Financially Sponsored Conferences

ACC 2025

Mon, Jul 7, 2025 - Thu, Jul 10, 2025

2025 American Control Conference

Denver, Colorado, USA

General Chair(s): Carolyn Beck

Program Chair(s): Jonathan How

Jonathan How

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

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Biography

Jonathan P. How is the Richard C. Maclaurin Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a B.A.Sc. (Aerospace) from the University of Toronto in 1987, and his S.M. and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT in 1990 and 1993, respectively, and then studied for 1.5 years at MIT as a postdoctoral associate. Prior to joining MIT in 2000, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. Dr. How was the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine (2015-19), an associate editor for the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems (2012-21) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2018-21). He was the Program Vice-chair (tutorials) for the 2021 Conference on Decision and Control and will be the Program Chair for the American Control Conference in 2025. He was elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control System Society (CSS) for 2020-22, is on the IEEE CSS Long Range Planning Committee (2022 – ), is a member of the IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Aerospace Control and the Technical Committee on Intelligent Control, was a member of the IEEE Fellows Selection committee for CSS (2021-22), and since 2021, he serves as the AIAA Director on the American Automatic Control Council. He is also the Director of the Ford-MIT Alliance and was a member of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) from 2014-17. His research focuses on robust planning and learning under uncertainty with an emphasis on multiagent systems, and he was the planning and control lead for the MIT DARPA Urban Challenge team. His work has been recognized with multiple awards, including being inducted into the University of Toronto Engineering Hall of Distinction (2022), receiving the 2020 IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award, the 2020 AIAA Intelligent Systems Award, the 2015 AeroLion Technologies Outstanding Paper Award for Unmanned Systems, the 2015 IEEE CSS Video Clip Contest, the 2011 IFAC Automatica award for best applications paper, and the 2002 Institute of Navigation Burka Award. He also received the Air Force Commander's Public Service Award in 2017. He is a Fellow of IEEE (2018) and AIAA (2016) and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.

Affiliation(s)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

CCTA 2025

Sat, Aug 23, 2025 - Mon, Aug 25, 2025

Conference on Control Technology and Applications

San Diego (CA), USA

General Chair(s): Robert Bitmead

Program Chair(s): Colin Jones

CDC 2025

Tue, Dec 9, 2025 - Fri, Dec 12, 2025

64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

General Chair(s): João Carlos Basilio

, Ioannis (Yannis) Paschalidis

Ioannis (Yannis) Paschalidis

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

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Biography

Yannis Paschalidis is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Boston University (BU) with appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University. He is the Director of the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering -- BU's federation and convergence accelerator of all University centers and initiatives in this area of research. He obtained a Diploma (1991) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and an M.S. (1993) and a Ph.D. (1996) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), all in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has been at Boston University since 1996. His current research interests lie in the fields of optimization, control, stochastic systems, robust learning, computational medicine, and computational biology. He has published a monograph and more than 250 refereed papers in these topics, and he has been the primary advisor to 29 Ph.D. theses.

Prof. Paschalidis' work has been recognized with a CAREER award (2000) from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the second prize in the 1997 George E. Nicholson

paper competition by INFORMS, the best student paper award at the 9th Intl. Symposium of Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2011) won by one of his Ph.D. students for a joint paper, an IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge Award, and a finalist best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). His work on protein docking has been recognized for best performance in modeling selected protein-protein complexes against 64 other predictor groups (2009 Protein Interaction Evaluation Meeting). His recent work on health informatics won an IEEE Computer Society Crowd Sourcing Prize and a best paper award by the International Medical Informatics Associations (IMIA). He was an invited participant at the 2002 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering, and at the 2014 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAFKI) Conference. Prof. Paschalidis is a Fellow of both IEEE and IFAC and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems from 2013 until 2019. He is currently the Vice President of Publication Activities of the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Affiliation(s)

Boston University

United States

ACC 2026

Wed, May 27, 2026 - Fri, May 29, 2026

2026 American Control Conference

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

General Chair(s): Randy Beard

Program Chair(s): Eric Frew

CDC 2026

Tue, Dec 15, 2026 - Fri, Dec 18, 2026

65th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Honolulu, Hawaii

General Chair(s): Jorge Cortés

Program Chair(s): Lacra Pavel

Past Conferences

Conference Name and Organizers	Dates	Location
2nd IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications [CCTA 2018] General Chair(s): Jakob Stoustrup, Thomas Parisini Program Chair(s): Kristin Y. Pettersen	Aug 21, 2018 - Aug 24, 2018	Copehnhagen, Denmark
2018 American Control Conference [ACC 2018] General Chair(s): Jordan Berg Program Chair(s): Zongli Lin	Jun 27, 2018 - Jun 29, 2018	Milwaukee, WI
56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control [CDC 2017] General Chair(s): Richard Middleton, Dragan Nesic Program Chair(s): Mario Sznaier	Dec 11, 2017 - Dec 14, 2017	Melbourne, Australia
1st IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications [CCTA 2017] General Chair(s): Stephen Yurkovich Program Chair(s): Mark Spong, Mario Rotea	Aug 26, 2017 - Aug 29, 2017	Kohala Coast, Hawaii
2017 American Control Conference [ACC 2017] General Chair(s): Jing Sun Program Chair(s): Rajesh Rajamani	May 24, 2017 - May 26, 2017	Seattle, WA
55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control [CDC 2016] General Chair(s): Alessandro Giua Program Chair(s): Francesco Bullo, Jorge Cortés, Mihailo Jovanovic	Dec 12, 2016 - Dec 14, 2016	Las Vegas, NV, United States
IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control [MSC 2016] General Chair(s): Ricardo Sanchez-Peña, Mario Sznaier Program Chair(s): David Castañón, Patrizio Colaneri, Pedro Peres, Kevin Passino	Sep 19, 2016 - Sep 22, 2016	Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 American Control Conference [ACC 2016] General Chair(s): Daniel Abramovitch Program Chair(s): George Chiu	Jul 6, 2016 - Jul 8, 2016	Boston, MA, United States
54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control [CDC 2015] General Chair(s): Yoshito Ohta Program Chair(s): Mitsuji Sampei	Dec 15, 2015 - Dec 18, 2015	Osaka, Japan
IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control [MSC 2015] General Chair(s): Ian Petersen Program Chair(s): Reza Moheimani	Sep 21, 2015 - Sep 23, 2015	Sydney, Australia