Executive Committee Members

Bijnan Bandyopadhyay

Technical University of Łódź

Poland

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Andrzej Bartoszewicz

Technical University of Łódź

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Mikhail Basin

Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon

Mexico

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Igor Boiko

Khalifa University of Science and Technology

United Arab Emirates

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Christopher Edwards

University of Exeter

United Kingdom

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Antonella Ferrara

The University of Pavia

Italy

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Antonella Ferrara

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Antonella Ferrara received the M.Sc. degree (Cum Laude and printing honors) in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and electronics from the University of Genova, Italy, in 1987 and 1992, respectively. Since 2005, she has been Full Professor of automatic control at the University of Pavia, Italy, where she is the Head of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, as well as the President of the Research Standing Committee of the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering. Her research activities are mainly in the area of nonlinear control, with a special emphasis on sliding mode control, with application to road traffic, automotive systems, robotics and power systems. She is author and co-author of more than 450 publications including more than 150 journal papers, 2 monographs and one edited book.

She was Visiting Professor at Graz University of Technology, visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota, as well as Invited Lecturer at Harvard University, University of California at Los Angeles, University of Stuttgart, Technical University of Delft, INRIA Grenoble, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Hanyang University in Seoul, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Dalian Maritime University, National Institute of Technology Silchar, IIIT Kharagpur, Murdoch University, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Imperial College, University of Cambridge, and University of Exeter, among others. She was/is Principal Investigator in several European, international and national projects and was one of the eleven experts appointed by the Italian Ministry of Research to write the National Research Plan for the period 2021-2027 for the research area “Sustainable Mobility”.

She was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems, of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine. She was Subject Editor of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. She was Associate Editor and Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. Since 2018 she has been Associated Editor of Automatica, and, since January 2022, Senior Editor of IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems.

She served as a member of the EUCA Council and, since ECC 2019, she has been the EUCA Conference Editorial Board Chair. She will serve as one of the IPC Chairs (together with Maurice Heemels) for the 24th IFAC Word Congress to be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2029.

She was “appointed member” of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2012. She was Chair of the Women in Control Committee of the IEEE Control Systems Society (July 2013-December 2016) and, at present, she is a member of the Advisory Board of that committee. She was “elected member” of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society for the triennium 2016-2018. She was member of the IEEE Control System Society Outreach Task Force (2017-2019) and was the Chair of the Task Force in 2020. She is incoming member of the ExCom of the IEEE Control System Society with the role of Director of Operations (2023-2026 term). In 2015-2019, she was a Member of the European Control Association (EUCA) Council.

She is a member of the IFAC Technical Committee (TC) on Nonlinear Control Systems, IFAC TC on Transportation Systems, IFAC TC on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, IEEE TC on Automotive Control, IEEE TC on Smart Cities, and IEEE TC on Variable Structure Systems. Among several awards, she was a co-recipient of the 2020 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award. She is IEEE Fellow and IFAC Fellow.

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The University of Pavia

Italy

Leonid Freidovich

Umeå University

Sweden

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Leonid Fridman

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Mexico

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Katsuhisa Furuta

Tokyo Denki University

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Southeast University

China

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Shihua Li

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Shihua Li , was born in Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province, China in 1975. He received his bachelor, master, Ph.D. degrees all in Automatic Control from Southeast University, Nanjing, China in 1995, 1998 and 2001, respectively. Since 2001, he has been with School of Automation, Southeast University, where he is currently a professor, Vice Dean of the School of Automation (2016.1~). He is also the Secretary General of Jiangsu Association of Automation. His main research interests include modeling and nonlinear control theory (nonsmooth control, sliding mode control, disturbance rejection control, adaptive control, etc) with applications to mechatronic systems, including motion control, automobile engine control, manipulator, robot, power electronic systems, etc. He serves as asscoiate editors of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Advanced Control for Applications, etc.

He is the chairman of IEEE IES Nanjing Chapter, a member of Technical Committee on Nonlinear Systems and Control,Technical Committee on System Identification and Adaptive Control,Technical Committee on Variable Structure Systems and Sliding Mode Control of the IEEE CSS and a member of Electrical Machines Technical Committee, Motion Control Technical Committee of the IEEE IES. Fellow of IEEE and IET.

He is a member of the Technical Committee on Control Theory of Chinese Association of Automation.
He visited UC Berkeley from 2006.9-2007.9, RMIT University 2011.3-2011.6,University of Minnesota at Twin Cities 2012.4-2012.10, University of Hong Kong 2014.6-2014.8 and University of Western Sydney 2017.7-2017.8.

He has published over 200 international journal papers. He is one of Clarivate Analytics (originally Thomson Reuters) Highly Cited Researchers (Engineering) all over the world in 2017-2020, one of the Most Cited Chinese Researchers from Elsevier (Control and system engineering), 2015-2020. He is a winner of best paper in the IET Control Theory & Applications 2017, a winner of annual ICI prize for best paper in the Transactions of the Institute of Measurement 2016 and a winner of outstanding paper in 2019 SAMCON conference. He is a winner of the 6th Nagamori Award from Nagamori Foundation in 2020.

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Southeast University

China

Josep M. Olm

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Spain

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Dimitrios Papageorgiou

Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby

Denmark

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Franck Plestan

École Centrale de Nantes

France

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Paul Puleston

Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Argentina

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Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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Yuri Shtessel

University of Alabama, Huntsville

United States

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Sarah Spurgeon

University College London

United Kingdom

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Xinghuo Yu

RMIT University

Australia

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TC Chair

Elio Usai

Members

Bijnan Bandyopadhyay

Andrzej Bartoszewicz

Mikhail Basin

Igor Boiko

Heide Brandstädter

Maria Letizia Corradini

Christopher Edwards

Denis Efimov

Antonella Ferrara

Leonid Freidovich

Leonid Fridman

Katsuhisa Furuta

Liu Hsu

Moussa Labbadi

Arie Levant

Shihua Li

Josep M. Olm

Dimitrios Papageorgiou

Franck Plestan

Paul Puleston

Elisabetta Punta

Johann Reger

Markus Reichhartinger

Tiago Roux de Oliveira

Michael Ruderman

Asif Sabanovic

Yuri Shtessel

Sarah Spurgeon

Xinghuo Yu