Christopher Kellett

Biography

Prof. Christopher Kellett earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from the University of California Riverside in 1997, and the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2000 and 2002, respectively.

He subsequently held postdoctoral research positions at Ecole des Mines de Paris (France) in the Centre d'Automatique et Systemes, at the University of Melbourne (Australia) in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and at the Hamilton Institute (Ireland), based at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.  Prof. Kellett joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Newcastle in 2006.  He has taught a range of subjects across electrical, computer, and telecommunications engineering as well as Carbon Accounting and Energy Auditing (ENGG3860) and CCL201x - International Climate Change Law and Policy available online via edX and co-coordinated with Dr. E. Aydos (U. Newcastle, Newcastle Law School) and A/Prof. S. Rudolph (Kyoto University).  In 2020 Prof. Kellett moved to the Australian National University to take up the role of Director of the Research School of Electrical, Energy, and Materials Engineering, while maintaining a conjoint appointment at the University of Newcastle in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

From 2012-2016, Prof. Kellett was supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. He has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment (2011) and a Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany, 2012-2013). In 2013 he was one of eight Australian researchers selected for the Australia-Japan Emerging Research Leaders Exchange Program jointly sponsored by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Engineering Academy of Japan, and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.

In 2012, jointly with co-authors Dr. B. Rüffer (U. Newcastle), A/Prof. P. Dower (U. Melbourne), and Prof. S. Weller (U. Newcastle), Prof. Kellett received the IET Control Theory and its Applications Premium Award for the best paper published in the journal in 2010-2011.  In 2017, jointly with co-authors Salman Hafeez (U. Newcastle) and Prof. S. Weller (U. Newcastle) he received the inaugural IFAC Foundation Award for demonstrating contributions of systems and control techniques in the area of sustainable development.

Prof. Kellett is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Control Systems Letters, and Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems.  He was previously an Associate Editor for the European Journal on Control (2013-2019) and was a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board during 2007-2017.  He has served on the International Program Committees for several IFAC (International Federation on Automatic Control) conferences.