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 Pramod Khargonekar For contributions to robust and optimal control theory. Outstanding Chapter Award Chile Section Chapter Gaston Lefranc, Chapter Chair Distinguished Member Award Daniel Eduardo Rivera For outstanding long-term service to the Control Systems Society most notably for leadership of the CSS Outreach Program. Venkataramanan (Ragu) Balakrishnan For outstanding long-term service to the Control Systems Society through governance and leadership in the CSS Board of Governors and Executive Committee. CDC Best Student Paper Award Jin-Won Kim, for a paper entitled "What is the Lagrangian for Nonlinear Filtering?," by Jin W. Kim, Prashant G. Mehta, and Sean P. Meyn. CDC Outstanding Student Paper Award Lars Lindemann, for a paper entitled "Control Barrier Functions for Multi-Agent Systems under Conflicting Local Signal Temporal Logic Tasks," by Lars Lindeman, and Dimos V. Dimarogonas. Michael W. Fisher, for a paper entitled "Numerical Computation of Critical System Recovery Parameter Values by Trajectory Sensitivity Maximization," by Michael W. Fisher and Ian A. Hiskens. Shiba Biswal, for a paper entitled "Fastest Mixing Markov Chain on a Compact Manifold," by Shiba Biswal, Karthik Elamvazhuthi, & Spring Berman. CSM Outstanding Paper Award No Award Given. TCST Outstanding Paper Award Alberto Leva, Federico Terraneo, Irene Giacomello, and William Fornaciari, for the paper entitled "Event-Based Power/Performance-Aware Thermal Management for High-Density Microprocessors," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 535 - 550, 2018.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7890422 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award Gunther Reißig, Alexander Weber, Matthias Rungger, for the paper entitled, “Feedback Refinement Relations for the Synthesis of Symbolic Controllers,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 1781 - 1796, 2017.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7519063 TCNS Outstanding Paper Award Erfan Nozari, Pavankumar Tallapragada, and Jorge Cortes, for the paper entitled, “Differentially Private Distributed Convex Optimization via Functional Perturbation,” IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, Vol. 5, No. 1, pages 395 - 408, 2018.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7577745 Control Systems Technology Award Warren Dixon, Nitin Sharma, Matthew J. Bellman, Alan Hamlet, Christian Cousin, Courtney Rouse, Ryan Downey, Victor Duenas "For closed-loop functional electrical stimulation control methods leading to successful commercialization and personalized rehabilitative treatment options." Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize Aaron Ames "For fundamental contributions to the nonlinear control of hybrid and safety-critical systems, with application to walking robots and robotic assistive devices that restore mobility." Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize Lei Guo "For contributions to adaptive control, system identification, adaptive signal processing, and stochastic systems." CSS Transition to Practice Award Alberto Bemporad “For lasting contributions to theory and advanced applications of Model Predictive Control (MPC) culminating in mass production introduction of MPC for powertrain control in the automotive industry.” Award for Technical Excellence in Aerospace Control Behcet Acikmese "For outstanding contributions to convex optimization-based control and its transitions and applications to aerospace applications." IEEE Fellows for 2020 Evaluated by CSS: Maria Prandinifor contributions to stochastic, hybrid and distributed control systems theory Christoforos Hadjicostisfor contributions to distributed and discrete event systems Sonja Glavaskifor leadership in energy systems Kirsten Morrisfor contributions to control and estimator design for infinite-dimensional systems Yasamin Mostofifor contributions to control and communications co-optimization in mobile sensor networks Andrea Garullifor contributions to set membership identification and robust analysis of uncertain systems Jun Zhao for contributions to switched systems and dissipativity theory Sarah K. Spurgeonfor contributions to variable structure control and estimation Antonella Ferrarafor contributions to sliding mode control theory Sandra Hirchefor contributions to human-machine interaction and networked control Sirish Shahfor contributions to process and performance monitoring
