Frank Allgöwer, Editor for Process and Computer Control
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.
Mituhiko Araki, Editor for Control System Applications
His research interests have been in systems and control theory such as large-scale systems theory, two-degree-of-freedom controllers, control of plants with pure delays, multirate digital control, frequency-domain theory of sampled-data systems, and scheduling problems. He has also been interested in applications such as control of power systems, control and scheduling of steel producing systems, and the design of two-degree-of-freedom PID controllers. Recently, he has been engaged in several co-operative projects with medical doctors, such as control of blood pressure of patients under surgery, control of blood sugar after surgery, control of intraocular pressure during eye surgery, and applications of system-theoretic methods to medical problems.
Dr. Araki is a member of the IEEE and of many Japanese academic societies. He was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions of Automatic Control and the editor-in-chief of Systems, Control and Information (a Japanese Journal). Besides editor of Automatica he is currently the editor-in-chief of the Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers in Japan.
Tamer Basar, Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Basar has authored or co-authored over 150 journal articles and book chapters, and over 200 conference publications in the general areas of optimal, robust, and adaptive control; large-scale and decentralized systems and control; dynamic games; stochastic control; estimation theory; stochastic processes; information theory; communication systems and networks; and mathematical economics. He is co-author of the text Dynamic Noncooperative Game Theory (Academic Press, 1982; second edition, 1995; latest edition in SIAM Series in Classics in Applied Mathematics, 1999), editor of the volume Dynamic Games and Applications in Economics (Springer-Verlag, 1986), co-editor of Differential Games and Applications (Springer-Verlag, 1988), co-editor of Advances in Dynamic Games and Applications (Birkhäuser, 1994), co-author of the text H-infinity Optimal Control and Related Minimax Design Problems (Birkhäuser, 1991; second edition, 1995), and Editor of the centennial volume Control Theory: Twenty-Five Seminal Papers (1932-1981) (IEEE Press, 2001). His current research interests are robust nonlinear and adaptive control; routing, pricing, and congestion control in communication networks; control over wired and wireless networks; mobile computing; and risk-sensitive estimation and control.
Tamer Basar is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (of the USA), and also carries memberships in several scientific organizations, among which are SIAM, SEDC (Society for Economic Dynamics and Control), ISDG (International Society of Dynamic Games), GTS (Game Theory Society), AMS (American Mathematical Society), European Academy of Sciences, and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). He was elected a Fellow of IEEE in 1983, and has served its Control Systems Society in various capacities, among which are: Past President (2001), President (2000), President-Elect (1999), Vice-President for Financial Affairs (1998), Vice-President for Publications (1997), the Editor for Technical Notes and Correspondence for its Transactions on Automatic Control (1992-1994), and as the general chairman (1992) and program chairman (1989) of its flagship conference (Conference on Decision and Control). He has also been active in IFAC, in the organization of several workshops and symposia, and as Editor and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of its flagship journal Automatica Automatica, from 1992 until 2003, and since 2004 as Editor-in-Chief and Chair of its editorial board. During the period 1990-1994, he was the President of the International Society of Dynamic Games (ISDG) , and is currently the Managing Editor of the Annals of ISDG (published by Birkhäuser), the Series Editor of Systems & Control: Foundations and Applications (published by Birkhäuser), and Honorary Editor of Applied and Computational Mathematics. He is also a subject editor of Wireless Networks and an associate editor of Systems and Control Letters, and is on the editorial and advisory boards of a number of other international journals. Among some of the recent honors and awards he has received are: Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2004), Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award of the College of Engineering of UIUC (2004), election to the National Academy of Engineering (of the USA) (2000), IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), Nearing Distinguished Professorship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1998), Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (1995) and Distinguished Member Award (1993) of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and Medal of Science of Turkey (1993).
Edmond A. Jonckheere, Editor for Book and Software Reviews
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.
Hassan K. Khalil, Editor for Nonlinear Systems and Control
Since 1978, he has been with Michigan State University, East Lansing, where he is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has consulted for General Motors and Delco Products.
He has published several papers on singular perturbation methods, decentralized control, robustness, nonlinear control, and adaptive control. He is author of the book Nonlinear Systems (second edition; Prentice Hall, 1996), coauthor, with P. Kokotovic and J. O'Reilly, of the book Singular Perturbation Methods in Control: Analysis and Design (Academic Press, 1986), and coeditor, with P. Kokotovic, of the book Singular Perturbation in Systems and Control (IEEE Press, 1986).
He was the recipient of the 1983 Michigan State University Teacher Scholar Award, the 1989 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the 1994 Michigan State University Withrow Distinguished Scholar Award, and the 1995 Michigan State University Distinguished Faculty Award. He is an IEEE Fellow since 1989.
Dr. Khalil served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1984 - 1985; Registration Chairman of the IEEE-CDC Conference, 1984; CSS Board of Governors, 1985; Program Committee member, IEEE-CDC Conference, 1986; Finance Chairman of the 1987 American Control Conference (ACC); Program Chairman of the 1988 ACC; Program Committee member, 1989 ACC; and General Chair of the 1994 ACC. Besides Editor of Automatica he is acting editor of Neural Networks.
Miroslav Krstic, Editor for Adaptive and Distributed Parameter Systems
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), and Real Time Optimization by Extremum Seeking Control (New York: Wiley, 2003). He is a coauthor of two patents on control of aero-engine compressors and combustors. His research efforts have included adaptive nonlinear control, continuous-time stochastic nonlinear control, extremum seeking, and applications to turbulent fluid flows and fusion. His current focus is on developing design tools for boundary control of systems modeled by partial differential equations.
He 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. 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.
Miroslav has served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control, the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal
Processing, Systems and Control Letters, and the Journal for Dynamics of
Continuous, Discrete, and Impulsive Systems. 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.
Huibert Kwakernaak, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
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 holds the Distinguished Service Award of IFAC. From1994 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.
Manfred Morari, Editor for Survey Papers
His interests are in the areas of process control and design, robust control and predictive control. In recognition of his research contributions he received numerous awards, among them the Donald P. Eckman Award of the Automatic Control Council, the Allan P. Colburn Award and the Professional Progress Award of the AIChE, the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award of the ASEE and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (US).
Professor Morari has held appointments with Exxon R & E and ICI and has consulted internationally for a number of major corporations. He is an Associate Editor of Computers & Chemical Engineering and serves on the editorial boards of several other journals.
Ian R. Petersen, Editor for Control and Estimation Theory
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 was made a Fellow of the IEEE in 1999.
His research interests include optimal control theory, robust control theory, stochastic control theory, robust state estimation and applications of control theory.
Berç Rüstem, Editor for Systems Engineering, Economics and Finance
He has researched optimization and minimax algorithms and software, robust decision making under uncertainty in computational economics, finance and process systems engineering. He is currently President of the Society for Computational Economics, Co-Editor of Computational Management Science, Advisory Editor of Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control (JEDC). He was 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.
Torsten Söderström, Editor for System Parameter Estimation
In the period 1967-1974 he held various teaching positions at the Lund Institute of Technology. Since 1974, he has been at the Department of Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, where he now is a professor of automatic control, and has been the head of the Systems and Control Group since 1975.
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 adaptive systems. 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. In 1981 he was, with coauthors, given an Automatica Prize Paper Award.
Within IFAC he has served in several capacities including vice-chairman of the TC on Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing, 1993-present, IPC chairman of the IFAC SYSID'94 symposium, and Council member 1996-1999. Within Automatica he was an associate editor during 1984-1991, guest associate editor or editor of three special issues, and is an editor for the area of System Parameter Estimation since 1992.
Roberto Tempo, Editor for System and Control Theory
Dr. Tempo has held visiting and research positions at Columbia University in New York, German Aerospace Research Organization in Oberpfaffenhofen and University of Wisconsin at Madison.
His main research areas include robustness analysis and control of uncertain systems and identification of complex systems subject to bounded errors. In 1993, he received the "Outstanding Paper Prize Award" from the International Federation of Automatic Control for a paper published in Automatica.
Dr. Tempo has been an Associate Editor of Systems and Control Letters and he is currently an Editor of Automatica and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He has served as program Vice-Chair for short papers of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Phoenix, 1999. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and an appointed member of the Board of Governors of the Control Systems Society. He is also a member of the EUCA (European Union of Control Associations) Council.
André L. Tits, Editor for Rapid Publications
Since 1981, Dr. Tits has been with the University of Maryland, College Park. Currently, he is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and he holds a permanent joint appointment with the Institute for Systems Research. He has held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley, at the Lund Institute of Technology, at INRIA, at the Catholic University of Louvain at Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium and at the Australian National University.
Dr. Tits' main research interests lie in various aspects of numerical optimization, optimization-based system design and robust control with emphasis on numerical methods. In addition to carrying out fundamental research work in these areas, researchers in Dr. Tits' group have developed several software packages. Especially popular is FSQP, a tandem of sophisticated software suites for nonlinear constrained optimization, in use at over 1000 sites around the world. Dr. Tits received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a member of IEEE.