VP Conference Activities | IEEE Control Systems Society

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Current

Date Range:

2024 - 2025

Personnel:

Lihua Xie

Nanyang Technological University

Singapore

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Lihua Xie

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Nanyang Technological University

Singapore

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Past

Date Range:

2022 - 2023

Personnel:

Carolyn Beck

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

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Carolyn Beck

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Carolyn received her PhD from Caltech, her MS from Carnegie Mellon, and her BS from California State Polytechnic University, all in Electrical Engineering. Prior to her PhD studies, she worked as a Research and Development Engineer for Hewlett-Packard in Silicon Valley. She is currently a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Industrial and Systems Engineering, and has held visiting positions at KTH (Stockholm, Sweden), Stanford University and Lund University (Sweden). She serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, on the IEEE Board of Governors for the Control Systems Society (CSS) and is the President-Elect of CSS. Carolyn is an IEEE Fellow, and was the recipient of a NSF CAREER Award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, and local teaching honors. Her research interests lie in the development of model approximation methods, network inference and aggregation, and distributed optimization and control, with applications to epidemic processes and energy networks.

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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

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Past

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Alessandro Giua

University of Cagliari

Italy

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Alessandro Giua

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Alessandro Giua (M’92–SM’08–F’17) received the Ph.D. degree in computer and systems engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, in 1992.

He is currently a Professor of Automatic Control with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy. He has also held faculty or visiting positions in several institutions worldwide, including Aix-Marseille University, France, and Xidian University, Xi’an, China. His research interests include discrete-event systems, hybrid systems, networked control systems, Petri nets, and failure diagnosis.

Dr. Giua is a recipient of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Outstanding Service Award. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, a Senior Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and a Department Editor for the Discrete Event Dynamic Systems. He is a member of the IFAC Publications Committee. He was a Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee 1.3 on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems (2008–2014). Within the IEEE Control Systems Society, he served as the General Chair of the 55th Conference on Decision of Control (2016), a member of the Board of Governors (2013–2015), and a Chapter Activities Chair of the Member Activities Board (2006–2013).

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University of Cagliari

Italy

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