertsekas

For fundamental contributions to the methodology of optimization and control of uncertain and large-scale dynamical systems, and their dissemination through outstanding monographs and textbooks

2021

Hidenori Kimura

For contributions to synthesis theory of control systems and its applications to manufacturing devices and systems

2020

Anders Lindquist

For contributions to optimal filtering, stochastic control, stochastic realization theory, and system identification

Acceptance Speech

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.

Affiliation(s)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

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

2017

Richard M. 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

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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.

Affiliation(s)

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

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

2013

Stephen Boyd

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Biography

Stephen P. Boyd is the Samsung Professor of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Information Systems Laboratory, and chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University. He has courtesy appointments in the Department of Management Science and Engineering and the Department of Computer Science and is a member of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. He received an AB degree in Mathematics, summa cum laude, from Harvard University in 1980, and a PhD in EECS from U. C. Berkeley in 1985. In 1985 he joined the faculty of Stanford's Electrical Engineering Department. His current research focus is on convex optimization applications in control, signal processing, machine learning, and finance.

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. He has received the 2013 IEEE Control Systems Award, the 2012 Mathematical Optimization Society's Beale-Orchard-Hays Award. For his extensive education activity, he received an ASSU Graduate Teaching Award in 1991, the Perrin Award in 1994 for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching in the School of Engineering. He received the 2003 AACC Ragazzini Education award, the 2016 Walter J. Gores Award, the highest award for teaching at Stanford University. In 2017 he received the IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal.

Professor Boyd is a Fellow of the IEEE, SIAM, and INFORMS, a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society, a member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK). He holds honorary doctorates from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, and Catholic University of Louvain (UCL).

Affiliation(s)

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

2009

David Mayne

For contributions to the application of optimization to modern control theory

2008

Mathukumalli Vidyasagar

Biography

Mathukumalli Vidyasagar is currently Cecil & Ida Green Chair in Systems Biology at the University of Texas at Dallas. His current research interests are in stochastic processes and their applications to computational biology with special emphasis on cancer biology, and to mathematical finance. He was born in Guntur, India on September 29, 1947. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, in 1965, 1967 and 1969 respectively. Between 1969 and 1989, he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at various universities in the USA and Canada. His last overseas job was with the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, where he served between 1980 and 1989. In 1989 he returned to India as the Director of the newly created Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) in Bangalore, under the Ministry of Defence, Government of India. In 2000 he moved to the Indian private sector as an Executive Vice President of India's largest software company, Tata Consultancy Services, where he created the Advanced Technology Center, an industrial R&D laboratory of around 80 engineers. In 2009 he retired from TCS and joined the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas, as a Cecil & Ida Green Chair in Systems Biology. In March 2010 he was named as the Founding Head of the Bioengineering Department. He is a Fellow of several scientific societies including IEEE, and has received several awards in recognition of his research, including the IEEE Control Systems Award in 2008. Earlier he had received the Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize in 2000, and the Distinguished Service Citation from his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin.

Affiliation(s)

University of Texas, Dallas

United States

For promulgation of control science and engineering and contributions to robust control, robotics and statistical learning theory

2007

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

For seminal contributions to system identification and its impact on industrial practice

2006

P.R. Kumar

For contributions to adaptive control, manufacturing systems and wireless communications

2005

Manfred Morari

For pioneering contributions to the theory and application of robust process, model predictive, and hybrid systems control

2004

John Doyle

For fundamental contributions to the analysis and control of uncertain systems

2003

Nikolai Krasovskii

For pioneering contributions to the theories of stability, control and differential games

2002

Pravin Varaiya

For outstanding contributions to stochastic and adaptive control and the unification of concepts from control and computer science

2001

Keith Glover

For pioneering and fundamental contributions to robust controller design and model order reduction

2000

Sanjoy Mitter

For contributions to optimization, optimal control, and nonlinear filtering, and for interdisciplinary research that has expanded the boundaries of control theory

1999

A. Stephen Morse

For pioneering the geometric approach to linear multivariable control synthesis and contributions to nonlinear and adaptive control theory

1998

Jan Willems

For seminal contributions to control theory and leadership in systems research

1997

Brian Anderson

Biography

Brian Anderson is Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University and Distinguished Researcher in National ICT Australia. His interests are in currently in formation control, sensor networks and econometric modelling. His past contributions have been in other areas of control as well as circuit theory, signal processing and telecommunications.

He was born in Sydney, Australia, and received his undergraduate education at the University of Sydney, with majors in pure mathematics and electrical engineering. He subsequently obtained a PhD degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. Following completion of his education, he worked in industry in Silicon Valley and served as a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford. He was Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia from 1967 until 1981.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE, IFAC, Royal Society London, Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, and Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering. He holds doctorates (honoris causa) from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, and the universities of Sydney, Melbourne, New South Wales and Newcastle in Australia. He served as President of the International Federation of Automatic Control from 1990 to 1993 and as President of the Australian Academy of Science between 1998 and 2002. His awards include the IEEE Control Systems Award of 1997, the 2001 IEEE James H Mulligan, Jr Education Medal, and the Guillemin-Cauer Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 1992 and 2001, the Bode Prize of the IEEE Control System Society in 1992, the Senior Prize of the IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing in 1986, and other best paper awards.

For contributions in the areas of adaptive and optimal control, stability, and system identification

1996

Vladimir Yakubovich

For pioneering and fundamental contributions to stability analysis and optimal control

1995

Petar Kokotovic

For pioneering contributions to singular perturbation theory, adaptive systems, nonlinear controls, and their industrial applications

1994

Elmer Gilbert

For pioneering and innovative contributions to linear state space theory and its applications, especially realization and decoupling, as well as to control algorithms

1993

Moshe Zakai

For contributions to non-linear stochastic analysis, and its applications to control systems

1992

Harold Kushner

For fundamental contributions to stochastic systems theory and its engineering applications

1991

Roger Brockett

For pioneering and innovative contributions to nonlinear control, stability, robotics and control engineering education

1990

Karl Johan Åström

For fundamental contributions in control theory with emphasis on its practical application

1989

Yu-Chi Ho

For contributions to differential games, multi-person decision making, and discrete event dynamic systems

1988

Dante Youla

For original contributions in the areas of circuits, systems and control theory, and the rigorous solution of engineering problems

1987

Walter Murray Wonham

For pioneering contributions to the theory of stochastic systems, linear multivariable control, and discrete event systems

1986

Charles Desoer

For fundamental contributions to linear system theory, linear controller design, linear and nonlinear stability analysis, and the role of feedback in nonlinear systems

1985

George Zames

For contributions to feedback stability theory and linear multivariable control system design

1984

Arthur Bryson

For pioneering contributions to optimal control and estimation and their applications

1982

Howard Rosenbrock

Biography

Howard Rosenbrock was born on December 16, 1920 in Essex, England. He was educated in undergraduate studies at University College London. On graduating in electrical engineering with first class honors, he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Signals), and between 1941 and 1946 he saw service in the Lushai Hills on the India-Burma border. On his return to England, he entered industry, and from 1947 to 1962 he occupied several posts, including positions at GEC Research Laboratories, the Electrical Research Association, John Brown & Co, and finally Constructors John Brown, where he became research manager. In 1955 he received the Ph.D. from London University. His work in post-war industry, combined with wartime experiences in the Lushai Hills, played a crucial role in shaping Howard’s personal and scientific philosophy.

As his experience developed, he grew increasingly convinced of the potential for analog and digital computation to improve the nature of work and the effectiveness of manufacturing processes. A wish to explore this potential led him in 1962 to join John Coales at Cambridge University. The years at Cambridge, combined with a period at MIT, allowed Howard to build the theoretical foundations upon which his research reputation would be based. In 1966 he was offered the chair of Control Engineering at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technolog y (UMIST), and in this capacity he founded the Interdisciplinary Control Systems Centre (CSC). With the facilities of a research center at his disposal, and with talented colleagues from various disciplines, the centre launched an ambitious program to develop frequency-domain control theories and computer-aided design methods for multivariable control problems. The ideas that emerged from this work, together with highly practical and effective design methods, exercised a crucial influence on the subsequent development of control theory and practice. In 1979, he stepped down from his position as head of the CSC to pursue his philosophical interests in the impact of automation on society, thus beginning a further long and fruitful cycle of research contributions. His final research work was to revisit quantum physics from a control theory viewpoint.

During a long and varied career, Howard received many awards and honors. These include an honorary doctorate from the University of Salford (1987), the IEE Premium, the Heaviside Premium, and the Control Achievement Award (all IEE), Control Systems Science and Engineering Award (IEEE), Oldenburger Medal (ASME), Moulton Medal (IChemE), Sir Harold Hartley Medal and Sir George Thompson Gold Medal (both Institute of Measurement and Control), and the Nordic Process Control Award. He was also a Fellow of the IEE, IChem, the Institute of Measurement and Control, University College London, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society.

Affiliation(s)

University of Manchester

United Kingdom

For contributions to multivariable control theory and design methods