Multi-Conference on Systems and Control Best Student-Paper Award

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    Graziano Chesi
    Systems with Uncertainty Technical Committee Chair; MSC Best Student-Paper Award Chair

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

Award Information
Prize: 
Certificate laminated on a plaque and travel expenses to the MSC for one recipient (round trip restricted (minimal) coach air fare, conference registration, and three conference-rate hotel nights). All four finalists receive certificates and free student conference registrations.
Funding: 
Funded by the IEEE Control Systems Society.
Presentation: 
At a MSC session or special event.
Eligibility: 
Primary contributor(s) of a paper, who was a (were) Student Member(s) of the IEEE at the time of original submission.
Basis for Judgement: 
Originality, clarity, and potential impact on practical applications of control.
Award Nomination
Nomination Deadline: 
May 1 of each year.
Nomination: 
Six (6) copies of a nominated paper should be sent to the Chair of the MSC Best Student-Paper Award Committee below for receipt by May 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.

Award Recipients

2011
Øyvind Nistad Stamnes
“Adaptive Estimation of Downhole Pressure for Managed Pressure Drilling Operations,” by Øyvind Nistad Stamnes, Glenn-Ole Kaasa, Ole Morten Aamo; Advisor: Ole Morten Aamo
2010
Kai Cai
"Further Results on Randomized Quantized Averaging: A Surplus-Based Approach", by Kai Cai, Hideaki Ishii
2009
Karla Kvaternik
“A BTOF Observer Backstepping-based Output Feedback Law for Nonlinear Systems” by Karla Kvaternik, Alan F. Lynch
2008
Carlos H. Caicedo-Núñez
"Performing Coverage on Nonconvex Domains", by Carlos H. Caicedo-Nunez and Milos Zefran
2007
Josef Zehetner
“A derivative estimation toolbox based on algebraic methods – theory and practice” by Josef Zehetner et al.