2013 CSS Fellows Class [Member Activities]

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he IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Member Activities Board (MAB) consists of the chairs of the standing committees and of the ad hoc committees for special events. The overall purpose of the MAB is to promote membership within the CSS and to provide IEEE resources to members through committee activities. While the MAB has many agenda items on its table, one of the most fulfilling efforts and initiatives is to help elect CSS members to IEEE Fellow grade. On behalf of the MAB and members of the Society, I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to the IEEE Fellows elected in 2013 for their outstanding achievements in the advancement and application of engineering, science, and technology. In addition, these Fellows contribute to the mission of the IEEE, namely, to advance global prosperity by fostering technological innovation, enabling members’ careers, and promoting community worldwide. Receiving the highest grade within IEEE represents prestige, recognition, and achievement. The honor of achieving an IEEE Fellow grade is limited to Senior Members through nomination and evaluation and is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors. Achieving the grade of IEEE Fellow marks a new beginning both professionally and personally. May you strive for technical excellence and leadership; may you nurture young, promising, and responsible colleagues through your guidance and mentoring; and may you serve the Society and community for a better tomorrow. FELLOW NOMINATION PROCEDURE The IEEE Fellow nomination procedure aims to recognize the entire spectrum of engineering disciplines from research to

Vincent D. Blondel University of Louvain Vincent D. Blondel is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Louvain, Belgium, where he was department head from 2001 to 2009. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCS.2013.2249416 Date of publication: 16 May 2013

application areas. Currently, the Fellow nominees are classified into four categories: Application Engineering/Practitioner, Educator, Research Engineer/Scientist, and Technical Leader. The Fellow election process is initiated by a nominator who files the application on behalf of the Senior Member. The nominator, who is not necessarily an IEEE Fellow, or even an IEEE member, names the category of the nomination that fits for the candidate’s strengths and obtains the references from a minimum of five and a maximum of eight IEEE Fellows. The forms for nominations, references, and endorsements must be submitted to the IEEE Fellow Committee by March 1 of the year of election. For current information, please visit the IEEE Fellows Web site, http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/index.html. HISTORY AND FUTURE In the spring of 1884, the AIEE (American Institute of Electrical Engineers) was founded to support professionals in electrical engineering and their efforts to apply innovation for the betterment of humanity. The Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) was formed in 1912 as a result of the emerging radio industry, which eventually was extended to include electronics. The Fellow grade was first established by AIEE in 1912, followed by the IRE in 1914. On January 1, 1963, the AIEE and the IRE merged to become the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest and most authoritative technical society. When the two institutes merged in 1963, all AIEE and IRE Fellows automatically became Fellows of the IEEE. Kirsten Morris

He received an M.Sc. in pure mathematics from Imperial College London and degrees in philosophy and engineering and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Louvain. He is a research affiliate of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, where he was a visiting professor in 2004–2005 and again in 2010–2011. He has also held visiting professorships at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in France and at the

Université de Paris VI, and he was the 2012–2013 Petar Kokotovic Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has directed more than 30 Ph.D. and master’s theses. He has been recognized with the Agathon De Potter prize from the Belgian Royal Academy of Science, the triennial SIAM prize on control and systems theory, a Fulbright fellowship, and the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize. His work on complex networks has been widely featured, including in JUNE 2013  «  IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS MAGAZINE  17

Wired, Technology Review, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, and The New York Times. Håkan Hjalmarsson KTH Royal Institute of Technology Håkan Hjalmarsson received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1988, the Licentiate in 1990, and the Ph.D. degree in 1993, all in automatic control from Linköping University, Sweden. He has held visiting research positions at the California Institute of Technology, Louvain University, and the University of Newcastle, Australia. He was an associate editor for Automatica (1996–2001) and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2005–2007) and a guest editor for the European Journal of Control and Control Engineering Practice. He is a professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He is the chair of the IFAC Coordinating Committee on Signal and Systems. In 2001 he received the KTH award for outstanding contribution to undergraduate education. His research interests include system identification, signal processing, control and estimation in communication networks, and automated tuning of controllers. Karl H. Johansson KTH Royal Institute of Technology Karl H. Johansson is director of the KTH ACCESS Linnaeus Centre and a professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He received the Ph.D. degree in automatic control from Lund University in 1997. Since then, in addition to being on the faculty at KTH, he has held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley, and the California Institute of Technology and a senior researcher 18  IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS MAGAZINE  »  JUNE 2013

position with the Swedish Research Council. He is currently coordinating the Stockholm Strategic Research Area “ICT–The Next Generation” involving KTH, Stockholm University, and the research institutes SICS and ACREO. His research interests are in networked control systems, hybrid and embedded systems, and applications in smart mobility, energy, and automation systems. He has been a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors and chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Networked Systems. He has been on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, and IET Control Theory and Applications. He was guest editor for a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control on wireless sensor and actuator networks in 2011. He was general chair of the ACM/IEEE Cyber-Physical Systems Week 2010 in Stockholm. In 2009, he received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems. In 2009, he was recognized as a Wallenberg Scholar by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. He received the triennial Young Author Prize from the International Federation of Automatic Control in 1996 and the Peccei Award from the International Institute of System Analysis, Austria, in 1993. He received Young Researcher awards from Scania in 1996 and from Ericsson in 1998 and 1999. Rolf Johansson Lund University Rol f   Jo h a n s s o n received the master of science degree in technical physics in 1977, the bachelor of medicine degree in 1980, and the doctorate in control theory in 1983, was appointed docent in 1985, and received the doctor of medicine degree (M.D.) in 1986, all from Lund University, Sweden. Since 1986, he has been with the Department of Automatic Control, Lund University, where he is

currently a professor of control science. His research interests include adaptive system theory, mathematical modeling, system identification, robotics, and signal processing. Since 1987, he has also participated in research and served as a graduate advisor at the Faculty of Medicine, Lund University Hospital. Since 1993, he has been coordinating director of the Robotics Laboratory of Lund University. He is an associate editor of the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing and Chinese Journal of Scientific Instrument. In 1993, he published the book System Modeling and Identification (Prentice Hall). He is a Fellow of the Swedish Society of Medicine and the Royal Physiographic Society, Section of Medicine. He was awarded the 1995 biomedical engineering prize (the Ebeling Prize) of the Swedish Society of Medicine for distinguished contribution to the study of human balance through application and development of system analysis and robotics. Daniel Liberzon University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Daniel  Liberzon did h is u ndergraduate studies in the Department of Mechanics and M at he m at ic s at Moscow State University from 1989 to 1993. In 1993 he moved to the United States to pursue graduate studies in mathematics at Brandeis University, where he received the Ph.D. degree in 1998, supervised by Prof. Roger W. Brockett of Harvard University. Following a postdoctoral position in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Yale University from 1998 to 2000 with Prof. A. Stephen Morse, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is now a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Coordinated Science Laboratory. His research interests include nonlinear control theory, switched and hybrid dynamical systems, control with limited information,

and uncertain and stochastic systems. He is the author of the books Switching in Systems and Control (Birkhauser, 2003) and Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control Theory: A Concise Introduction (Princeton University Press, 2011). His work has received several recognitions, including the 2002 IFAC Young Author Prize and the 2007 Donald P. Eckman Award. He delivered a plenary lecture at the 2008 American Control Conference. He has served as associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems. Kameshwar Poolla University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Kameshwar Poolla received his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, in 1980 and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Florida, Gainesville, in 1984, both in electrical engineering. He served on the faculty of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from 1984 to 1991. Since then, he has been at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is the Cadence Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. He also serves as the founding director of the IMPACT Center for Integrated Circuit Manufacturing at the University of California. He cofounded OnWafer Technologies, which offers metrology-based yield enhancement solutions for the semiconductor industry. OnWafer was acquired by KLA-Tencor in 2007. Honors include the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1988), Hugo Schuck Best Paper Prize (1993), Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council (1994), Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California (1998), IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing Best Paper Prizes (2005 and 2007), and the IEEE Control Systems Society Transition to Practice Award (2009). His current research inter-

ests cover many aspects of the smart grid, including renewable integration, demand response, cybersecurity, experimental economics, and sensor networks. Carsten W. Scherer University of Stuttgart Carsten W. Scherer received the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Würzburg in 1991. After six-month research stays at the University of Groningen, the University of Michigan, and Washington University in St. Louis, he joined Delft University of Technology in 1993, where he held positions as an assistant and associate professor. In the fall of 1999, he spent a three-month sabbatical as a visiting professor at the Automatic Control Laboratory of ETH Zürich. From December 2001 until February 2010 he was a full professor at the Delft Center for Systems and Control at Delft University of Technology. Since March 2010 he has held the SRC SimTech Chair “Mathematical Systems Theory” in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Stuttgart. His research interests cover various topics in applying optimization techniques for developing new advanced controller design algorithms and their application to mechatronics and aerospace systems. He was chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Robust Control (2002–2008), and he was an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1997–1999), Automatica (2000–2006), and Systems and Control Letters. He is currently on the editorial board of the European Journal of Control. Yuan Wang Florida Atlantic University Yuan Wang received her Ph.D. degree in mathematics from Rutgers University in 1990. Since then she has been with the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Florida Atlantic University, where she is currently a professor. She was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Mathematics

and Its Application, University of Minnesota, in 1993; at Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I, France, in 1994; at the Australian National University in 1996; and at the Academy of Mathematical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, for several months annually from 2000 to 2005. She is a recipient of the NSF Young Investigator Award (1994) and the Outstanding Young Investigator Award from China-NSF (2002). From 1994 to 1995, she served on the IEEE Conference Editorial Board. From 1995 to 2003, she served as an associate editor for Systems and Control Letters. She is currently an IEEE Control Systems Society moderator for the Systems and Control and Optimization and Control sections of arXiv. Her research interests lie in several areas of control theory, including realization and stabilization of nonlinear systems.

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