Panos Antsaklis is the H. Clifford and Evelyn A. Brosey Professor of Electrical Engineering, Concurrent Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Concurrent Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Notre Dame. He served as the Director of the Center for Applied Mathematics of the University of Notre Dame from 1999 to 2005. He is a graduate of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, and holds MS and PhD degrees from Brown University. He joined Notre Dame in 1980 after holding positions at Rice University and Imperial College in London, England.

  He has published extensively in the area of systems and control, in linear feedback systems, autonomous intelligent control systems, discrete event and hybrid systems, in networked control systems and in cyber-physical systems. He has current research interests in cyber-physical networked embedded systems and addresses problems in the interdisciplinary area of control, computing and communication networks, and in hybrid and discrete event dynamical systems. His research addresses problems of control and automation and examines ways to design engineering systems that will exhibit high degrees of autonomy in performing useful tasks.

  He has co-edited six books on Intelligent Autonomous Control, Hybrid Systems and on Networked Embedded Control Systems. In addition, he has co-authored two research monographs on the Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems Using Petri Nets, and two graduate textbooks "Linear Systems" and in 2007 "A Linear Systems Primer". He has served as program chair and general chair of major systems and control conferences including the Conference on Decision and Control and he was the 1997 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS). He has been plenary and keynote speaker in a number of conferences and research workshops.

  He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (IEEE TAC). He serves as the president of the Mediterranean Control Association and chairs the Scientific Advisory Board for the Max-Planck-Institut fur Dynamik Komplexer Technischer Systeme, Magdeburg. In 2006-07 he was member of the subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology of the USA President’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST). 

  He is IEEE Fellow (1991) for his contributions to the theory of feedback stabilization and control of linear multivariable systems, and Fellow of IFAC (2010) for fundamental contributions to hybrid control systems, supervisory control of discrete event systems, control of systems over networks and for leadership in the profession. He is Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society, recipient of the IEEE Distinguished Member Award of the Control Systems Society, and recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He is the 2006 recipient of the Engineering Alumni Medal of Brown University, Rhode Island, USA.

  For more information, please visit http://www.nd.edu/~pantsakl/

 

 

  Xi-Ren Cao received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University, in 1981 and 1984, respectively, where he was a research fellow from 1984 to 1986. He then worked as a consultant engineer/engineering manager at Digital Equipment Corporation, Massachusetts, U.S.A, until October 1993.Then he joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where he was chair professor, director of the Research Center for Networking. He held visiting positions at Harvard University, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, AT&T Labs, University of Maryland at College Park, University of Notre Dame, Tsinghua University, University of Science and Technology of China, and other universities. In 2010, he joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, as a chair professor.

  Dr. Cao owns three patents in data- and tele- communications and published three books in the area of stochastic learning and optimization and discrete event dynamic systems: "Stochastic Learning and Optimization - A Sensitivity-Based Approach," Springer, 2007,  “Realization Probabilities - the Dynamics of Queuing Systems,” Springer Verlag, 1994, and “Perturbation Analysis of Discrete-Event Dynamic Systems,” Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991 (co-authored with Y. C. Ho).  

  He received the Outstanding Transactions Paper Award from the IEEE Control System Society in 1987, the Outstanding Publication Award from the Institution of Management Science in 1990, the Outstanding Service Award from IFAC in 2008, and the Natural Science Award (2nd class) from China State Council in 2009. He was elected as a Fellow of IEEE in 1995, and a Fellow of IFAC in 2008. He is Editor-in-Chief of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, and he served as Associate Editor at Large of IEEE Transactions of Automatic Control, and the Chairman of IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee of IEEE Control System Society (2005-2007), and he was a member on the Board of Governors of IEEE Control Systems Society, and the chairman of IFAC Coordinating Committee on Systems and Signals (2006-2011) and a member of the Technical Board of IFAC, and a member of the standing committee of Chinese Association of Automation. He is/was associate editor of a number of international journals and chairman of a few technical committees of international professional societies. His current research areas include discrete event dynamic systems, stochastic learning and optimisation, performance analysis of communication systems, signal processing, and financial engineering.

 

 

  Ian Craig received the B.Eng. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, the S.M. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, and the Ph.D and M.B.A. degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is Professor and Section Head: Control Systems in the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria, a position he has held since 1995. Previously he was Group Leader in the Measurement Control Division of Mintek where he was awarded for his work on the design, implementation and commercialisation of advanced controllers for the mineral processing industry.

  Ian is the current President of IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control. He has served IFAC in many different roles, including as a Technical Board, Executive Board and Council Member. He also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IFAC journal Control Engineering Practice from 2005 to 2010 and received the IFAC Outstanding Service Award in 2008. Ian is an active member of the South African Engineering community. He is a Fellow of the South African Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers, Past President of the South African IFAC National Member Organization, and founding President of the MIT Club of South Africa. His research interest include the economic performance assessment of advanced process control; HIV/Aids modeling, identification and control; and modeling and control of systems in mineral and metal processing.

 

 

  Weibo Gong is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Gong has received the IEEE Control Systems Society George Axelby outstanding paper award in 1997, University of Massachusetts Amherst Engineering College outstanding senior faculty award in 2002, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor's medal in 2009.

  He is an IEEE Fellow since 1998 and the Program Chair for the 2004 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Dr. Gong's research interests include network modeling and control, stochastic dynamic systems, communication security, and the foundational algorithms for intelligence.

 

 

  TeD Iwasaki joined the UCLA faculty in the summer of 2009 as Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) in 1987 and 1990, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University in 1993. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Purdue University (1994-1995), Research Associate (1995-1996), Lecturer (1996-1997) and Associate Professor (1997-2000) at Tokyo Tech, and Assistant Professor (2000-2002), Associate Professor (2002-2004), and Professor (2004-2009) at the University of Virginia.

  Dr. Iwasaki's current research interests include neuronal control mechanism of animal locomotion, nonlinear oscillators, and robust/optimal control theories. He is a Fellow of IEEE, and has served as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Systems and Control Letters, IFAC Automatica, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. He has received CAREER Award from NSF, Pioneer Prize from SICE, George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE, Rudolf Kalman Best Paper Award from ASME, and Steve Hsia Biomedical Paper Award at WCICA.

 

 

  Zhongtuo Wang is the professor of School of Management, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), head of the PhD Program of Systems Engineering, director of Research Center of Knowledge Science and Technology, DUT.

  He is the member of Chinese Academy of Engineering.

  He was the vice-president of Systems Engineering Society of China.

  In fifties of last century, he joined the department of Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology. As the founder of Department of Control Engineering of DUT, he made a lot of contributions to the teaching and research works in the field of industrial control and Computer applications.

  In the year of 1977, he moved to the area of Systems Engineering. As one of the originators of PhD Program and research works of Systems Engineering in China and founder of Institute of Systems Engineering DUT, he devoted himself to the task of theoretical research in decision analysis, complex adaptive system and network optimization. As a leader he has organized a lot of projects of applying methodology and techniques of Systems Engineering to the Chinese economic and engineering endeavors, including the strategic analysis of regional economic development, production planning of the petroleum refinery, planning and scheduling of the construction projects, and impact of information technology to the management transformation.

  In the years 1986 and 1988, he worked in International lnstitute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Vienna, Austria as research scholar and head of international collaborative project by Ministry of S&T of China and IIASA. He has published 14 books and 9 translations and more than 100 papers and reports. He received 2 national awards, 6 awards from ministries of Chinese government. Now his working fields are Knowledge Management and Technological Innovation.

 

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