Past-President | IEEE Control Systems Society

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Date Range:

2023 - 2024

Personnel:

Thomas Parisini

Imperial College London (UK) and University of Trieste (Italy)

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Thomas Parisini

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Thomas Parisini received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in 1993 from the University of Genoa. He was with Politecnico di Milano and he currently holds the Chair of Industrial Control and serves as the Head of the Control and Power Research Group at Imperial College London. He is a Deputy Director of the KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence, University of Cyprus. Since 2001 he is also Danieli Endowed Chair of Automation Engineering with University of Trieste. In 2009-2012 he was Deputy Rector of University of Trieste. In 2018 he received an Honorary Doctorate from University of Aalborg, Denmark. He held a "Scholar-in-Residence" visiting position at Digital Futures-KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. He authored or co-authored a research monograph in the Communication and Control Series, Springer Nature, and over 400 research papers in archival journals, book chapters, and international conference proceedings. He is a co-recipient of the IFAC Best Application Paper Prize of the Journal of Process Control, Elsevier, for the three-year period 2011-2013 and of the 2004 Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks. He is also a recipient of the 2007 IEEE Distinguished Member Award. In 2016, he was awarded as Principal Investigator at Imperial of the H2020 European Union flagship Teaming Project KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence led by University of Cyprus.

Thomas Parisini has served as the 2021-2022 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society and during 2009-2016 he was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology. Since 2017, he is Editor for Control Applications of Automatica and since 2018 he is the Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Control. Among other activities, he was the Program Chair of the 2008 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and General Co-Chair of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Prof. Parisini is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the IFAC.

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Imperial College London (UK) and University of Trieste (Italy)

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Past

Date Range:

2021 - 2021

Personnel:

Anuradha Annaswamy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

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Anuradha Annaswamy

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Dr. Anuradha Annaswamy received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 1985. She has been a member of the faculty at Yale, Boston University, and MIT where currently she is the director of the Active-Adaptive Control Laboratory and a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests pertain to adaptive control theory and applications to aerospace, automotive, and propulsion systems, cyber-physical systems science, and CPS applications to Smart Grids, Smart Cities, and Smart Infrastructures. She is the author of a hundred journal publications and numerous conference publications, co-author of a graduate textbook on adaptive control (2004), co-editor of several reports including “Systems & Control for the future of humanity, research agenda: Current and future roles, impact and grand challenges,” (Elsevier) “IEEE Vision for Smart Grid Control: 2030 and Beyond,” (IEEE Xplore) and Impact of Control Technology, (ieeecss.org/main/IoCT-report, ieeecss.org/general/IoCT2-report).

Dr. Annaswamy has received several awards including the George Axelby and Control Systems Magazine best paper awards from the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), the Presidential Young Investigator award from NSF, the Hans Fisher Senior Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technische Universität München, the Donald Groen Julius Prize from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, a Distinguished Member Award, and a Distinguished Lecturer Award from IEEE CSS. Dr. Annaswamy is a Fellow of the IEEE and IFAC. She has served as the Vice President for Conference Activities (2014-15) and is currently serving as the VP for Technical Activities (2017-18) in the Executive Committee of the IEEE CSS.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

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Robert Bitmead

University of California, San Diego

United States

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Robert R. Bitmead (F’91) received the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Newcastle University, Callaghan, NSW Australia, in 1977 and 1980, respectively, and the B.Sc. degree in applied mathematics from Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia, in 1976.

He is a Control Theorist with a long experience in control applications in many industrial sectors. His theoretical work is strongly informed and guided by these applications. He occupies the Cymer Corporation Endowed Chair in mechanical and aerospace engineering with the University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.

Dr. Bitmead was the President of the IEEE Control Systems Society for 2019. He was a member of the IFAC Council from 1996 to 2002 and is the Editor-in-Chief for the IFAC Journal of Systems and Control. He is an accredited and active Australian Rules Football Umpire. He was the recipient of the 2014 ASME Rufus Oldenburger Medal and the 2015 IEEE Controls Systems Transition to Practice Award.

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University of California, San Diego

United States

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