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IEEE TAC Editor-in-Chief

Alessandro Astolfi

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

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Alessandro Astolfi

Biography

Alessandro Astolfi (F’09) was born in Rome, Italy, in 1967. He received the Graduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rome, Rome, in 1991, the M.Sc. degree in information theory and the Ph.D. degree with Medal of Honor with a thesis on discontinuous stabilization of nonholonomic systems from ETH-Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, both in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree for his work on nonlinear robust control from the University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, in 1996.,Since 1996, he has been with the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Imperial College London, London, U.K., where he is currently a Professor of nonlinear control theory and the Head of the Control and Power Group. From 1998 to 2003, he was also an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronics and Information, Politecnico of Milano. Since 2005, he has also been a Professor with Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ingegneria Informatica, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome. He has been a Visiting Lecturer in nonlinear control with several universities, including ETH-Zurich (1995–1996); Terza University of Rome (1996); Rice University, Houston, TX, USA (1999); Kepler University, Linz, Austria (2000); SUPELEC, Paris, France (2001); and Northeastern University (2013). He is the author of more than 150 journal papers, 30 book chapters, and more than 240 papers in refereed conference proceedings. He is the author (with D. Karagiannis and R. Ortega) of the monograph Nonlinear and Adaptive Control With Applications (Springer-Verlag). His research interests include mathematical control theory and control applications, with special emphasis on the problems of discontinuous stabilization, robust and adaptive control, observer design, and model reduction.

Prof. Astolfi was the recipient of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) A. Ruberti Young Researcher Prize (2007), the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Googol Best New Application Paper Award (2009), the IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (2012), and the Automatica Best Paper Award (2017). He was also the recipient of the 2015 Sir Harold Hartley Medal, for outstanding contribution to the technology of measurement and control, from the Institute of Measurement and Control. He is a Distinguished Member of the IEEE CSS, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the International Federation of Automatic Control. He served as an Associate Editor for the Automatica, the Systems and Control Letters, the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the International Journal of Control, the European Journal of Control, and the Journal of the Franklin Institute; an Area Editor for the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing; a Senior Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; and an Editor-in-Chief for the European Journal of Control. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He served as the Chair of the IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board (2010–2017) and in the International Program Committee (IPC) of several international conferences. He has been a Member of the IEEE Fellow Committee (2016, 2019).

Affiliation(s)

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

University of Rome Tor Vergata

Italy

IEEE TAC Senior Editor

David Castañón

Boston University

United States

Denis Dochain

Université Catholique de Louvain

Belgium

Christoforos Hadjicostis

University of Cyprus

Cyprus

Christoforos Hadjicostis

Biography

Christoforos Hadjicostis received S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering, in Computer Science and Engineering, and in Mathematics, the M.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1999, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. In August 1999 he joined the Faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) where he reached the rank of Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Research Associate Professor with the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and Research Associate Professor with the Information Trust Institute. In 2007, Dr. Hadjicostis joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus, where he served as Chair of the ECE Department from 2008 to 2010, and as Dean of Engineering from 2014 to 2017. He currently serves as Interim Director of the FOSS Research Center for Sustainable Energy at the University of Cyprus.

Dr. Hadjicostis teaches and conducts research in the areas of systems and control, communication, and digital signal processing. His current research focuses on fault diagnosis and tolerance in distributed dynamic systems; error control coding; distributed algorithms for monitoring, diagnosis and control; discrete event systems; and applications to power distribution networks, network security, anomaly detection, medical diagnosis, and biosequencing. Dr. Hadjicostis serves as Editor in Chief for the Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems and as Associate Editor for Automatica. He has also served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (Regular Papers), IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, the Journal of Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, and the Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, and as Editor on the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society. At the University of Illinois, Dr. Hadjicostis received the Faculty Early Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation in February 2001, the ECE Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award in 2003, and the Willett Faculty Scholar recognition from the College of Engineering in 2005; at the University of Cyprus, he received a 2008 Marie Curie International Reintegration Fellowship from the European Commission. As a graduate student at MIT, he served as president of the MIT Chapter of HKN, received the Harold L. Hazen Teaching Award and the Ernst A. Guillemin Thesis Prize, and received fellowships from the National Semiconductor Corporation and the Grass Instrument Company. Dr. Hadjicostis is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi, and a Fellow of the IEEE.

Affiliation(s)

University of Cyprus

Cyprus

Tetsuya Iwasaki

University of California, Los Angeles

United States

Christopher Kellett

Australian National University

Australia

Christopher Kellett

Biography

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.

Affiliation(s)

Australian National University

Australia

Lorenzo Marconi

University of Bologna

Italy

Angelia Nedich

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Serdar Yüksel

Queen's University

Canada

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IEEE TAC Associate Editor

Saurabh Amin

MIT

United States

Vincent Andrieu

CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

France

Duarte Antunes

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Shun-ichi Azuma

Kyoto University

Japan

Gildas Besançon

Grenoble INP, University Grenoble Alpes

France

Alexey Bobtsov

ITMO University

Russia

Xavier Bombois

CNRS

France

Delphine Bresch-Pietri

MINES ParisTech

France

Mireille Broucke

University of Toronto

Canada

Kai Cai

Osaka Metropolitan University

Japan

Antoine Chaillet

CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay

France

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Xiang Chen

University of Windsor

Canada

Xinkai Chen

Shibaura Institute of Technology

Japan

Sergey Dashkovskiy

University of Würzburg

Germany

Bart De Schutter

Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

Christopher Edwards

University of Exeter

United Kingdom

Denis Efimov

INRIA Lille

France

Fabio Fagnani

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

Timm Faulwasser

TU Dortmund

Germany

Leonid Freidovich

Umeå University

Sweden

Sergio Galeani

University of Roma, Tor Vergata

Italy

Chuanhou Gao

Zhejiang University

China

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Sergio Grammatico

Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

Martin Guay

Queen's University

Canada

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Guoqiang Hu

Nanyang Technological University

Singapore

C.N. Jones

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

Zhen Kan

University of Science & Technology of China

China

10 (Asia and Pacific)

Eric Kerrigan

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

Tamas Keviczky

Delft University of Technology

Jan Komenda

The Czech Academy of Sciences

Czechia

Mircea Lazar

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Ioannis Lestas

University of Cambridge

United Kingdom

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Zhongkui Li

Peking University

China

Tengfei Liu

Northeastern University

China

Alessandro Macchelli

University of Bologna

Italy

Aditya Mahajan

McGill University

Canada

Cristian Mahulea

University of Zaragoza

Spain

Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Cornell University

United States

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Prashant G. Mehta

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

Sabine Mondié

CINVESTAV

Mexico

Jaime Moreno

UNAM

Mexico

Ion Necoara

Univ. Politehnica Bucharest

Romania

Giuseppe Notarstefano

Università di Bologna

Italy

Meeko Oishi

University of New Mexico

United States

6 (Western U.S.)

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Alex Olshevsky

Boston University

United States

Luigi Palopoli

University of Trento

Italy

Fabio Pasqualetti

University of California, Riverside

United States

Lacra Pavel

University of Toronto

Canada

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Romain Postoyan

CNRS, Université de Lorraine, CRAN

France

Anton Proskurnikov

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Isabelle Queinnec

LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse

France

Alain Rapaport

INRAE

France

George Rovithakis

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Greece

Yang Shi

University of Victoria

Canada

Zhan Shu

University of Alberta

Canada

Aneel Tanwani

CNRS, LAAS

France

Ufuk Topcu

University of Texas, Austin

United States

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Emmanuel Trélat

Sorbonne Université

France

Yongqiang Wang

Clemson University

United States

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Tansel Yucelen

University of South Florida

United States

Tansel Yucelen

Biography

Dr. Tansel Yucelen is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Director of the LACIS, and the Director of the Forum on Robotics and Control Engineering (FoRCE) at the University of South Florida. He received the Doctor of Philosophy in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in May 2012. Prior to joining the University of South Florida, he held Research Engineer positions in the School of Aerospace Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology from December 2011 to August 2013. He also held an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology from August 2013 to August 2016, where he created and directed the Advanced Systems Research Laboratory and the Control Systems Forum. He participated in summer programs at the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace System Directorate in Dayton, Ohio, from May 2014 to July 2014 and at the Munitions Directorate in Eglin, Florida from May 2015 to July 2015.

Dr. Yucelen is a member of the National Academy of Inventors in recognition of advanced technological development and innovation and a senior member of the AIAA and the IEEE. In addition, he is the recipient of the 2018 University of South Florida Research and Innovation Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award, 2017 University of South Florida College of Engineering Junior Outstanding Research Achievement Award, 2016 ACGSC Dave Ward Memorial Lecture Award (for the outstanding contributions to the field of adaptive control), 2016 AIAA Technical Contribution Award (for the creation of novel flight control synthesis and analysis algorithms), 2015 Oak Ridge Associated Universities Junior Faculty Award (for public recognition of the quality and promise of research), and 2014 Class of 1942 Excellence in Teaching Award. His research places a strong emphasis on both theoretic research and experimentation for addressing fundamental and open real-world technological problems. Specifically, his research falls into dynamical systems and controls with specializations in 1) adaptive and robust control of safety-critical systems; 2) distributed estimation and control of networked multiagent systems; 3) resilient and secure robotics, autonomous vehicles, and cyber-physical systems; and 4) biologically-inspired complex, large-scale, and modular systems. He has co-authored more than 200 archival journal and conference publications in these areas and his contributions were implemented on various platforms including AirSTAR of the NASA Langley Research Center.

Dr. Yucelen is an active member of the AIAA, ASME, and IEEE societies as well as AIAA Technical Committee (TC) on Guidance, Navigation, and Control (invited by Dave Doman and Susan Frost), AIAA TC on Intelligent Systems (invited by Nhan Nguyen), IEEE TC on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (invited by Silvia Ferrari), IEEE TC on Aerospace Control (invited by Kingsley Fregene), IEEE TC on Control Education, IEEE TC on Intelligent Control (invited by Jagannathan Sarangapani), IEEE TC on System Identification and Adaptive Control, and IFAC TC on Adaptive and Learning Systems (invited by Fouad Giri). He is also the creator of the Guidance, Navigation, and Control Listserv - a communication tool for researchers and educators in the Guidance, Navigation, and Control field. Dr. Yucelen's additional professional experiences include the organization of 2 local workshops at the University of South Florida; 5 workshops and 4 invited sessions at the top scientific and engineering conferences on dynamical systems and controls; and various associate editor, conference program committee, conference technical area chair, conference session chair, and reviewer roles.

Affiliation(s)

University of South Florida

United States

Ali Zemouche

Université de Lorraine

France

Fumin Zhang

Georgia Institute of Technology

United States

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