OJ-CSYS Senior Editors | IEEE Control Systems Society

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Past

Date Range:

2022 - 2024

Personnel:

Lacra Pavel

University of Toronto

Canada

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Lacra Pavel

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University of Toronto

Canada

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Peter J. Seiler

University of Michigan

United States

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Peter J. Seiler

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University of Michigan

United States

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Stephen Smith

University of Waterloo

Canada

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Stephen Smith

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Stephen L. Smith is an Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, the Canada Research Chair in Autonomous Systems, and the Director of the Autonomous Systems Laboratory. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (PEng) by the Professional Engineers Ontario and is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems and the Co-chair of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2021). Previously he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT.

Professor Smith's research group focuses on control, learning, and optimization for autonomous systems and robotics. Through this research, he collaborates with several industrial partners in robotics and transportation systems and has designed control, optimization, and autonomy for improving efficiency in applications including future urban mobility systems, underwater ocean monitoring, and industrial robotic cleaning.

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University of Waterloo

Canada

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Past

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2022 - 2024

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Wei Zhang

Southern University of Science and Technology

China

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Wei Zhang

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Wei Zhang received the B.S. in Automatic Control from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2003, the M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Kentucky in 2005, and the M.S. in Statistics and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering both from Purdue University in 2009. From January 2010 to August 2011, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as an Assistant Professor (2011 – 2017) and then an Associate Professor (with tenure) of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Ohio State University. In May 2019, he joined the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China, where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering. His research interests include control and optimization theory, machine learning, motion planning, and their applications in robotics and autonomous systems. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and the Lumley Research Award at the Ohio State University. He is currently a Senior Member of IEEE and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology.

Research Interest: Control and Optimization Theory, Robotics, Machine Learning, Autonomous System

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Southern University of Science and Technology

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