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IEEE TCST Editor-in-Chief

Ilya Kolmanovsky

University of Michigan

United States

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IEEE TCST Senior Editor

Fabrizio Dabbene

National Research Council of Italy – CNR IEIIT

Italy

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Fabrizio Dabbene

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Biography

Fabrizio Dabbene received the Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree in Systems and Computer Engineering in 1999, both from Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is currently holding a Senior Researcher position at the institute CNR IEIIT of the National Research Council of Italy, where he is the coordinator of the Systems Modeling & Control (SMC) Group. He has held visiting and research positions at The University of Iowa, at Penn State University and at the RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences) Institute of Control Science, Moscow.

His research interests include probabilistic and randomized methods for systems and control, robust control and identification of complex systems, convex optimization, dynamical social networks, space robotics, and precision agriculture. On these topics, he has published more than 150 research papers, which include more than forty articles published in international journals. He is co-author of the book Randomized Algorithms for Analysis and Control of Uncertain Systems, Springer-Verlag, published in two editions, and editor of the book Probabilistic and Randomized Methods for Design under Uncertainty, also published by Springer. He has been co-organizer of several invited sessions and special courses, and of three Conference Workshops at CDC-00, MSC-08 and MSC-10. He is a recipient of the Outstanding Paper Award from EurAgeng in 2010. He served as Associate Editor for Automatica and as Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Robust Control.

Dr. Dabbene is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and he has taken various responsibilities within the IEEE Control Systems Society. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2008-2012), Program Chair for the 2010 IEEE Multiconference on Systems and Control, Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on CACSD (2010-2013), member of CEB (2002-2008), IPC member of various IEEE conferences, and member of several CDC Best Student Paper Award Committees. He is currently Senior Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Letters. He served as elected member of the IEEE-CSS Board of Governors for the years 2014-2016, and as IEEE-CSS Vice-President for Publication Activities for the years 2015-2016.

Affiliation(s)

National Research Council of Italy – CNR IEIIT

Italy

Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

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Takeshi Hatanaka

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Japan

Erik Hellström

Ford Motor Company

United States

Christopher Kellett

ResTech

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)

ResTech

Australia

Manfredi Maggiore

University of Toronto

Canada

Jakob Stoustrup

Aalborg University

Denmark

Roland Tóth

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

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

Veronica Adetola

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

United States

Kaveh Akbari Hamed

Virginia Tech

United States

Karl Berntorp

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

United States

Igor Boiko

Khalifa University of Science and Technology

United Arab Emirates

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Hoseinali (Ali) Borhan

Cummins Corporate Research and Technology

United States

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Justin Bradley

North Carolina State University

United States

Elisa Capello

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

Andrea Cristofaro

Sapienza University of Rome

Claus Danielson

University of New Mexico

United States

Maria Laura Delle Monache

University of California, Berkeley

United States

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Christopher Edwards

University of Exeter

United Kingdom

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Simos Andreas Evangelou

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

Hassen Fourati

University Grenoble Alpes

France

Marion Gilson

University of Lorraine

Jan Gravdahl

Norwegian University of Science & Technology

Norway

Ibrahim Haskara

General Motors Co.

United States

David Hoelzle

Ohio State University

United States

Lars Imsland

Norwegian University of Science & Technology

Norway

Takayuki Ishizaki

Institute of Science, Tokyo

Japan

C.N. Jones

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

Uroš Kalabić

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

United States

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Alexander Katriniok

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Taeyoung Lee

George Washington University

Erjen Lefeber

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Zhaojian Li

Michigan State University

United States

Alessandro Macchelli

University of Bologna

Italy

Martina Mammarella

CNR-IEIIT

Italy

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Ali Mesbah

University of California, Berkeley

United States

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Thomas Meurer

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Germany

Thomas Meurer

Biography

Thomas Meurer (Senior Member, IEEE) received the diploma in Process Systems Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany in 2001, the M.Sc. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA in 2000, and the Doctor of Engineering degree from the University of Stuttgart in 2005. From 2005 to 2007 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Chair of System Theory and Automatic Control at the Saarland University, Germany. In 2007 he joined the Automation and Control Institute at the TU Vienna, Austria as a Senior Researcher, where he was appointed Associate Professor (Privatdozent) in 2012. Since 2012 he has been Full Professor and head of the Automatic Control Group at Kiel University, Germany. He is Associate Editor for the journals Automatica, IEEE Control Systems Letters, and Mathematical Control and Related Fields. He was chair of the IFAC TC 2.6 on Distributed Parameter Systems from 2011 to 2017 and has been chair of the TC 1.40 Systems Theory and Automatic Control of the VDI/GMA since 2017 and the IEEE-CSS TC Distributed Parameter Systems since 2019. He received the VDI/GMA Eugen Hartmann Award in 2009, the Cardinal Innitzer Award in 2012, the IFAC Congress Best Interactive Paper Prize at the 2017 IFAC World Congress, and the Control Engineering Practice Paper Prize Award in 2020. His research interests include control of distributed parameter systems, nonlinear control theory, observer design, and optimal control with applications in robotics, production processes, mechatronics, marine systems, and process systems engineering.

Affiliation(s)

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Germany

Toru Namerikawa

Keio University

Japan

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Chris Nielsen

University of Waterloo

Simona Onori

Stanford University

United States

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Gábor Orosz

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

United States

Sean Phillips

Air Force Research Laboratory

United States

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Alessandro Pisano

University of Cagliari

Italy

Ionela Prodan

Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)

France

Vicenç Puig

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Ugo Rosolia

Amazon

United States

Michael Ruderman

University of Agder

Norway

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Stefania Santini

University of Naples Federico II

Italy

Masayuki Sato

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Japan

Jason B. Siegel

University of Michigan

United States

Chiara Toffanin

University of Pavia

Italy

Javad Mohammadpour Velni

Clemson University

United States

Christopher Vermillion

North Carolina State University

Karl Worthmann

Technical Univeristy of Ilmenau

Germany

Chenguang (Charlie) Yang

University of the West of England, Bristol

United Kingdom

Tao Yang

Northeastern University

China

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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