MEMBERS
Technical Committee on Education

Dr. Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, 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@ku.edu
Web page: http://www.math.ku.edu/ksacg/Bozenna.html



Dr. Daniel Y. Abramovitch

Daniel Abramovitch was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and grew up in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He earned degrees in Electrical Engineering from Clemson (BS) and Stanford (MS and Ph.D.), doing his doctoral work under the direction of Gene Franklin. Upon graduation, and after a brief stay at Ford Aerospace, he accepted a job at Hewlett-Packard Labs, working on control issues for optical and magnetic disk drives for 11 1/2 years. He moved to Agilent Laboratories shortly after the spin off from Hewlett-Packard, where he has spent the last 12 1/2 years working on test and measurement systems.

Danny is a Senior Member of the IEEE and was Vice Chair for Industry and Applications for the 2004 American Control Conference (ACC) in Boston. He is Vice Chair for Workshops at the 2006 ACC in Minneapolis and for Special Sessions at the 2007 ACC in New York. He will be Vice Chair for Industry and Applications for the 2009 ACC in St. Louis, Program Chair for the 2013 ACC, and General Chair of the 2016 ACC.. He has helped organize conference tutorial sessions on topics as varied as disk drives, atomic force microscopes, phase-locked loops, and how business models and mechanics affect control design. He served as the Chair of the IEEE CSS History Committee from 2001 to 2010. Danny is credited with the original idea for the clocking mechanism behind the DVD+RW optical disk format and is co-inventor on the fundamental patent. He was on the team that prototyped Agilent's first 40Gbps Bit Error Rate Tester (BERT) and was able to cite a Douglas Adams book in one of his patents relating to that device. Along with his co-author, Gene Franklin, he was awarded the 2003 IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award. His favorite paper remains the one prompted by a question from his then 3-year-old son, which showed that the outrigger was a feedback mechanism that predated the water clock by at least a 1000 years. He currently is doing research on future atomic force microscopes and high precision interferometers for Agilent.

Daniel Y. Abramovitch
Agilent Labs
Web page: http://dabramovitch.com/



Dr. John Baillieul

John Baillieul's research deals with robotics, the control of mechanical systems, and mathematical system theory. His PhD dissertation, completed at Harvard University under the direction of R.W. Brockett in 1975, was an early work dealing with connections between optimal control theory and what came to be called "sub-Riemannian geometry." Baillieul's current research is aimed at understanding decision making and novel ways to communicate in mixed teams of humans and intelligent automata. He is also interested in the deploying control systems whose operation shows selected characteristics of animal behaviors in challenging environments. Baillieul served as fortieth President of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and he is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of SIAM, and a Fellow of IFAC.

Professor John Bailleul
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boston University
Web page: http://people.bu.edu/johnb/



Dr. Linda Bushnell

Linda Bushnell is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Washington. She received her Ph.D. in EE and MA in Math from UC Berkeley in 1994 and 1989, and her MS and BS in EE from UConn in 1987 and 1985. Her research interests include networked control systems, leader-follower systems, and secure-control. She received a best paper award from WiOpt 2012. She is the author/co-author of 15 journal papers and 57 conference papers. She is a recipient of the US Government Superior Civilian Service Award, NSF ADVANCE Fellowship, and IEEE CSS Recognition Award. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE. For CSS, she is an Advisor to the Women in Control Committee, a member of the TC Control Education, and Liaison to the IEEE Women in Engineering. She was the Secretary-Administrator, Member of the Executive Committee, Member of the Board of Governors, Associate Editor of the IEEE CSM, Vice-Chair for Invited Sessions for 2001 CCA, Chair of the History Standing Committee, and Vice-Chair for Invited Sessions for 2000 CDC. For AACC, she is currently the Workshop Chair for 2013 ACC and member of the TC on Control Education. She was the Technical Program Chair for 2007 ACC, Publicity Chair for 2005 ACC, Vice-Chair for Publications for 1999 ACC, and Vice-Chair for Invited Sessions for 1998 ACC. For ACM, she was the Technical Program Chair for the Conference on High Confidence Networked Systems (HiCoNS) at CPSWeek 2013.

Linda Bushnell
Research Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Web page: http://www.ee.washington.edu/people/faculty/bushnell/



Dr. Monique Chyba

Dr. Chyba started at UH Manoa in 2002 as an assistant professor. He research interest are in optimal geometric control and its application to real life problems. She is currently focusing applications such as nuclear magnetic resonance for medical imaging, morphogenesis of the brain, and the design of space mission to rendezvous with temporarily-captured natural Earth satellites. Dr. Chyba is also the director of two outreach programs funded by the National Science Foundation.

Monique Chyba
Assistant Professor, Mathematics
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Web page: http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~mchyba/index.html



Dr. Sebastián Dormido

Sebastián Dormido was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain in 1946. He received his BSc and M. S. degree in Physics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1968 and 1969 and the Doctor in Science in 1971 from the Universidad del Pais Vasco. From 1968 to 1975 he was successively Assistant and Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Automatic Control of the Universidad Complutense and Universidad del Pais Vasco. Since 1975 he has been Full Professor at the Facultad de Ciencias Físicas of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1975-1982) and Facultad de Ciencias of the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia –UNED- (1982-). In 1982 he was appointed Head of Department of Computer Science and Automatic Control. Further he has served as Vicerrector of Research (1983-1985) in the UNED.

His main fields of interest are: Computer Control Process, Model Based Predictive Control, Robust Control, Modeling and Simulation of Continuous Processes and Control Education with special emphasis on remotes and virtual labs.

He has authored and co-authored more than 250 technical papers in international journals and conferences and has supervised 30 Ph.D. students.

From 2001-2006 has been President of the Spanish Association of Automatic Control, CEA-IFAC where he promoted the relation between the academic and industrial world.

In 2007 received a Doctor Honorary Degree from Universidad de Huelva and in 2008 the National Automatic Control prize from IFAC Spanish Committee.

Sebastián Dormido
Prof., Dpt. Informática y Automática
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Juan del Rosal 16, 28040 Madrid, Spain
e-mail: sdormido@dia.uned.es



Dr. Dominique Duncan

Dominique Duncan will be a postdoc at Stanford University starting in the Fall of 2013. She received her PhD from Yale University and Bachelor's degrees from the University of Chicago. Her Ph.D dissertation was on nonlinear factor analysis of the icEEG data for detection of seizure onset and geometric sensor modeling.

Dominique Duncan
Web page: http://dominiqueduncan.com/



Dr. Bonnie Heck Ferri

Bonnie H. Ferri received the B.S degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1981, the M.S. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 1984, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1988. She has been on the faculty of Georgia Tech since 1988, where she is currently a Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs. She has also worked in industry for Honeywell Inc. as a design and test engineer.

Dr. Ferri has been very active in the IEEE Control Systems Society. She was elected twice to that society's Board of Governors twice, was the Program Chair for the 1998 American Control Conference, and was a past chair of the Control System Society Technical Committee on Education. She has held the position of Associate Technical editor for the IEEE Transactions on Education and for the IEEE Control Systems Magazine.

Dr. Ferri's research concentrates on embedded control systems, industrial control, and controls education. She has co-authored a junior-level textbook and has written a number of papers on controls education, and is most recently active in developing portable experiments for lecture-based courses. She is very active in the recruitment and retention of women in engineering, including middle school, high school, undergraduate, and graduate level activities. She has been selected by the ECE senior class for the Best Teacher Award and has received several other campus-wide awards for her teaching, mentoring, outreach, and leadership activities. She has won several national awards including the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award and the 2004 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Control Systems Magazine, and the Hewlett-Packard/Harriet B. Rigas Award from the IEEE Education Society.

Bonnie Heck Ferri
Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0250
Web page: http://www.ece.gatech.edu/about/personnel/bio.php?id=47



Dr. Elisa Franco

Elisa Franco is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside, in the department of Mechanical Engineering. She received her B.S. and M.S. and Ph. D from the University of Trieste (Italy) in Power Systems Engineering and Automation. She earned a second Ph. D. in Control and Dynamical Systems at Caltech, where she worked on DNA nanotechnology.

Elisa Franco
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Riverside
Web page: http://www.engr.ucr.edu/~efranco/Home.html



Dr. Floyd B. Hanson

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.

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



Dr. Richard C. Hill

Richard Hill is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy. He received the B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, summa cum laude, from the University of Southern California in 1998, and the M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. In 2008 he received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering and the M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Detroit Mercy, Dr. Hill worked at Lockheed Martin Corporation on satellite attitude determination and control and spent two years as a high school math and science teacher.

His research interests lie in the areas of vehicle control, control and diagnosis of discrete-event systems, modular and hierarchical control, and engineering education. He is a co-author of the latest version of the Control Tutorials for MATLAB and Simulink (http://ctms.engin.umich.edu) and is actively pursuing techniques for improving controls education and assessment.

Rick Hill, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Detroit Mercy
phone: (313) 578-0428
E-mail: hillrc@udmercy.edu
Web page: http://hillrc.faculty.udmercy.edu/



Dr. William S. Levine

Dr. William S. Levine received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from M.I.T. He then joined the faculty of the University of Maryland, College Park where he is currently Research Professor of ECE. Throughout his career he has specialized in the design and analysis of control systems and related problems in estimation, filtering, and system modeling. Motivated by the desire to understand a collection of interesting controller designs, he has done a great deal of research on mammalian control of movement in collaboration with several neurophysiologists.

He is co-author of Using MATLAB to Analyze and Design Control Systems, March 1992 (Second Edition, March 1995). He is editor of The Control Handbook, published by CRC Press (in cooperation with IEEE Press), February 1996 (Second Edition, 2011). He is the co-editor of The Handbook of Networked and Embedded Control Systems, published by Birkhauser in 2005. He is the editor of a series on control engineering for Birkhauser. He has been President of both the IEEE Control Systems Society and the American Control Council. He has also been the Chairman of the SIAM special interest group in Control Theory and its Applications.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He and his collaborators received the Schroers Award for outstanding rotorcraft research in 1998 for their work on software to assist in the design of stability and control augmentation systems for piloted aircraft. He and another group of collaborators received the award for outstanding paper in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control for "Discrete Time Point Processes in Urban Traffic Queue Estimation."

William S. Levine
Research Professor, ECE
University of Maryland, College Park
E-mail: wsl@umd.edu
Web page: http://www.ece.umd.edu/faculty/levine



Dr. Ebrahim Abdullah Mattar

Currently University of Bahrain Assoc. Prof. of Cybernetics & Robotics, and a candidate for the rank. Career pathway back on 1986 as received University of Bahrain Bachelor of Science in Electrical Eng., pursued studies for MSc. in Electronics in 1988, University of Southampton, 1994 awarded University of Reading Ph.D. in Cybernetics, Robotics Control. Worked on (12) research projects, including King Saud University Robotics Project, KSA. Supervised (Ph.D., M.Sc., + 50 Undergraduate). Editor board member of 16 journal & conference. Awarded (16) awards, University of Bahrain, best research in 2001, 2002, 2006, & 2007, Bahrain Police Academy Award (2012), and others research related awards. Back in 2001 with 30 others from Gulf Region, chosen for the Gulf Executive Program conducted in USA, and received MBA from Darden School, Virginia University. Holds other short qualifications after as well. Have interests in Cybernetics, Robotics, Computational Intelligence, and Control. Lecturing within such areas for a number of years. Chairing Continuing Engineering Education Dept., (1998-2002). Chairing Electrical and Electronics Engineering Dept., (2004-2009) and (2011-2013), University of Bahrain. During 2011-2013, was seconded to Bahrain Training Institute, as the Institute Director General. Headed large number of committees, including ABET accreditation committee for 3 terms, (2005-2014). ABET accreditation expert, as leading a team for positive full Electrical Engineering and Electronics Engineering Programs accreditation over 2005-2010, and over 2012-2014. Run 20 Engineering & Educational short courses and workshops in the area of engineering control-automation, ANN, Matlab, Mathematica, Labview, LaTex, IMSL, & NAG libraries. Member of Bahrain NATIONAL Higher Education Skills-Innovation Steering Committee. IET active member & member of IEEE, IFAC & BSE. Organizing chair of 2 large conferences, technical events, & 8 IET symposiums-colloquiums in Bahrain.

Ebrahim Mattar Ph.D.
BSc., Studied MSc., Ph.D., Gulf Pro. Executive MBA, MIET, MIEEE.
University of Bahrain Associate Prof. of Cybernetics, Computational Intelligence & Robotics.
Bahrain IET LN H. Chair.
Web page: http://userspages.uob.edu.bh/ebmattar/



Dr. Na Li

Na Li is an assistant professor in Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in Harvard University since 2014. She received her Bachelor degree in Mathematics in Zhejiang University in 2007 and PhD degree in Control and Dynamical systems from California Institute of Technology in 2013. She was a postdoctoral associate of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2013-2014. Her research lies in the design, analysis, optimization and control of distributed network systems, with particular applications to power networks. She received NSF career award (2016) and entered the Best Student Paper Award ?nalist in the 2011 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

Dr. Na Li
Assistent Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University
Web page: http://nali.seas.harvard.edu/



Dr. Angela Schoellig

Angela P. Schoellig is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS). Her current research interests include data-based control and learning algorithms, and their application to state-of-the-art robotic platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles. The goal of her research is to enhance the performance and autonomy of robots by enabling them to learn from past experiments.

Angela P. Schoellig has 4 years of experience in aerial robotics research. She received her Ph.D. from ETH Zurich for her work on aerial vehicle control and multi-vehicle coordination with Prof. Raffaello D'Andrea. She holds both a M.Sc. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters degree in Engineering Cybernetics from the University of Stuttgart. She is recipient of scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation, the Cusanuswerk and the German Academic Exchange Service, and was finalist of the 2008 IEEE Fellowship in Robotics and Automation, which supports prospective leaders in this field. Her past research, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, has been published in journals such as Springer's Autonomous Robots, and has received coverage worldwide in mainstream TV, print and online media.

Videos demonstrating her recent work can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/user/angelaschoe, and more information about her research is available at: http://schoellig.name.

Angela Schoellig
Assistant Professor
University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS)
E-mail: schoellig@utias.utoronto.ca



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: molly_shor@hotmail.com



Dr. Ufuk Topcu

Ufuk Topcu is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in 2008 from the University of California, Berkeley and was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology until 2012. His research is on the analysis, design, and verification of networked, information-based systems. Current projects are in autonomy, advanced vehicular systems, and energy networks.

Ufuk Topcu
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
E-mail: utopcu@seas.upenn.edu



Dr. Sebastian Trimpe

Sebastian Trimpe is a Research Scientist at the Autonomous Motion Department of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Tuebingen, Germany. His research interests are in the area of control systems theory and design with emphasis on autonomous, networked, and learning systems. Before joining MPI-IS, Sebastian was lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he also received his Ph.D. (Dr. sc.) in 2013. Before, he received the B.Sc. degree in General Engineering Science in 2005 and the M.Sc. degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering two years later, both from Hamburg University of Technology, Germany. In 2007, he was a research scholar at University of California at Berkeley, USA. Sebastian is recipient of the General Engineering Award for the best undergraduate degree (2005), a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (2002 to 2007), and the triennial IFAC World Congress Interactive Paper Prize (2011).

Sebastian Trimpe
Research Scientist
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS)
Web page: http://www-amd.is.tuebingen.mpg.de/Main/SebastianTrimpe



Dr. Tansel Yucelen

Dr. Tansel Yucelen was born in Istanbul, Turkey, and is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in May 2012. He was a Research Faculty in the School of Aerospace Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology prior to joining the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

His research falls into dynamical systems and controls with research specializations in robust adaptive control, safety-critical autonomous systems, resilient cooperative control, networked multivehicle systems, large-scale interconnected systems, swarm behaviors and collective motion, and robotics. He has authored more than 100 archival journal and conference publications in these areas and his control architectures were implemented on various platforms including NASA Langley Research Center's AirSTAR and Georgia Tech's TwinSTAR.

His personal interests include photography; playing piano, guitar, and drums; and composing songs. He is married with Dr. Ipek Yucelen and they have a son, Kurt Yucelen.

Tansel Yucelen
Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Web page: http://www.tanselyucelen.com/

Dr. Afef Fekih

Dr. Afef Fekih is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She also holds the Chevron/BORSF endowed Professorship in Engineering. Her research interests focus on control theory, Fault tolerant control, Nonlinear and Robust control, Dynamic system modeling. Applications of the developed control paradigms to complex systems such as: aircraft systems, automotive vehicles, power systems, wind turbines and communication systems. Her work in the field had led to numerous publications in top rated journals and conference proceedings and several research projects supported by competitive grants from LaSPACE, BoRSF, NSF and NASA/EPSCOR-BOR. Most notably, her research was featured by Thomson Reuters Science Watch ® Essential Science Indicators in 2009. She was the recipient of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette award for excellence in academic advising and the Favorite Teacher in Electrical & Computer Engineering Award in 2007. Dr. Fekih is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the IEEE control systems society and the IEEE women in control society.

Afef Fekih
PhD, Senior member-IEEE
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Web page: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~axf1456/



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