Award & Recognition Program

About IEEE CSS Awards

The IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) presents several awards annually for technical achievements in the various areas of interest of the Society, as well as awards for service to the Society.

An individual need not be a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and/or the CSS to be eligible to receive technical achievement awards of the CSS. Selection of the winner for each of those technical achievement awards is made by a CSS committee whose members have not been involved in the nominations for that award.

General information about CSS awards can be obtained from the Chair of the CSS Awards Committee. The CSS Awards program operates within the bylaws of the IEEE. Additional information about IEEE procedures, e.g. how to propose and get approval for a new CSS Award, can be found in the IEEE TAB Awards and Recognitions Manual.

The Awards Nominations Chair has been appointed by the IEEE Control Systems Society to help solicit nominations for deserving people for various society awards. Please contact the Awards Nominations Chair with any questions.

Award Listing

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Below is a complete list of the awards and recognition opportunities for the CSS community.

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Awards Chair

Thomas Parisini

Imperial College London (UK) and University of Trieste (Italy)

Thomas Parisini

Biography

Thomas Parisini received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in 1993 from the University of Genoa. He was with Politecnico di Milano and he currently holds the Chair of Industrial Control and serves as the Head of the Control and Power Research Group at Imperial College London. He is a Deputy Director of the KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence, University of Cyprus. Since 2001 he is also Danieli Endowed Chair of Automation Engineering with University of Trieste. In 2009-2012 he was Deputy Rector of University of Trieste. In 2018 he received an Honorary Doctorate from University of Aalborg, Denmark. He held a "Scholar-in-Residence" visiting position at Digital Futures-KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. He authored or co-authored a research monograph in the Communication and Control Series, Springer Nature, and over 400 research papers in archival journals, book chapters, and international conference proceedings. He is a co-recipient of the IFAC Best Application Paper Prize of the Journal of Process Control, Elsevier, for the three-year period 2011-2013 and of the 2004 Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks. He is also a recipient of the 2007 IEEE Distinguished Member Award. In 2016, he was awarded as Principal Investigator at Imperial of the H2020 European Union flagship Teaming Project KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence led by University of Cyprus.

Thomas Parisini has served as the 2021-2022 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society and during 2009-2016 he was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology. Since 2017, he is Editor for Control Applications of Automatica and since 2018 he is the Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Control. Among other activities, he was the Program Chair of the 2008 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and General Co-Chair of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Prof. Parisini is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the IFAC.

Affiliation(s)

Imperial College London (UK) and University of Trieste (Italy)

Awards Nominations Chair

Claire Tomlin

Stanford University

United States

Website

IEEE Control Systems Society Awards

IEEE CSS Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize

To recognize distinguished contributions to control systems science or engineering.

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IEEE CSS Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize

To recognize outstanding achievement in research in systems and control by a young researcher.

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IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award

To recognize outstanding papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

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IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award

To recognize an outstanding paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.

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IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award

To recognize an outstanding article or column published in IEEE Control Systems Magazine.

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IEEE Control Systems Technology Award

To recognize outstanding contributions to control systems technology either in design and implementation or project management.

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IEEE CSS Transition to Practice Award

To recognize outstanding scientific interactions between industry and/or research laboratories and academia that transition basic controls & system theory to practical systems for the benefit of society-at-large.

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IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) Best Student Paper Award

To recognize excellence in a CCTA paper whose primary contributor(s) is a (are) student member(s) of the IEEE.

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IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) Best Student Paper Award

To recognize excellence in a conference paper whose primary contributor(s) is a (are) Student Member(s) of the IEEE.

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IEEE CSS Outstanding Chapter Award

To recognize an outstanding Chapter of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS).

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IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award

To recognize significant technical contributions or outstanding long-term service to the IEEE Control Systems Society.

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IEEE CSS Award for Technical Excellence in Aerospace Control

To recognize a person or team of people that performed an aerospace control engineering activity demonstrating excellence & significant results with a demonstrable impact.

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IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Best Paper Award

To recognize (at most two) outstanding paper(s) published in the IEEE Transactions on Control
of Network Systems.

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IEEE Control Systems Society Roberto Tempo Best CDC Paper Award

To recognize the best paper presented at the annual IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

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IEEE Control Systems Letters Outstanding Paper Award

To recognize an outstanding paper published in the IEEE Control Systems Letters.

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IEEE Control Systems Society Graduate Collaboration Fellowship

To promote and provide support to initiate collaborative research with a hosting faculty member of well-established institutions in the area of Systems and Control for outstanding graduate students in developing geographical regions by visiting leading institutions in countries outside their own.

The visiting period should last at least three months.

The IEEE Foundation supports the award through the Control Systems Society Fund, the scope of which comprises the consolidation, extension, and growth of activities in developing countries.

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The CSS also recognizes awards conferred and managed by other organizations including the IEEE, which annually confers the IEEE Control Systems Award and elects CSS IEEE Fellows. Information can be found in Other IEEE Awards. The CSS also recognizes and supports awards given by the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) and the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) in its areas of interest.

IEEE Awards & Recognitions

IEEE Fellow

Each year the IEEE designates as Fellows individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the electrical and electronics engineering profession.

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IEEE Control Systems Award

To recognize outstanding contributions to control systems engineering, science, or technology.

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