Richard Braatz

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Richard Braatz

Biography

Richard D. Braatz is the Edwin R. Gilliland Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he does research in applied mathematics and robust optimal control theory and its application to advanced manufacturing systems. He received an MS and PhD from the California Institute of Technology and was a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University before moving to MIT.

His past professional service includes the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Control Systems Magazine, the President of the American Automatic Control Council, General Chair of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and of the American Control Conference, and Vice-Chair of the IFAC Conference Board. Honors include the AACC Donald P. Eckman Award, the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award from the Engineering Research Council, the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize, and best paper awards from IEEE- and IFAC-sponsored control journals. He is a Fellow of IEEE and IFAC and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

Position(s) & Affiliation(s)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States