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IEEE TAC Editor-in-Chief

Alessandro Astolfi

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

Alessandro Astolfi

Biography

Alessandro Astolfi (F’09) was born in Rome, Italy, in 1967. He received the Graduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rome, Rome, in 1991, the M.Sc. degree in information theory and the Ph.D. degree with Medal of Honor with a thesis on discontinuous stabilization of nonholonomic systems from ETH-Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, both in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree for his work on nonlinear robust control from the University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, in 1996.,Since 1996, he has been with the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Imperial College London, London, U.K., where he is currently a Professor of nonlinear control theory and the Head of the Control and Power Group. From 1998 to 2003, he was also an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronics and Information, Politecnico of Milano. Since 2005, he has also been a Professor with Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ingegneria Informatica, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome. He has been a Visiting Lecturer in nonlinear control with several universities, including ETH-Zurich (1995–1996); Terza University of Rome (1996); Rice University, Houston, TX, USA (1999); Kepler University, Linz, Austria (2000); SUPELEC, Paris, France (2001); and Northeastern University (2013). He is the author of more than 150 journal papers, 30 book chapters, and more than 240 papers in refereed conference proceedings. He is the author (with D. Karagiannis and R. Ortega) of the monograph Nonlinear and Adaptive Control With Applications (Springer-Verlag). His research interests include mathematical control theory and control applications, with special emphasis on the problems of discontinuous stabilization, robust and adaptive control, observer design, and model reduction.

Prof. Astolfi was the recipient of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) A. Ruberti Young Researcher Prize (2007), the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Googol Best New Application Paper Award (2009), the IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (2012), and the Automatica Best Paper Award (2017). He was also the recipient of the 2015 Sir Harold Hartley Medal, for outstanding contribution to the technology of measurement and control, from the Institute of Measurement and Control. He is a Distinguished Member of the IEEE CSS, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the International Federation of Automatic Control. He served as an Associate Editor for the Automatica, the Systems and Control Letters, the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the International Journal of Control, the European Journal of Control, and the Journal of the Franklin Institute; an Area Editor for the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing; a Senior Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; and an Editor-in-Chief for the European Journal of Control. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He served as the Chair of the IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board (2010–2017) and in the International Program Committee (IPC) of several international conferences. He has been a Member of the IEEE Fellow Committee (2016, 2019).

Affiliation(s)

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

University of Rome Tor Vergata

Italy

IEEE TAC Senior Editor

David Castañón

Boston University

United States

Denis Dochain

Université Catholique de Louvain

Belgium

Alessandro Giua

University of Cagliari

Italy

Tetsuya Iwasaki

University of California, Los Angeles

United States

Christopher Kellett

Australian National University

Australia

Christopher Kellett

Biography

Prof. Christopher Kellett earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from the University of California Riverside in 1997, and the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2000 and 2002, respectively.

He subsequently held postdoctoral research positions at Ecole des Mines de Paris (France) in the Centre d'Automatique et Systemes, at the University of Melbourne (Australia) in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and at the Hamilton Institute (Ireland), based at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Prof. Kellett joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Newcastle in 2006. He has taught a range of subjects across electrical, computer, and telecommunications engineering as well as Carbon Accounting and Energy Auditing (ENGG3860) and CCL201x - International Climate Change Law and Policy available online via edX and co-coordinated with Dr. E. Aydos (U. Newcastle, Newcastle Law School) and A/Prof. S. Rudolph (Kyoto University). In 2020 Prof. Kellett moved to the Australian National University to take up the role of Director of the Research School of Electrical, Energy, and Materials Engineering, while maintaining a conjoint appointment at the University of Newcastle in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

From 2012-2016, Prof. Kellett was supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. He has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment (2011) and a Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany, 2012-2013). In 2013 he was one of eight Australian researchers selected for the Australia-Japan Emerging Research Leaders Exchange Program jointly sponsored by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Engineering Academy of Japan, and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.

In 2012, jointly with co-authors Dr. B. Rüffer (U. Newcastle), A/Prof. P. Dower (U. Melbourne), and Prof. S. Weller (U. Newcastle), Prof. Kellett received the IET Control Theory and its Applications Premium Award for the best paper published in the journal in 2010-2011. In 2017, jointly with co-authors Salman Hafeez (U. Newcastle) and Prof. S. Weller (U. Newcastle) he received the inaugural IFAC Foundation Award for demonstrating contributions of systems and control techniques in the area of sustainable development.

Prof. Kellett is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Control Systems Letters, and Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems. He was previously an Associate Editor for the European Journal on Control (2013-2019) and was a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board during 2007-2017. He has served on the International Program Committees for several IFAC (International Federation on Automatic Control) conferences.

Affiliation(s)

Australian National University

Australia

Lorenzo Marconi

University of Bologna

Italy

Lorenzo Marconi

Biography

Lorenzo Marconi received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bologna in 1995 and graduated with honours. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control in 1998 also from the University of Bologna. From 1999 to 2005 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna, was appointed Associate Professor in 2005, and has been Full Professor since January 2016.

He has held visiting positions at and collaborations with various academic/research international institutions, such as the Washington University at St. Louis, the Imperial College at London, the Ohio State University, the Universite Paris-Sud, the Mittag-Leffler Institute Sweden, l'\'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris, the University of Linz Austria, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and Zhejiang University Cina. In March 2008 he received a ``teaching fellowship" from the University of Linz – Austria.

His current research interests include nonlinear control, output regulation for nonlinear systems, control of autonomous aerial vehicles, robust control, fault detection and isolation, fault-tolerant control. He is co-author of more than 250 technical publications on the subject of linear and nonlinear feedback design published on international journals, books and conference proceedings. He is also co-author of three international monographs.

From 2004 to 2010 he served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Control System Society Conference Editorial Board. From 2009 to 2013 he was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Control System Technology (since 2012) and of Automatica (since 2015). In November 2017 he was appointed Senior Editor of IEEE Transaction of Automatic Control.

Affiliation(s)

University of Bologna

Italy

IEEE TAC Associate Editor

Vincent Andrieu

CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

France

Duarte Antunes

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Shun-ichi Azuma

Nagoya University

Japan

Gildas Besançon

Grenoble INP

France

Kai Cai

Osaka City University

Japan

M. Kanat Camlibel

University of Groningen

Netherlands

Ming Cao

University of Groningen

Netherlands

Antoine Chaillet

CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay

France

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Soon-Jo Chung

California Institute of Technology

United States

Soon-Jo Chung

Biography

Soon-Jo Chung is the Bren Professor of Aerospace in the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT). Prof. Chung is also a Research Scientist of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Prof. Chung received the S.M. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Sc.D. degree in Estimation and Control with a minor in Optics from MIT in 2002 and 2007, respectively. He received the B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from KAIST in 1998 (school class rank 1/120).

From 2009 to 2016, Prof. Chung was an associate professor and an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prof. Chung was a Member of the Guidance & Control Analysis Group in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a JPL Summer Faculty Research Fellow and Faculty Affiliate working on distributed small satellites during the summers of 2010-2014. Professor Chung's research focuses on distributed spacecraft systems, space autonomous systems, and aerospace robotics, and in particular, on the theory and application of complex nonlinear dynamics, control, estimation, guidance, and navigation of autonomous space and air vehicles. He is the recipient of the UIUC Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, the Beckman Faculty Fellowship of the U of Illinois Center for Advanced Study, the AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) award, the NSF CAREER award, three best conference paper awards (2015 AIAA GNC, 2009 AIAA Infotech, 2008 IEEE EIT), and three best student paper or finalist awards. He also received multiple teaching awards including the UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent and the instructor/advisor for the 1st place national winning team of the AIAA Undergraduate Team Space Design Competition.

Prof. Chung is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. He was the lead guest editor of the Special Section on Aerial Swarm Robotics published in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

Affiliation(s)

California Institute of Technology

United States

Sergey Dashkovskiy

University of Würzburg

Germany

Bart De Schutter

Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

Christopher Edwards

University of Exeter

United Kingdom

Denis Efimov

Inria

France

Fabio Fagnani

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

Timm Faulwasser

TU Dortmund

Germany

Leonid Freidovich

Umeå University

Sweden

Sergio Galeani

University of Roma, Tor Vergata

Italy

Chuanhou Gao

Zhejiang University

China

Zhiwei Gao

Northumbria University

United Kingdom

Sergio Grammatico

Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

Guoxiang Gu

Louisiana State University

United States

Martin Guay

Queen's University

Canada

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Guoqiang Hu

Nanyang Technological University

Singapore

Rahul Jain

University of Southern California

United States

Zhen Kan

University of Science & Technology of China

China

10 (Asia and Pacific)

Chung-Yao Kao

National Sun Yat-sen University

Taiwan

Eric Kerrigan

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

Jan Komenda

The Czech Academy of Sciences

Czechia

Javad Lavaei

University of California, Berkeley

United States

Javad Lavaei

Biography

Javad Lavaei is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at University of California, Berkeley. He was an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University from 2012 to 2015. He received the Ph.D. degree in Control & Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology in 2011, and was a postdoctoral scholar in Electrical Engineering and Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University for one year. He is the recipient of the Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize for the best university-wide Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Large-Scale Complex Systems: From Antenna Circuits to Power Grids". He researches on optimization theory, control theory and power systems. He has won several awards, including DARPA Young Faculty Award, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Resonate Award, Google Faculty Research Award, Governor General of Canada Academic Gold Medal, Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Master's Thesis Award, and Silver Medal in the 1999 International Mathematical Olympiad. Javad Lavaei is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and serves on the conference editorial board of IEEE Control Systems Society and European Control Association. He was a finalist (as an advisor) for the Best Student Paper Award at the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2014. His journal paper entitled "Zero Duality Gap in Optimal Power Flow Problem" has received a prize paper award given by the IEEE PES Power System Analysis Computing and Economics Committee in 2015. He is a co-recipient of the 2015 INFORMS Optimization Society Prize for Young Researchers, and the recipient of the 2016 Donald P. Eckman Award given by the American Automatic Control Council.

Affiliation(s)

University of California, Berkeley

United States

Mircea Lazar

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Yann le Gorrec

Institut Franche-Comté Electronique Mécanique Thermique et Optique

France

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Na Li

Harvard University

United States

Zhongkui Li

Peking University

China

Zhongkui Li

Biography

Education

September 2005 --July 2010, PhD in Mechanics (Dynamics and Control), Peking University, China
September 2001--July 2005 B.S. in Space Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, China

Professional Experience

July 2019 -- present, Associate Professor, College of Engineering, Peking University, China
April 2013 -- June 2019, Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, Peking University, China.
February 2011 -- August 2011, Research Fellow, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
July 2010 -- April 2013, Postdoctoral Research Associate, College of Automation, Beijing, Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.

Research Areas:

Cooperative control of multi-agent systems; Networked control systems; Cyber-physical systems; Unmanned systems.

Professional Honors and Awards:

Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher, 2018.
Beijing Nova Award, Beijing Municipal Commission of Science and Technology, 2018.
Changjiang Young Scholar Award, Ministry of Education of China, 2017.
State Natural Science Award of China (Second Prize), The State Council of the People's Republic of China, 2015. 
Yang Jiachi Science and Technology Award (Second Prize), Chinese Association of Automation and Chinese Association of Astronautics, 2015.
IET Control Theory and Applications Premium (Best Paper) Award, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2013.
IEEE CSS Beijing Chapter Young Author Prize, IEEE Control Systems Society Beijing Chapter, 2013.
National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award, Ministry of Education of China, 2012.
2009-2011 Best Paper Award of Journal of Systems Science & Complexity, 2012.

Professional Activities:

Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2020-present)
Associate editor, Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems (2018-present).
Associate editor, Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2017-present).
Associate editor, IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board (2015-present).

Affiliation(s)

Peking University

China

Alessandro Macchelli

University of Bologna

Italy

Cristian Mahulea

University of Zaragoza

Spain

Cristian Mahulea

Biography

Cristian Mahulea is an Associate Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad) at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) with the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering.

He received the Laurea and M.S. degrees in control engineering from the "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi (Romania), in 2001 and 2002, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in systems engineering from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in 2007. He joined the University of Zaragoza in 2008 as assistant professor, becoming associate professor in 2017. He was visiting professor at the University of Cagliari (Italy) with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering during five months in 2008 and 2010.

His research interests include discrete-event systems, hybrid systems, automated manufacturing, Petri nets, mobile robotics and healthcare systems. He co-authored, with Mihaela Matcovschi and Octavian Pastravanu the book Applications of Petri Nets in Studying Discrete Event Systems, Iasi, Romania in 2002 and co-authored with Marius Kloetzer and Ramon Gonzalez the book Path Planning of Cooperative Mobile Robots Using Discrete Event Models, Wiley-IEEE Press, January 2020. He participated and was the main developer of one MATLAB toolbox called Petri Net Toolbox for the simulation, analysis and synthesis of discrete-event systems modeled with discrete Petri nets and one Matlab toolbox called RMTool for path planning and motion control of mobile robots.

He has been a Visiting Researcher at the University of Sheffield (U.K.), University of Cagliari (Italy), Boston University (USA) and ENS Paris-Saclay (France).

He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Affiliation(s)

University of Zaragoza

Spain

Roland Malhamé

Polytechnique Montreal

Canada

Andreas A. Malikopoulos

University of Delaware

United States

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Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Website

Biography

Dr. Andreas Malikopoulos is the Terri Connor Kelly and John Kelly Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Sociotechnical Systems Center at the University of Delaware (UD). Prior to these appointments, he was the Deputy Director and the Lead of the Sustainable Mobility Theme of the Urban Dynamics Institute at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and a Senior Researcher with General Motors Global Research & Development. He received a Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2004 and 2008, respectively, all in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests span several fields, including analysis, optimization, and control of cyber-physical systems; decentralized stochastic systems; stochastic scheduling and resource allocation; and learning in complex systems. Dr. Malikopoulos is the recipient of several prizes and awards, including the 2007 Dare to Dream Opportunity Grant from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, the 2007 University of Michigan Teaching Fellow, the 2010 Alvin M. Weinberg Fellowship, the 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Young Researcher Award, and the 2020 UD’s College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. He has been selected by the National Academy of Engineering to participate at the 2010 German-American Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium and organize a session in transportation at the 2016 European-American FOE Symposium. He has also been selected as a 2012 Kavli Frontiers of Science Scholar by the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Malikopoulos has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems from 2017 through 2020. He is currently an Associate Editor of Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Fellow of the ASME.

Affiliation(s)

University of Delaware

United States

Prashant G. Mehta

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

Prashant G. Mehta

Biography

Prashant Mehta received his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1996 and the Ph.d. degree in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University in 2004 (with Prof. Tim Healey). He is now an Associate Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He is affiliated with the Coordinated Science Laboratory, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Neuroscience program at UIUC. He was the co-founder and the Chief Science Officer of the startup Rithmio whose gesture recognition technology was acquired by Bosch Sensortec in 2017. Prior to his academic appointment at UIUC in 2005, he worked at United Technologies Research Center (1996-98 and 2002-05) where he invented the symmetry-breaking solution to suppress combustion instabilities. This solution — which helped solve a sixty-year-old open problem — has since become an industry standard and is widely deployed in jet engines and afterburners sold by Pratt & Whitney.

At UIUC, Prashant works with his students on mathematical and computational aspects of dynamics and control theory. His most significant recent contribution is the feedback particle filter algorithm (see recent projects for details on ongoing research in his lab). He is passionate about working with and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students. His students have won the best paper awards at IEEE CDC 2007 and 2009 and have been finalists for the best paper awards at ACC 2010 and at IEEE CDC 2012. He teaches dynamics and control classes as well as the graduate course sequence on engineering mathematics (see list of courses taught). For his teaching, he frequently makes the Incomplete list of teachers rated as excellent at UIUC.

He has served as the Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2019-), Systems and Control Letters (2011-14) and the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control (2012-16). He guest-edited the special issue of the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control to commemorate the life, achievements and impact of Rudolph E. Kalman.

Affiliation(s)

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

Giuseppe Notarstefano

Università di Bologna

Italy

Alex Olshevsky

Boston University

United States

Luigi Palopoli

University of Trento

Italy

Fabio Pasqualetti

University of California, Riverside

United States

Anton Proskurnikov

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

Isabelle Queinnec

LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse

France

Paolo Rapisarda

University of Southampton

United Kingdom

Diego Regruto

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Samer Saab

Lebanese American University

Lebanon

Samer Saab

Biography

With an accomplished academic career developed over more than two decades in the School of Engineering, Professor Samer Saab brings solid experience to the position of Interim Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, to which he was appointed in October 2017. In this role, he oversees programs and activities in support of interdisciplinary graduate education and research at LAU.

Dr. Saab joined the School of Engineering in 1996 and later served as chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2005–2012) and as associate dean (2012–2013).

His research interests include optimal stochastic control, navigational positioning systems, control of robot manipulators, managerial policy design, and wireless communications. He is most noted for his foundation and development of Stochastic Iterative Learning Control algorithms and he recently introduced and developed Stochastic Multivariable PID controllers. He was the recipient of the first (2007–2008) LAU Best Research Award in engineering and physical sciences.

Dr. Saab’s academic qualifications include three degrees in electrical engineering — bachelor’s (1988), master’s (1989) and Ph.D. (1992) — as well as a master’s in applied mathematics (1990), all from the University of Pittsburgh.

After completing his doctorate, he worked with Union Switch and Signal and ABB Daimler-Benz Transportation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1993–1996).

Dr. Saab served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (2005–2011) and of the IEEE Control Systems Society-Conference (2005–2009). Since September 2015, he has been a member of the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the control society’s flagship journal. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Shouf National College.

Affiliation(s)

Lebanese American University

Lebanon

Zhan Shu

University of Alberta

Canada

Sarah Spurgeon

University College London

United Kingdom

Aneel Tanwani

CNRS, LAAS

France

Ufuk Topcu

University of Texas, Austin

United States

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Nathan Van De Wouw

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Nathan Van De Wouw

Biography

Nathan van de Wouw (born, 1970, the Netherlands) obtained his MSc-degree and PhD-degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. The title of his PhD thesis is ’Steady-State Behaviour of Stochastically Excited Nonlinear Dynamic Systems’.

From 1999 until now he has been affiliated with the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Eindhoven University of Technology in the group of Dynamics and Control (chaired by Henk Nijmeijer) and currently holds a position as a full professor. He also holds a part-time full professor position within the Delft Center for Systems and Control, Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Moreover, he is an adjunct full professor at the Civil Environmental and Geo-Engineering Department of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A.

In 2000, Nathan van de Wouw has been working at Philips, the Centre for Industrial Technology, group Acoustics and Control, the Netherlands, within a research project for Philips Medical Systems on the active noise reduction of MRI scanners. In 2001, he has been working for several months at the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), TNO-Automotive, department of Crash Safety, group Biomechanics, within a project on the modelling of active muscle behaviour in the human torso for crash-safety simulations. In 2006/2007, he has been a visiting professor at the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A., in the group of prof. Jo˜ao Hespanha, working on the topic of Networked Control Systems. In July 2007, he has been a visiting researcher at CSIRO Petroleum, Perth, Australia. In 2009/2010, he has been visiting professor at the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of the University of Melbourne, Australia, in the group of Prof. Dragan Ne˘si´c. In 2012 and 2013, he has been a visiting professor at the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, U.S.A. in the group of Prof. Emmanuel Detournay.

Affiliation(s)

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Tansel Yucelen

University of South Florida

United States

Tansel Yucelen

Biography

Dr. Tansel Yucelen is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Director of the LACIS, and the Director of the Forum on Robotics and Control Engineering (FoRCE) at the University of South Florida. He received the Doctor of Philosophy in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in May 2012. Prior to joining the University of South Florida, he held Research Engineer positions in the School of Aerospace Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology from December 2011 to August 2013. He also held an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology from August 2013 to August 2016, where he created and directed the Advanced Systems Research Laboratory and the Control Systems Forum. He participated in summer programs at the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace System Directorate in Dayton, Ohio, from May 2014 to July 2014 and at the Munitions Directorate in Eglin, Florida from May 2015 to July 2015.

Dr. Yucelen is a member of the National Academy of Inventors in recognition of advanced technological development and innovation and a senior member of the AIAA and the IEEE. In addition, he is the recipient of the 2018 University of South Florida Research and Innovation Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award, 2017 University of South Florida College of Engineering Junior Outstanding Research Achievement Award, 2016 ACGSC Dave Ward Memorial Lecture Award (for the outstanding contributions to the field of adaptive control), 2016 AIAA Technical Contribution Award (for the creation of novel flight control synthesis and analysis algorithms), 2015 Oak Ridge Associated Universities Junior Faculty Award (for public recognition of the quality and promise of research), and 2014 Class of 1942 Excellence in Teaching Award. His research places a strong emphasis on both theoretic research and experimentation for addressing fundamental and open real-world technological problems. Specifically, his research falls into dynamical systems and controls with specializations in 1) adaptive and robust control of safety-critical systems; 2) distributed estimation and control of networked multiagent systems; 3) resilient and secure robotics, autonomous vehicles, and cyber-physical systems; and 4) biologically-inspired complex, large-scale, and modular systems. He has co-authored more than 200 archival journal and conference publications in these areas and his contributions were implemented on various platforms including AirSTAR of the NASA Langley Research Center.

Dr. Yucelen is an active member of the AIAA, ASME, and IEEE societies as well as AIAA Technical Committee (TC) on Guidance, Navigation, and Control (invited by Dave Doman and Susan Frost), AIAA TC on Intelligent Systems (invited by Nhan Nguyen), IEEE TC on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (invited by Silvia Ferrari), IEEE TC on Aerospace Control (invited by Kingsley Fregene), IEEE TC on Control Education, IEEE TC on Intelligent Control (invited by Jagannathan Sarangapani), IEEE TC on System Identification and Adaptive Control, and IFAC TC on Adaptive and Learning Systems (invited by Fouad Giri). He is also the creator of the Guidance, Navigation, and Control Listserv - a communication tool for researchers and educators in the Guidance, Navigation, and Control field. Dr. Yucelen's additional professional experiences include the organization of 2 local workshops at the University of South Florida; 5 workshops and 4 invited sessions at the top scientific and engineering conferences on dynamical systems and controls; and various associate editor, conference program committee, conference technical area chair, conference session chair, and reviewer roles.

Affiliation(s)

University of South Florida

United States

Ali Zemouche

Université de Lorraine

France