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S. Massoud Amin

University of Minnesota

S. Massoud Amin

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Massoud Amin holds the Honeywell/H.W. Sweatt Chair in Technological Leadership, is the director of the Technological Leadership Institute and is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Before joining Minnesota in 2003 , he directed all Infrastructure Security R&D after 9/11 and served as Area Manager of Security, Grid Operations/Planning, Energy Markets, Risk and Policy Assessment at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto. Prior to that he served as head of mathematics and information sciences at EPRI, pioneered R&D and coined the term smart grids in 1998 and worked on self-repairing energy infrastructures, where he led the development of over 24 technologies transferred to industry. He is author or co-author of over 190 peer reviewed papers, and the editor of 7 collections of manuscripts. Board appointments include the Board of Directors of the Texas RE (2010-present), Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE) at the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (2001-2007), and the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BMSA) at the National Academy of Sciences (2006-2009). He is on seven editorial boards, is the founding chairman of the IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter, and serves as chair of the CSS TC-SG. He is a fellow of the ASME, was three times Professor of the Year at Washington University in St. Louis (1992-95), and was inducted into the University of Minnesota's Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2008. At EPRI he received several awards, including six EPRI Performance Recognition Awards for leadership in three areas, and received the 2002 President's Award for the Infrastructure Security Initiative, and twice received the Chauncey Award, the Institute's highest honor.

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University of Minnesota

Eyad Abed

University of Maryland

United States

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Venkataramana Ajjarapu

Iowa State University

Frank Allgöwer

University of Stuttgart

Germany

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Frank Allgöwer

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Frank Allgöwer is director of the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control and professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Stuttgart in Germany.

He studied Engineering Cybernetics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Stuttgart and the University of California at Los Angeles respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart. Prior to his present appointment, he held a professorship in the electrical engineering department at ETH Zurich. He also held visiting positions at the California Institute of Technology, the NASA Ames Research Center, the DuPont Company and the University of California at Santa Barbara.

His main interests in research and teaching are in the area of systems and control with emphasis on the development of new methods for the analysis and control of nonlinear systems. Of equal importance to the theoretical developments are practical applications and the experimental evaluation of benefits and limitations of the developed methods. Applications range from control of atomic force microscopes and biomedical applications to the control of roller coasters and systems biology.

At present Frank Allgöwer is Editor for the journal Automatica, Associate Editor of the Journal of Process Control and is on the editorial board of several further journals including the Journals of Robust and Nonlinear Control, IET Control Theory and Applications, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, the journal Chemical Engineering Science and the Springer Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences Series. Among others he serves on the scientific council of the German Society for Measurement and Control (GMA), is on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control System Society, is chairman of the IFAC Technical Committee on Nonlinear Systems, is member of the IFAC Policy Committee and chairman of the International Affairs Committee of IEEE CSS and has been a member of the council of the European Union Control Association.

Frank Allgöwer has been organizer or co-organizer of several international conferences and has published over 150 scientific articles. Frank Allgöwer received several recognitions for his work including the IEEE distinguished lectureship, the appointment as IFAC Fellow and the Leibniz prize, which is the most prestigious prize in science and engineering awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

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University of Stuttgart

Germany

Mads Almassalkhi

University of Vermont

Anuradha Annaswamy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

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Bill Ash

IEEE Standards Association

John Baillieul

IEEE Control Systems Society

United States

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Mark Balas

Texas A&M University

United States

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John Baras

University of Maryland

United States

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Sorin Bengea

United Technologies Research Center

Eilyan Bitar

Cornell University

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Marc Bodson

University of Utah

René Boel

University of Ghent

Belgium

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Julio H. Braslavsky

CSIRO Energy

Australia

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Brad L. Brech

IBM Academy of Technology

Roger Brockett

Harvard University

United States

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Francesco Bullo

University of California, Santa Barbara

United States

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Duncan Callaway

University of California, Berkeley

Eduardo Camacho

Universidad de Sevilla

Spain

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Michael Caramanis

Boston University

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Ian A. Hiskens

Member(s)

S. Massoud Amin

Eyad Abed

Venkataramana Ajjarapu

Frank Allgöwer

Mads Almassalkhi

Anuradha Annaswamy

Bill Ash

John Baillieul

Mark Balas

John Baras

Sorin Bengea

Eilyan Bitar

Marc Bodson

René Boel

Julio H. Braslavsky

Brad L. Brech

Roger Brockett

Francesco Bullo

Duncan Callaway

Eduardo Camacho

Michael Caramanis