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Since 1999 he is Professor for Systems Theory in Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Engineering Cybernetics of the University of Stuttgart, and Director of the Institute for Systems Theory in Engineering. Prior to this, he held a professorship in the Electrical Engineering department at ETH Zurich, and was head of the Nonlinear Systems Group there. Prof. Allgöwer was a visiting research associate at the California Institute of Technology and the NASA Ames Research Center, and spent a year as visiting research scientist with the Central Research and Development Organization of the DuPont Company in Wilmington, DE.

Prof. Allgöwer's main research interest is in the area of process control, with a focus on the development of new methods for the analysis and control of nonlinear process systems and their identification.

He is Associate Editor for the Journal of Process Control and serves on the international advisory board of Chemical Engineering Science. He has been an Associate Editor for Automatica since 1997, and in 2002 he became an Editor of Automatica. He is organizer or co-organizer of several international workshops and conferences, and published over 100 scientific articles.

John Baillieul John Baillieul's research deals with robotics, the control of mechanical systems, and mathematical system theory. His PhD dissertation, completed at Harvard University under the direction of R.W. Brockett in 1975, was an early work dealing with connections between optimal control theory and what has recently been called "sub-Riemannian geometry."

After publishing a number of papers developing geometric methods for nonlinear optimal control problems, he turned his attention to problems in the control of nonlinear systems modeled by homogeneous polynomial differential equations. Such systems describe, for example, the controlled dynamics of a rigid body. His main controllability theorem applied the concept of finiteness embodied in the Hilbert basis theorem to develop a controllability condition that could be verified by checking the rank of an explicit finite dimensional operator. In looking for additional ways in which the mathematical machinery of algebraic geometry could be used to address problems in engineering, Baillieul began a collaboration with C.I. Byrnes on the bifurcation and stability theory of large-scale electric energy system dynamics. A significant discovery was that solutions to the lossless load-flow equations could be exactly enumerated as a result of identifying and isolating some spurious solutions of dimension higher than zero.

During the mid 1980's, Baillieul collaborated with M. Levi to develop a control theory for rotating elastic systems. Baillieul and Levi's basic results on the stability of equilibrium configurations of rotating elastic spacecraft have provided the foundation for a great deal of subsequent research in the area. At about the same period in his career, Baillieul wrote a number of papers on motion planning and control of kinematically redundant manipulators. Combined with the spacecraft work, this led naturally to work on problems associated with anholonomy in planning motions for robots which have elastic joints and other components which store energy. This work led naturally to applying the methods of dynamical systems theory and classical geometric nonlinear control theory to problems of current technological interest including problems or fluid structure interactions, microelectromechanism dynamics, adaptive optics, and network mediated control of large scale device arrays.

His most recent work has dealt with the interplay between communications and information theory and control. He was among the first to articulate a version of the now well-known data-rate theorem---which gives a simple bound in terms of open-loop pole locations on the data-rate that must be sustained in a closed loop system in order for it to be stable. Together with Keyong Li, he has gone on to explore source coding of feedback signals which are designed to provide optimally robust performance in the face of time-varying feedback channel capacity. Motivated by this work, Baillieul has been led to other challenges in the design and operation of networked control systems. He was a pioneer in applying ideas from the theory of graph rigidity to cooperative control of multiple autonomous mobile robot formations.

Graph theory is now regarded as perhaps the single most important enabling abstraction for the design of decentralized control algorithms for networks of mobile robots. The work on formation rigidity that has followed the 2003 CDC paper of Baillieul and Suri is an important piece of this abstraction.

Baillieul's most recent work deals with decision making in mixed teams of humans and intelligent automata and in particular in laying the foundation of action-mediated communication within such teams. John Baillieul is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of SIAM.

From 1973 to 1975, he was with the Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes, Toulouse, France, as a Research Fellow of the European Space Agency. From 1975 to 1978, he was a Fulbright/Hays Fellow and a Teaching and Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering--Systems and subsequently a Research Associate in the same department. From 1978 to 1979 he was with the Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium. From 1979 to 1980, he was with the Philips Research Laboratory, Brussels, Belgium. In 1980, he returned to the University of Southern California, where he is currently a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, an Associate Member of the Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences (CAMS), and a member of the newly established Center for Computer Systems Security (CCSS) of the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California.

Dr. Jonckheere is the (sole) author of the book, Algebraic and Differential Topology of Robust Stability, Oxford University Press, New York, 1997. His past research interests included topological methods in robust control, "complicated" non linear dynamics, and propulsion control of aerospace vehicles. Still active among these past research activities are control of hovercraft and control of a spacecraft to a rendez-vous with a Trojan asteroid in libration around the Jupiter Lagrange L4 point. His currently active and long term biomedical projects are motor failure rehabilitation and cardiac dynamics. Dr. Jonckheere's most recent research interests are in Cyber security, network traffic modeling, and coarse hyperbolic geometry of networks. From 2003 until 2006, he was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

Dr. Jonckheere was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1991, for Contributions to the spectral theory of linear-quadratic and H-infinity control. In 1999, he was listed in the Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering.

Krstic moved to University of California, San Diego (UCSD), in 1997 and was promoted to Professor in 1999. He is the founding Director of the Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics at UCSD and holds the endowed Daniel L. Alspach Professorship.

Miroslav is a coauthor of the books Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Design (New York: Wiley, 1995), Stabilization of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1998), Flow Control by Feedback (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2002), Real Time Optimization by Extremum Seeking Control (New York: Wiley, 2003), Control of Turbulent and Magnetohydrodynamic Channel Flows (Boston: Birkhauser, 2007), Boundary Control of PDEs: A Course on Backstepping Designs (Philadelphia: SIAM, 2008), Delay Compensation for Nonlinear, Adaptive, and PDE Systems (Boston: Birkhauser, 2009), and Adaptive Control of Parabolic PDEs (Princeton University Press, 2010).

Krstic received the UCSB Best Dissertation Award, the National Science Foundation Career Award, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and the O. Hugo Schuck Award for the Best Paper at the American Control Conference. He was elected Fellow of IEEE in 2001 and Fellow of IFAC in 2008. In 2005 he received the UCSD Chancellor's Associates Award for Excellence in Research, as the first engineering professor to receive this recognition in sixteen years of existence of this award. In 2007 he was appointed Russell Severance Springer Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of California, Berkeley.

Miroslav has served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Systems and Control Letters, ESAIM: Control, Optimisation, and Calculus of Variations, and several other journals. Since 2009 he has been serving as one of the inaugural Senior Editors in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Since 2010 he has been serving as Editor in the Springer-Verlag book series Communications and Control Engineering. He has also served as Vice President for Technical Activities, a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and Vice-Chair in his department at UCSD.

Krstic has given a dozen plenary lectures at conferences and several distinguished lectures at universities.

He worked at Delft University of Technology from 1964, first in the Engineering Physics Department and later also in the Mathematics Department, until in 1970 he was appointed Professor in the Applied Mathematics Department (now part of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science) of the University of Twente. He retired from his faculty position in 2002.

Dr. Kwakernaak's research interests are in linear control and systems theory. He co-authored three books, the best known of which is Linear Optimal Control Systems, with R. Sivan, Wiley-Interscience, 1972.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the IFAC; and holds the Distinguished Service Award of the IFAC and the Distinguished Member Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society. From 1994 until the end of 2003 he was Editor-in-Chief of Automatica. From 1995 until the end of 1999 he was the Scientific Director of the Dutch Institute of Systems and Control DISC, which is a national graduate school and research institute in the systems and control area in The Netherlands.

Ian R. Petersenwas born in Victoria, Australia. He received a
Ph.D in Electrical Engineering in 1984 from the University of Rochester. From 1983 to 1985 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University. In 1985 he joined the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy where he is currently Scientia Professor and an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering.

He has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Systems and Control Letters, Automatica, and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. He is a fellow of the IEEE. His main research interests are in robust control theory, quantum control theory and stochastic control theory.

He has researched control of nonlinear dynamic economic models, optimization and minimax algorithms and software, robust decision making under uncertainty in economics, finance and process systems engineering. He is currently Editor of Computational Management Science, Advisory Editor of Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control (JEDC) on the editorial boards of J of Global Optimization, Optimization Letters, and Computational Economics. He was President of the Society for Computational Economics 2002-4, editor of JEDC, 1987-2002, and chair of IFAC TC on Computation in Economics & Finance, 1992-2000.

He has published extensively, edited journal special issues, book volumes and is the author of three research monographs on optimization algorithms, multiple-objective decisions, minimax worst-case-robust decision making and risk management.

During 1967-1974 he held various teaching positions at the Lund Institute of Technology. Since 1974, he has been with the Division of Systems and Control, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, where he is a professor of automatic control.

Dr. Söderström is the author or coauthor of many technical papers.
His main research interests are in the fields of system identification, signal processing, and control.
He is the (co)author of four books:
"Theory and Practice of Recursive Identification", MIT Press, 1983 (with L. Ljung), "The Instrumental Variable Methods for System Identification", Springer-Verlag, 1983 (with P. Stoica), "System Identification", Prentice--Hall, 1989 (with P. Stoica) and "Discrete-Time Stochastic Systems", Prentice--Hall, 1994; second edition, Springer-Verlag, 2002.

In 1981 he was, with coauthors, given an Automatica Paper Prize Award.

Within IFAC he has served in several capacities including vice-chairman of the TC on Modeling, Identification and Signal Processing, (1993-99), IPC chairman of the IFAC SYSID'94 Symposium, Council member (1996-2002), Executive Board member (1999-2002) and Awards Committee Chair (1999-2002).

He was an associate editor (1984-91), guest associate editor and editor for four special issues with Automatica, and has been the editor for the area of System Parameter Estimation since 1992.

Toshiharu Sugiewas born in Osaka, Japan in 1954. He received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in engineering form Kyoto University, Japan, in 1976, 1978 and 1985, respectively. Since 1998, he has been Professor at the Department of Systems Science, Kyoto University. He was a research member of Musashino Electric Communication Laboratory in Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, Japan (1978-1980), a research associate at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Osaka Prefecture (1984-1988), and an associate professor at the Department of Applied Systems Science, Kyoto University (1988-1997).

His research interests are in robust control, nonlinear control, identification for control, and their application to mechanical systems. He published a few books, one of which won the Best Book Award from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan (SICE) in 1994. He also received Best Paper Awards from SICE in 1994, 2000, 2003, 2007, and 2008 and from the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, Japan in 1991, 1998 and 2008.

His research interests are in nonlinear and hybrid dynamical systems, with a focus on stability analysis and control design. He has received NSF Research Initiation and CAREER Awards, the 1998 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Prize Paper Award, the 1998 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award, and was the recipient of the first SIAM Control and Systems Theory Prize in 1998. He was also the recipient of the 1999 Donald P. Eckman Award and the 2001 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, both given by the American Automatic Control Council, and also received the 2010 IEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and of IFAC. He served as an associate editor for Automatica from 1999 to 2009, when he was appointed area editor for Nonlinear Systems and Contol.

Dr. Tempo's research activities are mainly focused on complex systems with uncertainty, and related applications. On these topics he has given several invited lectures at various conferences and workshops, including the recent plenary lectures at SICE (The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan) Annual Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, and the 29th Chinese Control Conference, Beijing, China, both held during summer 2010. In 2008 he has been an invited speaker at the NATO Lecture Series on "Advanced Autonomous Formation Control and UAV Applications," University of Strathclyde, UK, University of Pamplona, Spain and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland.

Dr. Tempo is author or co-author of more than 170 research papers published in international journals, books and conferences. He is also a co-author of the book "Randomized Algorithms for Analysis and Control of Uncertain Systems," Springer-Verlag, London, 2005. He is a recipient of the "Outstanding Paper Prize Award" from the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) for a paper published in Automatica, and of the "Distinguished Member Award" from the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for "Contributions to Robust Identification and Control of Uncertain Systems" and a Fellow of the IFAC for "Contributions to the Analysis and Control of Uncertain Systems, for Pioneering the Probabilistic Approach to Robustness."

Dr. Tempo is an Editor and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Automatica. He has been Editor for Technical Notes and Correspondence of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control in 2005-2009. He has been a member of the program committee of several IEEE, IEE, IFAC and EUCA (European Union Control Association) conferences, and Program Chair of the first joint IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, which was held in Seville, Spain, in 2005. He has served the IEEE Control Systems Society as Vice-President for Conference Activities during the period 2002-2003 and as President in 2010. He has been a member of the EUCA Council in 1998-2003.