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Pedro Albertos

Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

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Anuradha Annaswamy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

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Anuradha Annaswamy

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Biography

Dr. Anuradha Annaswamy received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 1985. She has been a member of the faculty at Yale, Boston University, and MIT where currently she is the director of the Active-Adaptive Control Laboratory and a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests pertain to adaptive control theory and applications to aerospace, automotive, and propulsion systems, cyber-physical systems science, and CPS applications to Smart Grids, Smart Cities, and Smart Infrastructures. She is the author of a hundred journal publications and numerous conference publications, co-author of a graduate textbook on adaptive control (2004), co-editor of several reports including “Systems & Control for the future of humanity, research agenda: Current and future roles, impact and grand challenges,” (Elsevier) “IEEE Vision for Smart Grid Control: 2030 and Beyond,” (IEEE Xplore) and Impact of Control Technology, (ieeecss.org/main/IoCT-report, ieeecss.org/general/IoCT2-report).

Dr. Annaswamy has received several awards including the George Axelby and Control Systems Magazine best paper awards from the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), the Presidential Young Investigator award from NSF, the Hans Fisher Senior Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technische Universität München, the Donald Groen Julius Prize from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, a Distinguished Member Award, and a Distinguished Lecturer Award from IEEE CSS. Dr. Annaswamy is a Fellow of the IEEE and IFAC. She has served as the Vice President for Conference Activities (2014-15) and is currently serving as the VP for Technical Activities (2017-18) in the Executive Committee of the IEEE CSS.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

John Baillieul

IEEE Control Systems Society

United States

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Girish Chowdhary

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

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Girish Chowdhary

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Dr. Girish Chowdhary is an associate professor and Donald Biggar Willet Faculty Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the director of the Field Robotics Engineering and Science Hub (FRESH) at UIUC and the Chief Scientist on the Illinois Autonomous Farm. Girish holds a joint appointment with Agricultural and Biological Engineering and Computer Science, is a member of the UIUC Coordinated Science Lab, and holds affiliate appointments in Aerospace Engineering and Electrical Engineering. He holds a PhD (2010) from Georgia Institute of Technology in Aerospace Engineering, was a postdoc at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2011-2013), and an assistant professor at Oklahoma State University (2013-2016). He also worked with the German Aerospace Center's (DLR's) Institute of Flight Systems for around three years (2003-2006). Girish’s work on AI and adaptive flight control has led to several key advances to flight control and a Dave Ward memorial award by Aerospace Guidance and Controls committee. Girish is the author of over 100 publications in adaptive control, autonomy, and robotics, and PI on NSF, AFOSR, NASA, ARPA-E, and DOE grants, and an ONR MURI. He is the winner of the Air Force Young Investigator Award, and several best paper awards, including a best systems paper award at RSS 2018 for his recent work on the agricultural robot TerraSentia. He is the co-founder of EarthSense Inc. (www.earthsense.co), working towards making sustainable farming profitable with ultralight field robots.

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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

Fahmida Chowdhury

National Science Foundation

United States

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Sebastián Dormido

Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

Spain

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Sebastián Dormido

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Sebastián Dormido was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain in 1946. He received his BSc and M. S. degree in Physics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1968 and 1969 and a PhD in Science from the Universidad del Pais Vasco in 1971. From 1968 to 1975 he was successively Assistant and Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Automatic Control of the Universidad Complutense and Universidad del Pais Vasco. Since 1975 he has been Full Professor at the Facultad de Ciencias Físicas of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1975-1982) and Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia –UNED- (1982-). In 1982 he was appointed Head of Department of Computer Science and Automatic Control. Further he has served as Vicerrector of Research (1983-1985) in the UNED.

His main fields of interest: Computer Control Process, Model-Based Predictive Control, Robust Control, Modelling and Simulation of Continuous Processes and Control Education with special emphasis on remotes and virtual labs.

He has authored and co-authored over 250 technical papers in international journals and conferences and has supervised 35 Ph.D. students.

From 2001-2006 has been President of the Spanish Association of Automatic Control, CEA-IFAC where he promoted the relationship between the academic and industrial world.

Along with his academic career, he has been invited to give invited lectures worldwide. He has been a plenary speaker at various international conferences. At the present time 5 of his Ph.D. students are full professors and 15 are associate professors. He has supervised more than thirty competitive financed research national and international projects and contracts with companies in the area of automatic control in order to make a transfer of the technology developed in his research group to the industrial sector.

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Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

Spain

Tyrone Duncan

University of Kansas

United States

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Bonnie Heck Ferri

Georgia Institute of Technology

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Elisa Franco

University of California, Los Angeles

United States

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Rick Hill

University of Detroit Mercy

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Karlene Hoo

Montana State University

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Stephen Kahne

Case Western Reserve University

United States

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William Levine

University of Maryland

United States

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Bozenna Pasik-Duncan

University of Kansas

United States

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Anthony Rossiter

The University of Sheffield

United Kingdom

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Angela Schoellig

University of Toronto

Canada

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Hamidou Tembine

New York University

United States

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Dawn Tilbury

University of Michigan

United States

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Ufuk Topcu

University of Texas, Austin

United States

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Sebastian Trimpe

Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

Germany

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Tansel Yucelen

University of South Florida

United States

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Tansel Yucelen

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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.

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University of South Florida

United States

Elena Zattoni

University of Bologna

Italy

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TCCE Chair

John Hedengren

TCCE Deputy Chair

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan

TCCE Members

Daniel Abramovitch

Pedro Albertos

Anuradha Annaswamy

John Baillieul

Girish Chowdhary

Fahmida Chowdhury

Sebastián Dormido

Tyrone Duncan

Bonnie Heck Ferri

Elisa Franco

Rick Hill

Karlene Hoo

Stephen Kahne

William Levine

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan

Anthony Rossiter

Angela Schoellig

Hamidou Tembine

Dawn Tilbury

Ufuk Topcu

Sebastian Trimpe

Tansel Yucelen

Elena Zattoni