Automotive Controls Roster

Qadeer Ahmed

The Ohio State University

United States

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Anuradha Annaswamy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

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Anuradha Annaswamy

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Dr. Anuradha Annaswamy received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 1985. She has been a member of the faculty at Yale, Boston University, and MIT where currently she is the director of the Active-Adaptive Control Laboratory and a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests pertain to adaptive control theory and applications to aerospace, automotive, and propulsion systems, cyber-physical systems science, and CPS applications to Smart Grids, Smart Cities, and Smart Infrastructures. She is the author of a hundred journal publications and numerous conference publications, co-author of a graduate textbook on adaptive control (2004), co-editor of several reports including “Systems & Control for the future of humanity, research agenda: Current and future roles, impact and grand challenges,” (Elsevier) “IEEE Vision for Smart Grid Control: 2030 and Beyond,” (IEEE Xplore) and Impact of Control Technology, (ieeecss.org/main/IoCT-report, ieeecss.org/general/IoCT2-report).

Dr. Annaswamy has received several awards including the George Axelby and Control Systems Magazine best paper awards from the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), the Presidential Young Investigator award from NSF, the Hans Fisher Senior Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technische Universität München, the Donald Groen Julius Prize from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, a Distinguished Member Award, and a Distinguished Lecturer Award from IEEE CSS. Dr. Annaswamy is a Fellow of the IEEE and IFAC. She has served as the Vice President for Conference Activities (2014-15) and is currently serving as the VP for Technical Activities (2017-18) in the Executive Committee of the IEEE CSS.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

Ivan Arsie

University of Naples Parthenope

Italy

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Keshav Bagri

Lucid Motors

United States

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Craig Beal

Bucknell University

United States

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David Bevly

Auburn University

United States

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Hoseinali (Ali) Borhan

Cummins

United States

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Francesco Borrelli

University of California, Berkeley

United States

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Alessandro Borri

National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IASI)

Italy

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Sean Brennan

Penn State University

United States

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Massimo Canale

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Carlos Canudas-de-Wit

University Grenoble Alpes

France

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Insu Chang

General Motors LLC

United States

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Yan Chen

Arizona State University

United States

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Jun Chen

Oakland University

United States

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Kyunghwan Choi

KAIST

South Korea

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Jeffrey Cook

University of Michigan

United States

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Satadru Dey

Penn State University

United States

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Stefano Di Cairano

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

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Sette Diop

CNRS

France

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Simon Ehlers

University of Hannover

Germany

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Paolo Falcone

Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Italy

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Hosam Fathy

University of Maryland

United States

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Antonella Ferrara

The University of Pavia

Italy

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

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Antonella Ferrara

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

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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

Rolf Findeisen

TU Darmstadt

Germany

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Chris Gerdes

Stanford University

United States

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Brent Gillespie

University of Michigan

United States

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Luigi Glielmo

Università di Napoli Federico II

Italy

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Mike Grimble

University of Strathclyde

United Kingdom

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Per-Olof Gutman

Technion

Israel

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Lino Guzzella

ETH Zürich

Switzerland

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Sofie Haesaert

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

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Ibrahim Haskara

General Motors Co.

United States

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Chaozhe He

University of Buffalo

United States

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Rolf Isermann

TU Darmstadt

Germany

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Mrdjan Jankovic

Southwest Research Institute

United States

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Rolf Johansson

Lund University

Sweden

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Ramesh Kumar Junnuri

Carrier

India

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Jun-Mo Kang

General Motors Research

United States

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Tamas Keviczky

Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

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Dejan Kihas

Engineering Consulting - Practitioner

Canada

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Youngki Kim

University of Michigan-Dearborn

United States

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Kiriakos Kiriakidis

United States Naval Academy

United States

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C. R. (Bob) Koch

University of Alberta

Canada

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Ilya Kolmanovsky

University of Michigan

United States

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Xu Kunhao

National University of Singapore

Singapore

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Viet-Anh Le

University of Pennsylvania

United States

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Basilio Lenzo

University of Padova

Italy

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Paolo Lino

Polytechnic University of Bari

Italy

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Jianbo Lu

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

United States

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Chris Manzie

University of Melbourne

Australia

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Scott Moura

University of California, Berkeley

United States

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Avadh Nagaralawala

Consultant

United States

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Simona Onori

Stanford University

United States

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Riddhi Padariya

The Boring Company

United States

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Herschel Pangborn

Penn State University

United States

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Anusha Pothineni

Caterpillar

United States

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Chris Rahn

Penn State University

United States

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Rajesh Rajamani

University of Minnesota

United States

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Aishwarya Ray

Accelera (Cummins)

United States

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Gianfranco Rizzo

University of Salerno

Italy

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Giorgio Rizzoni

Ohio State University

United States

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Karsten Roepke

IAV GmbH

Germany

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Tanushree Roy

Texas Tech University

United States

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Mauro Salazar

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

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Mario Santillo

Ford Motor Company

United States

4 (Central U.S.)

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Jason B. Siegel

University of Michigan

United States

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Abhinav Sinha

University of Cincinnati

United States

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Damoon Soudbakhsh

Temple University

United States

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Mohit Srinivasan

Motional Inc.

United States

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Anna Stefanopoulou

University of Michigan

United States

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Anna Stefanopoulou

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Anna Stefanopoulou is the William Clay Ford Professor of Manufacturing at the University of Michigan. She has been on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering since 2000, and serves as the Director of the Automotive Research Center a multi-university Center of Excellence in Modeling and Simulation of Ground Vehicles. She obtained her Diploma (1991, Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece) in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and her Ph.D. (1996, University of Michigan) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She is an ASME Fellow (08) and an IEEE Fellow (09), an elected member of the Executive Committee of the ASME Dynamics Systems and Control Division and the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society, the Founding Chair of the ASME DSCD Energy Systems Technical Committee and a member of a U.S. National Research Council committee on the 2025 US. Light Duty Vehicle Fuel Economy Standards. She is a recipient of the 2012 University of Michigan, College of Engineering Research Award, the 2009 ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award, a 2008 Univ. of Michigan Faculty Recognition award, the 2005 Outstanding Young Investigator by the ASME DSC division, a 2005 Henry Russel award, a 2002 Ralph Teetor SAE educational award, a 1997 NSF CAREER award and selected as one of the 2002 world’s most promising innovators from the MIT Technology Review. She has co-authored a book, 20 US patents, 5 best paper awards and more than 250 publications on estimation and control of internal combustion engines and electrochemical processes such as fuel cells and batteries.

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University of Michigan

United States

Maarten Steinbuch

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

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Mara Tanelli

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

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Jian Tang

Robert Bosch LLC

United States

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Son Tong

Siemens Digital Industries Software

Belgium

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H Eric Tseng

The University of Texas at Arlington

United States

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Ardalan Vahidi

Clemson University

United States

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Javad Mohammadpour Velni

Clemson University

United States

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Yuri Vershinin

Coventry University

United Kingdom

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John Wagner

Clemson University

United States

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Fengchen Wang

The MathWorks Inc

United States

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Yan Wang

Cummins Inc.

United States

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Lingyi Xu

Rutgers University

United States

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