IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Editorial Board

IEEE TCST Editor-in-Chief

Andrea Serrani

The Ohio State University

United States

Andrea Serrani

Biography

Andrea Serrani (M’94) received the Laurea (B.Eng.) (summa cum laude) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Ancona, Ancona, Italy, in 1993, the M.S. degree in systems science and mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA, in 1996, the Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence systems from the University of Ancona in 1997, and the D.Sc. degree in systems science and mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis in 2000.

From 1994 to 1999, he was a Fulbright Fellow with Washington University in St. Louis. From 2004 to 2007, he served as the Technical Leader of the Reusable Launch Vehicle area of the AFOSR/AFRL Collaborative Center for Control Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. He held visiting positions at the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, and the University of Padova, Padua, Italy, and multiple summer faculty positions at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, including four AF-SFFP Fellowships. Since 2002, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH, where he is currently a Professor and the Chair of Graduate Studies. He has authored or co-authored over 150 articles in journals, proceedings of international conferences and book chapters, and has co-authored the book Robust Autonomous Guidance: An Internal Model Approach (Springer-Verlag). His research interests are at the intersection of methodological aspects of nonlinear, adaptive and geometric control theory with advanced applications in aerospace and marine systems, fluidic systems, robotics, and automotive engineering.

Dr. Serrani is a member of International Federation of Automatic Control and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He received the Certificate of Outstanding Service as an Associate Editor (AE) of Automatica, was selected three times as an Outstanding Reviewer of the IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control, and three times as an Excellent Reviewer of the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. He served, among other positions, as the Publications Chair of the 53rd and 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the 2009 American Control Conference. He has served as an Editor-at-Large of the 53rd and 51st IEEE CDC, and the 2017 ACC. He has been a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control System Society (CSS) and has delivered semi-plenary lectures at the 8th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems and the 2011 Chinese Control and Decision Conference. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and also serves in the IEEE CSS and IFAC Editorial Boards. He is a past AE of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Automatica, and the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. He will serve as the Program Chair of the 2019 ACC, and is currently serving as General co-Chair for the 2022 IEEE CDC.

Affiliation(s)

The Ohio State University

United States

IEEE TCST Senior Editor

Maria Letizia Corradini

Università di Camerino

Italy

Marija D. Ilić

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

Eric Kerrigan

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

Ilya Kolmanovsky

University of Michigan

United States

Kristin Y. Pettersen

Norwegian University of Science & Technology

Norway

Kristin Y. Pettersen

Biography

Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen (F’17) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering cybernetics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, in 1992 and 1996, respectively.

Since 1996, she has been a Faculty Member with the Department of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU, where she is currently a Professor. She was the Director of the NTNU ICT Programme of Robotics from 2010 to 2013, the Vice-Head of the Department from 2009 to 2011, and the head of the Department from 2011 to 2013. She is currently an Adjunct Professor with Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Kjeller, Norway. She is also a Key Scientist with the CoE Centre for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems, NTNU, from 2013 to 2022. She is a Co-Founder of the NTNU spin-off company Eelume AS, Trondheim, where she was the CEO from 2015 to 2016. She has authored or co-authored four books and over 250 papers in scientific conferences and journals. Her current research interests include nonlinear control of mechanical systems with applications to robotics, especially marine robotics and snake robotics.

Dr. Pettersen was a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society from 2012 to 2014. She is a member of the IFAC Council, the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, and the Academy of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. She has also held and holds several board positions in industrial and research companies. She was a recipient of the Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology in 2006 and 2017.

Affiliation(s)

Norwegian University of Science & Technology

Norway

IEEE TCST Associate Editor

Masoud Abbaszadeh

University of Alberta

Canada

Veronica Adetola

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

United States

Marco Ariola

Universita degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope

Italy

Marco Ariola

Biography

Marco Ariola was born in Naples, Italy in 1971. He graduated in Electronic Engineering with honors in 1995 at the University of Naples Federico II. He worked for the Italian Aerospace Research Centre from 1995 to 1996, as a researcher in the group of Flight Mechanics and Control. He received a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2000 from the University of Naples Federico II. In 1997 and 1998 he was a visiting researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and for several periods between 1998 and 2000 Visiting Researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico, USA. He has also spent long periods at research laboratories for controlled thermonuclear fusion, and particularly in Japan, Naka at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, and in England at the JET (Joint European Torus), where he was responsible for numerous experiments. Presently he is EUROfusion deputy project leader for DEMO diagnostic and control (WPDC).

From July 2000 to March 2005 he has been Assistant Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Naples Federico II. From March 2005 to December 2012 he was an Associate Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Naples Parthenope, where, since December 2012 he is a Full Professor of Automatic Control.
His research is directed both to methodology issues, such as the study of stability and stabilization of uncertain systems, and to relevant applications, such as control of the plasma in machines for nuclear fusion and planning and tracking of trajectories for UAVs.

Since 2006 he is Associate Editor of the Editorial Board Conference of the IEEE Control Systems Society and, since 2006, IEEE Senior Member. Since 2017 he is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.

Affiliation(s)

Universita degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope

Italy

Kira Barton

University of Michigan

United States

Aman Behal

University of Central Florida

United States

Igor Boiko

Khalifa University

United Arab Emirates

Julio H. Braslavsky

CSIRO Energy

Australia

Sara Dadras

Utah State University

United States

Mariagrazia Dotoli

Politecnico di Bari

Italy

Mariagrazia Dotoli

Biography

Mariagrazia Dotoli is a Full Professor in Systems and Control Engineering at Politecnico di Bari, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, which she joined in 1999 as a tenured Assistant Professor. She was the 2011-2013 Vice-Rector for Research of Politecnico di Bari (Italy) and a 2012-2015 member-elect of the Academic Senate of the same University. She is currently Vice Director for Research of the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at Politecnico di Bari. She received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering with honors in 1995 and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1999, both from Politecnico di Bari.

She has been a visiting scholar at the Paris 6 University (France) and at the Technical University of Denmark. Since 2003 she is an expert evaluator of the European Commission, previously for the Sixth and Seventh RTD Framework Programmes, and subsequently for Horizon 2020. Her research interests include the modeling, identification, management, control, automation, optimization, and diagnosis of: discrete event industrial systems, Petri nets, manufacturing systems, supply chains, logistics and transportation systems, traffic networks, energy systems.

She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. She was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters until 2018.

She is currently General Chair of the MED2021 29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Program Chair of the CODIT2020 International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, Program Chair of the CASE2020 annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering and Publicity Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.

She was the Workshop and Tutorial chair of the 2015 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, the Special Session co-chair of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technology and Factory Automation, and chair of the National Committee of the 2009 IFAC Workshop on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems. She has been member of the International Program Committee of 70+ international Conferences and Symposia. She is a member of the following committees: IFAC Technical Committee on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems (since 2011); IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Discrete Event Systems (since 2007); IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Discrete Event Systems (since 2005).

She is author or co-author of 200+ printed publications, including 1 book (in Italian) and 70+ papers on international peer-reviewed journals. Her Scopus Researcher page is available at http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=6603204493.

Affiliation(s)

Politecnico di Bari

Italy

Stephen Duncan

University of Oxford

United Kingdom

Christopher Edwards

University of Exeter

United Kingdom

Simos Andreas Evangelou

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

Sergio Galeani

University of Roma, Tor Vergata

Italy

Anouck Girard

University of Michigan

United States

Jan Gravdahl

Norwegian University of Science & Technology

Norway

Martha Grover

Georgia Institute of Technology

United States

Suat Gumussoy

The Mathworks, Inc.

United States

Wei He

University of Science and Technology Beijing

China

Erik Hellström

Ford Motor Company

United States

Jesse Hoagg

University of Kentucky

United States

Guoqiang Hu

Nanyang Technological University

Singapore

Jr-Shin Li

Washington University

United States

Alessandro Macchelli

University of Bologna

Italy

Manfredi Maggiore

University of Toronto

Canada

Chris Manzie

University of Melbourne

Australia

Alessandro Marino

Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale

Italy

Prashant Mhaskar

McMaster University

Canada

Giuseppe Notarstefano

Università di Bologna

Italy

Peter Odgaard

Goldwind Denmark

Denmark

Meeko Oishi

University of New Mexico

United States

Tom Oomen

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Yuri Orlov

CICESE Research Center

Mexico

Gábor Orosz

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

United States

Yongpin Pan

IEEE TCST Editor

National University of Singapore

Singapore

Georgios Papafotiou

ASEA Brown Boveri (ABB)

Switzerland

Gilberto Pin

Electrolux Italia

Italy

Salvatore Pirozzi

Università di Napoli

Italy

Elisabetta Punta

National Research Council

Italy

Nicanor Quijano

Universidad de los Andes

Colombia

Davide M. Raimondo

University of Pavia

Italy

Mara Tanelli

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

Roland Tóth

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Ardalan Vahidi

Clemson University

United States

Liuping Wang

RMIT University

Australia

Chenguang (Charlie) Yang

University of the West of England, Bristol

United Kingdom

Tao Yang

Northeastern University

China

Yildiray Yildiz

Bilkent University

Turkey

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Yildiray Yildiz

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Biography

Yildiray Yildiz is an assistant professor and director of the Systems Lab at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He received the B.S. degree (valedictorian) in mechanical engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2002; the M.S. degree in mechatronics engineering from Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2004; and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering with a mathematics minor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 2009. He held postdoctoral associate and associate scientist positions with NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California, from 2009 to 2010, and he was employed by the University of California, Santa Cruz, through its University Affiliated Research Center from 2010 to 2014. He is the recipient of the ASME Best Student Paper in Conference award (2008), the NASA Group Achievement Award (2012) for outstanding technology development of the CAPIO system at the Vertical Motion Simulator supporting NASA’s Green Aviation Initiative, and the Turkish Science Academy’s Young Scientist Award (2017). He was a member of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Technical Committee from 2010 to 2013. He has been an IEEE Conference Editorial Board associate editor since 2015 and an associate editor for IEEE Control Systems Magazine since 2016. His research interests include adaptive control, time-delay systems, applications of game theory, applications of reinforcement learning, automotive control, and aerospace control.

Affiliation(s)

Bilkent University

Turkey