IEEE CSS Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize | IEEE Control Systems Society

To recognize distinguished contributions to control systems science or engineering.

Historical Background:

Revised 2000, 2001.

Prize:

$2,000, photo-engraved Plaque, and 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) The recipient gives a plenary lecture at the CDC evaluating a significant contribution to control systems science or engineering.

Funding:

Funded by the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Presentation:

At the Awards Ceremony of the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Basis for Judgement:

The technical merit of the distinguished contributions to control systems science or engineering. The broader impacts of the contribution towards the benefit of society at large and towards the IEEE Control Systems Society diversity and inclusiveness goals in terms of geography, gender, and work sector.

Recipients

2009

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.

Positions & Affiliations

McGill University

Canada

For fundamental contributions in the areas of stochastic, adaptive, large scale and hybrid systems

2008

Christopher Byrnes

For fundamental contributions to algebraic and geometric approaches to systems and control

2007

P.S. Krishnaprasad

For fundamental contributions to the theory of control of natural and synthetic physical systems

2006

Arthur Krener

For fundamental contributions to the foundations of geometric nonlinear control theory

2005

Pravin Varaiya

2004

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 stochastic control and dynamic game theory, robust nonlinear and adaptive control, and control over wired and wireless networks

2003

Lennart Ljung

For seminal contributions to identification and adaptive control

2002

Eduardo Sontag

For seminal contributions to nonlinear system theory

2001

Alberto Isidori

For seminal contributions to nonlinear control

2000

Mathukumalli Vidyasagar

Biography

Dr. Mathukumalli Vidyasagar 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. Between 1989 and 2000, he built up CAIR into a leading research laboratory with about 40 scientists and a total of about 85 persons, working in areas such as flight control, robotics, neural networks, and image processing. In 2000 he moved to the Indian private sector as an Executive Vice President of India's largest software company, Tata Consultancy Services. In the city of Hyderabad, he created the Advanced Technology Center, an industrial R&D laboratory of around 80 engineers, working in areas such as computational biology, quantitative finance, e-security, identity management, and open source software to support Indian languages. In 2009 he retired from TCS at the age of 62, and joined the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas, as a Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Systems Biology Science. In his latest incarnation, he conducts teaching and research in two distinct areas: computational biology and quantitative finance. He is also actively involved in UTD's newly created or planned programs in Bio-Engineering and Systems Engineering & Management.

Positions & Affiliations

University of Texas, Dallas

United States