Valery Ugrinovskii

Biography

I received an undergraduate degree in Applied Mathematics and PhD degree in Physics and Mathematics from the State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in 1982 and 1990, respectively.

From 1982 to 1995, I held research positions with the Radiophysical Research Institute, Nizhny Novgorod. From 1995 to 1996, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Haifa, Israel. In 1996 I joined the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia, where I am currently full Professor in the School of Engineering and Information Technology. I held visiting appointments at the Australian National University (2005 and 2012), Stuttgart University (2013) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2014).

I am an Associate Editor for Automatica, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization and IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS). In 2012-2018 I served as an Associate Editor for  IET Control Theory and Applications. My current research interests include decentralized and distributed control and estimation, stability and filtering of quantum control systems, stochastic control and filtering theory, robust control theory.

My colleagues at the UNSW know me as Valeri Ougrinovski, although the Mathematical Reviews, ISI Web of Science and Scopus transliterated my Russian name as Valery Ugrinovskii. When I moved to Australia, I kept using the latter spelling in all subsequent journal and conference papers.

My research interests are in the field of Mathematical Control Systems Theory, specifically in the following areas:

• Large-scale interconnected systems, decentralized and distributed control
• Stability and stabilization of quantum systems
• Robust Stability and Robust Control, Robust Estimation and Filtering
• Stochastic Systems, Stochastic Stability and Control
• In the past, I have been working in the areas of infinite-dimensional systems and signal processing.