Description: To recognize excellence in a conference paper whose primary contributor(s) is a (are) Student Member(s) of the IEEE.

Prize: Certificate laminated on a plaque and travel expenses to the CDC (round trip restricted (minimal) coach air fare, conference registration, and two hotel nights). All four finalists receive certificates.

Funding: Funded by the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Eligibility: Primary contributor(s) of a paper, who was a (were) student(s) at the time of original submission.

Basis for Judgement: Basis for Judging: Originality, clarity, and potential impact on practical applications or theoretical foundations of control.

Presentation: Presented annually at the Awards Ceremony of the CSS during the CDC in December.

Nomination: Six (6) copies of a nominated paper should be sent to the Chair of the CDC Best Student-Paper Award Committee below for receipt by September 1. This submission must also include a letter from the student's professor (advisor), on university letterhead, certifying that primary contributor(s) to the paper was a (were) student(s) at the time of the paper's original submission. The professor's telephone, FAX and e-mail information, as well as the student(s) IEEE membership number(s), should be included.

Contact:
Prof. Faryar Jabbari
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Univ. of California.
Irvine CA 92697-3975
Phone: (949) 824-6433
Fax: (949) 824-8585
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Past Finalists for the IEEE CSS CDC Best Student-Paper Award

2008
Amir Ali Ahmadi, MIT Cambridge, MA, (P.Parrilo) “Non-monotonic Lyapunov Functions for Stability of Discrete Time Nonlinear and Switched Systems,” by A. Ahmadi, P.Parrilo
Adolfo Anta, UCLA Los Angeles, CA, (P. Tabuada), “Space-time Scaling Laws for Self-triggered Control,” by A. Anta, P. Tabuada
Johan Karlsson, RIT Sweden, (A.Lindquist) “Weight Selection for Gap Robustness with Degree-Constrained Controllers,” by J. Karlsson, T. Georgiou and A.Lindquist
Necmiye Ozay, Northeastern U. Boston, MA, (M. Sznaier), “A Sparsification Approach to Set Membership Identification of a Class of Affine Hybrid Systems,” by N.Ozay, M. Sznaier, C. Lagoa, O. Camps

2007
Johan Karlsson, RIT Sweden (A. Lindquist), "Stable Rational Approximation in the context of Interpolation and Convex Optimization" by J. Karlsson and A. Lindquist
Stephen L. Smith, UC Santa Barbara (F. Bullo), "Target assignment for robotic networks: Worst-case and stochastic performance in dense environments" by S.L.Smith and F.Bullo
Sun Yu, UIUC (P.G.Mehta), "Fundamental performance Limitations via Entropy Estimates with Hidden Markov Models" by S. Yu and P. G. Mehta
Emanuele Garone, U. Calabria Italy (A. Casavola),  "LQG Control For Distributed Systems Over TCPlike Erasure Channels " by E. Garone, B. Sinopoli, A. Goldsmith, A. Casavola