Member Activities Board (MAB) | IEEE Control Systems Society

VP Member Activities

Maria Domenica Di Benedetto

University of l'Aquila

Italy

Maria Domenica Di Benedetto

Biography

Maria Domenica Di Benedetto is a Professor of Automatic Control at University of L’Aquila (Italy). She received her Master degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of Roma "La Sapienza" and holds the PhD degree (“Docteur-Ingenieur” Spécialité Automatique et Traitement du Signal) and the degree “Doctorat d'Etat ès Sciences” (Spécialité Sciences Physiques), both from Université de Paris-Sud (Orsay, France). She has been Adjunct Professor from 1995 to 2002, and McKay Professor from 1990 to 1995, at the Department of EECS of the University of California at Berkeley. She held visiting positions at MIT, at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique in Nantes (France). Her research interests are in the areas of nonlinear and hybrid systems control theory, diagnosability and predictability in cyber-physical systems, and applications to traffic control, smart grids and biological systems.

From 2001 to 2019, Prof. Di Benedetto has been the Director of the Italian Center of Excellence for Research DEWS "Architectures and Design methodologies for Embedded controllers, Wireless interconnect and System-on-Chip" established at the University of L’Aquila in 2001. She has been the President of the Italian Association of Researchers in Automatic Control (SIDRA) from 2013 to 2019. She is the President of the European Embedded Control Institute since 2009.

Dr. Di Benedetto is a Fellow of the IEEE and IFAC. She has been a member of the IEEE Control Systems Technical Fields Award Committee, Chair of the Standing Committee on Fellow Nominations of the IEEE CSS, member of the IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee of the IEEE CSS. She is the IFAC Chair of the Nathaniel B. Nichols Medal Selection Committee for the 2020-2023 triennium. She is currently a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE CSS and is serving as the VP for Membership Activities (2020-21) in the Executive Committee of the IEEE CSS. She is Editor of the IEEE Press Book Series in Control Systems Theory and Applications.

Affiliation(s)

University of l'Aquila

Italy

Awards Committee Chair

Tryphon Georgiou

Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

University of California, Irvine

United States

Awards Nomination Committee Chair

Richard Middleton

University of Newcastle

Australia

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.

Affiliation(s)

University of Newcastle

Australia

Chapter Activities Committee Chair

Wei Xing Zheng

Distinguished Professor

Western Sydney University

Australia

Distinguished Lecturer Committee Chair

Masayuki Fujita

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Masayuki Fujita

Biography

Masayuki Fujita is a Professor with the Department of Mechanical and Control Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is also a Research Supervisor for Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST). He received Dr. of Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from Waseda University, Tokyo, in 1987. Prior to his appointment at Tokyo Tech, he held faculty positions at Kanazawa University and Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. His research interests include passivity-based control and estimation in robotics and vision, distributed energy management systems, and robust control with its industrial applications. He is the coauthor of the books "Passivity-Based Control and Estimation in Networked Robotics" (Springer) and "Introduction to Feedback Control" (in Japanese, more than 45,000 copies). He is a recipient of the 2008 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award. He also received the SICE Education Award and the Outstanding Paper Awards from SICE and ISCIE. He was the IEEE CSS Vice President Conference Activities, a member of IEEE CSS Board of Governors, and the General Chair of the 2010 IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control. He was also the Head of SICE Technical Division on Control, the Chair of SICE Technical Committee on Control Theory, and the Director of SICE. He has served/been serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Automatica, Asian Journal of Control, and an Editor for SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration.

Affiliation(s)

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Fellow Evaluation Committee Chair

Geir Dullerud

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

Geir Dullerud

Biography

Geir E. Dullerud (F'08) received the B.A.Sc. degree in engineering science and the M.A.Sc. degree in electrical engineering both from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 1988 and 1990, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., in 1994.

Since 1998, he has been a Faculty Member with the Mechanical Science and Engineering Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Urbana, IL, USA, where he is currently a Professor. He is the Director of the Decision and Control Laboratory of the Coordinated Science Laboratory. He has held visiting positions in electrical engineering at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2013, and in aeronautics and astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, during 2005.2006. From 1996 to 1998, he was an Assistant Professor of applied mathematics at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. He was a Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Control and Dynamical Systems Department, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1994 and 1995. He has published two books: A Course in Robust Control Theory (Springer, 2000) and Control of Uncertain Sampled-Data Systems (Birkhauser, 1996). His current research interests include games and networked control, robotic vehicles, hybrid dynamical systems, and cyber-physical systems security.

Dr. Dullerud is currently Associate Editor of the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization and served in a similar role for Automatica. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1999, and the Xerox Faculty Research Award at UIUC in 2005. He became an ASME Fellow in 2011. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

Affiliation(s)

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

Fellow Nominations Chair

Karl Johansson

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

Karl Johansson

Biography

Karl H. Johansson is Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He received MSc and PhD degrees from Lund University. He has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, Nanyang Technological University, Institute of Advanced Studies Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Zhejiang University. His research interests are in networked control systems, cyber-physical systems, and applications in transportation, energy, and automation systems. He is a member of the Swedish Research Council's Scientific Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering Sciences. He has served on the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors, the IFAC Executive Board, and he is currently Vice-President of the European Control Association Council. He has been on the Editorial Boards of Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, and IET Control Theory and Applications, and currently serves on the Editorial Boards of ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems and European Journal of Control. He has received several best paper awards and other distinctions from IEEE, IFAC, and ACM. In 2017 he was awarded Distinguished Professor of the Swedish Research Council and in 2009 he was awarded Wallenberg Scholar, as one of the first ten scholars from all sciences, by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. He was awarded Future Research Leader from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research in 2005. He received the triennial Young Author Prize from IFAC in 1996 and the Peccei Award from the International Institute of System Analysis, Austria, in 1993. He was granted Young Researcher Awards from Scania in 1996 and from Ericsson in 1998 and 1999. He is an IEEE Fellow and Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Affiliation(s)

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

History Committee Chair

Alberto Isidori

University di Roma "La Sapienza"

Italy

Industry Activities Committee Chair

Alf Isaksson

Student Activities Committee Chair

Giulia Giordano

Università di Trento

Italy

WiC Chair

Dennice F. Gayme

Johns Hopkins University

United States