IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Best Paper Award

To recognize an outstanding paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.

Historical Background:

Established in 2015.

Prize:

A photo-engrave 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 is presented annually at the Awards Ceremony of the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Basis for Judgement:

The basis for judging shall be originality, potential impact on the foundations of network systems, importance and practical significance in applications, and clarity.

Eligibility:

Papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems 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:

A nomination letter and up to 3 additional supporting letters (maximum of 4 letters) describing the excellence of the nominated paper should be submitted on the IEEE Control Systems Society Awards nomination system, http://awards.paperplaza.net/ by May 15. Material sent by email or via regular mail will NOT be considered. A nomination shall include:

A letter from the nominator describing the outstanding features of the paper.
Details for up to three additional supporting individuals who are familiar with the paper who have agreed to provide a reference letter.
An electronic copy of the paper itself

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

"Differentially Private Distributed Convex Optimization via Functional Perturbation"

IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 395-408, 2018

Erfan Nozari, Pavankumar Tallapragada, and Jorge Cortés

Jorge Cortés

Biography

Jorge Cortés is a Professor with the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He received the Licenciatura degree in mathematics from the Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering mathematics from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, in 2001. He held postdoctoral positions at the Systems, Signals and Control Department of the University of Twente in 2002 and at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2002 to 2004. He was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 2004 to 2007.

Dr. Cortés is the author of "Geometric, Control and Numerical Aspects of Nonholonomic Systems" (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2002) and co-author of "Distributed Control of Robotic Networks" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009). He received an NSF CAREER award in 2006 and was the recipient of the 2006 Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics Young Researcher Prize. He has co-authored papers that have won the 2008 IEEE Control Systems Outstanding Paper Award, the 2009 SIAM Review SIGEST selection from the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, the 2012 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award in the Theory category, and the 2019 IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Outstanding Paper Award. He has been an IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer (2010-2014) and is an IEEE Fellow. He served in the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2010-2012), IEEE Control Systems magazine (2012-2016), IEEE Access (2015-2017), Systems and Control Letters (2009-2012), and European Journal of Control (2006-2009) and in the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2005-2009). He currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of Nonlinear Science and Journal of Geometric Mechanics

Positions & Affiliations

University of California, San Diego

United States

2017

"Traffic Network Control from Temporal Logic Specifications"

IEEE Transaction on Control of Network Systems, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 162-172, 2016

Samuel Coogan, Ebru Aydin Gol, Murat Arcak

, and Calin A. Belta

2016

"Controllability Metrics, Limitations and Algorithms for Complex Networks"

IEEE Transaction on Control of Network Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 40-52, 2014

Francesco Bullo

, Sandro Zampieri, and Fabio Pasqualetti