Scott Bortoff

Biography

Scott A. Bortoff (SM’11) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA, in 1985 and 1986, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA, in 1992, all in electrical engineering.

He was an Assistant Professor of electrical and computer engineering and an Associate Professor of electrical and computer engineering with the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, from 1992 to 2000. He held various group and project leaderships in the area of control systems at the United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT, USA, from 2000 to 2009, and the Group Manager of mechatronics with Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge, MA, USA, from 2009 to 2015. He is currently a Distinguished Member of Research Staff at MERL. His current research interests include system-level dynamic modeling and the control of large-scale thermofluid and mechatronic systems, and shaping corporate research strategy in the areas of modeling and systems control.

Dr. Bortoff is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Control System Magazine and serves the Modelica Community in various editorial capacities.