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IEEE TAC Editor-in-Chief

Alessandro Astolfi

Biography

SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE

Born October 11th, 1967 in Rome, Italy.
Diploma cum laude in Electrical Engineering at University of Rome "La Sapienza" (1991).
Research assistant at the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich (1992-1996).
Nachdiplomstudium (M.Sc.) in Informationstechnik from the ETH-Zurich (1995).
Doktor in Technischen Wissenschaften (PhD) with medal of honour from the ETH-Zurich (1995).
Thesis on Discontinuous control of nonholonomic systems.
Dottorato di Ricerca (PhD) from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (1996).
Thesis on Robust control of nonlinear systems.
Lecturer in Nonlinear Control Theory at the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich (1995-1996).
Visiting Lecturer on Control of constrained systems at the Terza University of Rome (1996).
Lecturer in Control Engineering at the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London (1996-2000).
Associate Professor at Dept. of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano, Milan (1998-2003).
Visiting Lecturer on Nonlinear Control at Rice University, Houston (1999).
Visiting Professor in Nonlinear Control at Kepler University, Linz (2000).
Senior Lecturer in Control Engineering at the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London (2000-2002).
Visiting Professor in Nonlinear Control at SUPELEC, Paris (2001).
Reader in Nonlinear Control Theory at the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London (2002-2005).
Visiting Fellow at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, (May-June 2003).
Philip Leverhulme Prize (2003). The prize is "to recognise the outstanding research achievements of young scholars of distinction and promise based in UK institutions".
Professor of Nonlinear Control Theory at the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London (2005-).
Professor at Dipartimento di Informatica Sistemi e Produzione, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome (2005-).
IEEE Control Systems Society Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize (2007). The Prize is given annually to "recognize distinguished cutting-edge contributions by a young researcher to the theory or application of systems and control".
IEEE Fellow (2009): for contributions to nonlinear control theory and its applications to mechanical, electromechanical and power systems.
Chair of the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2009--)

Positions & Affiliations

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

University of Rome Tor Vergata

Italy

IEEE TAC Senior Editor

Alessandro Giua

VP Conference Activities

University of Cagliari, IT

Tetsuya Iwasaki

Senior Editor,

University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Lorenzo Marconi

TAC Senior Editor

University of Bologna, IT

Harry Trentelman

Senior Editor, TAC

University of Groningen, NL

IEEE TAC Associate Editor

Vincent Andrieu

CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, FR

Kai Cai

TAC Associate Editor

Osaka City University

Kanat Camlibel

TAC Associate Editor

University of Groningen

Ming Cao

TAC Associate Editor

University of Groningen

Eduardo Cerpa

TAC Associate Editor

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, CL

Antoine Chaillet

CentraleSupélec - Université Paris-Saclay

Soon-Jo Chung

California Institute of Technology, USA

Biography

Prof. Soon-Jo 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 a B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from KAIST in 1998 (school class rank 1/120). He is currently an Associate Professor of Aerospace and Bren Scholar in the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT). For August 2009-August 2016, Prof. Chung was on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, first as an Assistant Professor and later as a tenured Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering. Prof. Chung was a Member of the Guidance & Control Analysis Group in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology as a JPL Summer Faculty Research Fellow and Faculty Affiliate working on distributed small satellites during the summers of 2010-2014. His research areas include nonlinear control and estimation theory and optimal/robust flight controls with application to aerial robotics, distributed spacecraft systems, and computer vision-based navigation. 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 Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and three best conference paper awards (2015 AIAA GNC, 2009 AIAA Infotech, 2008 IEEE EIT). He also received multiple teaching recognitions 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 the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics and has served on the program committees of multiple AIAA and IEEE conferences.

Sergey Dashkovskiy

University of Würzburg, DE

Bart De Schutter

Delft University of Technology, NL

Christopher Edwards

University of Exeter

Denis Efimov

TAC Associate Editor

Valse team, Inria & CRIStAL, Lille

Fabio Fagnani

TCNS Associate Editor

Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Leonid Freidovich

TAC Associate Editor

Umeå University (UMU)

Sergio Galeani

TCST Associate Editor

University of Roma, Tor Vergata

Zhiwei Gao

TAC Associate Editor

Northumbria University

Sergio Grammatico

TAC Associate Editor

TU Delft

Guoxiang Gu

TAC Associate Editor

Louisiana State University

Martin Guay

L-CSS Senior Editor

Department of Chemical Engineering Queen's University, CA

Guoqiang Hu

TCST Associate Editor

Nanyang Technological University, SG

Rahul Jain

TAC Associate Editor; TCNS Associate Editor

University of Southern California, USA

Qing-Shan (Samuel) Jia

Tsinghua University

China

Raphaël Jungers

TAC Associate Editor

UCLouvain

Chung-Yao Kao

TAC Associate Editor

National Sun Yat-sen University

Christopher Kellett

Australian National University

Australia

Eric Kerrigan

TAC Associate Editor

Imperial College London

Jan Komenda

TAC Associate Editor

Czech Academy of Sciences

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.

Positions & Affiliations

University of California, Berkeley

United States

Zhongkui Li

Peking University, CN

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).