MEMBERS
Technical Committee on Control Education

Dr. Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Co-Chair

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan received her Master's degree in Mathematics from Warsaw University in 1970, and her Ph.D. and Habilitation degrees in Mathematics from the School of Economics in 1978 and 1986 respectively. She is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kansas. Her research interests are primarily in stochastic adaptive control and Mathematics and Science education. She has held visiting appointments in Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Japan and China. Dr. Pasik-Duncan has been actively involved in the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) in a number of capacities. She was as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and she is currently an Associate Editor at Large. She has been Chair of the committees on Assistance of Engineers at Risk, Women in Control, and International Affairs. She served as Control Systems Society Vice-President for Membership Activities. Dr. Pasik-Duncan is an IEEE Fellow and a Distinguished Member of the CSS.

Professor Bozenna Pasik-Duncan
Department of Mathematics
University of Kansas
405 Snow Hall
Lawrence, KS 66045
phone: 785-864-5162 or 3651
fax: 785-864-5255
e-mail: bozenna@math.ku.edu
Web page: http://www.math.ku.edu/ksacg/Bozenna.html

 

Dr. Ljubo Vlacic, Co-Chair

Dr Ljubo Vlacic is Associate Professor and Director of Griffith University's Intelligent Control Systems Laboratory, Brisbane, Australia. His career has included a number of positions with both industry and academia. This experience includes the design, development, field-testing and deployment of a variety of sophisticated electronic devices for industrial control applications (1973-1988) as well as senior management positions such as, Technical Director, Project Director, Program Director and Head of School (1988-2001). He is the author of one research monograph, co-editor of several books and co-author of over 90 journal articles, conference papers and book-chapters. He serves/has served on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly journals, including the Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Journal on Micromechatronics, Information & Management (1995-2000) and the Asian Journal of Control (1999-2001).His research interests and contributions to research span the areas of control systems, decision theory, intelligent control and computer & systems engineering and the application of these methodologies to industrial automation, mechatronics, intelligent robotics, manufacturing, computer and communication systems, knowledge management and intelligent vehicles & transport systems.

Concurrent with research and teaching, he has directed twelve postgraduate students and collaborated with over ten postdoctoral and visiting fellows. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (FIEE), a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia (FIEAust), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (SMIEEE), a Chartered Professional Engineer of Australia (CPEng) and a Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ),

He also graduated from the Conservatorium of Music, University of Sarajevo and played violin with professional orchestras.

Dr. Ljubo Vlacic
Director, Intelligent Control Systems Laboratory
School of Microelectronic Engineering
Griffith University, Nathan Qld 4111
Australia
ph: +61 7 3875 5024
fax: +61 7 3875 5168
L.Vlacic@me.gu.edu.au
http://www.gu.edu.au/centre/icsl/

 

Dr. Ebrahim Al-Gallaf

From 1997-2004, E. A. Al-Gallaf is an assistant professor of Intelligent Control and Robotics. He has received B. Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Bahrain in 86, in 89 studied the M.Sc. in Information Technology and Electronics from the University of Southampton, UK, and in 1994 he received the University of Reading Ph.D. in Cybernetics and Intelligent System Control. Dr. Al-Gallaf has interests in automatic control, computational intelligence and robotics, pattern recognition and modeling including clustering with fuzzy, neural networks with evolutionary computation, and their real applications in industrial domains and in robotics. Now he is working in Hµ fuzzy optimal robotics control system, analysis with neural systems and hybrid systems for uncertainty analysis and modeling. Dr. Al-Gallaf is a member of the IEEE, IFAC, and IEE and member of some control societies world-wide, and published a number of papers in the area of multi-fingered robot hand control, neuro-fuzzy system for control. He have been in lecturing for while, did teach Classical Automatic Control, Nonlinear Control, Optimal Control, Digital Control, Robust Control, and Modern Control Systems. Dr. Al-Gallaf has authored a textbook about Robot Intelligent Control and has been a director of the Continuing Education where he presented a number of workshops and seminars related to control engineering to the oil industry in Bahrain. Dr. Al-Gallaf is currently an associate professor of control systems, and the chairman of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the University of Bahrain and the head of the Control and Intelligent Control Group. He has also served as a reviewer to a number of international conferences and journals word-wide.

Ebrahim Al-Gallaf
University of Bahrain
http://userspages.uob.edu.bh/ebrgallaf/

 

Dr. Deana R. Delp

Deana Delp received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from
the University of Kansas in 1996 and 1997, respectively. While at the
University of Kansas she obtained a summer internship with General Motors in
Kansas City, Kansas and was a teaching assistant for two semesters at the
university. She was awarded the Paul F. Huebner Award for Outstanding
Teaching Assistants in May 1997. She was also awarded the Arizona State University
Graduate Fellows Scholarship to begin her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in
Tempe, Arizona. Her area of study is semiconductor manufacturing process
optimization using realistic business operation models. She was a teaching
assistant for Arizona State University for six semesters, and an intern and
software engineer for Tokyo Electron Phoenix Laboratories, Inc. in Tempe,
Arizona for three years. She was awarded an Achievement Rewards for College
Scientists (ARCS) scholarship at Arizona State University and an Intel
Foundation Graduate Fellowship Award for the 2002-03 school year. She has
published in IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing.

Deana R. Delp
Arizona State University
www.public.asu.edu/~ddelp

 

Dr. Floyd B. Hanson

Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago
851 S. Morgan Street, MC 249
Chicago, Illinois
WebPage: http://www.math.uic.edu/~hanson/
Email: hanson@uic.edu
Phone: 1312-413-2142;
Fax: 1312-996-1491, 1773-643-0363

Positions: Professor of Mathematics (at UIC since 1969).
Associate Director, Laboratory for Advanced Computing, UIC, 1990-.
Associate Director, Laboratory for Control and Information, UIC.
Associate Editor-in-Chief, Applied and Computational Control,
Signals, and Circuits, Kluwer Academic, since 1996.
Education: Antioch College, BS 1962; Brown University, MS 1964, PhD 1968.
Awards: Faculty Research Leave award, Mathematics and Computer SciencesDivision, Argonne National Laboratory, 1987-1988.
UIC Teacher Recognition Award ($1500 to salary), 1999.
UIC (premier) Award for Excellence in Teaching ($5000 to salary), 2001.
Grant: NSF Comp. Math. "Adv. Comp. Stochastic Dynamic Programming," 1999-2002.
Major Project: Graduate Text "Applied Stochastic Processes and Control", 2001.

 

Dr. Jason K. Hui

Jason Hui received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1997 and 1998, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2002, all from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2002, he joined The Aerospace Corporation as a Member of the Technical Staff in the Flight Controls Section, Guidance Analysis Department. He is currently a member of the Navigation Section. Dr. Hui’s research interests include the development of navigation error analysis tools for launch vehicles, stochastic estimation and filtering with application to GPS, and modeling and system identification of inertial microsensors. Prior to Aerospace, he conducted research into MEMS gyroscopes at both NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and HRL Laboratories. Dr. Hui is a member of the AIAA Publications Committee, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Technical Committee, IFAC Technical Committee in Modeling, Identification and Signal Processing, and the Southern California Junior Academy of Sciences Research Training Program Committee.

Dr. Jason K. Hui
The Aerospace Corporation
Guidance Analysis Department
P.O. Box 92957 - M4/975
Los Angeles, CA 90009-2957 USA

E-mail: Jason.K.Hui@aero.org
Tel: (310) 336-1862
Fax: (310) 336-6548

 

Dr. Krzysztof R. Kozlowski

Professor K. Kozlowski received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Poznan University of Technology (PUT), Poland; and the Ph.D degree in control engineering from PUT in 1979, where he is currently a full professor of robotics and automation. He joined the IEEE in 1983 and has been a Senior Member since 1988. He is the author of a book titled Modelling and Identification in Robotics (Springer-Verlag, 1998). He is on the editorial boards of several Polish and international journals (e.g. IEEE RAM, IEEE Trans. CST, Control Society Conference Editorial Board). He has served every year since 1995 on the ICRA Program Committee. He has worked as a program chair of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 2001, Second International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control (RoMoCo), 2001, and vice chairman of the 7th IEEE Conference on Models in Automation and Robotics (MMAR), 2001. In 2001 he was elected as a Chairman of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Chapter in Poland. He is a member of the Control Systems Society Chapter in Poland. He has served as an RAS AdCom member from 2000 till now.

His plan is to enlarge IEEE student and regular member participation in Poland and former Eastern European countries along with the conference activities in these countries (i.e. MMAR, RoMoCo) under umbrella of both chapters.

Dr. Krzysztof R. Kozlowski
Poznan University of Technology
Institute of Control and Systems Engineering
ul. Piotrowo 3a
60-965 Poznan, POLAND
Krzysztof.Kozlowski@put.poznan.pl

 

Dr. Kent Lundberg

Kent H. Lundberg attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning the S.B. degree in Physics in 1992, and earning the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1997 and 2002, respectively. Since then, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, where he is now a Lecturer.  His research and teaching interests include the application of classical control theory to problems in analog circuit design.  He consults for several industry corporations and organizations.

Dr. Lundberg has been involved in teaching MIT courses in circuit design and feedback systems as teaching assistant, recitation instructor, and lecturer for ten years.  He has written extensive course notes for each class and is currently writing a textbook on control.  He is a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society History Committee, and he collects old textbooks on radar and control.

Dr. Lundberg is currently researching and developing educational toys (tutorial web applets, web-based laboratories, lecture demos, and take-home laboratory kits) for feedback systems and classical control engineering.  He is the organizer of an interactive session on "Hardware and Software for Control Education" for the 2004 American Control Conference.

Dr. Kent Lundberg, Lecturer
klund@mit.edu
M.I.T. EECS, office 38-491
77 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
http://web.mit.edu/klund/www/
phone 617-253-4645

 

Dr. Molly Shor

Molly Shor received the A.B. in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1984, the M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987 and 1992. She has served on the faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, now the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at Oregon State University, since 1992. She has also served as a visiting faculty member at Oregon Graduate Institute, now Oregon Health & Science University, in summers of 2000 and 2001.

Shor helped develop one of the first remote-laboratories for control engineering education from 1994 through 1998, with support of the National Science Foundation and the GE Foundation, demonstrated at Supercomputing 1996. She has published in IEEE Transactions on Education (August 1996) and in the Frontiers in Education Conference (October 2000).

Shor's current NSF-funded research contributions include the development and analysis of dynamical models for computer system resource allocation problems, and the design of computer system resource allocation strategies, in both operating systems and in computer networks.

Shor has served IEEE CSS and AACC in various capacities, including on the Board of Governors and on the Membership Activities Board of IEEE CSS, on conference operating committees for CDC and ACC, and as chair of the Ragazzini Education Award Subcommittee for AACC. Shor is a Senior Member of IEEE.

SHOR Molly
Oregon State University
Department of ECE
Owen Hall, 346
Corvallis, OR 97331-3211 - USA
Tel: +1-541-737-3168
Fax: +1-541-737-1300
E-mail: shor@ece.orst.edu

 

Dr. Jing Sun

Jing Sun received the B. S. and M. S. degrees from University of Science and Technology of China in 1982 and 1984 respectively, and the Ph. D degree from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, U. S. A. in 1989, all in Electrical Engineering.

From 1989-1993, she was an assistant professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Wayne State University. In 1993, she joined Ford Research Laboratory where she is currently working in the Powertrain Control Systems Department as a senior technical specialist. Her current research interests include modeling, control and optimization for powertrain systems. She is also actively involved in the development of adaptive control, nonlinear control and system theory with a focus of automotive applications. She has 19 US patents. She has co-authored a textbook, Robust Adaptive Control (Prentice Hall, 1996), and over 50 journal and conference papers. She also served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

Dr. Jing Sun
Powertrain Control Research and Development Ford Research Lab.
P.O. Box 2053, MD2036 SRL
Dearborn, MI 48121
E-mail: jsun@ford.com

 

Dr. John J. Westman

Dr. John J. Westman (S '86, M '87, S '90, M, '98) was born in Evergreen Park, IL in 1965. He received the B. S. degree in Mathematics and Physics from De Paul University, Chicago, IL in 1988 and the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in Applied Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1992 and 1998, respectively.

From 1998 until 2002 he held a postdoctoral position in the Mathematics Department at the University of California, Los Angeles for the Program in Computing. During his time at UCLA, he was awarded a NSF VIGRE Assistant Professorship for the 2000 - 2001 academic year. Starting in the fall of 2002, he will be an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami, Oxford, Ohio. Current areas of research include theory and applications of stochastic optimal control featuring jumps and mathematical biology. His research is driven by physical applications, including manufacturing systems, financial mathematics, groundwater remediation, and external beam radiotherapy, developing models, theory, and numerical techniques as needed. A key feature of the research applications is trajectory following which leads to a better control for any given path realization. His work in mathematical biology focuses on modeling the evolution of cancers and the effects of various treatments with an ultimate goal of developing a patient tailored decision model for treatment scheduling which evolves in time and the status of the patient.

John J. Westman
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056
E-mail: westmajj@muohio.edu
URL: http://www.users.muohio.edu/westmajj/

Updated 12/31/05