IEEE Control Systems Letters Editorial Board | IEEE Control Systems Society

IEEE L-CSS Editor-in-Chief

IEEE L-CSS Senior Editor

Murat Arcak

University of California, Berkeley

United States

Giovanni Cherubini

Biography

I joined the Communication Systems research staff at IBM Research – Zurich in 1987, after receiving a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at San Diego. My research initially focused on high-speed data transmission systems. I participated and contributed to the work of several standards bodies, including IEEE 802, ATM Forum, Committee T1, and ITU-T. During my involvement in standardization efforts, I was co-editor of the 100BASE-T2 IEEE Standard for Fast Ethernet transmission over voice-grade cables, and proposed a new filter-bank modulation scheme for very high-speed digital subscriber lines, known as filtered multitone modulation.

More recently, I focused on advanced servo control for data storage systems, contributing to the realization of the first fully-functional atomic force microscope-based data-storage prototype system, internally dubbed "millipede". The tremendous potential of techniques for fast scanner positioning with nanometer-scale accuracy in scanning-probe storage devices and other applications, e.g., molecular biology, has been widely recognized. Further, our innovative servo control technologies for future generations of tape drive systems routinely achieve nanometer-scale accuracy in the head positioning of tape drives. This accuracy has contributed to several world-record storage areal density demonstrations, the most recent one of which in 2017 achieved a density of 201 Gb/in², a breakthrough that represents the equivalent of a 330-terabyte tape cartridge that could fit in the palm of one's hand. My current research focuses on artificial intelligence and machine learning based on non-von-Neumann computing architectures.

I served as Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications in the area of CDMA Systems, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and Technical Editor of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. Currently, I am Senior Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Letters and Associate Editor of IFAC Mechatronics. I was Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications for the special issues on Copper Wire Access Technologies for High Performance Networks, and Multiuser Detection Techniques with Application to Wired and Wireless Communications Systems, as well as Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology for the special issue on Advanced Servo Control for Emerging Data Storage Systems.

Since 2008, I have been a member of the invention disclosure evaluation team at IBM Research – Zurich. Currently, I serve as Chairperson of the Review Committee for invention disclosures in the area of Cloud and Computing Infrastructure. I am an IBM Master Inventor and an IEEE Fellow, have over 120 refereed publications, and hold over 200 patents in the areas of signal processing, big data, control, and communication systems.

Affiliation

IBM Research, Zürich

Switzerland

Jamal Daafouz

University of Lorraine

France

Fabrizio Dabbene

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

Italy

Fabrizio Dabbene

Biography

Fabrizio Dabbene received the Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree in Systems and Computer Engineering in 1999, both from Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is currently holding a Senior Researcher position at the institute CNR IEIIT of the National Research Council of Italy, where he is the coordinator of the Systems Modeling & Control (SMC) Group. He has held visiting and research positions at The University of Iowa, at Penn State University and at the RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences) Institute of Control Science, Moscow.

His research interests include probabilistic and randomized methods for systems and control, robust control and identification of complex systems, convex optimization, dynamical social networks, space robotics, and precision agriculture. On these topics, he has published more than 150 research papers, which include more than forty articles published in international journals. He is co-author of the book Randomized Algorithms for Analysis and Control of Uncertain Systems, Springer-Verlag, published in two editions, and editor of the book Probabilistic and Randomized Methods for Design under Uncertainty, also published by Springer. He has been co-organizer of several invited sessions and special courses, and of three Conference Workshops at CDC-00, MSC-08 and MSC-10. He is a recipient of the Outstanding Paper Award from EurAgeng in 2010. He served as Associate Editor for Automatica and as Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Robust Control.

Dr. Dabbene is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and he has taken various responsibilities within the IEEE Control Systems Society. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2008-2012), Program Chair for the 2010 IEEE Multiconference on Systems and Control, Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on CACSD (2010-2013), member of CEB (2002-2008), IPC member of various IEEE conferences, and member of several CDC Best Student Paper Award Committees. He is currently Senior Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Letters. He served as elected member of the IEEE-CSS Board of Governors for the years 2014-2016, and as IEEE-CSS Vice-President for Publication Activities for the years 2015-2016.

Affiliation

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

Italy

Martin Guay

Queen's University

Canada

Laura Menini

University of Rome Tor Vergata

Italy

Christophe Prieur

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

France

Carla Seatzu

University of Cagliari

Italy

Roy Smith

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich

Switzerland

Roy Smith

Biography

Roy Smith has been an Adjunct Professor at the Automatic Control Laboratory in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering since 2011.

He was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1958 and completed his B.E., Hons. (Electrical) and M.E. (Electrical) degrees at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, in 1980 and 1981 respectively.

Between 1981 and 1983, he worked as an electrical engineer on a series of projects for Victoria University, Wellington, and the New Zealand Energy Research and Development Committee; Worley Downey Mandeno Ltd; and the Institute of Nuclear Sciences in New Zealand. From 1983 to 1985, he was an electrical engineer and project manager for Olson Engineering Inc. in California, USA.

In 1985 he embarked on his postgraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, where he received an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1986 and 1990 respectively. From 1989 to 1990, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

In 1990 he joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, where he held the positions of Assistant Professor from 1990 to 1996, Associate Professor from 1996 to 2002, and Professor from 2002 to 2010. Professor Smith has also held Visiting Professor positions at the University of California, Berkeley, USA; the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; Cambridge University, Great Britain; and the Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm, Sweden.

Professor Smith was a consultant to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CA, USA, from 1990 to 1992 and from 1995 to 2006 on flexible space structures, aeromanoeuvering entry vehicles on Mars, and formation flying of science spacecraft in deep space. Between 1997 and 1998, he was a consultant to Motion Engineering, Inc., CA, USA, on the development of time-optimal motion control algorithms. He has also consulted for Musyn Inc, MN, USA and Integrated Systems Inc., CA, USA, on the development of automation design software. From 2008 to 2010 he was a consultant for LaunchPoint, CA, USA on the development of magnetically levitated bearings, and precision control and coordination algorithms for spacecraft.

Affiliation

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich

Switzerland

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich

Switzerland

Sophie Tarbouriech

Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

France

Valery Ugrinovskii

University of New South Wales Canberra

Australia

Valery Ugrinovskii

Biography

I received an undergraduate degree in Applied Mathematics and PhD degree in Physics and Mathematics from the State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in 1982 and 1990, respectively.

From 1982 to 1995, I held research positions with the Radiophysical Research Institute, Nizhny Novgorod. From 1995 to 1996, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Haifa, Israel. In 1996 I joined the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia, where I am currently full Professor in the School of Engineering and Information Technology. I held visiting appointments at the Australian National University (2005 and 2012), Stuttgart University (2013) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2014).

I am an Associate Editor for Automatica, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization and IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS). In 2012-2018 I served as an Associate Editor for IET Control Theory and Applications. My current research interests include decentralized and distributed control and estimation, stability and filtering of quantum control systems, stochastic control and filtering theory, robust control theory.

My colleagues at the UNSW know me as Valeri Ougrinovski, although the Mathematical Reviews, ISI Web of Science and Scopus transliterated my Russian name as Valery Ugrinovskii. When I moved to Australia, I kept using the latter spelling in all subsequent journal and conference papers.

My research interests are in the field of Mathematical Control Systems Theory, specifically in the following areas:

Large-scale interconnected systems, decentralized and distributed control
Stability and stabilization of quantum systems
Robust Stability and Robust Control, Robust Estimation and Filtering
Stochastic Systems, Stochastic Stability and Control
In the past, I have been working in the areas of infinite-dimensional systems and signal processing.

Affiliation

University of New South Wales Canberra

Australia

Ji-Feng Zhang

Chinese Academy of Sciences

China

IEEE L-CSS Associate Editor

Pedro Aguiar

University of Porto

Portugal

Duarte Antunes

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Kartik Ariyur

L-CSS Associate Editor

Purdue University

United States

Francesco Basile

TCST Associate Editor

Biography

I received the Laurea Triennale (B.Sc Degree) and the Laurea Specialistica (M.Sc Degree) in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 2005 and 2007, respectively. I received a Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy, in 2011. My advisors were Prof. Silvano Pupolin (University of Padova) and Prof. Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota). From January 2009 to September 2010, I was a visiting scholar at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA, within the group of Prof. Georgios B. Giannakis. From January 2011 to November 2014 I was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Digital Technology Center of the University of Minnesota, USA.

I am an Assistant Professor within the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering (ECEE) at the University of Colorado Boulder. I am also a member of the Affiliate Faculty Program of the Department of Applied Mathematics (APPM) at the University of Colorado Boulder.

I hold a courtesy position as a Visiting Professor at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Prior to joining the University of Colorado Boulder, from December 2014 to August 2018, I was a Senior Scientist at NREL. My research efforts were on developing optimization and control algorithms, with particular emphasis on distributed architectures for power and energy systems. I was the Principal Investigator of a project funded by the DOE Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-e) under the program Network Optimized Distributed Energy Systems (NODES).

Affiliation

University of Colorado, Boulder

United States

Claudio De Persis

L-CSS Associate Editor

University of Groningen

Netherlands

Subhrakanti Dey

TCNS Associate Editor; L-CSS Associate Editor

Uppsala University

Sweden

Mario di Bernardo

University of Naples Federico II

Italy

Mario di Bernardo

Biography

Mario di Bernardo (SM’06–F’12) received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, in 1994, and the Ph.D. degrees in engineering mathematics from the University of Bristol, U.K., in 1998.

He is currently a Professor of Automatic Control with the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy. He is also Professor (part-time) of Nonlinear Systems and Control with the University of Bristol, U.K. His research interests include the analysis, synchronization, and control of complex network systems, piecewise-smooth dynamical systems, nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear control with applications to engineering and computational biology. He has authored or coauthored more than 250 international scientific publications, a research monograph, and two edited books.

Dr. di Bernardo was elevated to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the analysis, control, and applications of nonlinear systems, and complex networks, in January 2012. He was bestowed the title of “Cavaliere” of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for scientific merits from the President of Italy on February 28, 2007. From 2009 to 2017, he was President of the Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity. From 2011 to 2014, he was the Vice President for financial activities of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. In 2014, he was appointed as a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He was Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society for the two-year term 2016–2017. He is Senior Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, and Associate Editor and member for the Steering Committee of the IEEE Control Systems Letters, the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control System Society and the European Control Association (EUCA). He is regularly invited as Plenary Speaker in Italy and abroad.

Affiliation

University of Naples Federico II

Italy

University of Bristol

United Kingdom

Christian Ebenbauer

L-CSS Associate Editor

Universität Stuttgart

Germany

Martin Enqvist

Linköping University

Sweden

Timm Faulwasser

TU Dortmund

Germany

Elisa Franco

University of California, Riverside

United States

Paolo Frasca

CNRS, GIPSA-lab Grenoble

France

Bahman Gharesifard

Queen’s University

Canada

Giulia Giordano

Università di Trento

Italy

Antoine Girard

CNRS, Centrale Supelec

France

Luigi Glielmo

University of Sannio

Italy

João Manoel Gomes da Silva Jr.

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Brazil

Lars Grüne

University of Bayreuth

Germany

Dimitrios Hristu-Varsakelis

University of Macedonia

Greece

Hideaki Ishii

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Japan

Qing-Shan (Samuel) Jia

Tsinghua University

China

Qing-Shan (Samuel) Jia

Biography

Qing-Shan (Samuel) Jia (S’02–M’06–SM’11) received the B.E. degree in automation and the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2002 and 2006, respectively.

He is an Associate Professor with the Centre for Intelligent and Networked Systems, Department of Automation, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. He was a Visiting Scholar with Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2006, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, in 2010, and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2013. His current research interests include integrated data-driven, statistical, and computational approaches to find designs and decision-making policies that have simple structures and guaranteed good performance. His research relies on strong collaborations with experts in manufacturing systems, energy systems, autonomous systems, and smart cities.

Dr. Jia is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications. He served as the Discrete Event Systems Technical Committee Chair of the IEEE Control Systems Society from 2012 to 2015 and currently serves as the Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee 9.3 on “Control for Smart Cities” and the Smart Buildings Technical Committee Co-Chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and the Beijing Chapter Chair of the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Affiliation

Tsinghua University

China

Javad Lavaei

University of California, Berkeley

United States

Javad Lavaei

Biography

Javad Lavaei is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at University of California, Berkeley. He was an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University from 2012 to 2015. He received the Ph.D. degree in Control & Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology in 2011, and was a postdoctoral scholar in Electrical Engineering and Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University for one year. He is the recipient of the Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize for the best university-wide Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Large-Scale Complex Systems: From Antenna Circuits to Power Grids". He researches on optimization theory, control theory and power systems. He has won several awards, including DARPA Young Faculty Award, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Resonate Award, Google Faculty Research Award, Governor General of Canada Academic Gold Medal, Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Master's Thesis Award, and Silver Medal in the 1999 International Mathematical Olympiad. Javad Lavaei is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and serves on the conference editorial board of IEEE Control Systems Society and European Control Association. He was a finalist (as an advisor) for the Best Student Paper Award at the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2014. His journal paper entitled "Zero Duality Gap in Optimal Power Flow Problem" has received a prize paper award given by the IEEE PES Power System Analysis Computing and Economics Committee in 2015. He is a co-recipient of the 2015 INFORMS Optimization Society Prize for Young Researchers, and the recipient of the 2016 Donald P. Eckman Award given by the American Automatic Control Council.

Affiliation

University of California, Berkeley

United States

Tao Li

East China Normal University

China

Shu-Jun Liu

Sichuan University

China

Cristian Mahulea

University of Zaragoza

Spain

Cristian Mahulea

Biography

Cristian Mahulea is an Associate Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad) at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) with the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering.

He received the Laurea and M.S. degrees in control engineering from the "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi (Romania), in 2001 and 2002, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in systems engineering from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in 2007. He joined the University of Zaragoza in 2008 as assistant professor, becoming associate professor in 2017. He was visiting professor at the University of Cagliari (Italy) with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering during five months in 2008 and 2010.

His research interests include discrete-event systems, hybrid systems, automated manufacturing, Petri nets, mobile robotics and healthcare systems. He co-authored, with Mihaela Matcovschi and Octavian Pastravanu the book Applications of Petri Nets in Studying Discrete Event Systems, Iasi, Romania in 2002 and co-authored with Marius Kloetzer and Ramon Gonzalez the book Path Planning of Cooperative Mobile Robots Using Discrete Event Models, Wiley-IEEE Press, January 2020. He participated and was the main developer of one MATLAB toolbox called Petri Net Toolbox for the simulation, analysis and synthesis of discrete-event systems modeled with discrete Petri nets and one Matlab toolbox called RMTool for path planning and motion control of mobile robots.

He has been a Visiting Researcher at the University of Sheffield (U.K.), University of Cagliari (Italy), Boston University (USA) and ENS Paris-Saclay (France).

He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Affiliation

University of Zaragoza

Spain

Frédéric Mazenc

TAC Associate Editor

INRIA, Saclay

France

Thomas Meurer

Kiel University

Germany

Leonid Mirkin

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Israel

Irinel-Constantin Morarescu

Sweden

Michael Ruppert

University of Newcastle

Australia

Michael Ruppert

Biography

Michael Ruppert received the Dipl.-Ing. Degree in automation technology in production, with a specialization in systems theory and automatic control, from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 2013. In 2017, he received the Ph.D. degree with Excellence Award in electrical engineering from The University of Newcastle, Australia where he is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing.

Dr Ruppert’s research topics are situated within the area of Micro Precision Mechatronics and as such bridge the gap between classical electrical / control engineering and emerging applications in the field of microelectromechanical systems, high performance microscopy and nanotechnology. His recent work has focused on the development of estimation, control and self-sensing approaches for microelectromechanical (MEMS) systems such as piezoelectric microcantilevers and nanopositioning systems for multifrequency and single-chip atomic force microscopy.

As a Visiting Researcher, he was with the Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Texas at Dallas, USA. During his research visit he worked on the fabrication of piezoelectric microcantilevers in the clean room and lead-authored the publication on the first silicon-on-insulator MEMS on-chip atomic force microscope, recently published and identified as a JMEMS RightNow paper in the IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, and which was highlighted in the IEEE Spectrum magazine. During his visit, Dr. Ruppert also consulted to Zyvex LABS, Richardson, USA on the analysis of process stability of scanning tunneling microscope enabled nanolithography.

Dr Ruppert received the Academic Merit Scholarship from the University of Stuttgart, the Baden-Württemberg Scholarship, and held Postgraduate Research Scholarships with the University of Newcastle and with the CSIRO, Clayton, VIC, Australia. Dr Ruppert’s research has been recognized with Best Conference Paper Finalist Awards at the 2018 International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS) and a the 2013 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM). In 2018, the article Multimode Q Control in Tapping-Mode AFM: Enabling Imaging on Higher Flexural Eigenmodes published in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology received the 2018 IEEE TCST Outstanding Paper Award.

Affiliation

University of Newcastle

Australia

Ketan Savla

University of Southern California

United States

Ketan Savla

Biography

Ketan Savla is an assistant professor and John and Dorothy Shea Early Career Chair in Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California, with joint appointments in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (courtesy), and the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems (courtesy). Prior to that, he was a research scientist in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT. Ketan is 2017 recipient of American Automatic Control Council’s prestigious the Donald P. Eckman Award. The Eckman Award recognizes an outstanding young engineer in the field of automatic control. The recipient must be younger than 35 years on January 1 of the year of award. In addition, he has been recognized with NSF CAREER and an IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and M.A. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California at Santa Barbara, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His current research interest is in distributed robust and optimal control, dynamical networks, state-dependent queuing systems, and incentive design, with applications in civil infrastructure and autonomous systems. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society, the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and the IEEE Control Systems Letters.

Affiliation

University of Southern California

United States