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2004 IEEE FELLOWS Election to the grade of IEEE Fellow acknowledges outstanding contributions and exceptional professional distinction. We are pleased to present the IEEE Control Systems Society Members who have been accorded this honor for 2004. Er-Wei Bai University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA For contributions to system identification and parameter estimation. Er-Wei Bai was educated at Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and the Universi- ty of California at Berkeley. He is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Iowa where he teaches and conducts research in system identification, con- trols, and their applications. Prof. Bai participates in IFAC and IEEE Control Systems Society activities and is author and coauthor of 100 journal papers. Gary J. Balas University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA For contributions to robust control techniques for aerospace vehicles. Gary Balas is a professor of aerospace engineering and mechanics, director of graduate stud- ies, and codirector of the Control Science and Dynamical Systems Department at the Univer- sity of Minnesota. He received his B.Sc. and M.S. from the University of California, Irvine, in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1989. His research interests are in robust control, real-time system, flight control, and industrial application of robust control methods. Prof. Balas held a McKnight-Land Grant Professorship at the University of Minnesota from 1993–1995, received the Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division in 1999, and the Institute of Technology George Taylor Distinguished Research Award, University of Minnesota, in 2003. He is a coorganizer and developer of the MUSYN Robust Control short course and the µ- Analysis and Synthesis Toolbox, and president of MUSYN, Inc. He is an associate fellow of the AIAA. August 2004 IEEE Control Systems Magazine 19 Edwin K.P. Chong Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA For contributions to communication networks and discrete event systems. Prof. Edwin K.P. Chong received the B.E. degree from the University of Adelaide, South Aus- tralia, in 1987, and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1989 and 1991, respectively, from Princeton University, where he held an IBM Fellowship. He joined the School of Electrical and Comput- er Engineering at Purdue University in 1991, where he was named a university faculty scholar in 1999. Since August 2001, he has been a professor of electrical and computer engineering and of mathematics at Colorado State University. Prof. Chong’s research interests are in communication networks and optimization meth- ods. He coauthored the book An Introduction to Optimization, (second edition, Wiley-Inter- science, 2001). He received the NSF CAREER Award in 1995 and the ASEE Frederick Emmons Terman Award in 1998. He was a coauthor of the 2003 Best Paper in the journal Computer Net- works. He was founding chairman of the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Discrete Event Systems, and he served as an IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer. Prof. Chong has served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and he is currently on the editorial board of Computer Networks. He was the Confer- ence chair for the Conference on Modeling and Design of Wireless Networks, part of SPIE ITCom 2001. Bart L.R. De Moor Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium For contributions to algebraic and numerical methods for systems and control. Bart De Moor obtained a master’s degree (1983) and a Ph.D. (1988) in electrical engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven, Belgium, and was a visiting research associate at Stanford University (1988–1990). Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering of at KU Leuven. His research interests are in numerical linear algebra and opti- mization, systems theory, control and identification, quantum information theory, data min- ing, information retrieval, and bioinformatics. He has authored and coauthored more than 400 papers and three books. His work has won several scientific awards, including the Leybold- Heraeus Prize (1986), the Leslie Fox Prize (1989), the Guillemin-Cauer best paper award of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (1990), the Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences (1992), the biannual Siemens Award (1994), the best paper award of Automatica (IFAC, 1996), and the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (1999). From 1991–1999 Prof. De Moor was the chief advisor on science and technology for the Belgian Federal and the Flanders Regional Governments. He serves on the boards of three companies, of the Flemish Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, and the Study Center for Nuclear Energy. Since 2002 he has regularly appeared on the Belgium television science show “Hoe?Zo!.” 20 IEEE Control Systems Magazine August 2004 Arie Feuer Israel Institute of Technology, Israel For contributions to adaptive control and signal processing. Arie Feuer is a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), where he has been since 1983. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Technion in 1967 and 1973, respectively, and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1978. From 1967 to 1970 he worked in industry on automation design, and from 1978 to 1983 he worked at Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey. Prof. Feuer served as the president of the Israel Association of Automatic Control from 1994–2002 and is currently a member of the IFAC Council. For the last 15 years he has been visiting the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Newcastle. His research focus is in adaptive systems in control and signal processing. In recent years his interests have evolved into multidimensional sampling and reconstruction with applications in image and video processing. He coauthored, with Graham Goodwin, the book Sampling in Digital Signal Processing and Control (Birkhauser). Alexander Lvovich Fradkov Institute for Problems of Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia For contributions to adaptive and nonlinear systems. Alexander Fradkov received his Diploma degree in mathematics from St. Petersburg State University (Department of Theoretical Cybernetics) in 1971, Candidate of Sciences (Ph.D.) degree in engineering cybernetics from Leningrad Mechanical Institute (now Baltic State Technical University, BSTU) in 1975, and the Doctor of Sciences degree in control engineer- ing in 1986 from St. Petersburg Electrotechnical Institute. From 1971 to 1987 he occupied research positions, and in 1987 became professor of computer science at BSTU. Since 1990 he has been the head of the Control of Complex Systems Lab of the Institute for Problems of Mechanical Engineering at the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is also a professor at St. Petersburg State University in the Department of Theoretical Cybernetics. Prof. Fradkov’s research interests are in nonlinear and adaptive control, control of oscilla- tions and chaos, and cybernetical physics. Dr. Fradkov has coauthored 350 journal and con- ference papers, ten patents, and 15 books and textbooks, including Introduction to Control of Oscillations and Chaos (World Scientific, 1998), Nonlinear and Adaptive Control of Complex Systems (Kluwer, 1999), Selected Chapters of Automatic Control Theory with MATLAB (Nauka, 1999, in Russian), and Cybernetical Physics (Nauka, 2003, in Russian). Dr. Fradkov has been vice president of the St. Petersburg Informatics and Control Society since 1991, and he is currently a member of the Russian National Committee of Automatic Con- trol. He organized and cochaired the 1st–10th International (Baltic) Student Olympiades on Automatic Control in 1991–2004, the First and Second International IEEE-IUTAM Conference Con- trol of Oscillations and Chaos in 1997 and 2000, the Fifth IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS’01), and the First IEEE-IUTAM-EPS conference Physics and Control 2003. He was an associate editor of the European Journal of Control (1998–2001) and a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board (1998–2004). Dr. Fradkov was awarded the William Girling Watson Scholarship (University of Sydney, 1995) and the JSPS Fellowship (Japan, 1998–1999). Between 1991–2003 he gave invited lectures at 65 universities in 20 countries. August 2004 IEEE Control Systems Magazine 21 Minyue Fu University of Newcastle, Australia For contributions to robust control and signal estimation. Minyue Fu received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the China University of Sci- ence and Technology, Hefei, in 1982, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983 and 1987, respectively. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1989, where he was the head of the department from 1998 to 2001. Currently, he is a chair professor in electrical engineering. From 1983 to 1987 he held a teaching and research posi- tion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1987 to 1989 he was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. He held visiting professor positions at the University of Iowa in 1995–1996 and at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2002. Prof. Fu’s