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Andrea Serrani

Ohio State University

United States

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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)

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

Marco Lovera

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

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

IEEE TCST Associate Editor

Masoud Abbaszadeh

GE Global Research

United States

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

Ford Motor Company

United States

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

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Suat Gumussoy

The Mathworks, Inc.

United States

Takeshi Hatanaka

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Japan

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

Lars Imsland

Norwegian University of Science & Technology

Norway

Colin Jones

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

Uroš Kalabić

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

United States

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Alessandro Macchelli

University of Bologna

Italy

Manfredi Maggiore

University of Toronto

Canada

Alessandro Marino

Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale

Italy

Giuseppe Notarstefano

Università di Bologna

Italy

Peter Odgaard

Goldwind Energy 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

Eindhoven University of Technology

Georgios Papafotiou

Biography

Georgios Papafotiou (M'03) received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1997 and 2002, respectively.

George Papafotiou is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, and the Head of the Power Electronics Lab. He is working on using computational intelligence to make power electronics systems more available. Computational intelligence, specifically Model Predictive Control (MPC), and its application in the microsecond time-scales encountered in power electronics systems has been the main thread throughout his career.

Before joining TU/e, Papafotiou worked in various functions at ABB for 15 years. He started as a Scientist in the Swiss Lab of ABB Corporate Research, where he was the main advocate for using computational intelligence for the more efficient and robust dynamic operation of energy management systems. He then led the Power Electronics Systems research group at the same institution, with a research portfolio comprising power electronics for renewables, ultra-high-efficiency power conversion, and dynamic optimization and control.

As Global R&D Manager for SW and Control HW at ABB Medium Voltage Drives, Papafotiou took a leading role in productizing the first comprehensive MPC-based control platform for induction motor drives. Finally, as Global Quality and Customer Experience Manager for ABB’s System Drives Division, he worked on data-driven techniques to improve product quality and reliability for industrial motor drives.

Affiliation(s)

Eindhoven University of Technology

Gilberto Pin

Electrolux Italia

Italy

Elisabetta Punta

National Research Council

Italy

Nicanor Quijano

Universidad de los Andes

Colombia

Davide M. Raimondo

University of Pavia

Italy

Simona Sacone

Università di Genova

Italy

Roland Tóth

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Ardalan Vahidi

Clemson University

United States

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

Fengqi You

Cornell University

United States

Erkan Zergeroglu

Gebze Technical University

Turkey