2011 Award Recipients
The IEEE Control Systems Society presents several awards annually for technical achievements in the areas of interest to the Society, as well as awards for service to the Society.
IEEE Control Systems Award
Eduardo D. Sontag, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
for fundamental contributions to nonlinear systems theory and nonlinear feedback control
Outstanding Chapter Award
Malaysia Section Chapter of the IEEE CSS
Mohd Nasir Taib, Chapter Chair
Distinguished Member Award
Maria Elena Valcher, Universita' di Padova
for scientific contributions in the areas of multidimensional linear systems, behavior theory, fault detection, delay systems, switched systems, positive systems, and outstanding service to the Control Systems Society through conference and membership related activities.
Theodore E. Djaferis, University of Massachusetts Amherst
for contributions to robust control theory, parametric robustness and algebraic systems theory; and outstanding service to the Control Systems Society in conference organization, revitalization of the CSS conference-related structures, and society governance (in Board of Governors, Vice President and President roles).
CDC Best Student-Paper Award Finalists
Na Li, (Advisor: Jason R. Marden), Designing Games for Distributed Optimization,” by Na Li and Jason R. Marden
Takashi Tanaka, (Advisor: Cedric Langbort), Symmetric Formulation of the Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov Lemma and Exact Losslessness Condition,” by Takashi Tanaka and Cedric Langbort
Roberto Tron, (Advisor: René Vidal), Average Consensus on Riemannian Manifolds with Bounded Curvature,” by Roberto Tron, Bijan Afsari, and René Vidal
Jing Wang, (Advisor: Nicola Elia), A Control Perspective for Centralized and Distributed Convex Optimization,” by Jing Wang and Nicola Elia
Best Student-Paper Winner: Takashi Tanaka
CSM Outstanding Paper Award
Zachary Dydek, Anuradha Annaswamy and Eugene Lavretsky, Adaptive Control and the NASA X-15-3 Flight Revisited, IEEE Control
Systems Magazine, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 32–48, June 2010
TCST Outstanding Paper Award
Massimo Canale, Lorenzo Fagiano, and Mario Milanese, High Altitude Wind Energy Generation Using Controlled Power Kites, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 279–293, March 2010
George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award
Adolfo Anta and Paulo Tabuada, To Sample or Not to Sample: Self-triggered Control for Nonlinear Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 55, no. 9, pp. 2030–2042, September 2010
Control Systems Technology Award
Michael Clune and Christos G. Cassandras
for the design and commercial development of SimEvents, a discrete event and hybrid system simulator
Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize
Pablo A. Parrilo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
for fundamental contributions to optimization theory and its applications
Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize
John Baillieul, Boston University, USA
for seminal contributions to mathematical system theory and networked control
CSS Transition to Practice Award
Richard D. Braatz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
for significant contribution to the control of crystallization processes in the pharmaceutical industry
IEEE Fellows for 2011
Evaluated by CSS
Andrzej Banaszuk
for contributions to active and passive control of flow instabilities in aerospace systems
Patrizio Colaneri
for contributions to periodic and switching control
Lino Guzzella
for contributions to automotive control systems to reduce pollution emission and fuel consumption
Jay H. Lee, for contributions to model-based predictive control applications
John Lygeros
for contributions to hybrid and stochastic systems and applications
Jan Maciejowski
for contributions to system identification and control
Lalit Mestha
for contributions to digital printing systems control
S. O. Reza Moheimani
for contributions to control of nanopositioning systems
Thomas Parisini
for developments in neural network learning approaches
Si-Zhao Joe Qin
for contributions to model predictive control technology and fault diagnosis in industrial processes
Roy S. Smith
for contributions to robust model validation and advanced control system applications
Claire Tomlin
for contributions to hybrid control systems with applications to Air Traffic Management, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and Systems Biology
Petros Voulgaris
for contributions to decentralized, distributed, and multiobjective control
Evaluated by other Societies
Qing-Hua Wu (PE), Pierre Dupont (RA), Leyuan Shi (RA), Masaru Uchiyama (RA), Louis Whitcomb (RA), and Guoping Liu (SMC)