Technology Conferences Editorial Board (TCEB)

Prabir Barooah

University of Florida

United States

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Karl Berntorp

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

United States

Murali Bosukonda

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

India

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Murali Bosukonda

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Murali M Bosukonda was born in Tapeswaram, India in 1960. He received the Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Osmania University in 1982, the Master's degree in Electrical Engineering (with Control Systems specialization) from Andhra University in 1985, and the Doctoral degree in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 1989. From July 1989 to October 1990 he was on the faculty of Electrical & Electronics Engineering Department, Regional Engineering College (now called National Institute of Technology), Tiruchirapalli. Since November 1990 he has been on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur where he is currently a Professor. He was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California, and Los Angeles, California in 2006.

His research interests include Identification, Analysis, and Control of Dynamical Systems using Fuzzy Logic and Orthogonal Functions. He co-authored two research monographs ‘Orthogonal Functions in Systems and Control (World Scientific, Singapore, 1995),’ Continuous Time Dynamical Systems: State Estimation and Optimal Control with Orthogonal Functions (CRC Press, USA, 2012), and 'several papers in international journals and conferences. He is a member of Asian Control Association, life member of Systems Society of India, senior member of the IEEE, and life fellow of Institution of Engineers (India). He is the Editor of Int. J. Automation & Control and Systems Science & Control Engineering, and the Associate Editor of Mechatronic Systems & Control, WSEAS Transactions on Systems & Control, and International Journal of Fuzzy Systems & Advanced Applications. He works on Identification, Analysis and Control of Dynamical Systems using Fuzzy Logic and Orthogonal Functions.

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Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

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Justin Bradley

North Carolina State University

United States

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Filippo Cacace

Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

Italy

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Elisa Capello

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Lisa Carius

Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg

Germany

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Jian Chen

Li Chen

Luca Consolini

Università di Parma

Italy

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Claus Danielson

University of New Mexico

United States

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Martin Fabian

Chalmers University of Technology

Sweden

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Lorenzo Fagiano

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

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Afef Fekih

University of Louisianan, Lafayette

United States

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Afef Fekih

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

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Afef Fekih received the BS, MS and PhD degrees all in Electrical Engineering from the National Engineering School of Tunis, Tunisia in 1995, 1998 and 2002, respectively. Since 2016 she has been a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the director of the advanced controls laboratory at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. Her research interests focus on control theory and applications, including nonlinear and robust control, optimal control, fault tolerant control with applications to power systems, wind turbines, unmanned vehicles and automotive engines. She co-authored more than 200 publications in international journals, chapters, and conference proceedings. Her research was featured by Thomson Reuters Science Watch® Essential Science Indicators and recognized by multiple awards including the Harold Callais/BORSF Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering since 2008, the O’Krepki/LEQSF Regents Professorship in Telecommunications since 2018, and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Distinguished Professor Award in 2022.

She is an “appointed member” of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2023-2024). A member of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) Technical Committee on Control Education, the IFAC Technical Committee on Power and Energy Systems, and the IEEE Systems Council Diversity & Inclusion Committee. She is currently serving as the Co-Chair for the IEEE CSS Women in Control standing committee (WiC) and served as vice-chair (2020-2022). She co-organized several outreach activities through the IEEE WiC, where she had been serving as advisory board member since 2014, and media coordinator since 2019. She organized and chaired several sessions at international technical conferences. She served as the local arrangements chair for the 2021 American Control Conference. Currently serving as the publications chair for the 2023 American Control Conference and will be serving as the registration chair for the 2024 American Control Conference. Dr. Fekih is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the IEEE Technology conference editorial board. She has served as a reviewer and guest editor for numerous journals and conferences.

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University of Louisianan, Lafayette

United States

Andrew J. Fleming

The University of Newcastle

Australia

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Sophie M. Fosson

DAUIN - Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Sergio Grammatico

Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

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Chuanhou Gao

Zhejiang University

China

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Josè García-Tirado

University of Virginia

United States

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Fouad Giri

Université de Caen

France

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Heath Hofmann

Gokhan Inalhan

Cranfield University

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Gokhan Inalhan

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Gokhan Inalhan received the B.Sc. degree in aeronautical engineering from Istanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey, in 1997, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 1998 and 2004, respectively.

After working as a Postdoctoral Associate with Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2004 to 2006, he joined the faculty at Istanbul Technical University where he served as the Director of Controls and Avionics Laboratory (2006–2016) and the Director-General of Aerospace Research Centre (2016–2019). He is currently BAE Systems Chair, a Professor of Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence and the Deputy Head of Centre for Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems at Cranfield University. He has led and managed numerous grants and industrial projects from FP7, H2020, SESAR, EC Marie-Currie, EPSRC, Boeing, BAE Systems and major Euro-Asian aerospace, defence and aviation companies. He leads the research theme on autonomous systems and artificial intelligence within the School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing at Cranfield University. He and his research group focus on design, modeling, GNC, resilience, and security aspects of autonomy and artificial intelligence for air, defense, transportation, and space systems. Current research themes include advanced flight controls and reinforcement learning for autonomous systems, human–autonomy interaction in team concept, urban air and cargo mobility, ATM/UTM, data analytics driven digital twin and surrogate modeling, explainable AI for trustworthy autonomous systems.

Dr. Inalhan and his research are recipient of awards such as IEEE AESS Exceptional Service Award, Boeing Faculty Fellowship, Council of Higher Education Outstanding Achievement and TUBITAK Innovation Success Stories. He has been serving in science, technology, and Advisory Boards of various government and commercial entities and he is a member of the general assembly of ASDA and Eurocontrol Agency Research Team. His professional service span technical committees (IEEE TCAC, AIAA GNC TC), program and editorial boards in which he has been leading themes including autonomy, intelligent systems, and transportation for IEEE CCTA, ICRAT, SESAR SID, and AIAA GNC. He is currently the Technical Editor of IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems: Autonomous Systems. He is a Life-Time Member and Associate Fellow of AIAA.

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Cranfield University

Clara Mihaela Ionescu

Ghent University

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Xing Jin

Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

University of Florida

United States

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Jin-Won Kim

Emre Koyuncu

Stanbul Technical University

Shuai Liu

Shandong University

China

Tao Liu

Dalian University of Technology

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Hamid Mahboubi

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Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Cornell University

United States

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Andreas A. Malikopoulos

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Andreas Malikopoulos is a Professor in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Information and Decision Science Lab at Cornell University. Prior to these appointments, he was the Terri Connor Kelly and John Kelly Career Development Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (2017-2023) and the founding Director of the Sociotechnical Systems Center (2019-2023) at the University of Delaware (UD). Before he joined UD, he was the Alvin M. Weinberg Fellow (2010-2017) in the Energy & Transportation Science Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Deputy Director of the Urban Dynamics Institute (2014-2017) at ORNL, and a Senior Researcher in General Motors Global Research & Development (2008-2010).

Dr. Malikopoulos is the recipient of several prizes and awards, including the 2007 Dare to Dream Opportunity Grant from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, the 2007 University of Michigan Teaching Fellow, the 2010 Alvin M. Weinberg Fellowship, the 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Young Researcher Award, and the 2020 UD’s College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. He has been selected by the National Academy of Engineering to participate in the 2010 German-American Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium and organize a session on transportation at the 2016 European-American FOE Symposium. He has also been selected as a 2012 Kavli Frontiers of Science Scholar by the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Malikopoulos has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems from 2017 through 2020. He is currently an Associate Editor of Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Fellow of the ASME, and a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society.

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Cornell University

United States

Amor Menezes

University of Florida

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Ali Mesbah

University of California, Berkeley

United States

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Toru Namerikawa

Keio University

Japan

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Sorin Olaru

University Paris-Saclay

France

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Simona Onori

Stanford University

United States

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Daniel Opila

Radoslav Paulen

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

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Pierluigi Pisu

Vicenç Puig

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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Tian Qi

Akshay Rajhans

Michel Reniers

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

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Michel Reniers

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Michel Reniers is an Associate Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His research interests include model-based engineering of supervisory controllers, synthesis of supervisory controllers for modal logics, engineering of cyber-physical systems (of systems) and development of modeling languages (CIF) and model transformations.

In Reniers’ research the emphasis is on application of formal methods in engineering of supervisory controllers for high-tech and embedded systems. The research focuses on furthering the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-practice in model-based systems engineering approaches for supervisory controllers. This includes research themes such as supervisory controller synthesis for networked systems, the combination of supervisory control and throughput optimization, and supervisory control for system product lines.

Application areas for the research are manufacturing and high-tech systems such as lithography manufacturing, automotive systems, waterway locks and tunnel installations, robotics and autonomous systems.

Michel Reniers obtained his MSc in Computer Science from TU/e in 1994 followed by a PhD in 1999. He began working for TU/e in 1999 as an assistant professor in the section Analysis and Design of Systems (OAS), followed by an assistant professorship in the section Systems Engineering (SE). He was appointed Associate Professor in 2015.

Michel is a member of various organizations, including IEEE (senior member), IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Discrete Event Systems, and IFAC Technical Committee 1.3 on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems. Michel has been chair of Working Group 3 on Tools for systems of systems engineering and management of the Communication and Support Action CPSoS and was coauthor of the Proposal of a European Research and Innovation Agenda on Cyber-physical Systems of Systems – 2016-2025.

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Eindhoven University of Technology

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Fredy-Orlando Ruiz-Palacios

Eric Rutten

INRIA Grenoble - Rhone-Alpes

France

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Henrik Sandberg

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

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Masayuki Sato

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Japan

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Joseph Scott

Georgia Tech

United States

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Masoud Soroush

Drexel University

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Rong Su

Nanyang Technological University

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Bidyadhar Subudhi

Indian Institute of Technology Goa

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Bidyadhar Subudhi

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Prof. Bidyadhar Subudhi is working as a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Goa. Prof. Subudhi received the Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela (formerly REC Rourkela) in 1988, the Master of Technology degree in Control and Instrumentation from IIT Delhi in 1994 and PhD degree in Control System Engg. from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom in 2002. He served as a Post- Doctoral Research Fellow in the NUS Singapore in 2005.

Currently, he serves as Professor, School of Electrical Sciences and Dean (Research & Development) in Indian Institute of Technology Goa. Prior to this, he was working as a Professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engg. in NIT Rourkela. He served as the Head of the Department, Electrical Engineering and Dean (Alumni Relation & Resource Generation); Chairman, Curriculum & Accreditation Committee; Head, Computer Centre at NIT Rourkela. He also served as a Visiting Professor at the Univ. of Saskatchewan, Canada and in Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok in 2011 and 2013 respectively.

Prof. Subudhi has been appointed as Distinguished Speaker by ACM for next three years (2020-2023). He was a recipient of the Prestigious Newton Fellowship of the Royal Academy of UK in the year 2015, and Samanta Chandra Sekhar Award of the Odisha Bigyan Academy, Govt. of Odisha for his contribution to science and technology in the year 2013. He was awarded NITRAA Research Excellence Award in Electrical Sciences in 2019.

He has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering for his distinguished contribution in Electrical Engineering. He is a Fellow of IET (UK), Institution of Engineers (India), Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers (India) and senior Member, IEEE. He serves as a Technical Committee Member of the IEEE Intelligent Control Group. He serves as an Associate Editor, IEEE Access and IEEE Technology Conference Editorial Board.

He collaborates with several foreign universities through international research grants. He has supervised 34 PhD students. He has published his research work in 130 reputed international journals and 70 conference papers. He has edited 3 books and contributed 13 book chapters. His research interests include Machine Learning and Adaptive Systems, Marine Robotics and Microgrid Systems.

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Indian Institute of Technology Goa

Ying Tang

University of Lille

France

Kamran Turkoglu

American Public University

United States

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Christopher Vermillion

North Carolina State University

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Yuri Vershinin

Yan Wan

University of Texas, Arlington

United States

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Yan Wan

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Dr. Yan Wan is currently an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Arlington. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University in 2009 and then postdoctoral training at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests lie in the modeling, evaluation and control of large-scale dynamical networks, cyber-physical system, stochastic networks, decentralized control, learning control, networking, uncertainty analysis, algebraic graph theory, and their applications to UAV networking, UAV traffic management, epidemic spread, complex information networks, and air traffic management. She received research grants from the NSF, ONR, NIST, IEEE, and MITRE Corporation as subcontracts from FAA. Her research has led to over 140 publications and successful technology transfer outcomes. She has been recognized by several prestigious awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, RTCA William E. Jackson Award, U.S. Ignite and GENI demonstration awards, IEEE WCNC and ICCA Best Paper Awards, UNT Early Career Award for Research and Creativity, and Tech Titan of the Future – University Level Award. Her research on UAV-carried Wi-Fi system for emergency communication has been reported by many government-agency websites and media outlets, including NSF, NBC, NPR, Huffington Post, and the Washington Times. She is the Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems and Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, Conference Editorial Board Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society, Vice President for IEEE ComSoc Fort Worth Chapter, and Technical Committee Member of AIAA Intelligent Systems.

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University of Texas, Arlington

United States

Vincent Winstead

Minnesota State University, Mankato

United States

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Junfeng Wu

Chinese University of Hong Kong

China

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Xin Xin

Okayama Prefectural University

Japan

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Shuyou Yu

Jilin University

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Mohsen Zamani

University of Newcastle

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Elena Zattoni

University of Bologna

Italy

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