TC Chair | IEEE Control Systems Society

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Current

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Majid Zamani

University of Colorado, Boulder

United States

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Majid Zamani

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Majid Zamani is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at University of Colorado Boulder. Between May 2014 and January 2019, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Technical University of Munich where he led the Hybrid Control Systems Group. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and an MA degree in Mathematics both from University of California, Los Angeles in 2012, an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2007, and a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology in 2005. He received the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2023, the NSF Career award in 2022 and ERC starting grant and ERC Proof of Concept grant from the European Research Council in 2018 and 2023, respectively. His research interests include verification and control of cyber-physical systems, secure-by-construction synthesis, and compositional analysis and synthesis of interconnected systems.

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University of Colorado, Boulder

United States

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Ricardo G. Sanfelice

University of California, Santa Cruz

United States

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Ricardo G. Sanfelice

6 (Western U.S.)

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Ricardo Sanfelice is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Cruz. He received the B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2001. He joined the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2002, where he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 2004 and 2007, respectively. During 2007 and 2008, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He visited the Centre Automatique et Systemes at the Ecole de Mines de Paris for four months. From 2009 to 2014, he was Assistant Professor in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona, where he was also affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Program in Applied Mathematics.

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University of California, Santa Cruz

United States

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Alberto Bemporad

IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca

Italy

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Alberto Bemporad (F’10) received a master’s degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Control Engineering from the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, in 1993 and 1997, respectively.

From 1996 to 1997, he was with the Center for Robotics and Automation, Department of Systems Science and Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA. From 1997 to 1999, he held a post-doctoral position with the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, where he collaborated as a Senior Researcher until 2002. From 1999 to 2009, he was with the Department of Information Engineering, University of Siena, Siena, Italy, becoming an Associate Professor in 2005. From 2010 to 2011, he was with the Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering, University of Trento, Trento, Italy. He spent visiting periods with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, and Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Since 2011, he has been a Full Professor with the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca, Italy, where he served as the Director of the Institute from 2012 to 2015. In 2011, he co-founded ODYS S.r.l., Lucca, a consulting and software development company specialized in advanced controls and embedded optimization algorithms. He has authored over 300 papers in the areas of model predictive control, automotive control, hybrid systems, multiparametric optimization, computational geometry, robotics, and finance. He holds seven patents. He has authored or co-authored various MATLAB toolboxes for model predictive control design, including the model predictive control toolbox (The Mathworks, Inc.) and the hybrid toolbox.

Dr. Bemporad received the IFAC High-Impact Paper Award for the 2011–2014 Triennial. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control from 2001 to 2004, and the Chair of the Technical Committee on Hybrid Systems of the IEEE Control Systems Society from 2002 to 2010.

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IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca

Italy

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Past

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Mircea Lazar

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

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Mircea Lazar

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Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

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