TCST Editorial Board | IEEE Control Systems Society

IEEE TCST Editor-in-Chief

Ilya Kolmanovsky

University of Michigan

United States

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IEEE TCST Senior Editor

Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

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Jan Tommy Gravdahl

Norwegian University of Science & Technology

Norway

Prof. Christopher Kellett earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from the University of California Riverside in 1997, and the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2000 and 2002, respectively.

He subsequently held postdoctoral research positions at Ecole des Mines de Paris (France) in the Centre d'Automatique et Systemes, at the University of Melbourne (Australia) in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and at the Hamilton Institute (Ireland), based at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Prof. Kellett joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Newcastle in 2006. He has taught a range of subjects across electrical, computer, and telecommunications engineering as well as Carbon Accounting and Energy Auditing (ENGG3860) and CCL201x - International Climate Change Law and Policy available online via edX and co-coordinated with Dr. E. Aydos (U. Newcastle, Newcastle Law School) and A/Prof. S. Rudolph (Kyoto University). In 2020 Prof. Kellett moved to the Australian National University to take up the role of Director of the Research School of Electrical, Energy, and Materials Engineering, while maintaining a conjoint appointment at the University of Newcastle in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

From 2012-2016, Prof. Kellett was supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. He has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment (2011) and a Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany, 2012-2013). In 2013 he was one of eight Australian researchers selected for the Australia-Japan Emerging Research Leaders Exchange Program jointly sponsored by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Engineering Academy of Japan, and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.

In 2012, jointly with co-authors Dr. B. Rüffer (U. Newcastle), A/Prof. P. Dower (U. Melbourne), and Prof. S. Weller (U. Newcastle), Prof. Kellett received the IET Control Theory and its Applications Premium Award for the best paper published in the journal in 2010-2011. In 2017, jointly with co-authors Salman Hafeez (U. Newcastle) and Prof. S. Weller (U. Newcastle) he received the inaugural IFAC Foundation Award for demonstrating contributions of systems and control techniques in the area of sustainable development.

Prof. Kellett is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Control Systems Letters, and Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems. He was previously an Associate Editor for the European Journal on Control (2013-2019) and was a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board during 2007-2017. He has served on the International Program Committees for several IFAC (International Federation on Automatic Control) conferences.

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ResTech

Australia

Antonio Loria

CNRS

France

Manfredi Maggiore

University of Toronto

Canada

Jakob Stoustrup

Aalborg University

Denmark

Roland Tóth

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

IEEE TCST Associate Editor

Kaveh Akbari Hamed

Virginia Tech

United States

Karl Berntorp

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

United States

Igor Boiko

Khalifa University of Science and Technology

United Arab Emirates

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Hoseinali (Ali) Borhan

Cummins Corporate Research and Technology

United States

2 (Eastern U.S.)

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Justin Bradley

North Carolina State University

United States

Elisa Capello

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

Luca Consolini

Università di Parma

Italy

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Matteo Corno

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

Claus Danielson

University of New Mexico

United States

Maria Laura Delle Monache

University of California, Berkeley

United States

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Helen Durand

Wayne State University

United States

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Simos Andreas Evangelou

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

Afef Fekih

University of Louisianan, Lafayette

United States

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

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Afef Fekih

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

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Biography

Afef Fekih received the BS, MS and PhD degrees all in Electrical Engineering from the National Engineering School of Tunis, Tunisia in 1995, 1998 and 2002, respectively. Since 2016 she has been a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the director of the advanced controls laboratory at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. Her research interests focus on control theory and applications, including nonlinear and robust control, optimal control, fault tolerant control with applications to power systems, wind turbines, unmanned vehicles and automotive engines. She co-authored more than 200 publications in international journals, chapters, and conference proceedings. Her research was featured by Thomson Reuters Science Watch® Essential Science Indicators and recognized by multiple awards including the Harold Callais/BORSF Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering since 2008, the O’Krepki/LEQSF Regents Professorship in Telecommunications since 2018, and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Distinguished Professor Award in 2022.

She is an “appointed member” of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2023-2024). A member of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) Technical Committee on Control Education, the IFAC Technical Committee on Power and Energy Systems, and the IEEE Systems Council Diversity & Inclusion Committee. She is currently serving as the Co-Chair for the IEEE CSS Women in Control standing committee (WiC) and served as vice-chair (2020-2022). She co-organized several outreach activities through the IEEE WiC, where she had been serving as advisory board member since 2014, and media coordinator since 2019. She organized and chaired several sessions at international technical conferences. She served as the local arrangements chair for the 2021 American Control Conference. Currently serving as the publications chair for the 2023 American Control Conference and will be serving as the registration chair for the 2024 American Control Conference. Dr. Fekih is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the IEEE Technology conference editorial board. She has served as a reviewer and guest editor for numerous journals and conferences.

Affiliation(s)

University of Louisianan, Lafayette

United States

Hassen Fourati

University Grenoble Alpes

France

Ibrahim Haskara

General Motors Co.

United States

David Hoelzle

Ohio State University

United States

Hassan HosseinNia

TU Delft

Netherlands

Takayuki Ishizaki

Institute of Science, Tokyo

Japan

C.N. Jones

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

Alireza Karimi

EPFL

Switzerland

Alexander Katriniok

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Taeyoung Lee

George Washington University

Erjen Lefeber

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Shengbo Eben Li

Tsinghua University

China

Alessandro Macchelli

University of Bologna

Italy

Martina Mammarella

CNR-IEIIT

Italy

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Ichiro Maruta

Kyoto University

Japan

Ali Mesbah

University of California, Berkeley

United States

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Thomas Meurer

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Germany

Thomas Meurer

Biography

Thomas Meurer (Senior Member, IEEE) received the diploma in Process Systems Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany in 2001, the M.Sc. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA in 2000, and the Doctor of Engineering degree from the University of Stuttgart in 2005. From 2005 to 2007 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Chair of System Theory and Automatic Control at the Saarland University, Germany. In 2007 he joined the Automation and Control Institute at the TU Vienna, Austria as a Senior Researcher, where he was appointed Associate Professor (Privatdozent) in 2012. Since 2012 he has been Full Professor and head of the Automatic Control Group at Kiel University, Germany. He is Associate Editor for the journals Automatica, IEEE Control Systems Letters, and Mathematical Control and Related Fields. He was chair of the IFAC TC 2.6 on Distributed Parameter Systems from 2011 to 2017 and has been chair of the TC 1.40 Systems Theory and Automatic Control of the VDI/GMA since 2017 and the IEEE-CSS TC Distributed Parameter Systems since 2019. He received the VDI/GMA Eugen Hartmann Award in 2009, the Cardinal Innitzer Award in 2012, the IFAC Congress Best Interactive Paper Prize at the 2017 IFAC World Congress, and the Control Engineering Practice Paper Prize Award in 2020. His research interests include control of distributed parameter systems, nonlinear control theory, observer design, and optimal control with applications in robotics, production processes, mechatronics, marine systems, and process systems engineering.

Affiliation(s)

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Germany

Chris Nielsen

University of Waterloo

Simona Onori

Stanford University

United States

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Fengqi You

Cornell University

United States