Distinguished Lecturer Program

Program Description

The Control Systems Society is continuing to fund a Distinguished Lecture Series.

The primary purpose is to help Society chapters provide interesting and informative programs for the membership, but the Distinguished Lecture Series may also be of interest to industry, universities, and other parties.

The Control Systems Society has agreed to a cost-sharing plan which may be used by IEEE Chapters, sections, subsections, and student groups. IEEE student groups are especially encouraged to make use of this opportunity to have excellent speakers at moderate cost.

At the request of a Society Chapter, (or other IEEE groups as mentioned above), a lecture will be scheduled at a place and time that is mutually agreeable to both the Chapter and the Distinguished Lecturer. The Control Systems Society will pay ground transportation at the origin, and Economy Class airfare up to a maximum limit of $1,000 for trips within the same continent and $2,000 for intercontinental trips. The chapter will pay for the ground transportation at the destination, hotel, meals, and other incidental expenses. Lecturers will receive no honorarium. Note that the group organizing the lecture must have some IEEE affiliation, the lecture must be free to attend by IEEE members.

Procedures

When you wish to use this program, you may contact the Distinguished Lecturer (DL) directly to work out a tentative itinerary. Then, you must submit a formal proposal to the Distinguished Lecturer (DL) Program Chair for his/her approval. The proposal should be sent to the DL Program Chair by someone in the local chapter, who should identify their role in the chapter, and provide some details of the invitation, including the dates. The proposal should contain a budgetary quotation for airfare from an authorized source (airline/ travel agent) and a confirmation that the local chapter will pay their share of the expenses associated with the trip. If the trip is approved, then IEEE CSS would pay ground transportation at the origin, and Economy Class airfare up to a maximum limit of $1,000 for trips within the same continent and $2,000 for intercontinental trips. The chapter will pay for the ground transportation at the destination, hotel, meals, and other incidental expenses. Procedures for unusual situations (such as when the speaker has other business on the trip) should be cleared through the DL Program Chair.

The expense claim filed by the distinguished lecturer upon the conclusion of the trip should contain receipts for the airfare and ground transportation at the origin.

Each distinguished lecturer will be limited to two trips per year, out of which at most one can be inter-continental.

Distinguished Lecturer Chair

Personnel:

Masayuki Fujita

University of Tokyo
Japan
 
 

Thomas Badgwell

Distinguished Industrial Lecturer 2024
Talk(s)
A Practitioner’s Assessment of Deep Reinforcement Learning for Industrial Process Control Applications
Three Disruptive Technologies Coming Soon to Manufacturing and Process Control

Carolyn Beck

Distinguished Lecturer 2024
Talk(s)
Discrete State System Identification: Examples and Bounds
Modeling and Stability Analysis of Epidemic Dynamics over Networks”
Dynamic Clustering and Coverage Control: A Resource Allocation Approach

Ming Cao

Distinguished Lecturer 2024
Talk(s)
Modeling, Analysis and Control of Network Decision-making Dynamics
Motion Coordination of Teams of Mobile Robots

Ankur Ganguli (she/her)

Distinguished Industrial Lecturer 2024
Talk(s)
‘Software Defined Vehicle’ – changing landscape for vehicle controls?

Vijay Gupta

Distinguished Lecturer 2024
Talk(s)
Learning-based Distributed Control
Congestion in Large-Scale Transportation Networks: Analysis and Control
Attacks on Learning in Multi-agent Systems

Thomas Jones

Distinguished Industrial Lecturer 2024
Talk(s)
Control Challenges of Large Transport Aircraft: Advancing from TRL 1 to TRL 9
Autonomous Flight Control: Learning from Humans

Ian Petersen

Distinguished Lecturer 2024
Talk(s)
A Survey of Quantum Control Engineering
Negative Imaginary Systems Theory and Applications

Emilia Fridman

Distinguished Lecturer
Talk(s)
Using Delays for Control
Constructive Methods for Robust Control of Distributed Parameter Systems

Sandra Hirche

Distinguished Lecturer
Talk(s)
Online Learning Control for Personalized Robotic Rehabilitation and Assistance
High Performance control for Robots in Extreme Environments
“To Sample or not to Sample?” – Efficient Online Learning in Closed Loop Control Systems with Guarantees

Sean Meyn

Distinguished Lecturer
Talk(s)
Reinforcement Learning and Stochastic Approximation
Mean-Field Distributed Control for Energy Applications

Wei Ren

Distinguished Lecturer
Talk(s)
Distributed Control of Multi-agent Systems: Algorithms and Applications
Distributed Dynamic State Estimation with Networked Agents: Consistency, Confidence, and Convergence