Lennart Ljung

Biography

Lennart Ljung received the Ph.D. in automatic control from the Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden, in 1974.,Since 1976, he has been Professor and Chair of Automatic Control Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden. He has held visiting positions at Institut Problem Upravleniya Im. V.a.trapeznikova Ran, Moscow, Russia, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, Berkeley College, New York, NY, USA, and Newcastle University, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, and has written several books on system identification and estimation.

Dr. Ljung is an IFAC Fellow and an IFAC Advisor. He is as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA), a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), an Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering, an Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, and a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) as well as a member of the Academia European. He was the recipent of honorary doctorates from the Baltic State Technical University in St. Petersburg; from Uppsala University, Sweden; from the Technical University of Troyes, France; from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; and from the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. He was the recipient of the Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize from the IEEE Control Systems Society, in 2003, and the IEEE Control Systems Award, in 2007. He was the recipient of the Quazza Medal, in 2002, and the Nichols Medal in 2017, both from IFAC.