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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.

 

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

Best Student-Paper Winner:  Kun Deng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, A Simulation-Based Method for Aggregating Markov Chains by by K. Deng, P. Mehta and S. Meyn; Advisors:  Prashant G. Mehta, Sean Meyn


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


MSC Best Student-Paper Award Finalists

Christoffer Sloth, A Robust LMI Based Control of Wind Turbines with Parametric Uncertainties, by Christoffer Sloth, Thomas Esbensen, Michael O.K. Niss, Jakob Stoustrup, and Peter F. Odgaard
Bernd Schmidt, H-infinity-Suboptimal Tracking Control with Integral Action and Load Estimation Applied on a Boost-Converter/DC-Motor Combination, by Bernd Schmidt, Johann Reger
Karla Kvaternik, A BTOF Observer Backstepping-based Output Feedback Law for Nonlinear Systems, by Karla Kvaternik, Alan F. Lynch
Khalifa Al-Hosani, Multiphase Power Boost Converters with Sliding Mode, by Khalifa Al-Hosani , Vadim I. Utkin

Best Student-Paper WinnerKarla Kvaternik, University of Alberta, Canada, A BTOF Observer Backstepping-based Output Feedback Law for Nonlinear Systems, by Karla Kvaternik, Alan F. Lynch 


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

Joao 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