Member Activities Board (MAB) | IEEE Control Systems Society

VP Member Activities

Magnus Egerstedt

Georgia Institute of Technology

United States

Awards Committee Chair

2019 - 2020

Tryphon Georgiou

Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

University of California, Irvine

United States

Awards Nomination Committee Chair

2020 - 2021

Richard Middleton

Biography

Professor Richard H. Middleton was born on 10th December 1961 in Newcastle, Australia. He received his B.Sc. (1983), B.Eng. (Hons-I)(1984) and Ph.D. (1987) from the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has had visiting appointments at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Michigan, and the Hamilton Institute (National University of Ireland Maynooth).

In 1991 he was awarded the Australian Telecommunications and Electronics Research Board Outstanding Young Investigator award. In 1994 he was awarded the Royal Society of New South Wales Edgeworth-David Medal; he was elected to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE starting 1999, and received the M.A. Sargent Award from the Electrical College of Engineers Australia in 2004. He has served as an associate editor, associate editor-at-large and senior editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology, and Automatica, as Head of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Newcastle; as a panel member and sub-panel chair for the Australian Research Council; as Vice President - Member Activities and also as Vice President – Conference Activities of the IEEE Control Systems Society; President (2011) of the IEEE Control Systems Society; as Director of the ARC Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control; a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Control Systems Society, and as a research professor at the Hamilton Institute, The National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

He is currently director of the University of Newcastle Priority Research Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control. His research interests include a broad range of Control Systems Theory and Applications, including Systems Biology.

Positions & Affiliations

University of Newcastle

Australia

Chapter Activities Committee Chair

2018 - 2020

Wei Xing Zheng

Distinguished Professor

Western Sydney University

Australia

Distinguished Lecturers Committee Chair

Tariq Samad

Honeywell Labs

United States

Tariq Samad

Biography

Tariq Samad holds the Honeywell/W.R. Sweatt Chair at the Technological Leadership Institute at the University of Minnesota, where he also serves as the Director of Graduate Studies for the nation’s longest-running M.S. in Management of Technology program and has an adjunct faculty appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Samad joined TLI in 2016 after a 30-year career with Honeywell, for the last half of which he was a Corporate Fellow with Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions (ACS). During his career with Honeywell, he contributed to and led automation and control technology developments for applications in electric power systems, clean energy, building management, the process industries, automotive engines, unmanned aircraft, and advanced manufacturing. His research interests relate broadly to automation, intelligence, and autonomy for complex engineering systems. In 2015-2016 he also served as the first Global Innovation Leader for the business.

Dr. Samad was the President of the American Automatic Control Council for 2014-15 and the President of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2009. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and of IFAC and the recipient of a few awards including the 2008 IEEE CSS Control Systems Technology Award, a Distinguished Member Award from IEEE CSS, and an IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He is the former editor-in-chief of IEEE Press and has recently launched a new book series for Wiley/IEEE Press on “Technology Management, Innovation, and Leadership.” He is the founding chair of the new Industry Committee for IFAC. Dr. Samad holds 20 patents and has authored or edited over 100 publications. He is currently working on the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Systems and Control (co-editor-in-chief, Springer, 2014). He was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Smart Grid Interoperability Panel and he co-led technology deep dives on advanced sensing, controls, and platforms for manufacturing as part of the U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Partnership initiative. Dr. Samad holds a B.S. degree in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Positions & Affiliations

Honeywell Labs

United States

Fellow Evaluation Committee Chair

Roy Smith

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich

Switzerland

Roy Smith

Biography

Roy Smith has been an Adjunct Professor at the Automatic Control Laboratory in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering since 2011.

He was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1958 and completed his B.E., Hons. (Electrical) and M.E. (Electrical) degrees at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, in 1980 and 1981 respectively.

Between 1981 and 1983, he worked as an electrical engineer on a series of projects for Victoria University, Wellington, and the New Zealand Energy Research and Development Committee; Worley Downey Mandeno Ltd; and the Institute of Nuclear Sciences in New Zealand. From 1983 to 1985, he was an electrical engineer and project manager for Olson Engineering Inc. in California, USA.

In 1985 he embarked on his postgraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, where he received an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1986 and 1990 respectively. From 1989 to 1990, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

In 1990 he joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, where he held the positions of Assistant Professor from 1990 to 1996, Associate Professor from 1996 to 2002, and Professor from 2002 to 2010. Professor Smith has also held Visiting Professor positions at the University of California, Berkeley, USA; the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; Cambridge University, Great Britain; and the Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm, Sweden.

Professor Smith was a consultant to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CA, USA, from 1990 to 1992 and from 1995 to 2006 on flexible space structures, aeromanoeuvering entry vehicles on Mars, and formation flying of science spacecraft in deep space. Between 1997 and 1998, he was a consultant to Motion Engineering, Inc., CA, USA, on the development of time-optimal motion control algorithms. He has also consulted for Musyn Inc, MN, USA and Integrated Systems Inc., CA, USA, on the development of automation design software. From 2008 to 2010 he was a consultant for LaunchPoint, CA, USA on the development of magnetically levitated bearings, and precision control and coordination algorithms for spacecraft.

Positions & Affiliations

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich

Switzerland

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich

Switzerland

Fellow Nominations Committee Chair

Lucy Pao

University of Colorado

United States

History Committee Chair

Tyrone Duncan

University of Kansas

United States

Industry Activities Committee Chair

Kingsley Fregene

Lockheed Martin

United States

Kingsley Fregene

Biography

Kingsley Fregene is the Group Leader for Robotics & Intelligent Systems at Lockheed Martin, Advanced Technology Laboratories (LM ATL) in Cherry Hill, NJ, USA. His team develops advanced Robotics, Autonomy and Unmanned Systems technologies in the aerial, ground and maritime domains. Notable among his team’s recent accomplishments are demonstrations of the world’s first multi-domain autonomous, unmanned vehicle chain and the world’s first autonomous wholly-rotating unmanned aircraft system (UAS).

He has held key technical and leadership roles in many advanced technology development projects for the U.S. DoD. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, he was with Honeywell Labs, where he had important roles on several DARPA and AFRL air vehicle autonomy programs. He has also held research positions at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Labs, where his work included the development of cooperative multi-robot localization and mapping technologies and intelligent steering control of down-hole drilling devices for Oil & Gas and GeoEngineering applications. He serves as a reviewer for the National Science Foundation panel for Engineering Research Centers and on the editorial board of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society, where is an Associate Editor and has also served as Guest Editor for IEEE Control Systems Magazine. He is also the current chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Aerospace Controls.

Dr. Fregene has received numerous awards in recognition of his leadership and technical excellence, including a 2016 NOVA Award (Lockheed Martin Corporation’s highest honor; awarded to the top 1% of the corporation’s staff) and the 2013 Black Engineer of the Year Award for Outstanding Technical Contribution. He holds 5 patents and has over 52 publications. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo Canada.

Positions & Affiliations

Lockheed Martin

United States

Student Activities Committee Chair

Elisa Franco

University of California, Riverside

United States

Women in Control Committee Chair

2020 - 2021

Jacquelien Scherpen

University of Groningen

Netherlands