The IEEE Control Systems Society presents several awards annually for technical achievements in the areas of interest to the Society, as well as awards for service to the Society. IEEE Control Systems Award John Tsitsiklis For contributions to the theory and application of optimization in large dynamic and distributed systems. Outstanding Chapter Award Singapore Section Chapter Justin Pang, Chapter Chair Distinguished Member Award Maria Prandini For contributions to stochastic, hybrid, and distributed control systems and outstanding service to the Control Systems Society related to electronic publications and conference activities. Miroslav Krstic For contributions to adaptive, nonlinear and stochastic control and outstanding long-term service to the Control Systems Society. CDC Best Student Paper Award Erfan Nozari, for a paper entitled "Selective Recruitment in Hierarchical Complex Dynamical Networks with Linear-Threshold Rate Dynamics," by Erfan Nozari and Jorge Cortes. CDC Outstanding Student Paper Award Ali Devran Kara, for a paper entitled "Robustness to Incorrect System Models in Stochastic Control and Application to Data-Driven Learning," by Ali Devran Kara and Serdar Yuksel. Yuanqiu Mo, for a paper entitled "Robust Stability of Spreading Blocks in Aggregate Computing," by Yuanqiu Mo, Soura Dasgupta, and Jacob Beal. Jonas Umlauft, for a paper entitled "Uncertainty-based Control Lyapunov Approach for the Stabilization of Gaussian Process State Space Models," by Jonas Umlauft, Sandra Hirche, and Lukas Pohler. CSM Outstanding Paper Award Cameron Nowzari, Victor Preciado and George Pappas, for the paper entitled, "Analysis and Control of Epidemics: A Survey of Spreading Processes on Complex Networks”, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 36, No. 1, pages 26-46, 2016https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7393962 TCST Outstanding Paper Award Michael Ruppert and Reza Moheimani, for the paper entitled "Multimode Q Control in Tapping-Mode AFM: Enabling Imaging on Higher Flexural Eigenmodes," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 24, No. 4, pages 1149-1159, 2016. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7293165 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award Masaaki Nagahara, Daniel Quevedo, and Dragan Nesic, for the paper entitled, “Maximum hands-off control: A paradigm of control effort minimization,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 61, no. 3, pages 735-747, 2016. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7150354 TCNS Outstanding Paper Award No award. Control Systems Technology Award No Award. Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize Vijay Gupta "For Contributions to the Fundamentals of Networked and Cyber-Physical Systems." Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize Mark Spong "For contributions to nonlinear control and robotics." CSS Transition to Practice Award Jagannathan (Jag) Sarangapani “For the development of adaptive neural network feedback control schemes and decision tools, and their translation into industrial practice” Award for Technical Excellence in Aerospace Control Panagiotis Tsiotras "For outstanding contributions in control theory and transitions to aerospace applications." IEEE Fellows for 2019 Evaluated by CSS: David Castanon for contributions to discrete-time stochastic control and information fusion Bart De Schutter for contributions to optimal control of discrete-event and hybrid systems Santosh Devasia for contributions to feedforward control of nonminimum-phase systems Nicola Elia for contributions to networked control systems Emilia Fridman for contributions to time-delay systems and sampled-data control Keum-shik Hong for contributions to adaptive estimation and brain-computer interface techniques Mihailo Jovanovic for contributions to modeling, optimization, and control of largescale distributed systems Antonis Papachristodoulou for contributions to analysis and design of networked control systems Maurizio Porfiri for contributions to biomimetic robotics Murti Salapaka for application of control and systems technology in nano-science Maarten Steinbuch for contributions to motion control and mechatronics Mario Sznaier for contributions to identification of switched systems and multiobjective control Panagiotis Tsiotras for contributions to nonlinear control of aerospace systems Benjamin Van Roy for contributions to reinforcement learning and approximate dynamic programming Min Wu for contribution to control and automation for complex systems Evaluated by other Societies: Fuchun Sun (CIS) for contributions to neural network control of nonlinear systems with applications to robotic manipulators Jiming Chen (COM) for contributions to resource allocation and optimization in wireless sensor networks Qing-long Han (IE) for contributions to control and filtering of networked systems Donghua Zhou (IE) for contributions to reliability and maintenance of dynamic systems Mark Lantz (MAG) for contributions to digital magnetic tape recording Emilio Frazzoli (RA) for contributions to motion planning and control of autonomous vehicles Evangelos Papadopoulos (RA) for contributions to space and field robotics Jie Chen (SMC) for contributions to optimization and control of complex systems
