This list is non-exhaustive and highlights selected recognitions within the TC DPS community. It is compiled primarily from information provided by members and is updated annually.

2025

Abdurrahman Irscheid: “Stabilizing nonlinear ODEs with diffusive actuator dynamics.” IEEE Control Systems Letters 8, 1259-1264, 2024.
Co-authors: Nicole Gehring, Joachim Deutscher, and Joachim Rudolph.


2024

Alexander Kilian: “A Case Study of Port-Hamiltonian Systems with a Moving Interface,” in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 7, pp. 1572-1577, 2023.
Co-authors: Bernhard Maschke, Andrii Mironchenko and Fabien Wirth


2023

Suha Shreim: “Input-output stability of a reaction diffusion equation with in-domain disturbances,” 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 403-408, 2022
Co-authors: Francesco Ferrante, Christophe Prieur


2022

Anthony Hastir: “Local Exponential Stabilization of Nonlinear Infinite-Dimensional Systems,” 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 4038-4045, 2021.
Co-authors: Joseph J. Winkin, Denis Dochain


2021

Andrea Mattioni: “Stabilisation of a Rotating Beam Clamped on a Moving Inertia with Strong Dissipation Feedback,” 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 5056-5061, 2020.
Co-authors: Yongxin Wu, Yann Le Gorrec, Hans Zwart

Bassam Bamieh: IEEE Fellow; IFAC Fellow
Alexandre Bayen: IEEE Fellow
Richard Braatz: IEEE Fellow, IFAC Fellow, AAAS Fellow
John Burns: IEEE Life Fellow; SIAM Fellow
Panagiotis Christofides: IEEE Fellow; IFAC Fellow; AIChE Fellow; AAAS Fellow
Michael Demetriou: IEEE Fellow
Denis Dochain: IEEE Fellow; IFAC Fellow
Fariba Fahroo: IEEE Fellow
Emilia Fridman: IFAC Fellow
Wei He: IEEE Fellow
Mihailo Jovanovic: IEEE Fellow
Miroslav Krstic: IEEE Fellow; IFAC Fellow; SIAM Fellow; ASME Fellow; AIAA Fellow; AAAS Fellow; IET Fellow
Kirsten Morris: IEEE Fellow; IFAC Fellow; SIAM Fellow
Christophe Prieur: IEEE Fellow; IMA Fellow
Jacquelien Scherpen: IEEE Fellow; IFAC Fellow; EUCA Fellow

Jacquelien Scherpen: IEEE CSS Hendrik W. Bode Lecturer (2025)
Miroslav Krstic: IEEE CSS Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize (2023)
Miroslav Krstic: SIAM Idalia Reid Prize (2019)
John Burns: SIAM Idalia Reid Prize (2010)

Alexandre Bayen

  • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), The White House (2010)
  • Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize, IEEE Control Systems Society (2013)
  • National Academy of Engineering Gilbreth Lecture (2017)

Panagiotis Christofides

  • Donald P. Eckman Award (2004)
  • Outstanding Young Researcher Award, CAST Division, AIChE, 2008
  • Computing in Chemical Engineering Award, CAST Division, AIChE, (2018)

Denis Dochain

  • IFAC Outstanding Service Award (2008)
  • IFAC World Congress Application Paper Prize (2014)
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, Grenoble INP (2019)

Emilia Fridman

  • IFAC Delay Systems Lifetime Achievement Award (2021)
  • IFAC Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Prize (2023) for the monograph “Introduction to Time-Delay Systems: Analysis and Control” (Birkhauser, 2014) 
  • Kadar Award for outstanding research in Tel Aviv University.

Bahman Gharesifard

  • CAIMS-PIMS Early Career Award--Jointly awarded by the Canadian Applied & Industrial Math Society and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, (2019)
  • Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2019)

Miroslav Krstic

  • IFAC Ruth Curtain DPS Award (2022)
  • A. V. Balakrishnan Award (2022)
  • Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage (2021)

Scott Moura

  • University of California Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship (2011-2013)
  • Hellman Fellow (2015)
  • ASME Young Investigator Award (2021)

Jacquelien Scherpen

  • Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion (since 2019)
  • Prince Friso Engineering of the Year (2023)
  • Fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering
     

Kirsten Morris: IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award; IFAC Pavel J. Nowacki Distinguished Lecturer (2021–2026)
Emilia Fridman: IEEE CSS Distinguished Lecturer (2023–2025)
Bassam Bamieh: IEEE CSS Distinguished Lecturer (2005–2014, 2019–2022)

Community-Wide Control Paper Awards

  • C. Kawan, A. Mironchenko, A. Swikir, N. Noroozi and M. Zamani, "A Lyapunov-Based Small-Gain Theorem for Infinite Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 66, no. 12, pp. 5830-5844, Dec. 2021
  • B. Bamieh, Mihailo R. Jovanovic, Partha Mitra and Stacy Patterson, "Coherence in Large-Scale Networks: Dimension-Dependent Limitations of Local Feedback," in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 2235-2249, 2012.
  • Bassam Bamieh, Fernando Paganini, and Munther A. Dahleh, "Distributed Control of Spatially Invariant Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 47, no. 7, pp. 1091-1107, 2004.
  • Miroslav Krstic, “Invariant manifolds and asymptotic properties of adaptive nonlinear stabilizers,” in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 41(6), pp. 817-829, 1996.

Drew Steeves, Bahman Gharesifard and Abdol-Reza Mansouri, "Controllability of Coupled Parabolic Systems with Multiple Underactuations,” SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 57(5), pp. 3272-3296, 2019.

Cheng, Xiaodong, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen and Bart Besselink, “Balanced truncation of networked linear passive systems,” Automatica 104, 17-25, 2019.

Shumon Koga, Iasson Karafyllis and Miroslav Krstic, "Input-to-State Stability for the Control of Stefan Problem with Respect to Heat Loss at the Interface,” American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 1740-1745, 2018.

Hector Perez and Scott. J. Moura, "Sensitivity-based interval PDE observer for battery SOC estimation,” American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 323-328, 2015.

Dong Ni, Yiming Lou, and Panagiotis D. Christofides, Lin Sha t, Sandy Lao and Jane P. Chang, “A Method for Real-Time Control of Thin Film Composition Using OES and XPS,” American Control Conference (ACC), 1320-1327, 2003.  

Antonio Armaou and Panagiotis D. Christofides, “Wave Suppression by Nonlinear Finite-Dimensional Control,” American Control Conference (ACC), 1091-1095, 2000.

Miroslav Krstic, "Asymptotic properties of adaptive nonlinear stabilizers," Proceedings of 1995 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 576-581, 1995.