John Doyle, Keith Glover, Pramod Khargonekar, Bruce Francis - 1990 recipient of IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award

Award Received:

IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award

Date Awarded:

1990

John Doyle

California Institute of Technology

United States

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John Doyle

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John Doyle is the John G Braun Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems, Electrical Engineer, and BioEngineering at Caltech. He has a BS and MS in EE, MIT (1977), and a PhD, Math, UC Berkeley (1984). Current research interests are in theoretical foundations for complex networks in engineering and biology, focusing on architecture, and for multiscale physics. Early work was in the mathematics of robust control, including LQG robustness, (structured) singular value analysis, H-infinity plus recent extensions to nonlinear and networked systems. His research group has collaborated in many software projects, including the Robust Control Toolbox (muTools), SOSTOOLS, SBML (Systems Biology Markup Language), and FAST (Fast AQM, Scalable TCP). Prize paper awards include the IEEE Baker, the IEEE Automatic Control Transactions Axelby (twice), and best conference papers in ACM Sigcomm and AACC American Control Conference. Individual awards include the AACC Eckman, and the IEEE Control Systems Field and Centennial Outstanding Young Engineer Awards. He has held national and world records and championships in various sports. He is best known for having excellent co-authors, students, friends, and colleagues.

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California Institute of Technology

United States

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Keith Glover

University of Cambridge

United Kingdom

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Keith Glover

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Keith Glover received his BSc degree from Imperial College, London, and after two years in industry obtained a Kennedy Scholarship to study at MIT where he gained his PhD under the supervision of Jan Willems. His first faculty position was at the University of Southern California from which he moved back to the UK to a faculty position at the University of Cambridge where he has remained in the Department of Engineering. He served as head of this Department from 2002-09 and became emeritus professor in 2013.

His research has considered model reduction, robust control, H-infinity methods, with applications in flight control, and IC engine management system. His awards have included: IEEE CSS Axelby Prize(1990), Baker Prize (1991), FIEEE(1993), Technical Field Award (2001); Fellow of the Royal Society (1993); Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (1999).

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University of Cambridge

United Kingdom

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Pramod Khargonekar

University of California, Irvine

United States

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Pramod Khargonekar

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University of California, Irvine

United States

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Bruce Francis

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Bruce Francis

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Bruce Francis obtained his B.A.Sc. and M.Eng. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1969, 1970, and 1975, respectively. His PhD advisor was Murray Wonham. He received a two-year NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1975. He spent the first year in the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and the second year in the Control and Management Systems Division, University of Cambridge. In 1977 he received postdoctoral support in Montreal from George Zames at McGill and M. Vidyasagar at Concordia. This turned into a faculty position in the EE Department at McGill during 1978-79. He spent 1979-81 at Yale University. He returned to Canada in 1981, to the University of Waterloo. Finally, he returned to his alma mater, the University of Toronto, in 1984. He retired in 2011 and is now Emeritus Professor. He received four teaching awards at U of T. He became a Fellow of the IEEE in 1988 and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2010. He was a co-recipient of two Outstanding Paper Awards for papers appearing in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and a co-recipient (with Doyle, Glover, and Khargonekar) of the 1991 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Award. He held a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship in 1989, and gave the Peter Sagirow Seminar at the University of Stuttgart in 2010. He received the Bode Lecture Prize in 2014 and the IEEE Control Systems Award in 2015.

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Paper:

"State-space Solutions to Standard H-2 and H-infinity Control Problems"

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 831-847, Aug. 1989, doi: 10.1109/9.29425.