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2009 AWARDS OF THE IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS SOCIETY 

 

 

Outstanding Chapter Award

Bulgaria Control Systems Chapter of the IEEE CSS,
Vladimir S. Jotsov, Chair

 

Distinguished Member Award

Francis J. Doyle III, University of California, Santa Barbara

Jay Farrell, University of California, Riverside

Yutaka Yamamoto, Graduate School of Informatics of Kyoto University

 

CDC Best Student-Paper Award Finalists

Ravi Teja Sukhavasi, California Institute of technology, CA, (B. Hassibi) “The Kalman Like Particle Filter: Optimal Estimation with Quantized Innovations/Measurements,” by R. Sukhavasi and B. Hassibi
Sergio Daniel Pequito, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, (P. Aguiar), “The Entropy Penalized Minimum Energy Estimator,” by S. Pequito, A. Aguiar and D. Gomes
Kun Deng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL. (P. Mehta) “A Simulation-Based Method for Aggregating Markov Chains,” by K. Deng, P. Mehta and S. Meyn 
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, University of Pennsylvania, PA (A. Jadbabaie) “Learning under Social Influence,” by A. Tahbaz-Salehi, A. Sandroni and A. Jadbabaie

 

CSM Outstanding Paper Award

James M. Hilkert, “Inertially Stabilized Platform Technology, Concepts and Principles,” IEEE Control Magazine, Vol. 28, Issue 1, pp. 26-46, February 2008

 

TCST Outstanding Paper Award

Angeliki Pantazi, Abu Sebastian, Giovanni Cherubini, Mark Lantz, Haralampos Pozidis, Hugo Rothuizen, and Evangelos Eleftheriou, “Control of MEMS-Based Scanning-Probe Data-Storage Devices,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 824-841, September, 2007

 

George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award

Antoine Girard and George Pappas, “Approximation Metrics for Discrete and Continuous Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 52, No. 5, pp. 782-798, May 2007

 

Control Systems Technology Award

Giovanni Cherubini, Evangelos Eleftheriou, Mark Lantz, Angeliki Pantazi, Haralampos Pozidis, Hugo Rothuizen and Abu Sebastian, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland and Reza Moheimani, University of Newcastle, Australia
for nanopositioning for MEMS-based storage and other applications

 

Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize

João Hespanha, University of California, Santa Barbara,
for fundamental contributions to adaptive control and to the theory of switched and hybrid systems

 

Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize

Peter Caines, McGill University, Montreal,
for fundamental contributions in the areas of stochastic, adaptive, large scale and
hybrid systems

 

CSS Transition to Practice Award

Kameshwar Poolla, University of California, Berkeley,
for innovative applications of control technologies to semiconductor manufacturing and the impact of the work on industry

 

IEEE Fellows for 2009

Evaluated by CSS
Alessandro Astolfi for contributions to nonlinear control theory and its applications to mechanical, electromechanical and power systems
Panagiotis Christofides for contributions to analysis and control of nonlinear and distributed parameter processes
Aniruddha Datta for contributions to control techniques in cancer genomics
Wassim Haddad for contributions to robust, nonlinear and hybrid control systems
Uwe Helmke for contributions to geometric methods, tracking and estimation in control systems
Tetsuya Iwasaki for contributions to robust control and dynamical systems analysis
Feng Lin for contributions to the theory and application of discrete event systems
George Pappas for contributions to design and analysis of hybrid control systems
Anna Stefanopoulou for contributions to control of energy conversion systems
Allen Tannenbaum for contributions to robust control and computer vision
Dawn Tilbury for leadership in networked and logic control systems

Evaluated by other Societies
Gang (Gary) Feng (CIS), Gary Yen (CIS), Juan Martin-Sanchez (IA), Oleg Wasynczuk (AES), Ryuichi Yokoyama (CIS), Paolo Fiorini (RA),Yun-hui Liu (RA), Sheng Chen (CIS)

 

IEEE Control Systems Award

David Quinn Mayne
for contributions to the application of optimization to modern control theory

 

IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award

Roger Brockett
for inspirational mentoring of generations of graduate students who have gone on to define the field of control engineering