Board of Governors | IEEE Control Systems Society

Board of Governors Executive Officers

2020 - 2020

Anuradha Annaswamy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

Anuradha Annaswamy

Biography

Dr. Anuradha Annaswamy received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 1985. She has been a member of the faculty at Yale, Boston University, and MIT where currently she is the director of the Active-Adaptive Control Laboratory and a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests pertain to adaptive control theory and applications to aerospace, automotive, and propulsion systems, cyber-physical systems science, and CPS applications to Smart Grids, Smart Cities, and Smart Infrastructures. She is the author of a hundred journal publications and numerous conference publications, co-author of a graduate textbook on adaptive control (2004), co-editor of several reports including “Systems & Control for the future of humanity, research agenda: Current and future roles, impact and grand challenges,” (Elsevier) “IEEE Vision for Smart Grid Control: 2030 and Beyond,” (IEEE Xplore) and Impact of Control Technology, (ieeecss.org/main/IoCT-report, ieeecss.org/general/IoCT2-report).

Dr. Annaswamy has received several awards including the George Axelby and Control Systems Magazine best paper awards from the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), the Presidential Young Investigator award from NSF, the Hans Fisher Senior Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technische Universität München, the Donald Groen Julius Prize from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, a Distinguished Member Award, and a Distinguished Lecturer Award from IEEE CSS. Dr. Annaswamy is a Fellow of the IEEE and IFAC. She has served as the Vice President for Conference Activities (2014-15) and is currently serving as the VP for Technical Activities (2017-18) in the Executive Committee of the IEEE CSS.

Positions & Affiliations

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

2020 - 2020

Thomas Parisini

Imperial College London, UK

United Kingdom

Thomas Parisini

Biography

Thomas Parisini received the "Laurea" degree (Cum Laude and printing honours) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Genoa in 1988 and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in 1993. He was with Politecnico di Milano and since 2001 he is professor and Danieli Endowed Chair of Automation Engineering with University of Trieste. Since 2009, Thomas Parisini is Deputy Rector of University of Trieste and since 2010 he holds the Chair of Industrial Control at the Imperial College London. He authored or co-authored more than 200 research papers in archival journals, book chapters, and international conference proceedings. His research interests include neural-network approximations for optimal control problems, fault diagnosis for nonlinear and distributed systems and nonlinear model predictive control systems. Among several awards, he is a co-recipient of the 2004 Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks and a recipient of the 2007 IEEE Distinguished Member Award. He is involved as Project Leader in several projects funded by the European Union, by the Italian Ministry for Research, and he is currently leading consultancy projects with some major process control companies (ABB, Danieli, Duferco, Electrolux, among others). Thomas Parisini is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. He was the Chair of the Conference Editorial Board and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society. Moreover, he was an elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society and of the European Union Control Association (EUCA) as well as a member of the board of evaluators of the 7th Framework ICT Research Program of the European Union. Thomas Parisini is currently serving as an Associate Editor of Int. J. of Control and served in several editorial boards of international journal including the IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Automatica, and the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks. He was involved in the committees of several international conferences. In particular, he was the Program Chair of the 2008 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and he is General Co-Chair of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Thomas Parisini is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Positions & Affiliations

Imperial College London, UK

United Kingdom

2020 - 2021

Robert Bitmead

University of California, San Diego

United States

2020 - 2021

Alessandro Giua

University of Cagliari

Italy

2019 - 2020

Jing Sun

University of Michigan

United States

2019 - 2020

Magnus Egerstedt

Georgia Institute of Technology

United States

2020 - 2021

Andrew G. Alleyne

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

2019 - 2020

João Hespanha

University of California, Santa Barbara

United States

João Hespanha

Biography

João P. Hespanha received the Licenciatura in electrical and computer engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal in 1991 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and applied science from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut in 1998. From 1999 to 2001, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2002, where he currently holds a Professor position with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prof. Hespanha is Associate Director for the Center for Control, Dynamical-systems, and Computation (CCDC), Vice-Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a member of the Executive Committee for the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB). From 2004—2007 he was an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

His current research interests include hybrid and switched systems; the modeling and control of communication networks; distributed control over communication networks (also known as networked control systems); the use of vision in feedback control; and stochastic modeling in biology.

Dr. Hespanha is the recipient of the Yale University’s Henry Prentiss Becton Graduate Prize for exceptional achievement in research in Engineering and Applied Science, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the 2005 best paper award at the 2nd Int. Conf. on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, the 2005 Automatica Theory/Methodology best paper prize, the 2006 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award, and the 2009 Ruberti Young Researcher Prize. Dr. Hespanha is a Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE distinguished lecturer since 2007.

Positions & Affiliations

University of California, Santa Barbara

United States

2019 - 2020

Jorge Cortés

University of California, San Diego

United States

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

Board of Governors Appointed Members

2020 - 2020

Hong Chen

Tongji University

China

2020 - 2020

Sara Dadras

Utah State University

United States

2020 - 2020

Manuel Duarte

Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana

Chile

2020 - 2020

Karanjit Kalsi

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

United States

2020 - 2020

Radhakant Padhi

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

India

Radhakant Padhi

Biography

Prof. Radhakant Padhi earned his Masters in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1996, followed by his Ph.D. from Missouri University of Science and Technology (MST) – Rolla, USA, in 2001. After two years of postdoctoral studies, he joined the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as a faculty member in December 2003, where currently he a full professor. He has briefly served the Defence Research and Development Organisation of India as a scientist during 1996-1997.

Prof. Padhi’s research interests are in the broad area of systems theory and applications, with emphasis on synthesis algorithms in optimal control, nonlinear control, intelligent control and state estimation. He works on diverse application areas such as guidance and control of aerospace vehicles, target tracking for guidance, integrated guidance control and estimation, automatic drug delivery for biomedical systems, control of distributed parameter systems and industrial process control. He has more than 240 publications in international journals and conferences, three of which have been cited more than 100 times. Two of his books (one on Satellite Formation Flying and one on Applied Optimal Control and State Estimation) are going to be published soon by Springer and Wiley respectively. The nonlinear and optimal guidance and control algorithms developed by him are of wide applicability across various disciplines and have been accepted well across the globe.

Prof. Padhi is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE), a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Communication Engineers (IETE), a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers (India), an Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the Council of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He is a Technical Committee member of Aerospace Control in both IEEE and IFAC. He is a life member of the Aeronautical Society of India, Systems Society of India and Soft Computing Research Society of India. He is a steering committee member of the Asian Control Association as well, representing India. He has received several awards for his valuable research contributions as well, the most recent being the Excellence in Aerospace Education award from the Aeronautical Society of India. He is currently an associate editor of three journals, namely IFAC Mechatronics, Unmanned Systems, and Intl. J. of Aeronautical & Space Sciences. He has executed over 25 industry-sponsored research projects and delivered several keynote and plenary talks in various conferences.

Positions & Affiliations

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

India

2020 - 2020

Yildray Yildiz

Bilkent University

Turkey

Board of Governors Elected Members

2018 - 2020

Andrew G. Alleyne

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

2018 - 2020

Maria Corradini

Università di Camerino

Italy

2018 - 2020

Jorge Cortés

University of California, San Diego

United States

Jorge Cortés

Biography

Positions & Affiliations

University of California, San Diego

United States

2018 - 2020

João Hespanha

University of California, Santa Barbara

United States

João Hespanha

Biography

Positions & Affiliations

University of California, Santa Barbara

United States

2018 - 2020

Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue

Directeur de Recherche CNRS

France

2018 - 2020

Jing Sun

University of Michigan

United States

2019 - 2021

Venkataramanan (Ragu) Balakrishnan

Purdue University

United States

2019 - 2021

Maria Domenica Di Benedetto

University of l'Aquila

Italy

2019 - 2021

Dennice F. Gayme

Johns Hopkins University

United States

2019 - 2021

Zongli Lin

University of Virginia

United States

2019 - 2021

George J. Pappas

University of Pennsylvania

United States

2019 - 2021

Jacquelien Scherpen

University of Groningen

Netherlands

2020 - 2022

Carolyn Beck

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

2020 - 2022

Christos G. Cassandras

Boston University

United States

Christos G. Cassandras

Biography

Christos G. Cassandras is Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Boston University, Head of the Division of Systems Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and co-founder of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering. He received degrees from Yale University, Stanford University, and Harvard University. In 1982-84 he was with ITP Boston, Inc. and in 1984-1996 he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts/Amherst. He specializes in the areas of discrete event and hybrid systems, cooperative control, stochastic optimization, and computer simulation, with applications to computer and sensor networks, manufacturing systems, and transportation systems. He has published over 350 refereed papers in these areas, and five books. He has collaborated with The MathWorks, Inc. in the development of the discrete event and hybrid system simulator SimEvents. Dr. Cassandras was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1998-2009) and the 2012 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is the recipient of several awards, including the 2011 IEEE Control Systems Technology Award, the Distinguished Member Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2006), IFAC’s 1999 Harold Chestnut Prize, 2011 and 2014 prizes for the IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge competition, the 2014 Engineering Distinguished Scholar Award at Boston University, several honorary professorships, a 1991 Lilly Fellowship and a 2012 Kern Fellowship. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IFAC.

Positions & Affiliations

Boston University

United States

2020 - 2022

Elisa Franco

University of California, Riverside

United States

2020 - 2022

Jonathan How

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

2020 - 2022

Miroslav Krstic

University of California, San Diego

United States

2020 - 2022

Yasamin Mostofi

University of California, Santa Barbara

United States